I think the cop was actually Hispanic.
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This cop had to realize that the area was covered by surveillance cameras. And this was during booking, not during arrest. What the hell was the cop thinking?
Don't know the details but cops usually run cover when a fellow cop misbehaves. I'm surprised that brother cops called out the brutality.
“Rodriguez pounces on him, picking him up horizontally by his pants and near his neck to throw him down on the floor, knocking over a computer monitor on the desk.”
They should give him a medal
“The booked teen — identified by the Detroit Free Press as Jaquwan Smith”
Jaquwan Yep Jaquwan dindo nuffin
I don’t know if Rodriguez considered himself white or not, but he’s white now.
To Protect and Serve
Peace Officers
Law Enforcement Officers
Not so much . . .
You are now called “Civilian”, no longer “Citizen”.
Even B movies use the phrase Citizen as a poke-in-the-eye.
GOOBERMINT groups need to take out their own trash.
In the 1980s, at a high school dance, my friend badly scraped the bumper and back panel of a car in a parking lot. He was a bad driver (and he was drinking) and hitting another car made him nervous - which made the problem worse and caused more damage
Car belonged to a cop who was there, I believe for event security.
The cop and his partner/friend pummeled my friend while the rest of us watched
After it was over, they realized what they had done, in front of witnesses, and let my friend go without payment for damage or DWI charge.
My friend felt it was a fair exchange (he would have had to deal with his own Dad afterwards), and told us to be quiet about it.
The perp may have said some poorly timed, vulgar wisecrack:
“Yo Mama was ‘Lovin it!’.
“I wonder what pissed the cop off so much?”
As a retired correctional officer I can tell you that there are individuals who are masters at provoking a violent response. In many cases it’s to set up a hefty payday.
You can see him mouthing off in the vid. But the cop was definitely in the wrong and assaulted him. It was a straight up sucker punch.
Just like the old days when I was growing up in Dearborn.
He SHOULD have restrained himself. With that said, I couldn’t be a policeman for a minute. The only way to handle punks is the beat the bleep out of them before, during and after arrest. Better they were aborted.
Punk ass was dissing the cop.
Hispanic males, cops or not don’t play that game.
Mouth off to them and they don’t care who you are.
Worked with dozens of them over the years. Mouth off to them and they’ll hurt you.