Has good-ol'-boy corruption seized the Kern County Sheriff's Office?
May 19, 2013 (The Bakersfield Californian - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- The Kern County Sheriff's Office is out of control. That's one conclusion many people will draw based on the events of the past two weeks and in the context of recent years. We won't know whether that's a fair characterization until we get some answers, but it should grieve us all that the possibility is even on the table."
"The current impetus for this, of course, is the death of David Sal Silva, a 33-year-old Bakersfield man who was rousted from his sleep on a patch of grass near Kern Medical Center at about midnight the night of May 7-8 and beaten or restrained by as many as nine baton-wielding officers, one with a dog, from the Sheriff's Office and the California Highway Patrol. The investigation into Silva's death and our confidence in the KCSO's ethical fortitude were then compromised by the disappearance of video evidence from a witness's confiscated cellphone."
"But the department's recent track record seems like enough reason to withhold benefit of the doubt. Consider the case of Rodolfo Medrano, an amputee who couldn't leave his wheelchair but was deemed so potentially threatening that, when he pulled a knife out of his waistband and started rolling toward deputies, they took him down. Or the case of David Lee Turner, who swung a bag containing two cans of beer in a deputy's direction and paid with his life."
"Then there are the nonfatal ethical lapses, too many to name here, from stealing cash from the wallets of drivers who've been pulled over, to allegedly subjecting a woman to a "deviant" strip search in her own home."
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How else are you supposed to keep those unruly(unconscious) minorities in line if you don't beat them to death every chance you get?
