“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Posted on 11/25/2023 1:07:56 PM PST by Morgana
“If the description and video is accurate 75,000 dollars is not enough! For the record I am an advocate for cops, but this was wrong. When young I was in a car wreck. I had a dislocated and broken femur pelvis with internal injuries and a severe concussion. When I regained consciousnesses I was in the hospital in ER and combative. The knocked me out with some drug. Later when I awoke in a hospital bed I was in restraints with good reason. I was young and strong and combative. It was a function of the concussion, pain and fear. I did not know where I was or what was happening so I fought. I suspect the kid in this video was totally disoriented but I saw no sign of combativeness. “
There is something about being in a trauma that brings out the adrenaline and can make people violent. The adrenaline in a trauma can also cause people not to think strait like this kid. I’m sure he did not know what planet he was on. He had no idea what the officer was saying to him, the officer might as well have been standing there speaking Greek.
I just posted another story that I truly don’t get one with cops in a Nervous Hospital. Like that guy would understand.
Kiwi addicted boot lickers will be along to defend these thugs in 3-2-1...
Yeah, I don’t trust them.
See post 2 on this thread.
It applies here as well.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4199224/posts?page=2#2
“...and the good cops hate them.”
But they do nothing to stop them.
Well, there is the atf, and the fbi, both of which love to dress in battle rattle and kick in doors of crippled citizens at O dark thirty.
In NJ, we had cops kicking a man on fire after a car accident. “Trying to put out the fire,” they claimed later. That isn’t what it looked like.
How do you restrain a wandering, injured, disoriented young man after an MVA? Talking to him usually works. Recruit his less injured friends.
Failing that, two of you hook his arms while a third puts a backboard behind him, quick restraint and lower him to the ground.
“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
We are missing the part when these cops get back to the station and high-five each other and laugh about the thud the guy’s head made when they slamed him to the ground.
The most important thing here is the ego of the cops remained fully inflated.
I forgot to add that I live in Bell County Texas. I have been stopped a few times for speeding. They State Troopers and Bell County Officers were always polite and professional as was I. I am always armed where legal. When the officer would walk up to my car I would have my permit and insurance in hand and immediately tell the officer I was armed and when the weapon was. I treated them with respect and honesty and they did the same for me and a couple of times just got a warning.
There are bad cops is true statement. They are few and the good cops hate them.
> Can’t attract enough good people to be cops, so you have to take what you can get. <
True that. And there are such things as “gypsy cops”. They get fired by one department. But as you noted, most police departments are desperate for qualified candidates. So the fired cop gets hired by the next department down the road.
There’s at least one such cop in my neck of the woods. He shot an unarmed suspect in the back. The cop escaped a criminal conviction, but he was fired. And he cost his town a huge legal settlement.
That incompetent cop just moved down the road. He is now working at another local department.
Ditto. One pulled over just to try to make a date with me.
Thank you for the ping!
“One pulled over just to try to make a date with me.”
That is scary! Glad you’re okay and I mean that.
Wouldn’t put much faith in a media story at first facts don’t always get reported.
Media is in the anti cop pimping business like anything else they misreport about.
Cops can be such assh8oles, drunk with power. This is why I would never date a cop.
Don’t broad brush!
Very few people are fully aware of just how much police abuse of innocent people takes place every day.
Never assume the police are your friends.
Some of the kids I grew up with that should Never be cops became cops.
Cops kids are the worst..
Unlike most people n this thread, I actually watched the video. Something isn’t adding up. This guy looked like he was on drugs. The police believed he was high. And he did the phony George Floyd “I can’t breathe “ claim 5 times.
Looks to me they were attending to his injuries and he tried to bolt and then began fighting them. So what are the police supposed to do in cases like that?
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