Posted on 07/26/2015 5:53:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
The woman was combative and mentally unstable.
In the real world we live in, some thugs have badges.
It messes up our ability to trust all of them because you never know what one you may have to deal with.
And while some may point out every field is like this, almost no other job allows the thug to use deadly force on you and not be liable for it. Or be a trusted witness of the court right off the bat.
I agree with this. It happens, though, to all races, not just blacks.
Actually she was not combative until he flipped out.
Ping.
I don’t agree. She seemed fine. She didn’t grovel, and was a bit resistant, but so what?
Neither of which is a crime.
“Stopping and frisking without legal justification was the practice in New York City until 2013...”
A baldfaced lie. Why give any credence to a liar?
When she told him she wasn’t putting her cigarette out it escalated. She was combative from the start. Nervous, mouthy, out of state. ...might be on drugs and/or transporting. Wasn’t in too good a shape mentally. She stretched her neck in jail.
I don’t think that there’s much doubt that the cops are far quicker to get the guns out and use them then they used to be.
Sounds like we watched two different videos. As for the cigarette, she was in her own car. The only reason he had to order her to put it out was so that he could demand she step out of the car and he could arrest her. He was mad because she answered his question instead of quivering in submission. He was on a power trip. He needs to find a different line of work.
Well here we go off to the races....the fact the officer was removed from road duty for failur to follow established DPS proceedures means nothing to you what so ever.
And yes she hung herself.
Have you ever been burned by a cigarette?
It’s SOP that cops tell everyone to put out the cigarette.
No matter what her history was, anyone would be depressed in her situation. She was sitting in jail for the 3rd day, apparently having trouble getting someone to bail her out. She was charged with assaulting an officer, something I question because if I remember correctly she was wearing a maxi skirt and it would have been awfully hard for her to kick anyone. Maybe I remember her clothing wrongly. Regardless, the whole thing escalated unnecessarily and ANYONE would have been depressed about it. That doesn’t mean anyone would have committed suicide, but it does mean SHE would probably not have committed suicide had this not happened.
I’ve been (intentionally) burned with a cigarette. It took 20 years for the scar go away.
BS...I’ve been pulled over smoking and have never once been asked to put a cigarette out.
When the police are “Baltimorized”, people with smartass, hostile and sometimes racial attitudes begin to act as if they don’t have to comply, can antagonize the officer and act as if they are victims when they are not. They are baiting the officer and whining when the officer does not back down.
I doubt it was standard operating procedure for traffic tickets. It is SOP if they are going to get the person out of the car and arrest them.
The cop could have said, “It is your car and you are free to smoke in it at any other time, but standard operating procedure that I am required to follow is that I must ask you to put out your cigarette. THAT might have calmed her down. He told his coworker later that he tried to calm her down, but in no way did he actually do it. He escalated it with his demanding, power-trip ways.
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