This policewoman executed a man with two shots to the back while he was being tazed.

[Bonobo]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/pennsylvania-officer-acquitted-murder-david-kassick

He was stopped for an expired registration vehicle.

He was unarmed.

He was on his stomach, being tazed in the snow.

He was 59 years old.

She was acquitted.

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The video, which was played to jurors, showed Mearkle shocking 59-year-old David Kassick after he fled from a traffic stop before shooting him twice in the back as he lay face down in the snow in February.

After the verdict, Mearkle tearfully said she was sorry the shooting had happened.

“I feel relief right now, but it’s going to take a little bit for me to get back to my normal self,” she told reporters. “This has taken a toll on me that nobody understands.”

Mearkle said she wanted Kassick’s family to know that: “I truly wish it didn’t happen. I want them to know that. I didn’t want to shoot anybody.”

Mearkle, 37, testified on Wednesday that she believed Kassick was still a threat even after she shocked him repeatedly with a stun gun.

In the video, which was later released to the public after the verdict was handed down, Kassick’s hands repeatedly disappeared underneath his body as Mearkle screamed at him to keep them where she could see them and then fired the fatal shots.

[polly7]

1. OMG. That poor man. nt.

[Punkingal]

2. Beyond horrible.

She treated him like an animal and now she talks about how hard this is on her, I wonder if she gets her job back?

[cantbeserious]

3. Citizens Be Warned - LEOs Protect And Serve The 1% - Not The 99%

eom

[safeinOhio]

7. 85% of cops are crooked or nuts and

make the 15% of good cops look bad.

How did I come up with that number? That is the number of cops that give or take a "professional courtesy". That is a violation of the law, state and the U.S. constitution and their oath.

[bravenak]

4. This is fucked up beyond measure.

[Jesus Malverde]

5. She BBQ'ed him with a taser, kept shocking him into submission, without stopping

Then shot him in the back twice.

[FreakinDJ]

6. American Exceptionalizm gone insane - Land of the Free

[safeinOhio]

8. This man won't stop resisting

[polly7]

10. Beating on a dead man?

Something seriously wrong with the minds of those people.

[safeinOhio]

12. He wouldn't

show his hands.

[Logical]

16. Oh FFS, are you serious? nt

[uppityperson]

36. Holy shit.eom

[wolfie001]

9. No sympathy here for that murderous cop!

That's exactly what she did, she murdered!....legally it appears! Fuck, that's wrong!!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Raise Your Hands!

While laying on your stomach. Laying on snow. While being tazed. Seems like a reasonable request. Not!

[smiley]

13. My question is....

what made the jury not convict this woman. Did they not see this video?

[Bonobo]

14. She said she felt fear.

I guess they were saying her sense of fear justified the killing.

[DhhD]

22. Could it be a fear of him testifying against her and her losing her job? It is called silencing

the witness(s). Who would want this silentencer driving around in their neighborhood protecting you from others having an expired license sticker? She should be let go.

[grntuscarora]

15. Careful jury selection seems to have been part of it.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/11/mearkle_defense_had_a_plan_for.html

[mountain grammy]

24. She had a good lawyer.. maybe her union paid for him?

Shame the man she murdered wasn't represented as well as she was.

I honestly don't know how an average person can look at this video and find for the cop, and we see it time and again. Evidently, her testimony was very compelling, but it seems the prosecutor could just cross examine with this video and impeach anything she had to say.. Are people really so brainwashed, and why do I ask that when I know the answer?

[grntuscarora]

31. I don't think the prosecutor's whole heart was in this case.

He was supposed to have input into jury selection, too. Why did he let it be stacked?

[newthinking]

21. Because we have become a crazy (yet submissive) society maybe?

Of course not everyone. But it seems more and more prevalent that people are willing to allow injustice to "others" without question.

[dae]

32. What a cynical and disturbing observation,

and I agree with you 100%! Will our people ever wake up?

[Vinca]

17. I don't understand how this lady isn't in jail.

If she feared for her life in this instance, she shouldn't be dogcatcher, let alone a police officer. How on earth could she have been acquitted? Who sat on the jury? Her close relatives??

[IronLionZion]

18. Why not call for backup if she's afraid?

Don't cops normally go in pairs?

Will anything change once republicans find out this can happen to old white rural men?

[SomeGuyInEagan]

33. In pairs?

Not in Minneapolis - St. Paul or surrounding suburbs or when I lived in Los Angeles county. It was always a single officer in a car, whether police, sherriff deputies or state troopers/CHP.

Same in my hometown, which was much smaller (50k) but also had a much smaller budget.

[IronLionZion]

34. in DC they swarm

Officers in patrol cars or bicycles or whatever always go in pairs and lots of backup always arrives quickly, like 6 or so other officers will show up for an arrest. I think they started this policy for their own safety.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

35. Bikes and horseback, yes here as well.

Didn't even think of them, though bike patrols here are limited to downtowns and events (festivals, outside sporting events, etc.). Horseback seems be be more a ceremonial thing or for crowd control.

Backup comes quickly here as well.

[PowerToThePeople]

19. No words for the injustice

Ban all guns.

[edhopper]

20. But we are suppose to be outraged

by Quintin Tarantino, right?

Fuck that shit, this was murder.

[blackspade]

23. Sickening.

This cop is a danger to the community.
Was the jury stupid?

[mountain grammy]

25. We've seen convictions on the flimsiest of evidence over and over

in our courts. How many are released every year due to wrongful conviction after decades in prison? And yet, here's an out of control cop, torturing and murdering a man in cold blood and it's all recorded. Was he threatening her? Not on the video. If I lived in that community I would be afraid of the police.. oh wait, it's SOP everywhere...

[Demeter]

26. Then She Should Be Permanently Disarmed, Fired and Listed as a Murderer

What kind of crap justice is this?

In fact, a Venus de Milo look might suit her....that's a real disarming!

[lame54]

27. did he have control of his hands while being tazed

[Ed Suspicious]

29. I doubt it. It seemed to me that when she would hit the tazer, the voltage would cause his hands to

curl and head toward his body. It seemed to me, as I watched the video that, she maybe didn't realize it, but if the hands were the scary part, SHE was the one responsible for making them move to where she demanded they not.

It was like as a kid when my brother would mess with his younger brother by grabbing his hand and forcing it toward their face while yelling "stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!"

[JackInGreen]

28. Can I hope

A super villain somehow makes an abject example of her for their henchmen? That woman deserves no rest nor quarter.

[Ed Suspicious]

30. I don't believe in the deterrent effect of the death penalty.

I doubt the example would sink in, but at this point, I don't even find it all too distasteful that you might be hoping for it.