Citizen Helps Officer Arrest Towering Suspect. Man Helped Short Cop Subdue Tall Suspect

Action News/wsbtv.com ^ | June 3, 2006

[texan75010]

Guess that's the long and short of it.....

This tiny woman needs a nice desk job before she kills someone she is unable to subdue.

[A. Pole]

Good Samaritan who helped a 5-foot, 4-inch female officer subdue a drug suspect who stands nearly 7 feet tall

Equal Rights Now bump!

[kinoxi]

good point

[A. Pole]

This tiny woman needs a nice desk job before she kills someone she is unable to subdue.

It would be too discriminating.

[beezdotcom]

It certainly was rather reckless to attempt to subdue someone like that without any backup.

[jer2911tx]

a Good Samaritan who helped a 5-foot, 4-inch female officer subdue a drug suspect who stands nearly 7 feet tall. maybe she'll switch careers and become a 5-foot, 4-inch firefighter so a Good Samaritan can save her from a burning building when she is trying to carry a victim to safety

[lesser_satan]

Maybe we should have some basic strength requirements for cops like we do firefighters. Nobody could call it sexist then. If a 5'-4" woman can bench 220 lbs, let her be a cop.

[VeritatisSplendor]

A man 5'8" or so, or 6' would still likely have a tough time with someone so big - especially if the driver had gotten involved in it too. The big guy seemed pretty mellow - not hitting, just rolling around.

Is there some disgrace in calling for back-up?

Mrs VS

[TomGuy]

Life in the PC world.




A similar thing (female officer's size) resulted in that Atlanta judge being shot last year and that escapee kidnapping a lady at an apartment.

[hgro]

Short women are people too. She should have let him run though. She had his car and I.D.

[N. Theknow]

A Cherokee County city plans to honor a Good Samaritan who helped a 5-foot, 4-inch female officer subdue a drug suspect who stands nearly 7 feet tall.

He now faces a stretch in jail.

[ArrogantBustard]

Hah ... I met a 5' 4" (ish) bloke in England last summer, who could probably have shoved that suspect's feet down his throat, and tied him in knots. He was a bona-fide 'football' hooligan, whose hobby apparently was travelling to Germany and stirring up fights.

[ZGuy]

I wonder if this will follow the normal pattern and Steve Walker's boss will find some way of using this as a reason to fire him.

[linn37]

thats the long and short of it......

[subterfuge]

"It makes the police department feel really good that our citizens support us in that manner and will come and help us."

Uh oh. This "little lady" will be getting a talking to about this statment. The last thing the cops want is for regular folks to "help" them.

[lesser_satan]

Sounds like a fun guy to party with.

[cowboyway]

If a 5'-4" woman can bench 220 lbs, let her be a cop.

There's probably a lot of male cops that can't bench 220.

I'm 5'9", 200 lbs, can bench 275 but I'd probably have a hard time with a 7' tall guy on cocaine.

[ClearCase_guy]

She should have let him run though. She had his car and I.D.

I never watched the "Dukes of Hazard" much but I never understood why the cops bothered to chase the Duke boys. Their car was distinctive. I imagine everyone knew where they lived. Just show up some night and arrested 'em. But noooooooooooo. Boss Hogg would smash 3-4 police cars a week in a failed effort to chase people he shouldn't have been chasing.

[RandallFlagg]

He now faces a stretch in jail.

EWWW!