163 points

Holy crap, this was the third person the officer had shot in the head while on duty. This guy was a serial killer in a uniform.

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I just watched a documentary on John Wayne Gacy. He said the reason he loved being a clown is because:

“nobody judges you if you’re a clown. You can grab and pick up women, and they just laugh. You can put handcuffs on anyone as a magic trick, and they just trust you. You could get away with murder, and nobody would look at you twice.”

Which is even more chilling when you realize he used to ask teenage boys to put handcuffs on, and they did. He playfully put a noose on their necks, and they let him. And he killed them without resistance.

And cops didn’t suspect him because he was an upstanding member of the community. He was a local politician, and he entertained children by being a clown.

So it’s kind of the same thing. Gacy wore a clown uniform, and nobody suspects. This cop wears a blue uniform, and no one suspects. But in both cases, it’s just a set of clothing. It doesn’t help or change the person wearing it.

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67 points

One could argue both uniforms are worn by clowns

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9 points

Except one of those group usually entertains and makes people happy

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9 points

This guy? They all are.

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28 points

They aren’t all serial killers.

Some are just enablers.

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The big red flag for me is the Mjölnir tat with the Orthala rune on his abdomen. Its one of the stranger ways of claiming they have some sort of pure Aryan herratage ethno-nationalists are often fans of using.

To put it another way, this guy is as neo-nazi as they come.

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The Spread Eagle, the Nordic helmets, Nordic rune, and the Blood Eagle wings on the back…

The saying on the hands is common to the military, and references how they’re going to make a call if something is 50/50. Without knowing if he served I can’t judge that. But he’s just a civilian then it’s pretty screwed up.

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The saying on the hands

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For fuck’s sake these dicks really think they’re in some kind of war. That’s a military saying, from a place where driving down the street was a roll of the dice and a firefight was a matter of when, not if, every day.

If that’s what they think policing is then we really need to just fire them now.

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If the complete tat is along the lines of: “it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by 8”, it’s been familiar to law enforcement circles (which circles the drain with ex-military, so not surprising) for a long time. When I was in college in a criminal justice program, several instructors repeated this over and over (except I believe it was “… carried by 6”.

I didn’t stay in that program, BTW.

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It is supposed to be carried by 6. But it’s also supposed to reference a war zone. Not policing where upholding the law is the mission.

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Prior to fatally shooting Sarey, Nelson killed Isaiah Obet in 2017. Obet was acting erratically, and Nelson ordered his police dog to attack. He then shot Obet in the torso. Obet fell to the ground, and Nelson fired again, fatally shooting Obet in the head. Police said the officer’s life was in danger because Obet was high on drugs and had a knife. The city reached a settlement of $1.25 million with Obet’s family.

In 2011, Nelson fatally shot Brian Scaman, a Vietnam War veteran with mental issues and a history of felonies, after pulling Scaman’s vehicle over for a burned-out headlight. Scaman got out of his car with a knife and refused to drop it; Nelson shot him in the head. An inquest jury cleared Nelson of wrongdoing.

This guy murdered 3 people by shooting them in the head. What, do we have a 3 strikes rule for police murder now? 3 times and you’re out?

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I mean… It’s better than the usual infinity strikes rule cops have.

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I think at the moment it’s if they’re convicted the punishment is a violent death in prison since our prison system is at least as dog shit as any other part of the justice system.

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46 points

He’s been on paid administrative leave since the shooting in 2019.

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46 points

where’s my 5 year weekend…

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1 point

We gave it to some cops. Hope you don’t mind.

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36 points

People try to say he’s a outlier.

Nah he’s just the one who got caught.

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7 points

Imagine working with this dude and not reporting / exposing this immediately. It says a lot about those working along side him.

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Yeah, those are the other eight the tattoo is talking about.

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