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Officer pleads guilty after leaving handcuffed suspect to drown
Posted on 6/29/17 at 9:56 am
Posted on 6/29/17 at 9:56 am
To a misdemeanor boating violation LINK
quote:Gonna reiterate my view that there should be a special prosecutor at the state level for criminal cases involving cops so it doesn't go to the local DA who relies on them to make a living.
A Missouri state trooper pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor boating violation three years after he handcuffed a college student and left him to drown in a lake.
Brandon Ellingson and his friends were celebrating the start of summer break with a boating trip in Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks in May 2014. But as he and his friends were leaving the dock one afternoon, trooper Anthony Piercy stopped them and accused Ellingson, 20, of boating while intoxicated. Piercy handcuffed Ellingson, placed him in the back of his Water Patrol boat, and sped off. The boat was traveling 46 miles per hour when it hit a wave, flinging the handcuffed young man into the water. Piercy called his supervisor an hour after Ellingson drowned.
Piercy faces a maximum six months in prison and a $500 fine for Ellingson’s death. Ellingson’s family says it’s the closest they’ll get to justice.
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“I’m banged up a little bit, but I’m alright. I don’t know if I’m sore from treading water with the bastard,” Piercy told a supervisor of the dead 20-year-old.
Many of the records on Ellingson’s death only emerged later, through his family’s persistent legal efforts against the department.
In September 2016, a circuit court judge ruled that the state had “knowingly” and “purposely” violated the state’s Sunshine Law to withhold documents about Ellingson’s death from his family. “These documents could all be considered highly damaging to the [Highway Patrol], and the wrongful nondisclosure of these documents is troubling to the Court,” a judge wrote.
Piercy’s criminal case presented the Ellingsons with a different challenge: small-town Missouri law.
Morgan County’s population hovers just above 20,000. During an inquest jury on the cause of Ellingson’s death, a juror told the Kansas City Star that the criminal trial should be held outside Morgan County because the local courts ran on a “good ole boy system.” And Piercy was reportedly well-known in the small community.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 9:57 am to Iosh
Now that is beyond fricked up.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 9:58 am to Iosh
still more punishment than Ted Kennedy got
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:01 am to Iosh
too many laws
if we stick with the basics of murder, rape and robbery and get the cops out of the micro-regulatory tax collecting business we will have less of this shite
if we stick with the basics of murder, rape and robbery and get the cops out of the micro-regulatory tax collecting business we will have less of this shite
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:06 am to TrueTiger
I'm fine with drunk boating being a crime. I'm not fine with suspects getting handcuffed and flung into the water to drown.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:07 am to Iosh
Jesus, all he had to do was blow the guy away and claim he was in fear for his life, dumbass.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:09 am to Iosh
quote:
I'm fine with drunk boating being a crime.
the excuse for making this a crime was:
"to save lives"
and what was the result?
dude died anyway
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:11 am to Iosh
quote:
I'm not fine with suspects getting handcuffed and flung into the water to drown.
I doubt anyone is ok with that.
Terrible events, for sure.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:12 am to Iosh
Horrible. Absolutely horrible.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:12 am to Iosh
It is actually kinda funny!!!
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:13 am to Iosh
The big question: Why is this man still employed as a state trooper?
ETA: I will back off this comment - I read the longer article where the trooper only had two hours of training to work on the water and admitted that the training was inadequate.
ETA: I will back off this comment - I read the longer article where the trooper only had two hours of training to work on the water and admitted that the training was inadequate.
This post was edited on 6/29/17 at 10:18 am
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:17 am to Iosh
quote:
The boat was traveling 46 miles per hour when it hit a wave, flinging the handcuffed young man into the water. Piercy called his supervisor an hour after Ellingson drowned.
the fact that cops keep getting away this shite is astounding. they might as well have just given him a ticket for littering.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:17 am to Iosh
I can't believe the policy is to handcuff you in a boat on the water without being violent first.
No damn way.
No damn way.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:20 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:when your "us vs them" mentality is so unhinged that THIS is your very first reaction after reading that story, you are deeply fricked up.
still more punishment than Ted Kennedy got
This post was edited on 6/29/17 at 10:29 am
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:21 am to Iosh
quote:
there should be a special prosecutor at the state level for criminal cases involving cops so it doesn't go to the local DA who relies on them to make a living.
This. And cops need to lose their cloak of civil immunity in cases of gross negligence.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 11:02 am to Damone
If you have to restrain a suspect in the back of a van. Shouldn't you have to put a lifevest on him?
Posted on 6/29/17 at 11:13 am to Iosh
How do you handcuff someone in a boat and not give them a life vest?
Posted on 6/29/17 at 11:17 am to Iosh
Sounds like a bad deal all around.
The only mistake I see, and maybe I'm reading it wrong, is you are acting like the officer kicked him over board, which he didn't.
The only mistake I see, and maybe I'm reading it wrong, is you are acting like the officer kicked him over board, which he didn't.
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