Posted on 11/25/2023 1:07:56 PM PST by Morgana
This is the horrific moment an injured teenager is tased by a cop called to a car crash – leaving him flatlining in an ambulance and then fighting for life in a coma.
Jordan Rivero was already bloodied, dazed and confused after the accident on his way home from a fishing trip in the Florida Keys with three friends in July 2022.
Police bodycam footage obtained by DailyMail.com shows the 19-year-old passenger sobbing uncontrollably near the wrecked pick-up truck as he sits down on the orders of Monroe County Sheriff's deputies.
Disoriented and not under suspicion of any crime, he stumbles upright complaining he can't breathe through his broken nose.
But then deputies haul him down before another tussle in which he's told 'get on the ******* ground' – at which point deputy Dyllon Hansen fires his taser at the teenager's stomach.
Rivero sobs as he's blasted again, despite his pleas and appears to be felled like a tree on to the roadway of US1 in Tavernier, Florida.
The panicking aspiring firefighter lets out a piercing scream as he clutches his chest. His head smashes on the hard surface, rebounds and smacks down again as his body thrashes from the voltage.
Officer Hansen's bodycam footage shows the teenager continuing to be stunned with successive bursts of electricity as he howls in agony.
Instead of assessing the teenage crash victim's medical condition, the footage reveals the cops pounce to hold him face down in a pool of his own blood, grab his arms behind him and cuff his hands and feet.
At one point he desperately forces out the words: 'I'm sorry, sir. I'm sorry, sir. Please lord, please help me.' He also begs friend and fellow crash victim John Tyler Sanders, who appears largely uninjured, for help.
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Cops can be such assh8oles, drunk with power. This is why I would never date a cop.
Well, there may be a shortage of police officers, ones like this should be fired, and sent to jail
There are police officers who go above and beyond to help the innocent.
And there are police officers who go above and beyond to abuse the innocent.
How many of the latter are there? I’d estimate maybe 10% of all officers. That’s 9.99% too much. And because those 10% are rarely disciplined, the public’s confidence in the police erodes.
That’s a bad thing all around.
Can’t attract enough good people to be cops, so you have to take what you can get.
“How many of the latter are there? I’d estimate maybe 10% of all officers. That’s 9.99% too much. And because those 10% are rarely disciplined, the public’s confidence in the police erodes.”
I would agree with that
Then they are pure angels of goodness who can do no wrong even if they just murdered their wife in front of the kids.
Yes, a true story. Yes. I got whined at because I thought just maybe hugs, pats on the back and sympathy was not an appropriate response. You want me to back the badge? Only when they do the right thing.
That cop needs to be prosecuted for homicide.
In ten years, most big city cops will be immigrants. Our military, too. Citizenship not required.
Unionized government employees.
Aw, that’s what they said about politicians. 😁
It’s OK, they were “Just following Orders”...
I would ask for 20-30 years for the thugs in magic blue costumes
About 40 years a good friend of mine was the Police in Jefferson county, Kentucky the county that includes Louisville, Kentucky. He told me about 50% of his force were bad cops and he couldn’t do anything about it except get rid of them when they were caught as bad actors. I was stunned at the percentage and he told me again that the good cops would give their lives for you but the bad ones were taking advantage of women in traffic stops and taking bribes and stealing drug money from drug trafficker’s, sad.
mark for JBT reference
If the description and video is accurate 75,000 dollars is not enough! For the record I am an advocate for cops, but this was wrong. When young I was in a car wreck. I had a dislocated and broken femur pelvis with internal injuries and a severe concussion. When I regained consciousnesses I was in the hospital in ER and combative. The knocked me out with some drug. Later when I awoke in a hospital bed I was in restraints with good reason. I was young and strong and combative. It was a function of the concussion, pain and fear. I did not know where I was or what was happening so I fought. I suspect the kid in this video was totally disoriented but I saw no sign of combativeness.
There are hundreds of cases like this all over the country, as illustrated in Youtube channels like the Lackluster Channel and Audit the Audit. Makes it tough to back the Blue.
Dr. Clarissa Cole on After Hours AM April 17, 2019
(Start at 1:18:31)
Dr. Cole: He had an epiphany; he was going to become a cop!
Eric Olsen: Ha ha ha what??? Uh, so, wait a minute, he was told by a former employer, if you ever, you better never get a job where you have influence over others, an authority position, or I’ll do whatever it takes to stop you. So wouldn’t becoming a cop kinda give him the ultimate authority over people?
Dr. Cole: Well, you know, lucky for all these other people, he kept moving from county to county so they weren’t really, uh, yeah, it is the ultimate authority he was just moving around so people wouldn’t know what he was doing, and I think getting out of the teaching profession they didn’t know what he was going to do.
