Cops are here to keep us safe by killing 10-year-old kids on
bicycles while tearing down the road at at 30 mph over the posted speed
limit with no lights and no sirens on.
If you or I slammed into a 10 year old on a bicycle while doing
70mph in a 40mph zone on a major thoroughfare like Belt Line, we’d be
crucified in the press and locked away for years on a vehicular
homicide charge. But since Senior Corporal Michael Vaughn is a cop,
even though he admittedly violated established policies for safe
driving and killed a 10-year-old child through his recklessness, he
gets Internally Investigated and given a one day vacation from his job.
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