Purplelady vs Troll vs Purplelady

[The Troll]

  Nice try killer cops, having a police dog chew on, bean bagging and handcuffing a dead man who was shot 5 times.     His crime was camping in a state park illegally.  This is murder and the police state in action.  I suppose you cop lovers condone this killing of American citizens.   

[Locutus]

Not all of 'em are bad:

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SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) -- -

A South Florida police officer went above and beyond the call of duty when she lent a helping hand to a struggling single mother she stopped for shoplifting.

Jessica Robles admitted she made a decision to shoplift groceries out of desperation. She said she found herself in a situation where she looked at her the children, 12-year-old Anais and two younger boys, and realized she had no money left for food.

"Not fun, to see my brother in the dirt hungry, asking for food, and we have to tell him, 'There is nothing here,'" said Anais, fighting back tears as she recalled how she had to tell her little brothers, ages 2 and 6, that they were out of food.

Robles said she went to a Publix on 207th Street and South Dixie Highway at the end of September. According to police, she walked out pushing a cart filled with $300 worth of groceries for which she did not pay.

Miami-Dade Police Officer Vicki Thomas was the law enforcer who stopped Robles. "I asked her, 'Why would you do that? What would make you do that?' And she said, 'My children are hungry,'" said Thomas.

Instead of taking Robles into custody, Thomas ran her criminal history and found nothing major. The officer saw Robles was not a habitual shoplifter, so she charged her with a misdemeanor and a notice to appear in court.

Thomas also took an extra step to help Robles and her children. "I made the decision to buy her some groceries because arresting her wasn't going to solve the problem with her children being hungry," she said.

"She asked, 'Do you even have food at the house?' And I looked at her in her face, and I told her, 'Not at all.'" Robles said.

"So I went in and bought her some groceries," said Thomas, who purchased $100 worth of groceries for Robles.

Thomas said, looking at Robles' sons rummaging through the bags was more than reward enough for her act of generosity. "To see them go through the bags when we brought them in, it was like Christmas," she said. "That $100 to me was worth it."

Robles said her boyfriend's loss of employment led to her money woes. He was receiving federal assistance for food, and due to a paperwork issue, the aid stopped.

Robles said she is currently going to a local food bank and is desperately looking for work. She expressed her gratitude to her guardian angel in uniform. "All I wanted to tell her is thank you from the bottom of my heart," she said.

Tears streamed down Anais' face as she echoed her mother's comments. "Thank you so very much for doing it for us, and we're very thankful," she said.

Thomas did have one favor to ask of Robles. "The only thing I asked of her is, when she gets on her feet, that she help someone else out," she said, "and she said she would."



http://www.wsvn.com/story/23750321/cop-helps-admitted-shoplifter-with-groceries

[Locutus]

And then this happened: 

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After 7News aired the compelling story Monday, viewers across South Florida stepped up to assist Robles.

A viewer offered to take Robles shopping at Walmart on Tuesday. "You have $700, $200 from me and $500 from Restoration 1 of Miami, so you can pick out anything you want," said Mayra Lapierre, who accompanied Robles inside the discount department store.

"I don't even know where to begin," said Robles as she pushed her shopping cart through the produce section.

"She has three kids, she [needs] food; you have to help out sometimes," said Joel Roman, also from Restoration 1 of Miami, a service company that specializes in water and fire damage restoration.

Lapierre said she empathizes with the single mother. "I've been there," she said. "I've had plenty of times where I've had to say [to] my kids, '[Drink] a glass of water, let's go.'"

The Restoration 1 representatives gave Robles the money left over from her shopping spree. "You have $271," said Lapierre, as she handed Robles the cash.

"Thank you so much," replied Robles.

7News viewer John Challenor interviewed Robles on Tuesday for a job with PhoneDoctor.com, a Miami company that installs business phone lines.

"You're going to be doing customer service, answering phones, taking messages," Challenor told Robles, who came prepared with her résumé.

After the interview, she was offered the customer service representative position right on the spot. "We'd like you to start Monday, if that's possible," said Challenor.

