Motorcyclist killed by cager, coverup ensues. Can you guess why?

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Charges of intoxication are dropped and the driver keeps his license.

Family Of Man Killed In Bisard Crash Claims Cover Up - Indiana News Story - WRTV Indianapolis

[Spunky99]

Tell me my logic is flawed......

Someone drives his vehicle with an alcohol level more than double the state law and plows into the back of some "Bikers"..(motorcycle riders).
Since this person is well liked by the arresting officers, mainly because he is an Officer himself, an arrangement is made to get the alcohol related evidence thrown out. This changes a Felony Manslaughter into a Misdemeanor Manslaughter charge. So the county is off the hook financially when the lawsuit is filed, the murdering drunk Officer gets to keep his job and driver's license and the monetary payout in a lawsuit id very minimal.

Blood, breath and urine should have been collected and no hanky panky done to the evidence. The problem is that there was hanky panky in all areas of this case.

Drunk Cop...was he driving a Police Cruiser?
Blood test botched, no alcohol evidence to admit
Dead unknown Biker.

If I were the relative of the dead Biker, I'd extract some southern justice and make sure these people who helped hide the evidence got the same chance as the Biker....none..nada....Zero...Double Odd buck justice....

[husker525]

Unbelieveable and just sickening.....

I would venture a guess that if this kind of corruption occurs at this level, that someone at the federal level should be looking hard into that agency.

It really gives all the good officers a black eye, when things like this happen. It sounds like it could not have been handled any worse.....grrrrrrrrrr

[corwin06]

pigs think they are above the law. this guy should be shot

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Originally Posted by Spunky99

Drunk Cop...was he driving a Police Cruiser?
Blood test botched, no alcohol evidence to admit
Dead unknown Biker.

Yes, he was not only driving a cruiser, he was on-duty, and was responding under emergency signals to a call where a warrant was being served.

The motorcyclists were at a complete stop when the officer rammed them.

I'm not convinced that it's necessary to respond under emergency signals to help serve a warrant.

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Originally Posted by husker525

It really gives all the good officers a black eye, when things like this happen. It sounds like it could not have been handled any worse.....grrrrrrrrrr

"...all the good officers..."

This incident required collective cooperation among all involved, as does almost any similar situation where one officer screws up, and the rest collaborate to either cover it up or incriminate innocent people. Kind of like the officer in Hollywood, FL who rear-ended a woman with his cruiser, and four officers attempted to concoct a story placing blame on the woman. Even in this case in Indiana, the police dept even tossed out the theory that the three motorcyclists failed to properly yield. Sickening.

The "good" officers will be the ones who not only enforce the law against civilians, but who don't become either passively or actively complicit when one of their own screws up, and unfortunately they seem hard to come by.

I've tried to find news articles telling stories about officers who refused to be involved in a coverup, or who acted as whistleblowers, but I'm having a bit of trouble.

As an update on a previous story, the officer who shot and paralyzed an unarmed rider was sentenced to 11 years in prison, but he walks free even after being sentenced...because he filed an appeal.

You think you'd get released pending an appeal?

[dart1963]

sounds like a system of incompetent officers... wonder how many other incidents they messed up that day, I'm guessing, none.

Just keep in mind, while this may involve more than one officer, you really only hear the most extreme cases in the news. For this one incident, there are thousands of others that are handled right, they're just not newsworthy.

I hope the family gets the justice they deserve and am sorry for their loss.

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I happen to be of the suspicion that for every story like this that hits the news, there are thousands of comparatively egregious incidents that they manage to pull off without getting caught.

[jcbrown630]

More up to date info on the story.

Three top officers demoted due to mishandling of Bisard case - Rally held with family (Video) - Indianapolis addiction recovery | Examiner.com

I agree with Reality on this one.. For each one that gets caught. There are more likely thousands of cases that aren't discovered.

[TigerGenetics]

Originally Posted by jcbrown630

More up to date info on the story.

Three top officers demoted due to mishandling of Bisard case - Rally held with family (Video) - Indianapolis addiction recovery | Examiner.com

I agree with Reality on this one.. For each one that gets caught. There are more likely thousands of cases that aren't discovered.

And likely thousands more that are handled correctly. And just because it isn't in the news doesn't mean it went undiscovered. There are such things as internal investigations that the public isn't, and probably shouldn't, be aware of in some cases.

Lots of cop bashing by a couple members lately. While I think this story is terrible and the cop should be put in jail for a looooooong time, that doesn't mean that all cops are like that, probably not even the majority. Based on a few (and probably exaggerated) observations, all cops are "pigs" and can't be trusted You can't stand the cops when you do something wrong and get cited for it, but love them when you need them.

It's sort of like the small percentage of show-boating sport bike riders that give us safe motorcyclists bad names in the eyes of the public. It only takes a few to ruin the image of the majority.