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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Can you define what a police officer is?
Then the woman attempted a hit and run assault on the cop.
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Can you please post the video you have that shows this hit and run assault on the cop?
The video the rest of us are looking at doesn’t have that part.
Hey UC what about the first Amendment. Unless she was threatening physical harm to the police or inciting a riot, she has committed no crime. We do have free speech even against the police.
You act as if ALL police officers fit this category.
I know for a fact that is not true.
I am talking down to no one. I am talking common sense. The desire to make ALL of something be one way is dangerous. I remember that lefty tactic well....oh yeah and fascists use it too
I have to admit that my viewing of the video left me with the same impression that you have.
I lived through the turbulence of the sixties. I know all too well what these lefty loons will do to aggravate police, flagrantly break the law, and then scream victim.
I still say let’s wait until all the facts are known. The one thing I am sure of is that this police officer did NOT punch her. He cuffed her (or chopped her) with an open hand which is clearly visible in the video
More information, if not directly on the point:
...police were trying to stop a driver who was “doing 360s” in the road.
“A guy was spinning wheels and burning tires in the middle of the (road), police are trying to stop it and ... as we’re doing it, things are being thrown, liquids are being tossed” at the officers by several people, he said.
McNesby said officers during such instances don’t know whether what’s being thrown on them is simply water, or whether it’s urine or chemicals, as has happened in the past.
But after watching it carefully it is clear that she was taunting the police. She wasn’t an innocent by-stander.
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What crime did she commit? If she committed no crime, she is, by definition, an innocent bystander.
She was booked on a disorderly conduct charge and then released.
Those charges will be dropped by the end of the week.
I didn’t ask what they arrested her for, I asked you specifically what crime you saw her commit? Since your flip flop on this, you made a great many claims regarding her behavior.
Simple question: what specific action of hers was criminal that you witnessed on the video prior to her being knocked down?
No assumptions, no supposition, no putting words in her mouth, what was her crime?
After seeing a better quality video, I agree that she was doing something against the police. She has what looks like an aerosol type can in her hand and at the very beginning she is moving it above her head in a way that's consistent with flinging or spraying the contents toward the police. Then as she moves closer to the camera, someone further to the left sprays something as well, the cops turn around and see her with the can in her hand, and go after her. It's not surprising, in that I think most people voluntarily present at a Puerto Rican day parade are probably scum.
None of this is relevant to my original statement. It's foolish to think that a cop *wouldn't* attack an innocent person. It happens all the time.
Only positive thing I bring away from this, is it clear awareness of how bad our society has become and how sometimes someone wearing the tag "conservative" really doesn't mean very much. Another positive thing is I'm committing to expand my free MA classes and advertise free self defense for women. Now that it's been put right in my face how many twisted "men" there are, it's incumbent on me to contribute something positive in that direction. Peace, out.
She was about to be arrested for disorderly conduct, and as the officer said something to her and moved toward her to put her under arrest she turned and started to flee. That's called resisting arrest.
You should be a screenwriter. You know, the kind that writes movies “based on a true story”, which sentient beings read as “pure fiction based on some story we heard of a while back but don’t really know any of the facts so we’ll just fill ‘em in to tell the story we want told”.
You have no idea what the woman said. Why are you pretending that you do?
So then she was spraying silly string.
It's foolish to think that a cop *wouldn't* attack an innocent person. It happens all the time.
You won't get an argument from me there.
And the reality is, after watching the video enough times, that she was taunting the cops on the scene and given a lawful order by the cop in charge to come over to him or stand still which she defied by turning to flee the other way.
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You continue to double down on making things up out of whole cloth.
On a video with no sound, you have now heard the woman taunting the cops, have heard her say screw you to the cops, and have heard the cop giving her a lawful order to stop.
All with no sound on the video.
And all this from the man whose initial comments on this thread included “I’m supporting the due process that he denied to the woman. You don’t get punched by a cop on a bunch of unsubstantiated facts.”
And here you are now trafficking in those exact same unsubstantiated facts.
As the officer was moving toward her was she attempting to flee or not???
Did she have a can of silly string in her hand that she was spraying on the police???
Substantiate that too.
As the officer was moving toward her was she attempting to flee or not???
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Um, you are attempting (quite transparently I might add) to introduce your own set of facts into this discussion. You’ve been at it since you flip flopped on this issue about mid-thread. I will, however, wait in the future before responding to your initial posts on threads to give you a chance to figure out what your position is going to be.
And no, I have no visual evidence that anyone was attempting to flee. Neither do you.
A set of facts that you asked for from the video that you cannot refute.
You’ve been at it since you flip flopped on this issue about mid-thread.
Well forgive me, oh lord of the threads, but I thought the purpose of these threads was discussion with an open mind. I didn't realize that I had to enter every thread with a closed mind that cannot be changed by other posters with other information.
I will, however, wait in the future before responding to your initial posts on threads to give you a chance to figure out what your position is going to be.
You will be waiting a long time. Persuading other posters and being persuaded to change one's mind about something is part of the discussion process.
And no, I have no visual evidence that anyone was attempting to flee. Neither do you.
So then on your tape as the officer is moving toward her she's standing still and facing him and not stepping up on the curb to try to get away from him.
Is that what you're trying to tell me???
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