Trooper filmed 'brutally beating woman on side of California hwy (For Her "Protection")

Daily Mail ^ | 7-4-2014 | Lydia Warren

[equalator]

A California trooper has been filmed brutally beating a woman on the side of a highway - but authorities claimed he simply stopped her for her own safety.

A passing motorist recorded the unidentified California Highway Patrol officer as he punched the woman at least 11 times in the head along the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

On the video uploaded to YouTube, the woman can be seen trying to protect herself by putting up her hands but she does not appear to resist the trooper.

'The most animalistic, most brutal way to subdue someone is to pound someone's head into the concrete with really big blows to the head,' witness David Diaz told ABC7

[Mycroft Holmes]

That is a political problem. Does it justify turning from the rule of law?

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That's a hard question. I am beginning to think that we are past the time of Clair Wolf's, "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

My personal experience with Blue over California weapons laws cost me ~25 grand in Maple Leafs that "disappeared" from my safe as they "searched" my house for malformed bits of metal. I may be a bit biased.

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[JRandomFreeper]

No. I want the guilty punished. UNDER THE RULE OF LAW.

I don't approve of the unlawful and unprofessional actions of this officer.

Go read the part of the thread I objected to. It was about non-judicial 'jailhouse' punishment of getting other inmates to punish the cop.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Be open about your call to lawlessness to restore the rule of law then.

/johnny

[Safetgiver]

The most animalistic, most brutal way to subdue someone is to pound someone’s head into the concrete ...I don’t see no concrete.

[christx30]

No, relying on the corrupt court system that protects pigs is why you have cops doing this kind of shit. They know they will never be punished. If this wasn’t on YouTube, it wouldn’t have come to light.
If they were afraid of reprisals from the general public, they would be slower on the night stick.

[morphing libertarian]

I have analyzed and investigated this incident.

My professional opinion…………..he beat the living sh!- out of her.

[Sivad]

At the risk of sounding somewhat too technical, California
Highway Patrolmen are not called troopers. They are officers. I know of no California law
enforcement agency which uses the term “trooper” to describe field employees,
certainly not the CHP. The small state police force could
be so titled but I doubt it. Could this be explained by the
fact that the source is from the UK? Don’t know.

Did the officer use the last of his pepper spray on his
lunch time tacos?

[JRandomFreeper]

Once that breaks, you can never go back. "Never wound the king".

On the grasping hand, today is a celebration of telling the king to go fornicate with a turnip, so there is precedence.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

The corrupt court system is a political problem.

/johnny

[Darksheare]

So that justifies beating someone like that?

[Slings and Arrows]

Classic dress-to-oppress. Shame he forgot his jackboots.

[equalator]

How is the weather in Haifa today?

[JRandomFreeper]

Considering that I've been on FR since 1999, and you just showed up recently.... folks here on FR know where I am.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Still wouldn't match the handbag.

/johnny

[trisham]

?

[TexasGator]

“So that justifies beating someone like that?”

I made no comment on the beating. You are trying to pick a fight with me by implying I said something I didn’t say? I resent that.

[JRandomFreeper]

82F, low humidity, and cloud cover, according to the online weather report.

/johnny

[Vendome]

I don’t want the same thing to happen to him.

He’s a cop fer Criess sake.

No, I want to mete out the Vendome Just and Proper punishment.

Either the dropping him into a pile of razor wire, from 4 stories up or the long tail cat and shark treatment.

[oldenuff2no]

You are right he did first grab her to keep her out of traffic and he was responsible to do so. He then took her down but it looks like she resisted his efforts to put cuffs on her. AT that time he initiated the use of force to force her to let him cuff her....
Restraining her from walking out into traffic was right.
Taking her down and cuffing her when she tried to pull away from him was right. She was a danger to herself and to others who were driving on that side of the freeway.
I also question the amount of force he used to subdue her and make her comply with putting cuffs on her. It appears to be excessive.

[JRandomFreeper]

You'll run into the same problem I did when I suggested a trebouchet to send the child invaders back home.... It's not politically expedient.

I'd vote for your punishment, BTW.

I think government employees should have only one punishment for ANYTHING unlawful that is proven. Death by hanging. Under the rule of law.

/johnny