Video shows Seattle cop arresting elderly black man using golf club as cane

http://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | January 29 at 7:53 PM | By Elahe Izadi

[redreno]

William Wingate had been standing on a busy Seattle street corner in July, leaning on a golf club he uses as a cane, when a police cruiser pulled up and the officer inside yelled at Wingate to “put that down.”

The resulting exchange — in which the officer claims that Wingate swung the club at her after she asked him to “shut it down” before she arrested him – was captured on the cruiser’s dashboard camera, the footage of which Seattle Police released this week as it apologized for the 2014 incident.

The response to that video prompted Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole to announce Wednesday that she was ordering a comprehensive review of the officer’s performance during Wingate’s arrest and another incident. She did not name the officer, but multiple local outlets have reported her name as Cynthia Whitlatch.

[BenLurkin]

Does Seattle have a law against golf clubs?

[Blood of Tyrants]

He is obviously guilty of failure to grovel.

[MNDude]

he didn’t yell “Fore!” before passing the cops.

[PGR88]

She told him the golf club is a weapon.

seriously? that’s just stupid. If he had a cane, that couldn’t be used as a weapon?

Its the nanny-state gone berserk.

[skinkinthegrass]

Grave Mistake, Use only Wooden Canes
..Medical exemptions

[P-Marlowe]

Some cops are just dumber than a box of rocks.

[Dr. Sivana]

Maybe he was trained by Bat Masterson.

[GunRunner]

The cop needs to be in prison.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Some Iranian from the Washington Post?

I would trust Putin more easily : )

[dfwgator]

Somebody didn't take their Thorazine?

[eastforker]

I have a cane made out of 1/2 inch schedule 80 stainless steel pipe. I would “never” dream of using it as a weapon.

[Albion Wilde]

I watched it about four times. That officer needs mental health treatment.

[ansel12]

She told him that he had threatened her with the golf club, he is lucky that he was in public, because it sounded like he was going to be killed.

[trisham]

Some good pics here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2932419/Seattle-officer-arrested-man-golf-club-reassigned.html

[rickomatic]

Does Seattle have a law against golf clubs?

No, they don't. And, as a matter of fact, Washington state is an open carry state, so there is no prohibition on carrying any kind of weapon openly. There have recently been anti gun control ralleys in the state Capitol, one being inside the state house itself. At both those ralleys people open carried without consequence.

[dainbramaged]

Nazi with a badge - a runt female cop on a power trip. I don’t know of anything more worthless in law enforcement.

[SW6906]

Unbelievable. But still Chris Rock’s advice applies: When a cop asks you to do something you do it! There was NO REASON for him to react like he did. The whole thing would have been over in minutes, no harm, no foul if he had just put the effing club down like she asked. Then, he could explain that it was a cane that he had for 20 years. She would have likely let him go with nothing happening.

[NorthMountain]

She needs to be removed from society.

Permanently.

Control freaks like that are incurable.

[al baby]

I never walk around my ghetto without my 9 iron