He eventually applied to the Broward County Police Unit; he was rejected, though, because he failed the psychological test.
Eric Olsen: Oh that’s it he’s out of the career. No career for him He’s obviously unstable…
Dr. Cole: One, you know what? One would think so, and I actually used to perform these psych tests, and oh, do I have stories! You would think that it would even, it’s supposed to, let me tell you how it’s supposed to work, it’s supposed to prevent you from getting a job as a police officer or a prison guard.
Eric Olsen: Sure.
Dr. Cole: Does that always occur?
Eric Olsen: I would hope that it does.
Dr. Cole: No, no, no, I would say 50% of the time.
Eric Olsen: What?
Dr. Cole: It’s supposed to be a be a requirement, a REQUIREMENT, if you don’t pass, if you are not psychologically fit, you are not supposed to become a police officer or a prison guard. Does that actually preclude you from becoming a police officer even as long ago as what, 2005? No, I was doing them in 2005. Half of the people I rejected still became a cop.
Eric Olsen: How does that happen? How do they get around this?
Dr. Cole: Oh God there so many ways
Eric Olsen: Is it a buddy, a dad?
Dr. Cole: My son, he’s the son of my buddy, his dad is a cop, he has to be a cop, he’s going to work in this county and we’re really understaffed, we need people, we know he failed, but it’s OK. The amount of excuses I heard to employ people.
And that’s the thing, just so the general public is aware, it’s difficult to fail, it’s difficult to fail one of these psychological…
Eric Olsen: What would cause one…
Dr. Cole: It’s not like the bar is so darned high that no one could pass, it’s nothing LIKE that, this test is just to find out is this person basically psychologically stable, are they non-sadistic, do they not have criminal or punishing tendencies or narcissistic tendencies themselves. Basically you’re trying to weed out anybody that has a like God complex; I’m judge, jury, and executioner. You want to get those people out of there. You’re trying to get people out of there that are just psychiatrically so unstable that they can’t control their emotions so, maybe some sort of bipolar thing going on or somebody that absolutely clearly has a personality disorder, like narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder. They are not
Eric Olsen: Checks and balances. Checks and balances to protect the general public from somebody that would not do well in that position.
Dr. Cole: And I was very, yeah, I was extremely, forgiving on these psychological tests even when somebody would sort of hit sort of some of those marks on the tests we would give, I would ask in interviews I would ask a ton of questions just to be very, very sure that this person was indeed failing the psychological exam, and I did not fail that many people, but the people I failed, please believe me that it was for extremely good reasons, extremely good reasons, and half of them became cops anyway.
Eric Olsen: So when they‘d leave would they go to a different state and do it?
Dr. Cole: Hah no, they would get hired by different a county, like a couple minutes over usually. Somebody knew them and “Now let’s pick them up.” “No, no, no, he has really strong sadistic tendencies and fantasies of rape and murder, you really shouldn’t hire him” and they would. And that’s exactly, I hope it’s different that was like I said, this was in 2005, it scared the heck out of me and I said I would never have a career doing that I don’t want to know that those people are becoming officers.
Eric Olsen: Tell me it’s in the minority, though, that this happens.
Dr. Cole: It’s in the minority that people fail, the majority of people passed. But those that do fail, like I said it’s for very good reason, but half of them. Half of them got picked up. So no, it’s not a minority a full 50% got hired.
Eric Olsen: That is truly a scary number out there that 50% of...
Dr. Cole: It’s a small sample, a small sample that was in a place that was economically depressed and needed officers…
(End at 1:23:29)
Damn near killed in 1969 when a cop ran me off the road, claiming that "I didn't stop when signaled to stop" and yelled at to get me out of my car while pointing a 12 gauge shotgun at my face.
I complied as fast as I could but I had just gotten out of the hospital for the gunshot wounds I got in Vietnam, so I had trouble moving fast. Nothing like looking at the muzzle of 12 gauge when you've already been shot once.
He seemed to really want to shoot me and he was extremely agitated - and even more so when I pointed at his lights and told him that he never turned them on.
At that point, he stopped pointing his shotgun at me but gave me a ticket for an "unsafe lane change" (!) and then left.
Later that same day, cops pulled over and killed a father of five when they mistakenly identified as the guy who had robbed a store.
I forgot to add that I live in Bell County Texas. I have been stopped a few times for speeding. They State Troopers and Bell County Officers were always polite and professional as was I. I am always armed where legal. When the officer would walk up to my car I would have my permit and insurance in hand and immediately tell the officer I was armed and when the weapon was. I treated them with respect and honesty and they did the same for me and a couple of times just got a warning.
There are bad cops is true statement. They are few and the good cops hate them.
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