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Michigan Judge Pulls No Punches in 30-Minute Sentencing Tirade Against Police Officer
https://www.yahoo.com ^ | 02/03/2016 | Zak Cheney-Rice,

Posted on 02/03/2016 1:50:55 PM PST by redreno

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1 posted on 02/03/2016 1:50:55 PM PST by redreno
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To: redreno

2 min, YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-FmRF6fCY


2 posted on 02/03/2016 1:54:10 PM PST by gaijin
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To: redreno

Cop was a complete tool - one of the bad ones so often mentioned.

Deserves everything they can throw at him.


3 posted on 02/03/2016 1:55:07 PM PST by Eddie01 (If you burnin' bandwidth with your mind, find time to pay the organ grind - Donate to FreeRepublc)
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To: redreno

Sometimes I wonder if these are real cops or actors courtesy of the Obummer administration whose sole purpose is to flame race relations. If they are real cops, the KNOW they are on camera and I assume they would prefer not to get fired or go to jail or flame race relations further, yet gee whiz, we keep seeing this stuff don’t we? And what a coincidence, it all started when Obama became President.


4 posted on 02/03/2016 1:57:57 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: redreno
Judge Vonda Evans


5 posted on 02/03/2016 2:00:41 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: redreno

Opening the car door seemed to be what triggered the beating.


6 posted on 02/03/2016 2:03:50 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I bet steroids had something to do with it.


7 posted on 02/03/2016 2:04:11 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Eddie01
Cop was a complete tool - one of the bad ones so often mentioned.

Yup. I wonder how many times the good ones covered up for him over the years.

8 posted on 02/03/2016 2:04:45 PM PST by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: redreno
According to his record this tool has been pulling this crap for years and getting away with it.

Good luck in prison, a-hole.

9 posted on 02/03/2016 2:07:50 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: redreno

Take away power from the people and put it in the hands of the government, and this happens.

I’m surprised he didn’t get away with his crime.


10 posted on 02/03/2016 2:16:44 PM PST by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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Good luck in prison, a-hole.

I suspect it will be greatly enlarged by time he gets out.

11 posted on 02/03/2016 2:19:04 PM PST by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To put him in Gen-Pop would be a crime, but you know what to h3ll with him, let him watch his butt for the years to come.


12 posted on 02/03/2016 2:22:40 PM PST by the_individual2014
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To: Eddie01

Yup.


13 posted on 02/03/2016 2:23:17 PM PST by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: Oatka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sIIWvaMtUw

The Judge rails on the wife as well after she storms out of the courtroom acting like an idiot.


14 posted on 02/03/2016 2:26:29 PM PST by the_individual2014
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To: VaRepublican

Ya know folks say things like connect the dots. This “law enforcement official” is going where he deserves to be.


15 posted on 02/03/2016 2:28:33 PM PST by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: redreno

Too bad the judge cannot sentence him to all of his time being spent in the general population.


16 posted on 02/03/2016 2:49:05 PM PST by Thumper1960 (Cruz/Palin2016)
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To: the_individual2014

The judge is rather full of herself (as many judges are), but the dirty cop deserves to serve in General Population like any other convicted thug. There was no justification to force the driver to the ground in the first place, let alone to use a a stranglehold while he was face-down on the pavement. I suspect he strangled the arrestee to provoke “resistance” that would justify a worse beating. Throw the bastard in Gen-Pop and let other dirty cops take notice. Noblesse oblige.


17 posted on 02/03/2016 2:54:44 PM PST by Always A Marine
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Sorry - I don’t see what you see.

While I get incensed over arrogant cops with no understanding of the constitution like most of you - what I see here is a guy who was resisting arrest.

You resist and you are going to have force used against you. That’s just reality. Which may include punches to the face. I do BJJ and those blows just weren’t that hard - IMO they were designed to distract not damage so that his partner could cuff him.

13 months for that? How the f*ck to you expect cops to arrest people? Ask nicely?

They cannot use tasers, they cannot use batons, they cannot use saps, the people who sit on juries have never been in a fight in their lives and they pass judgement. It’s ridicules.

That whole force should get the blue flue for a month. Being a cop any more seems like an impossible task.

Maybe I need to watch it again. Or maybe the probably racist dyke judge was just over the top.


18 posted on 02/03/2016 3:00:55 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (Cruz / West 2016)
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“...William Melendez,...”

I assume he be a “white Hispanic”!


19 posted on 02/03/2016 3:01:16 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Racism will disappear when AfroAmericans, HispanicAmericans, AsianAmericans, etc. become Americans)
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I think you need to watch it again. Melendez went for the choke hold while the arrestee was prostrate on the ground and not offering any resistance -- and he kept choking for several minutes. Inability to breathe leads to panic, which is why I believe Melendez was trying to provoke resistance so he could beat the suspect more severely.

Twenty or thirty years ago the police were trained to deescalate tense situations. The cops would have ordered this detainee to turn around and place his hands behind his back, and would have used force only if he actually resisted. Today, the "good guys" start out yelling "Get on the f-ing round m-fer!" like you'd expect a gang of thugs to do. Respect for the police has declined along with policing standards, and this needs to be corrected before the citizenry's voluntary consent to authority is completely lost.

20 posted on 02/03/2016 3:37:37 PM PST by Always A Marine
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