Posted on 07/05/2023 8:40:47 PM PDT by Morgana
New footage has emerged showing the moment a Los Angeles police officer grabbed a woman with cancer by the neck and slammed her to the ground outside a grocery store before pepper spraying her.
The unnamed Sheriff's office deputy threw the woman to the ground and put his knee on her neck after she filmed him and another officer arresting her husband for allegedly shoplifting on June 24.
Police say they responded to a call about an 'in-progress' robbery at the a WinCo Foods in Lancaster when they came across the couple, who they claim watch thee suspects' descriptions.
The woman, who has not been named, began recording as officers detained her husband, who kept asking the officers why they were arresting him.
The witness who filmed the altercation, Lisa Michelle Garrett, said on Facebook the couple was upset 'for being accused of stealing.'
'They didn't have any products from the store. One police officer walked up to the man and handcuffed him!' she wrote.
'His wife was taking a video of the incident and one tall officer got really angry and walked up on the woman and slammed her down on the ground!! The husband said "Don't slam her down like that she has cancer!"'
Video of the incident shows the woman saying 'You can’t touch me,' as the deputy heads towards her before he grabs her by the neck and slams her to the ground.
As he wrestled her on the ground, the cop said: 'Stop or you’re going to get punched in the face.'
The deputy then pepper sprayed the woman who then said she 'couldn't breathe' and that the deputy was putting his knee on her neck.
'All you had to do was listen,” he added after he subdued her.
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Innocent or guilty, probably not the best move to tell a cop already primed to arrest you, “you can’t touch me”.
Rat-Run City, Rat-Run State.
I’m reading between the lines here but she was in on and participating in the shoplifting.
She has the right to film, but not interfere with the arrest. If she’s filming from 10’ away, that’s fine. However, if she’s right on top of them, that’s going to be a problem. The cop doesn’t know her intent when she gets too close.
Wouldn’t they get $950 in freebies, anyway?
HOW DARE YOU! IT WAS JUST REPARATIONS!
...and probably under $950 to boot.
Why it out of all races on earth this only happens to black people of African decent?
She was filming beside a car. She was not bothering the officers. Her husband was sitting on a rock talking to the two officers. Then one came over and threw her to the ground.
> I’m reading between the lines here but she was in on and participating in the shoplifting. <
Quite possibly. But she was just standing there with her camera out. And she was a good distance away from the cops who were cuffing her husband.
Let me say that again. She was just standing there. She wasn’t attempting to flee, going for a weapon, or anything like that. The way she was slammed to the ground was brutal and inexcusable.
Cops like that one are doing a great job turning the average person against the police.
It’s the closeness that she may have been filming. You are allowed to film, but you are not allowed to leave the officers concerned with their safety by getting in too close.
She was right to film and I recognize that, but I also recognize an officer’s concern about taking a bullet to the back of the head because the person got within distance to take an easy shot.
See Leaning right’s post 11
that woman was within her rights. The husband said she had cancer. The officer is a first class jerk.
The article said they both were cited but did not say what for.
They have just won the lawsuit lottery even more so if they are innocent of shoplifting.
Exactly.
Indeed.
I’ll let the judge make the ruling, but I’m just giving the principle. You have the right to film, but you do not have the right to become a factor in a cop’s concern about the arrest.
If she was within a reasonable distance, I support her. But if she made herself a factor in the arrest, I support her being arrested.
It’s one thing to be arrested but to be slammed down to the ground like that? There was no excuse for it.
“Cops like that one are doing a great job turning the average person against the police.”
I took police science in school. I rode with cops on patrol.
I decided I did not want to work with those people.Most are good people, but they won’t get rid of their bad apples due to a misguided sense of “brotherhood”.
At least the US military has a UCMJ that gets rid of “bad apples”. Cops don’t have such a code.
> It’s the closeness that she may have been filming. <
I watched the video twice. She wasn’t close. No matter. A certain percentage of cops are insane control freaks. He gave her some sort of command that she didn’t instantly obey. So she was slammed to the ground AND pepper sprayed.
That slam was hard, so hard that I’d be surprised if she didn’t get any of her bones broken.
I just saw the video and I agree that distance should have been sufficient to be considered a factor in the arrest. It looks like she did it right.
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