That’s not true, if he wasn’t a cop. He would have gotten probation. He was basically charge with negligent homicide or manslaughter. The max sentence is 10 years and he had a clean record.
@@exposehim4601 absolutely correct. He wasn't a ' former officer ' when he actually did the deed. I prefer the phrase ' then' officer Smith, (or whomever) when he allegedly ( or did commit, if there was already a conviction) did XYZ. The idea that he was a 'former officer' when he committed the crime would be the result of some kind of cognitive distortion that they wish the public would have in these kinds of cases. Our whole society is afflicted with many cognitive distortions these days. We're bombarded with propaganda and psyops daily.
They need to stop saying these guys are held to a higher standard because it's the complete opposite. Imagine getting 2 years for ending someone's life.
@@acc4465jeez you’re pathetic. Get off your knees bootlicker. Cops are rarely if ever actually prosecuted ur just spewing lies. Even the video raves about how rare it is. If you want to keep your freedom don’t be a trigger happy loose cannon power tripping cop. Everyone has to follow the laws the badge doesn’t make them exempt to that. If they can’t follow the rules like everyone else lock em up.
@@acc4465. The “public” doesn’t charge anyone. The prosecutors do. Cops are rarely held accountable for their actions and even when they are they typically receive lighter sentences than a normal person charged with the same offense. There are many documented cases where cops have gotten away with all manner of violent crimes against humanity with NO prison. Happens every day in this country. I find them repulsive people and have nothing but contempt for them.
Or maybe your flipping yourself out on something that isn't even news. Of course they're going to wait until the trail and sentencing to fully process him out. Do you think his union would let that happen, nor should they really. Innocent until proving guilty, remember? Justice was done, and I could probably point to hundreds of things that are more of a problem with policing in America.
You might be too ignorant to know this but police officers have unions. They are granted rights called “Peace Officer bill of rights” they technically can’t get fired for these cases unless sentenced and found guilty. Ignorance is bliss
Exactly how does this make him a bad officer he followed everything. The police department told him to do so wouldn’t that make the police department bad?
2 years for shooting someone in the back and it took him actually getting convicted before being fired perfect example of the problem with law enforcement in the united states
Can you imagine having a crisis where you’re in fear for your mental safety and the cops show up threatening your freedom/physical safety? Most of these people just need calm reassurance and sense of safety which is the opposite of what usually happens.
The sentence range for a third degree felony is 2 to 10 years. Still disgraceful with the Judge literally saying I can’t give you Probation due the felony, so I’ll give you the minimum. And he was allowed an Appellate bond which is rare in Austin, Texas
The public isn’t dispatched to a random person having a mental health issue. And if a person from the public was around someone having a mental health crisis they would just stand there and record it.
Well uh . . . don’t send a cop to deal with a mental health issue? You don’t go to the police for an appendectomy, so why use the police to deal with mental issues?
He was walking around his condo banging on doors with a knife. Granted he had the knife to his own throat, but it’s reasonable for someone to call the police which is why they responded.
He could’ve handed it off to someone else right, or was there a time limit? The guy on the scene now is in charge of making that assessment. “Well they sent me so I gotta….” 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ what a ridiculous and dumb comment
The “greatest” nation on earth can’t decide that a mental health professional should be dispatched along with law enforcement during a call like this. 🙄
Right because mental health professionals are so common and also so willing to do that. IL has been trying to get crisis response professionals to respond with PD and EMS since 2022 and less they still aren’t able to get them out for 1/4 of the calls they are needed. Because there aren’t enough of them and they don’t want to do that kind of work.
It took a criminal conviction of killing someone before they FIRED him? Sounds pretty much like the APD has some serious moral issues and character flaws at the very top.
Bro looks like a neo not-see. Also, he only gets two years?? Two years is better than nothing, but I feel it is way too low for shooting someone that was fleeing because they got hit while they had their hands up.
The garage department who employed him, protected his job until AFTER sentencing. That’s how they disrespect the victim and the public. Blatant absurdity right in our faces. And then of course the judge and that ridiculous sentence.
Remember back when Austin Police chief Art Acevedo conducted a crackdown on the devastating crime of jaywalking? A female jogger wearing earbuds crossed the street but didn't use the crosswalk. A bunch of cops yelled at her but she didn't hear them because of the earbuds. They assumed she was leaving the scene of the crime (of jaywalking) and was fleeing from police. She was jumped by the cops then cuffed and stuffed while being confused, crying, and not understanding what was going on. The public complained about the over the top arrest so Acevedo called a press conference to apologize for what his officers did. He did so by saying, "At least they didn't gRape her."
