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An innocent man named Kenneth Fowler of Monkton, Maryland was foolish enough to venture into Pennsylvania. He was peacefully motor cycling through York County on the last Sunday evening in March. It was his last Sunday on Earth. A Pennsylvania State cop, Gerald Devlin, killed him.
Gerald Devlin, the state cop, went recklessly zooming around a curve on the rural road. He veered across the road. He was on super-important cop-type business. He'd seen a car that he thought might not have been displaying an inspection sticker. When it's an inspection sticker verses a citizen's life, a state cop has no doubt where his duty lies. The victim was motor cycling along. He must have seen the cop's speeding cruiser rushing toward him because he drove all the way off the right hand berm of the road. His desperate defensive maneuver wasn't enough. The cop crossed the lane and the berm and smashed into the innocent man. Kenneth Fowler was dead! But, remember that Gerald Devlin is a state cop. That means that he's in a special class. Justice for the cops is different than "justice" for the rest of us. The York County District Attorney let the cop "hide behind his shield" as the man's wife observed. If you or I ran down a cop, there is no question that we'd be charged with murder; vehicular homicide, as they say. We'd be in state prison for 10 years at the very least. Yes, but Gerald Devlin is a state cop. Running down a citizen or two is no big deal. He was charged only with minor traffic offenses and fined (are you ready for this?) $408.50! That's "just-us" in action. |