Posted on 02/28/2009 9:55:49 AM PST by LibWhacker
If that was my 16 year old daughter that he had done that to, I’m afraid I’d have ended up in jail myself.
OK, that helps. Overreaction by the gestapo. I have a very high disregard for cops. This is perfect evidence why. Law Enforcement used to be an honorable job. Police were respected. Now they are the lowest form of employment. When they cannot get a job anywhere else, then they are perfect fit to be cops.
And they charge her with assault.........? Someone needs to own that cop shop.
A 15 year old girl with an attitude.
Had one in my house for a while. She's lucky to be alive, daughter or not. It takes a great deal of restraint sometimes and these alien creatures are masters of manipulation. With much providential aid, most eventually become human again.
BTW, the cop behaved badly.
That little kick he gave her as he was going in for the takedown won’t nothing.
Those two punches to the back of the head are more disturbing considering that he had another deputy with him and she was already subdued. I don’t know.....maybe she just needed punching.
Question is, why did she kick her shoe at him? Did she mistake him for GW Bush?
This seems to be the same deputy involved in a shooting incident:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/302017_inquest01.html
After seeing this current video, I have to wonder what really happened there.
I am 6’tall weigh 190 lb. and am 54 years old, how would you like to try that with me?
Aw you just don't understand--how tough it is for the wittle poweeceboys to take a bit of lip from a girl. Why, they might get teased by their friends and end up wetting their pants in shame. Better to just gang up on her two on one and show what men they are by beating the crap out of her.
I raised three of them and you know what, if you can't deal with a teenage girl without getting violent or entering a homicidal rage then maybe you belong in a home yourself somewhere.
Grow up people. This girl just flipped a shoe off, she didn't kill anybody.
Given that you have a perfect example of two wildly disparate worlds, there was no other way this could have ended. Sadly, that ending was typical of most one-on-one disputes with a police officer, especially in the closed confines of their own territory.
I am certainly not passing judgment on the behavior of either the cop or the teen, just observing that this was a clash of worlds, and a classic one at that!
Watch the video again. That's not what happened at all. That door was not about to be closed at the point in time that idiot charged in to beat up a defensless girl, and without any justification. The door was moving towards the jam, and then reopened by the idiot. Then the shoe came off, going forward at a very low trajectory. Feel sorry for him? The punishment that he WILL get will not be sufficient IMHO. I don't care what comments this girl made, there's absolutely no excuse for that man to have gone off in that way, and then pummel her head and pick her up by her hair after wrenching her arms back. Firing isn't sufficient - jail time is warranted. The law suit that this girl's family will win should be significant.
6’6” 245 43. You were saying? Oh wait you have a badge.
Our society is rapidly crumbling. If you want it to completely disintegrate just let psycopaths have a badge and gun. It doesn’t take too long to get the citizenry to a place where THEY start thinking its better to shoot first and ask questions later.
You cops out there better start thinking real hard about how much you want the pukes on your force to get away with their sick behaviour. Cause if you don’t clean up your own ranks it will be ALL of you that pay the price.
This is not an isolated incident. It happens regularly all across the land. And the cops protect each other. Not a god idea. There’s a few thousand of US for every ONE of you.
Bull Shit!
“Their own territory” INDEED.
They have no territory but their own yard and home. They work on MY territory. WE sign their paychecks. We provide their building, offices and tools. They are SERVANTS of WE the citizenry. They can take their ‘thin blue line’ crap and see how it plays in hell.
There is no thin blue line. Me and mine and my neighborhood could do a much better job of protecting ourselves without them thank you very much. Actually I think they do a pretty piss poor job.
It doesn’t take too long to get the citizenry to a place where THEY start thinking its better to shoot first and ask questions later.
I’m already there. Almost nothing could get me to ask a cop to my house or for help.
For me, it would not matter if this young lady had slapped the officer prior to her coming into the camera’s view. What transpired on the video provides zero justification for what this man did. If there was something physical that this girl did outside of the video’s view, then why didn’t the “officer” react at that point? Why did he wait until such a small insignificant action as shown in this video? If a grown man cannot more effectively deal with verbal insults from a 15 year old then he has no business sporting a badge.
Watched it a bunch of times now. After she kicks the deadly converse sneaker in his direction he then: Comes in with a kick, a PUNCH TO THE FACE (watch it again), slams her face first against the wall, violent take down to the floor (which could have knocked teeth out if she fell wrong) and two punches to the back of the head.
This cop needs some jail time, he should never wear the uniform again.
Ah, pre-Purgatory, good job. I went to the dentist one time and he asked me "Do you know you grind your teeth?". I told him "Yeah, I've got teenagers".
They turned out OK. One's in St. Paul with a wife and four little ones (three girls and a boy). One (the former alien) is here with two little boys. The 'baby' is in Iraq with a Styker vehicle. He should be back in Fairbanks Tuesday for some leave to see his wife. I hear cold weather sometimes causes babies.
look, i am not saying the officer was right, he overreacted and should not be on the force if he has this little self-control.
But the 15 year old smartmouth snot who kicks off her shoe at a police officer is and example of EXACTLY what is wrong with our kids today.
My kids have more respect for police.
You are confusing form with function. Yes, you do indeed own the jail and the booking facility. That an a couple of bucks will get you a cup of coffee in a few places. In reality that is their territory and they feel, as evidenced by the video, they are under no constraints when they are operating in that space. They KNOW there is a video being made, but they are so accustomed to wielding power at their discretion that it doesn’t even occur to them that they might be doing something wrong.
I certainly agree with your point in principle, but reality is a different world and the injuries you receive in the real world are a lot more painful, and the emotional damage done, are a lot more lasting than the comfort you get, in principle.
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