Thanks to the action of some local Good Samaritans, Robles said, her children will never have to go hungry again. "There's no words I could tell you right now," she said as she fought back tears. "I'm grateful that you took the time and helped somebody out, especially somebody like me."

http://www.wsvn.com/story/23762056/shoplifting-mother-receives-help-from-public

[Henry Hawk]

Perhaps the term I used in the title of this thread has misled some of the readers here, so let me clarify my position on this subject.

My use of the word "scumbag cop" was intended to be sarcastic; although in hindsight I do not see how anyone would have taken that inference from what I posted here to this point. So for that I apologize to anyone who may have taken the slightest level of offense from my contributions to this thread to this point.

Scumbag cop is the lazy individual's way of describing a law enforcement officer that "goes bad", and my use of the term herein makes me guilty of painting a noble, and very necessary profession and all of its members, with a brush loaded with the broad strokes of ignorance. Something I personally detest, and for which I say again, I am profusely sorry. It was not my intention, however it is the reasonable inference I would take from things to this point. . .

I personally count a large number of family members that have, and currently, work within law enforcement at the local, county, state, and federal levels. I count a number of additional law enforcement officers as personal friends and neighbors as well. None of them are scumbag cops, and by and large most of their co-workers aren't either.

I in no way am defending the Edgewood or Indianapolis officers mentioned in this thread, for what both of them have done. Each of these cases are, in my mind, inexcusable, and represent an egregious violation of public trust at the very least, as well as criminal violations against the law. And unfortunately there seems to be a disturbing rise in the incidence rate when it comes to cases like this, and one has to ask why?

They spend a decade or more wading through and herding human scum; and at times the very same individuals multiple times. They see these individuals driving high end, luxury vehicles, wearing designer clothes, and living in homes that are decorated to the nines; and the whole time they struggle to make ends meet at home, work long hours, and endure personal relationship turmoil.

My theory is that at some point every single human being reaches their limitation, and with it they are presented with a crossroads; their perception of which is clouded by the noise of the personal and professional conflict they have endured to that point. Some choose substance abuse, some, and sadly a fractional percentage of them, seek professional help, and some choose to travel the path of crime as a means to "even up" the inadequacy of their compensation and quality of life in comparison to the criminal sewage they deal with every day.

I've said for years that our society pays woefully little attention to the quality of life of those who choose to protect and serve; whether it be within the city, state, or federal law enforcement agencies, or the military of this nation. These men and women see the very worst that humanity has to offer, and some of them on a daily basis and all day/night long.

We only recently began recognizing PTSD within our members of the military returning from combat, and yet there is little to no recognition of it within our law enforcement personnel. And these men and women face combat situations every single day/night, and frequently without warning. How would any of us like to wade into a scene like what just transpired in Pittsburgh, or Boston, Oklahoma City, etc.? How do you feel that would change you with just one incident like these? How would it change you if you went through a decade of more of these kinds of events, but on a smaller scale? A woman holding her entrails that her life partner sliced free. A man holding a weapon to a toddler's throat. An armed robbery gone wrong in which 4 people were shot at point blank range and killed.

The slaughter is ongoing across this nation, and only getting worse. Is it reasonable to expect that the men and women we pay to police such situations endure it unscathed, unchanged, and unmoved? Do the various law enforcement entities truly care about the quality of life of the men and women that work there, or are they just paying it lip serve?

Most law enforcement entities do a good job of candidate screenings, running prospective candidates through a gauntlet of physical and psychological regimens designed to ferret out those whose physical or mental constitutions represent an unacceptable level of flaws, and by and large they do a good job of it. However, no system is perfect, and there is an error rate. Fortunately a number of these are caught early into their service and they are culled from the ranks.

But, there is little ongoing, long-term analysis being undertaken over the course of any officers long-term career tenure, to identify symptoms of decline surrounding performance, attitude, and overall fitness for duty. Appraisals pay more attention to production numbers on traffic citations, conviction rates, training scores, and dress code adherence, than state of mind, mental well being, and quality of life.

The long term impact upon the human psych, of enduring wading through the worst humanity can serve up, is paid lip-service, and acknowledged via a mostly voluntary psychologist being made available to those who feel they are in need. Little to no mandatory intervention is undertaken, and when it is it is typically only following an incident that exposes the city/town/state, or federal entity to legal liability. Nothing proactive for the most part.

