Former NYPD officer gets 3 to 9 years in prison for throwing a cooler that caused fatal crash

>“Today will forever be the darkest day of our profession,” union president Vincent Vallelong said. Duran’s prison sentence, he said, “puts in the back of a police officer’s mind that they can lose their freedom” for making a split-second decision. What a weird f****** world these dudes live in, where this is a bad thing. Police culture is just fubar. It's like they *want* their job to be dangerous and Hollywood-like. They escalate at every turn. There's should be no point during a non-violent crime where you have to decide in a split second whether or not to use lethal force against a suspect. If you just HAVE to do undercover drug sales because you're otherwise bored, just record the transaction and find the guy later. I get it. Jumping out from behind a tree and saying NYPD FREEZE PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK is funny because which is it? I'll be they look so confused--can I unfreeze to put my hands behind my back? Either way you can just beat the c*** out of them for not listening and give your wife a breather for the day.

God forbid they should be subjected to the same treatment as the rest of us. Then justice would actually be fair.

Duran’s union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said thousands of officers signed an online petition calling for him to be spared prison. “Today will forever be the darkest day of our profession,” union president Vincent Vallelong said. Duran’s prison sentence, he said, “puts in the back of a police officer’s mind that they can lose their freedom” for making a split-second decision. Please show me where the NYPD training manual says to take the actions that Duran took? Please present his training that shows he was trained to throw a cooler at a fleeing moped?

Dude forgot to yell the magic phrase “stop resisting” before throwing the cooler. Rookie mistake.

Everyone can lose their freedom for making a bad decision.

Throwing coolers at guys on scooters isn't in policy?

If you watch the video and see the speed that the scooter was traveling at there was no way throwing that cooler wasnt going to cause serious injury or death to the rider. Police in the US are f****** nutcases.

Police should not have unions. They should not be shielded from liability or lawsuits for malpractice or criminality. 

3-9 is quite the wild range isn't it? 

Is there like a video or something? I read it but I am just trying to figure out what exactly happened.