Brickbat: Quittin' Time

Body camera video shows two former St. Louis police officers refusing to aid a man who had been shot in the head but was still alive because their shift was almost over. Then-Officers Austin Fraser and Ty Warren found Urayoan Rodriguez-Rivera in a park. Rodriguez-Rivera had called 911 stating he was going to kill himself. One officer notes he is still alive, and Warren suggests they bring the victim somewhere for help. "We ain't taking shit," Fraser responded. "I get off in 30 minutes." Fraser then said, "Let's cruise around and come back," and let other officers find him: "They're gonna find this [expletive], and we're gonna be like, 'Oh, [expletive], you found him.'" They returned 10 minutes later, found other officers on the scene, and pretended to have just arrived. The other officers called emergency medical services. Rodriguez-Rivera was taken to a hospital where he died, 40 minutes after he first called 911.

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[SQRLSY]

My inside informant tells me that Rodriguez-Rivera committed suicide because he was cummanded to do so by Jesus, for being Politically Incorrect! (Jesus in this case being PervFectly Personified in and through ML The Marxist Moose-Mammary-Necrophiliac from Inner-Outer Islamic Canuckistanistanistanistan.)

ALL HAIL ML The Marxist Moose-Mammary-Necrophiliac from Inner-Outer Islamic Canuckistanistanistanistan!

(Ass for me, though, I am Politically Incorrect, and so, I suggest, even Cummand, that when faced with such temptations, that ye should call the National Suicide Line instead.)

[John F. Carr]

If the local police department shifts begin at 7 AM, 3 PM, and 11 AM those are good times to speed and bad times to get shot.

[Vernon Depner]

who had been shot in the head

No, who had shot HIMSELF in the head. He wanted to die. Fortunately, the officers didn't interfere.

[mad.casual]

Not that if someone held him at gun point, told him to call 911 and say he was going to shoot himself, and then pulled the trigger, you'd want Ofcs "Let's lay out our plan to skim hours from our employer for the cameras we're wearing on our chests." to be responsible for capturing someone so diabolically clever.

[Commenter_XY]

WTF actually happened to these two cops? Did they just skate on criminal charges?

[Minadin]

What criminal charges? Last I was told, cops had no actual duty to protect or serve anyone, it's just a nice-sounding slogan to put on their patrol vehicles.

https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again

[Mickey Rat]

Not to men5oom if they did intervene, they would have been denying the man the right to end his life as he expressed he wanted.

[mad.casual]

"Then-Officers" provides a clue. Maybe.

[Minadin]

One of them lost his law enforcement certification with the state, the other one has a hearing upcoming regarding the same.

"Warren’s peace officer license has been revoked through the disciplinary process. A disciplinary hearing in Fraser’s case is set for Tuesday, January 7.

Both were fired from the department after police administrators found the footage during a routine review of body camera recordings."

https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/01/07/exclusive-body-cam-shows-st-louis-officers-walk-away-man-found-shot-still-breathing-forest-park/

[Fist of Etiquette]

Cops not banking overtime? Now I've heard everything.

[Jerry B.]

"Rodriguez-Rivera’s death was reportedly ruled a suicide, but no gun was located at the scene."

One of the officers needed a throw-down.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Or one of those officers collected a throw-down. Where else they gonna get one?

Or maybe that was what you meant and I misread "needed". Hmmmm.

[Brandybuck]

Missouri, red state. Cops ain't gotta do shit but be thugs. For Great Justice! Any attempt to hold these Heroes to account is tantamount to being a Democrat Soft on Crime!

Cops only bad for Team Red when they try to stop riots at the Capital Building.

[sarcasmic]

Cops only bad for Team Red when they try to stop riots at the Capital Building.

Pretty much.

[Minadin]

Yeah St. Louis City is known for its Deep Red political climate.

[mad.casual]

It's sarc, I mean Brandybuck, showing off his sarc-level stupidity. Or Brandybuck, I mean sarc, showing off his Brandybuck-level stupidity, it's hard to tell which.

I couldn't presume to explain why they come to the Reason forum to do the intellectual equivalent of punch themselves in the dick, but they do.

[AT]

Rodriguez-Rivera’s death was reportedly ruled a suicide, but no gun was located at the scene.

Weird.

Also, I'm surprised you're brickbatting this. One would think you'd support it, under the ACAB principle that we don't want the taxpayers paying these guys overtime.

[jimc5499]

Damn. That's any Union job. Why is this being singled out? Oh wait. Reason has a hard on for police.