(CBC News) – Two RCMP officers have been charged with impaired driving in separate incidents in Manitoba.
Const. Dana Randall, 30, was arrested Friday and taken to the Thompson RCMP detachment, where he refused to provide a breath sample, according to RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Line Karpish.
Randall was kept in custody overnight in the detachment and released on a promise to appear in court in Thompson on Oct. 23.
He has been charged with impaired driving and refusing a breath sample.
Randall has been removed from active operational duties and his employment status is under internal review, Karpish said.
The charges related to an incident Friday at 2:45 a.m. when a pickup truck crossed the centre line of Cree Road in Thompson, about 740 kilometres north of Winnipeg, and collided with a taxi cab.
No one was injured in the collision. Randall was off-duty at the time.
Incident on Nelson House First Nation
Also on Friday, Const. Darcy Stevenson was formally charged with impaired driving relating to an incident a few days earlier on Nelson House First Nation.
On Sept. 29, at about 3:30 a.m., RCMP officers from the Nelson detachment were on their way to respond to a disturbance call when a Jeep coming out of a dirt trail nearly collided with the police truck.
The Jeep was stopped and a smell of alcohol was detected by the officers. The driver, identified as Stevenson, was arrested and an investigation ensued, Karpish said.
Stevenson, who was off-duty at the time of the incident, is scheduled to appear in Nelson House provincial court on Oct. 27.
He has been removed from active operational duties and placed on administrative duties pending an internal review, Karpish said.
She did not say how long the officers have been on the force.
Define: “assertion prior”.
Some of the references/points/allegations on this website to the police also apply to society in general. Nothing wrong or offside in revealing that. One of my previous points is on the reflection of society in its police officers. It ought not be dismissed. Indeed, some of the parallels are noteworthy and have been identified before.
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The statement you quoted is neither a converse accident nor an argumentum ad pop. But, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and politely ask you to support your assertion prior.
I do, however, agree with you that the word PEOPLE would fit nicely in the quoted passage. Sadly, this is not a website dedicated to discussions of the general population.
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Hardly. A logical fallacy is an element of an argument that is flawed, essentially rendering the line of reasoning, if not the entire argument, invalid.
I posit that the tinfoil hat brigade have cover up theories on police cover ups and that in the noted case they fall short, as this was not covered up.
There are in fact conspiracy theorists and in fact they have cover up theories. The use of the vernacular “tinfoil hat brigade” does not remove the fact of their existence nor that they have theories.
No sophism there.
Your assertion borders on Argumentum ad populum but I would classify it as converse accident:
“Evidence that some Mounties are charged when appropriate is not evidence that all Mounties are charged when appropriate. ”
However, it could, with a bit of work, be somewhat instructive:
Replace the word MOUNTIES with criminals and re-read it. Then change the word criminals to politicians and re-read it. Then replace it with citizens and re-read that.
I think it would best be served with “People”, yes?
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Come now Deepthroat, even you know that your statement is not logically tenable.
Evidence that some Mounties are charged when appropriate is not evidence that all Mounties are charged when appropriate.
It is unbecoming of an individual as eloquent as yourself to resort to a logical fallacy. Smatterings of Gorgias are springing to mind.
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Well so much for the cover up theories of the tinfoil hat brigade.
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In similar news: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Another+police+officer+busted+drunk+driving/2069326/story.html
[Editor: Thanks for the tip. The article was uploaded here.]
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