r/CapitolConsequences • u/Jordan_WUSA9 Verified Journalist • Aug 11 '22

Ex-police officer who saw himself as pro-Trump 'counter insurgency' sentenced to 87 months in prison in Jan. 6 case Sentenced

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/ex-virginia-police-officer-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-in-capitol-riot-case-thomas-robertson-rocky-mount-trump-jacob-fracker/65-4325e02a-5e48-49a5-aad6-a39d3373a312
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

Remember: this is one guy.

There are 1000's. I'm not someone that screams ACAB for any tiny infraction LE Agencies encounter, but there's a prolific problem that's been nurtured over the last 100 or so years in the United States LE.

The recruitment & hiring of Right voting personnel, coupled with the lack of accountability for any wrong doing they do.

This guy became an "ex-Officer" after he was arrested not because he's pro-MAGA, but because he was stupid enough to get caught.

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u/FlatMolasses4755 Aug 12 '22

always remember that they want the dumb ones

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

Not dumb.

Malleable.

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u/1000Airplanes Aug 12 '22

In this context, aren't they synonymous?

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u/il_the_dinosaur Aug 12 '22

Isn't the joke that you don't really train your police officers so claiming it would be too expensive to train someone who will quit soon anyway can't be an argument.

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u/ItsRedTomorrow Aug 12 '22

Oh they get trained. Trained on how to get away with crying fear when they murder someone.

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u/AndrewWaldron Aug 12 '22

The police department nearby in Louisville, Ky, the same department that killed Breonna Taylor, has been recruiting from the worst of other states because working for the LMPD has become such an incredibly terrible job locally.

They've got a nice, new, big budget to stop all the crime they've been ignoring and to combat that, they've taken to bringing in the bottom, worst performing officers from other forcers.

After shedding officers for years to the surrounding counties and communities, the LMPD, in the wake of both its sex scandel and the Breonna Taylor murder is having a hard time attracting applicants, let along hires.

Shocker.

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u/bipolar79 Aug 12 '22

Then you have the idiots that think LMPD has been defunded & that's why crime is so bad here.

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u/rddi0201018 Aug 12 '22

Is this nationwide? It seems there was a lot of rhetoric about defunding, but that never happened. And then they just refused to do their jobs. And then got an increased budget.

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u/bipolar79 Aug 12 '22

I have no idea, possibly. I just know I've heard it a lot from people in Louisville.

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u/UCgirl Aug 13 '22

I live in a relatively small peaceful community. Our police force has been having issues filling vacancies as well.

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u/AndrewWaldron Aug 13 '22

Small communities always have problems with these things. Often times the police you get are cops that have fuct up in the cities, so they move to rural departments...bringing their problems with them. But now since so many city departments are experiencing shortages, there aren't enough left to flow over into rural areas.

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u/Fungustoe1 Aug 12 '22

Sorry, all cops are pigs.

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u/BuddhaFacepalmed Aug 12 '22

Nah, pigs are awesome. Cops aren't.

They're bastards because good people in police departments don't stay cops or good people for very long.

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u/TheNotSoRealJohnDoe Aug 12 '22

Remember that piece of shit Lee Baca?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

Never heard of him, I had to look him up.

"Leroy David "Lee" Baca (born May 27, 1942) is an American former sheriff of Los Angeles County, California.

Baca was elected Los Angeles County's 30th sheriff against his mentor Sherman Block, who had died in office days prior to the election but remained on the ballot. He was sworn in on December 7, 1998.

He was re-elected to a fourth term in 2010. He was criticized for proposing a half-percent sales tax increase in 2004 to hire more deputy sheriffs, placing friends on the payroll, taking of gifts, and for releasing inmates from the Los Angeles County Jail.[1]

On May 12, 2017, Baca was sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to obstruct an FBI investigation of abuses in county jails. Baca is free on appeal."

Wow, what a piece of shit. As of 2020 he's incarcerated turn (*ghasp!!) jail informant!

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u/ItsRedTomorrow Aug 12 '22

You should be saying acab because the police have been an institution of oppression for the working class from the very beginning.