Posted on 05/13/2009 6:31:56 PM PDT by DrGop0821
Another disgusting display of police acting out of line. There is no reason for this kind of act.
LOS ANGELES -- Despite lying on the ground with his arms and legs spread, a suspect got a face full of police boot on Wednesday. The kicking cop added insult to injury by giving a post-beating high five. The brutality was the final chapter of a pursuit that began about 1:30 p.m. at an attempted traffic stop in El Monte, Calif. Police tried to stop the motorist for a traffic violation, said California Highway Patrol Officer Jose Nunez.
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Security Guards R Us?
Oh I get it. It’s a similar process to viewing or ‘seeing’ a video in which the viewer sees an action and arrives at a judgment of that action based on PRE-judices and fails to take the whole picture (or video for that matter) into account.
Ah, no. Your comment on FreeRepubic being a sea of anti police is wrong.
Even more so, what does that mean that on the premier conservative Internet site, that YOU would think it anti-police?
What’s that tell you, about you?
The candy asses you're referring to are those that penned and support the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the 14th amendment and the ones that passed the 18USC24x series fed statutes. The boy clearly surrendered and laid on the ground with his hands extended, as per the verbal command of the officer that kicked him in the face. What happened before that is completely irrelevant. The officer committed a federal felony by violating the perp's rights under the color of law, by committing the unjustified battery, the kick in the face(a CA felony).
"Look what happened to Rodney King..."
King never surrendered. He fought back throughout the entire incident, so there's no valid comparison to be made of the cop's justification of beat down of King and the kick in this incident. The cops were justified in beating down King, but the cop in this incident wasn't justified in kicking the perp that surrendered in this case. Note that the cops involved in the King case did not beat, or kick King's associates that had surrendered w/o resistance.
Based on your comments to this thread, you apparently believe when someone violates a law, they forfeit protection by those laws.
This video shows the officer committing multiple infractions (probably including felonious assault and battery with intent), yet you believe his actions are justified. No matter the reason for his lack of discipline, I beleive there is NO justification for this officer to have committed this assault.
To paraphrase your statement, if this officer had received a clear and unambiguous message that his nonsense was unacceptable to society, he would have maintained his self-control and not wasted a ton of the taxpayers’ money.
I’m curious; at what point should it become permissable for the police to violate the laws they are sworn to uphold?
And please, avoid the childish insults; I’ve been to the well, and I have drunk deeply. I’m proud that I had the discipline instilled in me to control my actions when necessary.
More like ‘Taco On A Stick’.
Let me put it as simply as I can:
If a person chooses to ignore the lawful commands of a police officer, if he chooses to fight, if he chooses to drive his car at high speeds in an attempt to elude or escape justice...the officers, or citizens, who eventually get a hold of him, should be able to, without legal penalty, beat the crap out of him.
If that response is unclear to you, let me know, and I'll try to flesh it out a little more.
I was referring to what happened to old Rodney subsequent to his big-money payoff. It is sad.
And I don't think the founders would be down with little thugs running from the cops.
If you do...vive la difference!
The moment someone runs from the police and starts a high speed chase in CA, every station covers it and everyone near a TV stops to watch.
Millions of Californians saw that cop kick the prone surrendering perp in the jaw.
You don't even have to look behind the curtain to know that cop is gone from the force at a minimum.
A little later I saw the first part of the clip where the perp was driving like a maniac, crashed into a parked car and then started his run. My thought then was "kick him, hell, put one in the back of his head."
I guess. What goes on in the socialist abortion of California (the state of my birth) is beyond my comprehension.
I'm just a stupid racist hick in Georgia.
Stuff like this happens all the time and is particular to that state.
Where I live now, running from the cops is called "consciousness of guilt," and only those with a vested interest in sowing community discord have a problem with swift and unambiguous refutations of such activities.
I like it here, generally. We are also a state that's becoming more "conservative," as opposed to the rest of the nation.
I resemble that remark.
Just take it as positive feedback that you're not for cops or against cops you're grounded in reality.
Ineresting. Your statement indicates that you believe that at some ambiguous point, constitutional protections no longer apply.
No presumtion of innocence? How about No one (including this police officer) is above the law?
Sorry, I know those concepts are old and outdated, but I grew up with them, and I just can’t seem to get beyond them.
And to think I spent my entire life working to ensure the constitutional rights of all the people of this country would be protected.
That's even further removed from the matter at hand.
"I don't think the founders would be down with little thugs running from the cops."
The founders were considered thugs that fought the king's cops. They won and instituted both Freedom and a representative government of laws. Their laws, by virtue of the law contained in both theConstitution itself, and in the statutes created persuant to that Constitution, says the cops must follow the law and not batter, or otherwise punish surrendered perps. They must hold and turn over surrendered perps over unharmed to stand trial, whereupon punishment would be that which had been proscribed by a proper Constitutional legislative body and administered ONLY upon proper due judicial process.
"If you do...vive la difference!"
The founders thought that the idea of having a police force that could and would be allowed to administer "justice" and punishmnet, as they saw fit to, to be repugnant. That's why they explicitly indicated that in the US Constitution and in their respective State Constitutions. I agree with and support the founders.
LOL! "Presumption of innocence?" You mean there's a chance the guy who took the loafer to the brain housing unit WASN'T the guy driving?
And to think I spent my entire life working to ensure the constitutional rights of all the people of this country would be protected.
One of those Constitutional rights, right there between the right to affordable housing and the right to top-notch health care, is the right NOT to act like a jackass when the cops want a word with you.
That right is free and accessible to every human being with a brain and a conscience (or at least a well developed survival instinct).
The fact that one cretin decided not to exercise that right doesn't bother me.
I'm sad that it bothers you. Let me know when Mr. Good Citizen comes out of his coma, or regains the use of his limbs or whatever serious injury he incurred at the hands of his government oppressor.
Well said!
But I still support the right of cops to beat the crap out of people who choose to fight, resist or run from them.
Does that make me a bad man?
Yeah, given that the kid had stopped running and had surrendered himself.
I'm willing to give police a lot of leeway in dealing with combative suspects WHILE they are being combative. Honestly, had they shot the kid in the head while he was driving or running away, I wouldn't have lost any sleep over it. But the kid had given up and was laying down. If the cop was wary or thought it was a ploy of some kind, all he needed to do was hold his gun on the kid (which he did after the unnecessary kick).
Yeah, but you're a chick.
Trust me, a good ass-kicking was probably just what this punk needed, and now our feminized justice system is going to hand him a ton of money and I bet no one here will bet me that this guy does not end up, eventually, runnning afoul of the law again.
Shame, basically embarrassment on steroids, works. It has worked for millenia.
Having your ass beat, on camera, for all your homies to see, with society giving the noble cops a pat on the back...THAT'S deterrence.
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