Cop Driving Unregistered Truck, Drinking Beer Who Shot Teen Takes The Stand…

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The lev­el of com­fort white peo­ple have is shock­ing when young black kids are abused, shot, or mur­dered by police. Flip the script, and the vic­tim of the vio­lence is a white kid, and the response is so very pre­dictably different.
When black kids are abused and killed, the nar­ra­tive is they should have fol­lowed instruc­tions if only they learned to over author­i­ty; they come from bro­ken homes, and on and on it goes.
On the rare occa­sion the vic­tim, through mis­ad­ven­ture, is white and the nar­ra­tive changes, ‘cops can­not be trust­ed,’ ‘they are liars’, they should all go to jail for life.…..It makes me laugh.…not at the vic­tim; I laugh at the bla­tant hypocrisy.
No case stands out more than this one.
If this wannabe Rambo knew the car’s dri­ver was white, he would nev­er have pulled his weapon, much less fired into the vehi­cle. They all want to be heroes, and why not shoot some black kid, and get them paid vaca­tion and promotions?
If they are charged, they are like­ly to be exon­er­at­ed, whether it is a jury or bench tri­al. All they have to do is lie.
We did our own dig­ging and found that the offi­cer in the case below has a his­to­ry of vio­lent behav­ior, yet he was allowed to con­tin­ue as a police offi­cer, keep a gun, and work among chil­dren in their school. See the video.

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Off-duty Pawtucket Connecticut police offi­cer Daniel Dolan was dri­ving an unreg­is­tered truck with an open beer beside him on the June evening in 2021 when he pur­sued a speed­ing car with inten­tions, he tes­ti­fied at tri­al Tuesday, of hav­ing a “father­ly chat” with the motorists about the dan­gers of errat­ic dri­ving. As a mid­dle-school resource offi­cer, “that’s what I do all day long,” he said. “I call them father­ly chats.” Instead, Dolan end­ed up shoot­ing and wound­ing Dominic Vincent out of fear for his life, he tes­ti­fied, as the then-18-year-old sat behind the wheel of his car out­side a West Greenwich piz­za shop. “At that moment I believed I was going to fall in front of the vehi­cle … and get dragged down the road,” Dolan told a Superior Court jury.

Dolan takes the stand in his own defense

Dolan, fac­ing four felony charges of unjust­ly shoot­ing Vincent, took the wit­ness stand in his own defense Tuesday, insist­ing he shot Vincent after aim­ing through the wind­shield to stop the car he said was bear­ing down on him. Dolan actu­al­ly shot through the driver’s side pas­sen­ger win­dow, wit­ness­es and bal­lis­tic experts tes­ti­fied — an undis­put­ed fact that pros­e­cu­tors say proves he was not in harm’s way when he fired.

Under direct ques­tion­ing by his defense lawyer Michael Colucci, Dolan, 40, explained his years as a Marine and his three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan before join­ing the Pawtucket Police Department in 2015. Most recent­ly he had been a resource offi­cer at Slater Middle School. He said he encoun­tered Vincent’s black Audi on the way home to Coventry on Interstate 95 on the evening of June 23, 2021, when it sped past him so fast he could feel the wind shift over the road. Dolan said he sus­pect­ed the car was “flee­ing from the police,” and that its pass­ing oth­er vehi­cles in the break­down lane at more than 100 mph “showed a dis­re­gard for human life.” Still, Dolan said he didn’t decide to pur­sue the car until he took his nor­mal exit off the high­way, Exit 6 at the time, and saw it about 500 feet down Nooseneck Hill Road. He sped after it to get a license-plate num­ber to pass on to local police, he said, but then noticed it pulling into Wicked Good Pizza and fol­lowed it into the park­ing lot. Even then, Dolan said his inten­tion was only to “observe” the vehi­cle. But then Dolan said the car made an “aggres­sive” move toward his Ford-350 truck as he attempt­ed to pull in beside it. Vincent tes­ti­fied ear­li­er he had pulled in and start­ed to swing around in the small lot to head back out once they had picked up a pre-ordered pizza.

Dominic Vincent, of West Greenwich, who was shot by off-duty Pawtucket police offi­cer Daniel Dolan in 2021, lis­tens at a news con­fer­ence held after the shoot­ing. Behind him are his par­ents, Lisa and Robert Vincent.

Dolan then jumped out of the truck and approached the car, show­ing his badge. Vincent and two friends tes­ti­fied that they saw this man in car­go pants, a T‑shirt and a base­ball cap as a threat, not a police offi­cer, and tried to back away from him. Dolan walked toward the car as it backed out of the park­ing lot, all the time show­ing his badge and yelling for the dri­ver to stop. Dolan said he “found him­self” in front of the car and shot only after it had hit him. “I was knocked back­wards and to my right.”