The police had to enter a nursery and end the lives of fifty newborn infants, they said they did this for officer safety after all one of those babies could have grown up to someday possibly be a threat. 🤨 If you think that 's ridiculous remember Uvalde.
They just need more money. They just need more training. It’s the same old story. No what they need is to end qualified immunity, pay their own insurance, pay their own lawsuit damages , put an END to the QUOTA hiring process and go back to making sure that they’re are actually qualified before they get hired. Stop hiring morons, bullies and sociopaths.
Two years?!?!? You or I would have gotten 25 to life.
That’s not true, if he wasn’t a cop. He would have gotten probation. He was basically charge with negligent homicide or manslaughter. The max sentence is 10 years and he had a clean record.
@@airmann4673well he shouldn’t even get 2 years!
Merica remember?
@@airmann4673max for manslaughter in TX is 20 years. However it is not a 3G offense so he may only serve 1/4 of the sentence.
I think the courts mentality is that since he is a cop going to prison two years is actually a death sentence or something like that.
They fired him only after he went to prison. Meanwhile people who are falsely charged lose their jobs immediately
Or, merely accused pending trial. You're spot on. Merry Christmas 🎄
@@Engineer1897or they only fired him to save face. Close buddy!
Yup. Some individuals entire life is lost because they’re locked up on crimes they never committed.
@@exposehim4601 absolutely correct. He wasn't a ' former officer ' when he actually did the deed. I prefer the phrase ' then' officer Smith, (or whomever) when he allegedly ( or did commit, if there was already a conviction) did XYZ. The idea that he was a 'former officer' when he committed the crime would be the result of some kind of cognitive distortion that they wish the public would have in these kinds of cases. Our whole society is afflicted with many cognitive distortions these days. We're bombarded with propaganda and psyops daily.
Facts
They need to stop saying these guys are held to a higher standard because it's the complete opposite. Imagine getting 2 years for ending someone's life.
If anything being held to a higher standard should mean you get a longer sentence.
Should the officer have let the man stab him?
@@hombreduro369He shot him in the back.
It's a shame that holding cops accountable is considered a "rarity".
@@acc4465jeez you’re pathetic. Get off your knees bootlicker. Cops are rarely if ever actually prosecuted ur just spewing lies. Even the video raves about how rare it is. If you want to keep your freedom don’t be a trigger happy loose cannon power tripping cop. Everyone has to follow the laws the badge doesn’t make them exempt to that. If they can’t follow the rules like everyone else lock em up.
absolutely!!
@@acc4465 You are delusional.
You are a pathetic worthless lazy freeloading democRAT
@@acc4465. The “public” doesn’t charge anyone. The prosecutors do. Cops are rarely held accountable for their actions and even when they are they typically receive lighter sentences than a normal person charged with the same offense. There are many documented cases where cops have gotten away with all manner of violent crimes against humanity with NO prison. Happens every day in this country. I find them repulsive people and have nothing but contempt for them.
It took a sentencing to fire a bad cop? This says it all on what the problem is with policing in the US.
Or maybe your flipping yourself out on something that isn't even news. Of course they're going to wait until the trail and sentencing to fully process him out. Do you think his union would let that happen, nor should they really. Innocent until proving guilty, remember? Justice was done, and I could probably point to hundreds of things that are more of a problem with policing in America.
You might be too ignorant to know this but police officers have unions. They are granted rights called “Peace Officer bill of rights” they technically can’t get fired for these cases unless sentenced and found guilty. Ignorance is bliss
You mean the US gov't and police are corrupted criminals. Sounds like a third world country.
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Exactly how does this make him a bad officer he followed everything. The police department told him to do so wouldn’t that make the police department bad?
2 yrs for taking a life and found guilty is insane
You obviously didn’t take the time to read up on the case and watch the bodycam video
We need police accountability.
Agency policy should not override my rights.
Abbott is gonna pardon him
We need eye for an eye.
What was this?
2 years for shooting someone in the back and it took him actually getting convicted before being fired perfect example of the problem with law enforcement in the united states
Meanwhile people are still sitting in prison for walking between velvet ropes in a public building on Jan 6, 2021
Police ego is the problem.
Can you imagine having a crisis where you’re in fear for your mental safety and the cops show up threatening your freedom/physical safety? Most of these people just need calm reassurance and sense of safety which is the opposite of what usually happens.
