Biff_Poindexter
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Sacramento police detective Jonathon Nangle arrested on vehicular manslaughter charges
Jonathon Nangle turned himself in at the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office.

"A Sacramento police detective was arrested on charges of vehicular manslaughter after a deadly crash in 2022. The crash happened Dec. 6, 2022 in the area of southbound Interstate 5 and Sutterville Road while the detective was on-duty. According to police, the detective was in an unmarked home retention vehicle when he hit two men on the side of the roadway. Both men died. According to the California Highway Patrol, a Dodge pickup truck became disabled and pulled over onto the right-hand shoulder with another person later arriving and parking their SUV on the left shoulder of the on-ramp. They were both standing on the left side of the pickup truck when the detective rear-ended the truck, which hit both drivers. They were identified by the coroner's office as 33-year-old Juan Carlos Rodriguez and 32-year-old Lionel Rodriguez.
The detective was identified as Jonathon Nangle, who has spent more than eight years with the department. A judge issued a misdemeanor warrant for two counts of vehicular manslaughter for Nangle, and Nangle would later turn himself in to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, where he was processed and released. Nangle is on administrative leave with his peace officer powers suspended."
It seems the natural inclination is to just find some way, anyway to justify the death of others at the hands of police; even when the preliminary evidence is quite clear that the officer is at fault. There is no way to blame the victims, research their criminal history or post pictures of them looking "thuggish" or imply they are "illegals" to justify it.
In fact, this cop was already the subject in a 2021 lawsuit for another crash he was involved in...and despite all of that, it still took damn near a year before he was charged? And he is charged with a misdemeanor on top of that? How can killing two people because you rammed your car into the back of their parked car not be a felony?