Sure, there are individuals wearing a badge and a gun who clearly should not. It is bound to happen. But how many of them started out as the compassionate and caring individual that desired only to pursue a career in service of their community, hoping to help those in need, and save those need saving, only to be corrupted by the long term exposure to the underbelly of society?

We should not be so quick to whip out that brush, loaded with the broad strokes of ignorance, and paint all of them with it over the actions of a fractional percentage of the whole; and of that I stand guilty of herein. Unintended, but ignorance is no excuse.

For that I am sincerely sorry.

I just read this, and it is written spot on by a very classy individual.  SOME people on here need to read this and take it to heart.

[The Troll]

I just read this, and it is written spot on by a very classy individual.  SOME people on here need to read this and take it to heart.

  Hawk, I wish you were one of the classy people on here too.       

[Bo D]

  Hawk, I wish you were one of the classy people on here too.       

Troll, you wouldn't know class it it smacked you in the face and ran up your ass.

Just to let everyone else know, I consider Palehorse a true friend and a classier friend can't be found. And the dude is wicked smart. He and I have discussed this incident privately (as classy friends do) but we all could learn more than a thing or two by the way he conducts himself.

[me]

Troll, you wouldn't know class it it smacked you in the face and ran up your ass.

Just to let everyone else know, I consider Palehorse a true friend and a classier friend can't be found. And the dude is wicked smart. He and I have discussed this incident privately (as classy friends do) but we all could learn more than a thing or two by the way he conducts himself.

Well said Bo D.  PH and I don't see eye to eye on some things but he mostly always handles himself with class, well, unless he gets frustrated with me, and you do also, (handle yourself with class). 

[Palehorse]

Troll, you wouldn't know class it it smacked you in the face and ran up your ass.

Just to let everyone else know, I consider Palehorse a true friend and a classier friend can't be found. And the dude is wicked smart. He and I have discussed this incident privately (as classy friends do) but we all could learn more than a thing or two by the way he conducts himself.

Man. . . I do not know how in Hades I am ever going to live up to such high praise! 

Is there somebody else posting here as me?

But seriously. . . Bo I am absolutely humbled by your words and trusted friendship; and I am deeply thankful for both. I'm just sorry it took me a couple of days to see this. 

You've set the bar really high though, and I hope I am able to meet expectations moving forward. 

[Locutus]

I think you have him fooled!!   

[Purplelady1040]

I know there are bad cops out there but there are good cops also. People are so quick to bash them but who is the first person most of us call when something bad happens and that is a cop. They get paid for a job that they may or may not come home from at any given time due to the element of people that they deal with. I have many friends who are cops, deputies and state troopers and all of them would give the shirt off his or her back to help someone out. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole bunch but the ones I know have given food to families when they had none, took kids shopping for Christmas, birthday and Easter presents. Cops here do a fishing event and take kids from the different housing projects and take them fishing. For many kids, they have no positive male role model so many of the guys step in and become a role model for them. The female police officers here are just as awesome and have thrown tea parties for little girls who have no females in their lives. Like I said many want to bash them but few want to do their jobs.

[Palehorse]

I think you have him fooled!!   

[Purplelady1040]

Now PH and Locutus are two of the nicest guys on here!!! 

[The Troll]

Troll, you wouldn't know class it it smacked you in the face and ran up your ass.

Just to let everyone else know, I consider Palehorse a true friend and a classier friend can't be found. And the dude is wicked smart. He and I have discussed this incident privately (as classy friends do) but we all could learn more than a thing or two by the way he conducts himself.

  being a Red Neck Hillbilly Bo D    What in hell would you know about class.    bad and killer   

[Purplelady1040]

He probably knows more about class than a dumbass like you. See that is a stereotype that ignoramuses like you believe that because people live in the country that we are all a bunch of redneck hillbillies. I imagine you expect all women to be barefoot and pregnant.

[Bo D]

He probably knows more about class than a dumbass like you. See that is a stereotype that ignoramuses like you believe that because people live in the country that we are all a bunch of redneck hillbillies. I imagine you expect all women to be barefoot and pregnant.

Thank you!!!

I am a hillbilly and proud of it! But as you can see from my 'picture' I doubt many would call me a redneck.