2 years ?? No justice here. The public would get 15 to life !!
The sentence range for a third degree felony is 2 to 10 years. Still disgraceful with the Judge literally saying I can’t give you Probation due the felony, so I’ll give you the minimum. And he was allowed an Appellate bond which is rare in Austin, Texas
lol he’s white
Most of the public would also refuse to help a fellow citizen in need. At best they might just stand and record on their cell phones
@@EMT_Rickthe Daniel Penny case is going to make that even worse.
The public isn’t dispatched to a random person having a mental health issue. And if a person from the public was around someone having a mental health crisis they would just stand there and record it.
Two years?
What a farce. 😒
Maybe if personal responsibility for police officers wasn't "incredibly rare," they would think twice about doing these things...
Oakland's cops are nowhere to be seen. Look at how well that works out! Let crime sort itself out...
@@culcuneso it’s be ruled by thugs or let criminals run free . Hmmm difficult choice
innocent until proven guilty, if only we all were treated fair like this
We are. What are you suggesting?
They break the law... they ALL go to jail. The cops should do double the time cause they know better.
I agree.
Normal people don’t know better? 😂
Do you even know what happened in this situation?
@@spatulaman2753 Of course they don't
Well uh . . . don’t send a cop to deal with a mental health issue? You don’t go to the police for an appendectomy, so why use the police to deal with mental issues?
They need excuses to demand more money to do less,
He was walking around his condo banging on doors with a knife. Granted he had the knife to his own throat, but it’s reasonable for someone to call the police which is why they responded.
Usually mental health issues are violent or have the potential to get violent really quickly
He could’ve handed it off to someone else right, or was there a time limit? The guy on the scene now is in charge of making that assessment. “Well they sent me so I gotta….” 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ what a ridiculous and dumb comment
Why you need a unit and not a single officer?
Do you really need to be trained in not to unlawfully killing someone🤷🏽♂️🤨
The “greatest” nation on earth can’t decide that a mental health professional should be dispatched along with law enforcement during a call like this. 🙄
You should review the current results of a city like Oakland, CA who have taken this sort of approach. I for one am “shocked!”
Nope. Their motto isn’t to care, only control. That’s it. 😊
You like higher taxes.
Right because mental health professionals are so common and also so willing to do that. IL has been trying to get crisis response professionals to respond with PD and EMS since 2022 and less they still aren’t able to get them out for 1/4 of the calls they are needed. Because there aren’t enough of them and they don’t want to do that kind of work.
@@jazzyj6640 That’s it!
2 years is a slap in the wrist. Meanwhile the public will get life sentence.
Stop apologizing and accept responsibility
Only 2 years????
They don't fire him after he's convicted. They wait until after he's actually in prison.
Oh no holding officers accountable makes them hesitate to do their job
Goes to show you how pathetic they are that they waited til he was sentenced to fire him. This is ridiculous.
SAD SO SAD
"Officers will be less likely to get involved in situations..." Sounds like a win to me.
Not if you’re a criminal.
@@MikeHoncho130 it wasn't even a criminal call
yep!
@@MikeHoncho130or a victim of a crime?
@@Tracy-m3n yes it was, the guy was going around door to door with a knife in his hand.
2 years? What a joke for a murderer
That's why more and more people are losing Faith and Hope in our government system
It took a criminal conviction of killing someone before they FIRED him? Sounds pretty much like the APD has some serious moral issues and character flaws at the very top.
The cop did the crime gets 2 year jail joke
Prosecutors need to compare what a regular citizen would get for performing the same action.
How about teaching and training those officers BEFORE you release them out on the streets with a vulnerable public.
Truck drivers lose their job over a traffic ticket immediately but this cop works till he is sent to prison
That so called expert made zero sense😱
If he followed procedure, why are we here?
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Who said he followed "procedure"? Other cops. Lol.
Exactly. They threw him under the bus.
He shot a man in the back
He looks like a demon he should have gotten life in prison without parole🙄
2years for killing somebody? Man they gave a woman hear 5 to 8 years for stealing from Walmart for a 3rd time this is a joke
2 years in prison for unaliving someone? Wow cops get all of the breaks.
Bro looks like a neo not-see. Also, he only gets two years?? Two years is better than nothing, but I feel it is way too low for shooting someone that was fleeing because they got hit while they had their hands up.
No negative comments about how he was a DEI hire, huh?
