Posted on 06/09/2023 9:39:11 PM PDT by algore
A police officer has been fired after he was caught on camera punching a woman squarely in the face while she was handcuffed.
Former Loveland Officer Russell Maranto, 28, punched Angelia Hall, 59, in the mouth while she was detained in a hospital emergency room.
In the footage, Hall can be heard becoming increasingly frustrated and angry as she sits in an examination chair while cursing and yelling at the officers and nurses who were present.
But it was when she spat at Maranto that he immediately reacted by punching her.
Another officer in the room intervened and pulled Maranto away from Hall.
Russell Maranto, 28, a Colorado police officer has been fired after being captured on bodycam punching a handcuffed woman directly in the face
Maranto punched Angelia Hall, 59, after she spat at him while she was being held in a hospital ER while sitting in an examination room emergency room
Loveland Police Chief Tim Doran released a statement on Friday as he explained his reasoning for firing the officer, citing his unnecessary use of force.
The incident was investigated by the Larimer County Sheriff's Office, but so far the district attorney's office has not filed criminal charges against Maranto.
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Power abhors liberty..
Exactly. She’s wrong and had the cop NOT punched her she’d likely be facing an assault on an officer charge.
Now she’ll get a settlement from the police department.
Gangs are raw power.
You ain’t no founding father.
Obviously she wasnt restrained sufficiently enough that she could not batter the officer. His self defense is exactly that. I hope she didnt fall down to many times before they got the spit mask on her.
And MS-13 keeps crossing our border despite our having no end of militarized police. So what’s your point?
Maybe he should have beat her to death.
One of my favorite Donut Operator” vids on YoosToob is where the cops are forced to shoot a paraplegic thats attacking them from his chair. Cops shoot the guy with no legs. Its a riot, You gotta see it!
One of the things that has caused deterioration in our public standards is the elimination of provocation as a defense.
Being spat on used to be a recognized preliminary to the spitter getting punched in the mouth. “He spat on me” would be a complete defense to a punch in the mouth charge - but not to shooting someone, for example.
Getting mobbed by Antifa, spat on, blinded with lasers, urine thrown on you or your family - all of these would be complete justification for a punch in the mouth. No more.
They all have their phones out, and if you throw a punch it’s YOU that’s going to jail.
This needs to change.
Only until the threat is neutralized.
Im no Jack Boot licker but I know whats coming next when I spit in a cops face.
My point, as I said at the beginning, is I am looking forward to you having no police.
That’s what you said you wanted.
I just want you to be happy.
I hope his fist is okay.
Both my grandfather and dad were Detroit cops back in a day when people knew not to get stupid when in custody or suffer the consequences.
Looks perfectly legal to me. She assaulted him with her mouth, he shut it up. Make stupid decisions, pay the price.
Tit for tat.
Singapore would have no homeless, no drug addiction, because they put them to out of societies misery, which is right and proper.
Our country is not moving quickly to total tyranny, it is past that and next step is arresting Candidates...wait.... Choosing winners in election.....did that... installing leaders... not quite yet.
Great. No police to protect the criminals...just like it was in this country for the better part of a century. It worked fine then.
As to MS-13 they’d be a problem for the military.
Glad you are going to be happy with the BLM gestapo.
Battery: [noun] the act of beating someone or something with successive blows : An offensive touching or use of force on a person without the person’s consent —
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