Jo’s Cafe

Sounds like the background checking of people being hired as police officers needs to be tightened up.

(CBS/AP) A sheriff’s deputy who was videotaped shooting an unarmed Iraq War veteran after a car chase will be charged with attempted voluntary manslaughter, authorities said Tuesday.

The decision to charge Deputy Ivory J. Webb, 45, was announced by San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos.

Sheriff Gary Penrod said Webb will remain on paid administrative leave during the investigation into the shooting of Air Force Senior Airman Elio Carrion, 21.

“I respect the decision of the district attorney’s office,” Penrod said.

The Airman was a “passenger” — he wasn’t even driving the car!!

A grainy videotape shot by a bystander showed Carrion on the ground next to the car with Webb standing and pointing at gun at him.

A voice appears to order Carrion to rise, but when the airman appears to begin complying, the deputy shoots him three times. Carrion was shot in the chest, shoulder and thigh and was hospitalized for several days.

Authorities found no weapons on Carrion or the driver, Luis Escobedo.

They were saying he could get up to 18 years in prison. 18 years? That’s all a life is worth in California these days? And since he’s a cop, he’ll be separated from the general population.

I say put his ass in the electric chair so he can see how it feels to be put to death unarmed.