He was still employed???
Every cop in America, has violated rights, or watched another cop violate rights!!
Officers need to go to jail for 25 plus years. He murdered the man.
How about getting corruption out of the police department
Serious question: Is this video from a news organisation or part of the *Austin police PR budget?*
So they fired him after it made the news.
I find it scary that they think their “policy” is better than the actual law!
Sentencing 2 years for killing what kind of sentence is that! 😏
Apparently its only the conviction they care about, not the behavior
This is why RUclips channels like Audit the Audit and Lackluster exist.
Ill never understand how someone wants to be a cop but is afraid of their own shadow
The garage department who employed him, protected his job until AFTER sentencing. That’s how they disrespect the victim and the public. Blatant absurdity right in our faces. And then of course the judge and that ridiculous sentence.
Just two years... should be 25 to life
the people like you who hate police are the worst.
Remember back when Austin Police chief Art Acevedo conducted a crackdown on the devastating crime of jaywalking? A female jogger wearing earbuds crossed the street but didn't use the crosswalk. A bunch of cops yelled at her but she didn't hear them because of the earbuds. They assumed she was leaving the scene of the crime (of jaywalking) and was fleeing from police. She was jumped by the cops then cuffed and stuffed while being confused, crying, and not understanding what was going on. The public complained about the over the top arrest so Acevedo called a press conference to apologize for what his officers did. He did so by saying, "At least they didn't gRape her."
😂 Two years for killing a man 😅 what a joke 😢
Sick, only two years for murdering someone.
Only two years 🤯
“Proper training” costs money. When PD’s get sued for millions and their insurance companies demand changes, then the system will change…hopefully… 🙏
Shooting someone who is unarmed is unacceptable in any case.😢
it's only rare because they let their partners investigate ..
So they fired him after he was sentenced. Nice to see someone is seen as innocent until proven guilty, just doesn’t apply to all of us.
The police had to enter a nursery and end the lives of fifty newborn infants, they said they did this for officer safety after all one of those babies could have grown up to someday possibly be a threat. 🤨 If you think that 's ridiculous remember Uvalde.
Fired after sentencing. Let that sink in.
No eye contact by the cop. No credibility
2 years really.. judge should resign and be ashamed.. what a waste of money paying incompetent people like that judge...
2 years that’s it ? Also he just got fired after getting sentenced!!
He wasn't fired when he was convicted?
I spent 30 years in Law Enforcement but, I would never take a job with any police agency today!
I bet it was a breeze being a cop without cameras everywhere and people ignorant of the law back in the day.
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2 years for taking a life... I love every one who loves law enforcement... I just hope and pray this never happens to someone who you truly loves!!!
Two years that's crazy for taking a life wow
He’ll be out in less than 1 year and will go on to a different police department, where he will continue his criminal activities.
Abolish qualified immunity
Two years? That ain’t enough.
Until there is equal justice & accountability under the law, there is NO JUSTICE!
Yep, sure didnt learn much.😮
Killed someone and only get 2 years 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
APD did their best to protect this former badge wearing criminal. 👎 Same cops as they've always been.
Is that what it takes for a law enforcement department to fire someone?
2 years for a killing!???
He was only charged and found guilty because he's White.
How is he out on bond if convicted and sentenced?
And this is why I will never go into law enforcement
So a police officer has to be convicted before being fired?
2 years is a slap on the wrist.
He got a slap on the wrist
As most of them do
Only two years
Crazy 😧😧😧
Two years?!?!?
Typical Suspect!!! What a loser. Another department will probably pick him up. 2 years for killing someone . That's not justice
2 years is a joke.
Abolish qualified immunity for all LE
Only two years?
He should have been sentenced to 40 years!
They just need more money. They just need more training. It’s the same old story. No
what they need is to end qualified immunity, pay their own insurance, pay their own lawsuit damages , put an END to the QUOTA hiring process and go back to making sure that they’re are actually qualified before they get hired. Stop hiring morons, bullies and sociopaths.
Thats it ! 2years if tables were turned the victim would of got life or death penalty period!
So they waited for to get sentenced to fire him?😂😂😂
Straight to jail pal, "To a hammer, everything is a nail."....what training .....a man is dead and another hiding behind "unqualified immunity".....🤔
Only 2 yrs 🙄
The shooting occured in 2019 and he's just now being sentenced?😊
This so-called expert talks from both sides of his mouth.
he can train in jail.
A day after…….wow.
What a one sided news story