Posted on 03/31/2022 3:34:42 PM PDT by algore
Body camera footage shows the shocking moment a female police officer laughed as she taunted a mentally-ill 70-year-old who locked herself in the bathroom during a manic episode.
The recently shared video, edited down from 90 minutes of body camera footage released last year by the Tulsa Police Department, purports to show female police officer Ronni Carrocia banging on a bathroom door as she laughed and told one of her colleagues: 'This is going to be fun.'
An Emergency Medical Service worker told the officers when they arrived at the scene of the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on October 25, 2021, that the victim, LaDonna June Paris, 70, was bipolar and was having a manic episode and had shut herself into the bathroom, according to the video.
The EMS worker tells Carrocia: 'We couldn’t make her do anything, so we called you guys for assistance, and then she just took off.'
But when officers arrived on-scene at the restroom, Carrocia can be seen threatening the woman with a Taser, as she asks, 'Do you want to get Tased?' to which Paris can be heard saying: 'Don't do it. Why are you doing this?'
Paris can also be heard pleading with Carrocia, saying: 'Get away from me, get away, get away' after she rattled the door. In response, Carrocia laughs and tells one of her colleagues: 'I love my job.'
Soon, Paris can be heard saying, 'The cops are trying to kill me here.'
The Tulsa Police Department, however, has said in a statement that the officers at the scene that day were acting within the department's policies - although it noted that their communications with each other could be 'perceived as unprofessional.'
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Granted she’s a bitch but you can’t leave these crazy people out on the street. They dump all this shit on the cops and it’s no wonder they are jaded.
How am I supposed to know how to feel about this without knowing everyone’s skin color and who is trans, gay or straight?
Nailed that one, algore.
If the bathroom door was locked how did she get tased?
And if the door was unlocked, why not just go in and secure the old lady? Why the need to tase her by a cop who obviously enjoys tasing the elderly?
The fun-loving woman police officer has invited a big law suit upon her employers...a law suit they will lose bigly.
Leni
in the middle of a mental health episode”?
Is that what the Daily Mail is calling acting crazy now?
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The female cops has more serious mental problems than the older woman.
Some people should not be police officers, like the ones who tazed my neighbors 12yo daughter with downs syndrome cause she was acting weirdly by her mailbox
This has probably made me biased, and I admit that
> ... their communications with each other could be ‘perceived as unprofessional.’ <
So the police officer’s comments weren’t unprofessional. It’s just that they could be perceived as unprofessional. Got it.
This country is in trouble. Among other things, we need police officers who have the public’s trust and admiration. The Tulsa Police Department evidently doesn’t agree with that.
Helluva price to pay for being stylish.
I have dealt with people who have mental health issues and the way these officers treated this woman makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. Would this woman act this way to her mother if she was having an episode?
What color is the female cop..
Do they act the same way in officer involved shootings? "Oh this is going to be fun"!! "I'm going to love this"! "I can't wait until they play my video and audio in court"!
Wowaz...
Yep, we have come a log way from
‘Don’t taze me Bro’
And these idiots knew they were bring recorded!
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