Posted on 02/28/2022 2:45:15 PM PST by simpson96
Orlando police have released body cam footage of an officer being attacked Thursday in the area of North John Young Parkway and West Harwood Street.
Advertisement But police say they're still puzzled as to why it happened. They are still determining whether the suspect's attack was intentional or if he was suffering from a mental illness.
"I think there's a lot more questions than answers when it comes to situations like this," Orlando police Chief Orlando Rolon said.
The video shows 33-year-old James Mossetty facing down the officer who was working as a school crossing guard at the intersection.
Orlando police said the incident began when Mossetty banged on an officer's patrol car for no reason. The officer got out of his patrol car and "started interacting with the individual," Rolon said.
The officer tries to use a Taser to get Mossetty down, but he’s able to pull out two different cartridges that are fired at him. Police say pepper spray didn’t work on him either.
"The fight was on," Rolon said.
At one point, you can see Mossetty coming after the officer. Investigators say he repeatedly punched him in the head knocking him to the ground.
Eventually, the backup did arrive and four officers surrounded Mossetty. One of them tackled him, and they all worked together to put him in handcuffs.(snip)
WESH 2 asked Chief Orlando Rolón if he thinks Mossetty was out looking to fight a cop.
"We don’t know what possessed him to do this, but what we can clearly see is that he has a history of getting involved in felony-type situations, to include battery on a law enforcement officer. Again, is he mentally fit to be out there? Is he just someone who likes to get involved in those sort of things?" he said.
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My thoughts exactly since pepper spray and tasers did not affect Rodney King. So the cops had to beat him down, and we all know how that ended.
Maybe wearing a mask defeats pepper spray inhalation?
The way to keep such a repeat offender from acting up is to make it clear to the district attorney that the perp is going to be delivered to the district attorney’s house and set free to join the family in some fun.
Florida man strikes again...
Right you are. Don’t we have places for the criminally insane?
A man I met in Alanon had a son like that. He was a wealthy guy and paid a lot of $$ to have his kid locked up. Very sad situation.
And I had an old friend who was an alcoholism counselor. Big, really big guy in his 50’s, who had to visit that place now and then. It absolutely terrified him, people were so crazy.
Wow!
Wow!
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