Posted on 06/15/2010 12:46:39 AM PDT by Talkradio03
Incident in Seattle started over jaywalking, things escalated and an officer throws a punch connecting right in a girls face...(Video report from KING5 + Raw unedited video of the incident)
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young woman...
She deserved everything she got!
Wasn’t much of a punch, she didn’t go down.
I hate cops, but I don’t see anything wrong with what he did. She actually assaulted him and he had to get the upper hand. He did not taze her or shoot her.
Sure am glad they got those dangerous jaywalkers off the street. I didn’t know Seattle had come so far in eradicating all the other serious crimes like drug dealing and such that they could now focus on these heinous types of crimes. I’m sure they are just as seriously tackling the epidemic of people cutting the tags off of their mattresses.
PING FOR HOME
Martin Luther King Jr Way, tells me most of what I need to know right there. I’m surprised there were any moving vehicles to even make jaywalking a problem.
Depends how it started I surpose. The police maybe just tryign to warn the girls not to jaywalk here and the girls probably thought they were unfairly targetted and got abusive. Did the police single them out or were they telling this to everyone that was doing it
I would be very unhappy and verbal as well if I was singled out and I see others doing the same
From the reporter I think he said the cop first stopped (tried to stop?) a man jay walking. I would imagine that it is a pretense to be able to stop someone that the cop otherwise suspects of a crime (gang clothing, weapons, drugs).
And then the two gals interfered with the stopping of the guy. They may have been jaywalking too.
It may have started out as a chance to talk to the guy (and gals?) just to get a feel for them - and leave them with a warning if nothing seemed wrong. Interesting how the one guy tried to stop the larger girl before she shoved the cop and then got hit. At least someone was showing decent judgement.
I would not be surprised someday to hear about some lone cop like this guy was to be found beaten and dead by a crowd on some street corner. With no cell-phone recordings of it either. It doesn’t seem like it would take much for something like this to escalate. Certainly enough people nearby if they got whipped into a mob mentality.
They were wrong. The police officer was right.
Case closed.
She asked for it.
I don’t like cops.
That said, I would only fault the officer for not body slamming her to the ground and then cuffing her.
He scuffled with a girl too long and should be brought the situation to a quick end and got out of there.
The cop could have had his weapon taken away in scuffling with both of those women. I’m not a cop lover, but he was in the right. He should have tasered the woman.
Looks like Obama is gonna need another case of beer.
ML/NJ
That was one of the most piss-poor examples of arrest and control that I have ever seen. If you can’t get a 19 year old girl in handcuffs, you need to be put behind a desk.
The cop is lucky the mob didn’t jump on him.
Seattle PD needs to send that officer to get some serious DT training. Too many gadget cops today.
that was disgusting.
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