Cop charged after shooting man in face after argument

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According to court documents, Morrison saw Dodson in the bar acting upset and aggressive, yelling on his phone, and punching windows. When Morrison warned Dodson about his behavior, Dodson allegedly screamed at him. Morrison told Dodson to leave and escorted him out of the bar, but Dodson returned eight minutes later.

Morrison told police that he was speaking with Myrtaj when Dodson came back inside. As Morrison approached Dodson to again tell him to leave, Myrtaj put himself in between the two men. Dodson then allegedly pulled a pistol from a holster on his right hip and pointed it at Morrison.

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A good pre-employment background investigation, polygraph exam, and psychological testing can go a long ways in thinning out nut jobs, but take time, cost money, and make it more difficult to fill pressing vacancies. I checked the PD website but couldn’t ascertain anything about their hiring process. Appears to be a small department in a rural area, so I’d be surprised if they did any of those steps prior to hiring a guy.

Aww, five downvotes already. We're making progress but still too many blue-line-bootlickers among conservatives. "Back tha blew" would be their last words as blood filled their lungs after the cops got the wrong address again and barged into their house guns blazing.

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don't see how this could possibly be free of even more corruption than government law enforcement,

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well maybe then they wouldn't be immune from civil liability when they get drunk and shoot you in the face

My side? You are woefully mistaken if you think I'm a liberal. I'm a true conservative. I support the Constitution unconditionally. I hate cops that trample all over it on a daily basis. Any cop that enforced unconstitutional covid mandates should face the gallows or firing squad. Cops are also no friend of the 2nd Amendment. They've shown they have nothing but contempt for US citizens and the Constitution.

And since when were feds pulling parents out of school board meetings? That's your beloved local cops doing that buddy. Fed, state, and local law enforcement are all thoroughly corrupt.

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Dex Morgan

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What's your profession?

It's easy to see how crazy all you frickers are on here. And on the OT and the SEC board.

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Aww, five downvotes already. We're making progress but still too many blue-line-bootlickers among conservatives. "Back tha blew" would be their last words as blood filled their lungs after the cops got the wrong address again and barged into their house guns blazing.

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Preach brother preach. How small government, self reliant rugged individuals find so many of their like minded individualists promoting big government intrusion in the form of policemen into the lives of individuals is beyond imagination. The one thing that is for certain is that those people really were never small government types to begin with...they want the government out of their life but like the idea of the government being all up in YOUR business....

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I don't believe in these broad brush arguments. Not all cops are good, this is true, but not all cops are bad either. I prefer to judge folks individually based on their specific actions and merits, or lack thereof

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As it is done in the US today and has been since its inception policing is bad across the board regardless of the relative merits of the individuals employed in the industry. The main measure of success or failure is arrest rates and crime clearance....not crime prevention or even convictions. It is easy to arrest folks, especially when a large segment of the population is of the opinion that one must comply with any and all orders given by a LEO or be killed immediately, even when you have multiple LEOs screaming multiple and conflicting orders at you, making it impossible to comply with all of them.

An arrest should mean the state has pretty good evidence that a crime has taken place and there has to be a victim for almost all crimes. That is like telling folks to stop at an intersection ONLY after they have an accident in the intersection...it would be much better to do something to try to avoid the accident, like put up a stop sign and requiring a stop everytime. Crime prevention should be the goal because the goal ought to be fewer victims of crime. Arrests only mean that, at best, a crime has taken place and someone was victimized.

When they do make an arrest, after failing to prevent a crime and protect the public, they should only be judged on how often they get a conviction which does not include plea deals and jail house snitches and fake evidence. The damage done to society by the state abusing citizens and railroading them into prison is infinitely worse than the damage done to society by the worst of criminals yet we accept those abuses and even defend them in the interest of making us safer when we will say, without a hint of irony, that anyone who would swap freedom for security deserves neither. If you allow the state almost limitless power to take the freedom away from others when the state turns on you you have no one to blame but yourself....