“It’s a lie, but it’s fun" said the cop. These scumbags don't give a damn that lives are at stake through their actions.
Ordinary people "lying" to police: prison.
Police lying, conspiring or
"omitting" information that might even result in deaths: no problem, no punishment.
But according to these cops, it wasn't lying; it was a
"ruse". And the lowlife will not even accept responsibility, he said it was
"regrettable" the poor man took his own life, yet he insisted that he was not responsible and said he had not abused his discretion or acted unprofessionally.
Seattle police officer contributed to man’s death with ruse that ‘shocked the conscience,’ investigation finds“It’s a lie, but it’s fun,” a Seattle police officer remarked to his partner as they approached a West Seattle home in search of a suspect in a hit-and-run collision.
His comment referred to a ruse he planned to use in their pursuit of a man who had fled the collision.
When the two officers reached the home, they spoke with a woman who said the man used her address to register his car. She told the officers he wasn’t there but she would get his phone number.
The officer who had devised the ruse he described as fun then set it in motion, unleashing events that spiraled into unforeseen tragedy when the man took his own life days later. Now, a police watchdog has found that the officer’s action “shocked the conscience” and contributed to the man’s death.
The two officers had not been involved in investigating the collision, which occurred in another precinct and involved several vehicles. They were asked to go to the home after the address was tied to the fleeing driver’s vehicle. They were told no one was injured, which made the hit-and-run a misdemeanor.
But as the woman searched her phone for the suspect’s number, the officer with the ruse plan told her they were looking for the man because he was involved in a hit-and-run that left a woman in critical condition.[/b] A summary report on the 2018 incident was recently released by the Police Department’s Office of Police Accountability (OPA).
The officer told her the injured woman “might not survive.”
The woman was “clearly emotionally affected” by the news, police body-camera video showed, according to the OPA report. After the officers left, the woman tracked down the hit-and-run suspect, told him what the police had said and advised him to get an attorney. Initially, he didn’t appear overly concerned, saying he didn’t think he had been involved in a collision that left anyone injured, the woman later told the OPA.
But he began to worry that he might have hit a pedestrian without realizing it, the OPA report said. He became increasingly despondent over the possibility he had killed someone, the woman told the OPA. She said he had been a heroin addict for nearly 20 years and had prior legal troubles.
Shortly after, the man died by suicide, according to the OPA report.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-officer-contributed-to-mans-death-with-ruse-that-shocked-the-conscience-investigation-finds/https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6609888-OPA-Summary-Report.html