Prosecution tries to discredit Dolan

During cross-exam­i­na­tion, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Guglielmo, chief of the office’s civ­il-rights divi­sion, sought to dis­cred­it Dolan’s tes­ti­mo­ny. Guglielmo said Dolan didn’t just find him­self in front of the car as if he float­ed down in front of it. “You pur­pose­ly walked in front of it, did­n’t you?” he asked. “Unintentionally,” Dolan said. Not true, Guglielmo said, not­ing Dolan had, on three sep­a­rate occa­sions in his offi­cial state­ments to inves­ti­ga­tors, said that he walked in front of the car. Guglielmo read those parts of the state­ments to the jury. And “nowhere in any of those reports did you ever say you were bumped by the car, did you?” again Guglielmo asked. “You come in here expect­ing the jury to believe you were bumped, knocked back­ward by that car, right?” “Yes, sir.” So “now you are chang­ing you sto­ry,” said the pros­e­cu­tor. “You want this jury to believe that this whole [episode] hap­pened because you want­ed to give some father­ly advice?” “Yes, sir.” “But you had no author­i­ty to stop this car, did you?” Guglielmo chal­lenged; Dolan could have called in the plate num­ber to Coventry police, but he did­n’t. “You were dri­ving an unreg­is­tered truck with an open beer bot­tle in the front seat,” Guglielmo said, and “you pulled in there with the idea you were going to teach this lit­tle punk kid a les­son, isn’t that right?”

No, sir.”

Dolan said he took only one sip of the beer and passed a field sobri­ety test. “You are cre­at­ing an incred­i­bly dan­ger­ous sit­u­a­tion, aren’t you?” “No, sir,” Dolan answered. Asked why he jumped out of his truck so fast if he only want­ed to “observe” the sit­u­a­tion, as he had ear­li­er tes­ti­fied, Dolan said he “pulled out of the truck look­ing for a tac­ti­cal advan­tage at that point,” want­i­ng to get to the occu­pants of the car before they got out and pos­si­bly sur­round­ed him. “You’re talk­ing like this is a take­down of al-Qaeda,” said Guglielmo. “This is a piz­za stand!”(This sto­ry orig­i­nat­ed at Yahoo).

I could not help but bring you some of the com­ments to you, these are not the com­ments when the vic­tims are black.

  • If the ver­dict goes true to form, this guy will walk free. Unfortunately, in this coun­try even if police lie on the stand, juries are loathe to con­vict when they claim, “I was in fear for my life”. Seems if he was, he would have mind­ed his own busi­ness, call the police and report a cal­lous dri­ver, and moved on. But, drunk dri­ving and car­ry­ing a gun while angered is a recipe for a crime. But, he has a badge and that pro­tects him.

    • Do you think it’s by acci­dent the jurors are cho­sen who are sym­pa­thet­ic to police?

    • Right or left it seems all feel the need to exag­ger­ate and fan the fla/​/​/​mes. First in this case I believe he is total­ly guilty and should be sen­tenced upon a con­vic­tion. But drunk ? There was an open alco­holic con­tain­er in the car ? He wasn’t charged with DWI even though the arrest­ing offi­cers knew this was a bag of po/​/​/​op that you would want to charge every­thing pos­si­ble and let the DA hash it out. Second, how can you say cops can just lie on the stand because they were in fear for their life. I am pret­ty sure in the course your life you have nev­er expe­ri­enced sit­u­a­tions that most cops do on a reg­u­lar basis and if you did you would have to change your under­gar­ments fre­quent­ly. I’m more fix­at­ed that he was dri­ving an unreg­is­tered truck ? Couple that with the open con­tain­er and that is the first clue as to this indi­vid­u­als mindset.

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      • A field sobri­ety test is sub­jec­tive (up to the Officer giv­ing the test) and Dolan was nev­er giv­en a breath­a­lyz­er or blood test, even though there was an open beer bot­tle, so there is no legal proof he was dri­ving drunk. BUT he had an open con­tain­er of alco­hol in the vehi­cle (ille­gal), admit­ted to drink­ing while dri­ving (ille­gal) and was dri­ving an unreg­is­tered truck (ille­gal), and had no legal author­i­ty to make a traf­fic stop in that area.

        Former Officer Dolan’s tes­ti­mo­ny to jus­ti­fy his shoot­ing did not match what he told offi­cers at the scene or the phys­i­cal evi­dence, i.e. he lied under oath

      • The cops don’t lie on the stand because they’re in fear for their life. They lie on the stand and say that they’re in fear for their life. Because up to now, lying under oath has worked pret­ty well for them.

    • Haha dri­ving a huge F350 while drink­ing beer with a gun and a police offi­cer at that.

      This is a dis­play of total dis­re­gard for human life, bad apple cop ya’ll

  • Some guy in a pick­up aggres­sive­ly pulls along side me and jumps out with a gun point­ed at me, I’m in fear of “my” life. I put the car in reverse and try to get away. That guy then jumps in front of my car, still point­ing his gun at me, I’m still in fear of “my” life.

    • The “in fear of my life” Defense only works for cops not against them.….Y’All Qaeda saw to this.….

  • Driving around break­ing a dozen rules , reg­u­la­tions and laws , and HE’S wor­ried about oth­ers , what a peach . He needs a few years in prison to rethink his voca­tion because he’s cer­tain­ly not police offi­cer mate­r­i­al . He him­self should’ve been stopped for obvi­ous reasons .

  • Fatherly chat? Who’s his role mod­el— Marvin Gaye’s father?