Bryan Way is dead. An eighteen year old girl, Kristen Gosdick, is apparently a reluctant killer.
Two tragedies, one cause: cops!
The following story is not fiction. It really happened.
Kevin Sisley is a cop. Make a note of that name, Kevin Sisley. This one deserves VERY careful watching. He's employed by a place called Lincoln in Allegheny County, south of Pittsburgh.
It was the middle of the night. Cop Kevin was off duty. Instead of going home and going to bed like a decent citizen, the cop happened to see a man walking and minding his own business. Unlike the citizen, cop-Kevin didn't mind his own business.
The off duty cop decided that it looked like the citizen might be drunk. He wasn't making a disturbance or anything, just walking but maybe he was staggering. Like a true vigilante, the cop figured that here was an opportunity to be robo-cop.
He had to act quickly, the citizen might just walk out of his jurisdiction. Still, Kevin The Cop figured he better get some help if he was going to "help" the citizen. He called his buddy at the police station. True to the cop's code of oppression, Travis Pomaibo rode to the rescue.
Two big strong cops figured that they could gang up on the ambling might-be-drunk man.
Since the victim is dead, we don't have Mister Way's account of what the two cops did to him. With the witness dead, we're stuck with only the cops' story. If you buy it, you're dumber than I thought. Since there may be some truth in the story, here's the version that appeared in print.
Cop Kevin wasn't in uniform. I don't know about side-kick, Travis Pomaibo. They claim that the victim exercised his privilege and elected to go the other way when the cops approached. Unless arrested, he had every right to leave the area. The cops had no grounds to arrest him.
In response to the citizen deciding to leave, cop-Kevin and side-kick Travis thought it might be fun to fight with the man. Together, they "wrestled him to the ground and handcuffed him" behind his back. They left their victim lying, face-down in the middle of a dark road.
Along came the girl, driving her car. It was one fifteen in the morning. It was dark. She's an 18-year old girl. She saw cop-Kevin, not in uniform, but in a white tee-shirt standing there in the road. He claims that he was standing over the helplessly handcuffed victim. Cop-Kevin claims that he waved at the on-coming car.
For some reason, an 18 year old girl driving at 1:15 in the morning didn't stop when she saw a man in a tee-shirt wave at her. I don't know what she thought, but it would have appeared to me to have been a crime in progress. I'm a 50-year old man and I wouldn't have stopped.
The kid's car ran over the handcuffed victim, killing the poor man.
The cops want you to believe that the kid's car was "speeding." It took it only 30 feet in which to stop. If you can stop in 30 feet, you're not going very fast, are you?
So, who's to get the blame? Guess!
The darling cops won't be blamed. One of their own fellowship, another cop, a Sergeant Robert Payne, "investigated." I know that you'll be as surprised as I was to learn that the cop found that the other cops were not at fault. They were following "proper police procedure."
Who'll get the blame? Why the girl, of course. Typical of cops, they threw the book at her.
In reality, the worst offender in this tragic business isn't the cops. It's one, Mike Bucsko. Bucsko is a "reporter" of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. He had a chance to report a story and to arouse public sentiment against bad cops. Instead, he faithfully parroted the official police-line.
Bucsko muddled his story by reciting the police version of the victim's record for being drunk. This regrettable tactic is now standard in Pennsylvania. If a person is accused of having done "bad" things, it's okay for the cops and the authorities to treat him badly.
That's exactly what the former Nazis did to the Jews.
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