Retired Ventura Cop Named as Gunman in Deadly Cook's Corner Shooting
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By the edhat staff A retired Ventura Police officer has been named as the gunman in a deadly shooting at Cook's Corner in Orange County on Wednesday evening. Retired Sergeant John Snowling, 59, served at the Ventura Police Department from July 1986 through February 2014 until retiring. Orange County Sheriff’s officials received a 911 call just after 7 p.m. about a shooting at Cook’s Corner, a popular bar and restaurant on Santiago Canyon Road. The first deputies arrived within minutes and found a man with a gun. Deputies opened fire and killed Snowling.

It’s a shame he took 3 people with him on his well deserved trip STRAIGHT TO HELL. If it even existed.

Fuck the police.

  • nothing@lemm.ee
    7·
    1 year ago

    Well shit. Targeted murder and let’s take a few more with me. Good job you dick.

  • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
    82·
    1 year ago

    Police can retire at 50 ? My father only just managed to semi-retire at 72.
    I guess years of bullying people and murdering minorities is draining. Really need that downtime to…oh, murder more people.

    • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Depends on the city and other factors, but yeah, at like 30 years and/or a certain age police and many government jobs from local, city, state and federal are eligible for retirement benefits. It’s not always a sustainable “livable” wage though depending on the percent they’re offered at, say, 50 vs 60 or 65 when people become eligible for social security and such. But through luck, and especially in the past up to basically the early 2000s-ish when all the 1970-1980s caught up to the US workers with the undercutting of everything by Carter, Reagan, Bush I and then Clinton, it used to be feasible to work 30-40 years and live a dignified life in retirement.

      The problem with cops (putting aside their jobs are literally to terrorize and murder people on behalf of capital. I know that’s a big ask to put aside) is they’re one of the few organizations, groups, whatever word you wanna use. FRATERNAL ORDERS perhaps. That get benefits which every worker on earth should be entitled to at a bare minimum. Those piggies get so many fucking days off, amazing pay (which they still complain about nonstop being “too low” while they turn their made up ass overtime sheets in every week), a union so strong and unbreakable in solidarity that they can quite literally murder people and nothing happens a lot of times, they can just sit in a squad car all day and nap and good luck firing them.

      And honestly, besides the murder part obviously, it should be this way for everyone. Everyone should have effectively infinite time off for whatever shit they need. Everyone should have a union ready to back them when they get caught sleeping at work. The entire point of unions is basically manifest in the fraternal order of police. To protect the fuck ups, the “lazy” ones, etc. To protect “workers” (quotes since cops aren’t workers) from unfair punishments dealt arbitrarily from above. It’s just that the one time a union is working the way it should is for the one group it should not work that way for. It’s incredibly frustrating that everything always works this way… also by design of course.