Posted on 10/01/2012 3:31:28 PM PDT by Altariel
This is the shocking moment a police sergeant punched a young woman in the face because he thought she sprayed silly string at him during a peaceful parade.
The video was recorded during yesterday's 50th anniversary Puerto Rican Day parade in Philadelphia - where around 1,500 people were in attendance.
The 36-second clip shows a number of people milling around enjoying the festivities in the 'City of Brotherly Love'.
From the left-hand side, someone can be seen throwing an unidentified liquid towards a group of police officers.
At the same time, a young woman is walking past - who also gets hit by the liquid.
As she turns around to see where it came from, a police officer in a white shirt - which means he has acquired the rank of sergeant - comes towards the woman and delivers a brutal punch to her face, knocking her to the ground.
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I didn't see someone stand up and walk away, I saw someone on the ground that the cops picked up and and partially carried away.
Would you tell me what you see at about 2 seconds into the film on the left side of the frame? Does it look like someone's arm in a black sleeve shirt tossing water in the direction of the girl and the cop?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfIm-t6yCbY
Do you think the cop got the right person?
Who tossed the water - the girl who got struck by the cop, or the person in the black sleeve shirt?
Oh man - I didn't realize that - clearly a sniper should have shot her in the head for suspicious behavior like that.
Then you would have no qualms denouncing the officer’s behavior and wouldn’t have tried to justify it.
You are on record as defending and supporting a corruption of the judicial process—that corrupt judges will give a cop’s testimony more weight than a non-cop citizen.
The point, of course, is that it doesn't matter.
“I despise cowardly thugs who wear badges and impersonate “REAL” police officers.”
Well said. I prefer to use their old title: peace officers.
It looks to me like the cop got the wrong person, definitely. I also looked for the coward who threw the liquid but the person who owned that leg was not seen in the video again. That cop screwed up and should be suspended based on what I saw.
You're pretty sick.
Then you're blind, too.
If that were you wife or daughter who was struck, would you be satisfied with just a suspension for the cop?
Sarcasm, of course. Though it can be hard to tell with all the merely sincere but stupid, non-sarcastic posts where people were desperately trying to figure out how she was "asking for it."
There could be any number of reasons. Cameras are commonplace these days and their presence is not de facto evidence of a conspiracy.
The more important question is: why did the officer believe he was justified in punching a woman in public?
Why did his fellow officers rally around him instead of *immediately* handcuffing him and taking him into custody for battery?
At the 2-second mark, you can see a man in shorts enter from the left while his arm comes forward underhanded as he tosses a handful of something into the crowd of officers. The woman was hit by this same volley. Not once did she ever raise a hand to spray anything.
didn’t she shoot the cop with silly string first? under the law that is still battery and is still battery on a police officer.
I have a feeling she would have spent a lot more time sitting on the ground if she wasn't handcuffed and had each arm grabbed by a cop and led away.
It's a little hard to grasp exactly what you're arguing - that she wasn't knocked unconscious and the cop isn't Mike Tyson somehow partially exonerates the cop?
I find it remarkable that you have the mental wherewithal to operate a computer and type words and everything, but what exactly would have prevented the cop from grabbing her arms and/or restraining her and handcuffing her, while simultaneously calling for help to do so from the approximately 5 billion cops 2 feet away? Or was she just so big and powerful that a punch to the face was needed?
you will please note the question mark. it cuts down on the need for silly personal attacks.
I was thinking along the lines of the old rodney king tape. remember how the MSM only showed a few seconds but the whole tape was 12 minutes long?
Did you not look at the You Tube video? Someone in a black sleeve shirt tossed the water (or string). That's what both she and the cop were reacting to.
Look at the video again about 2 seconds in. Do you think the cop got the right person?
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