Posted on 11/25/2023 1:33:56 PM PST by Morgana
A former Virginia cop and self-proclaimed 'amateur boxer' punched a mentally-ill patient in the face - but the Judge dropped charges against the attacker.
Shocking video shows the moment Jemarr Mosley, 25, punched the Virginia Beach General Hospital resident three times in the face as the victim fell to the floor.
Mosley - along with several other officers - were watching a group of patients in a dayroom at the facility on February 9.
One patient was a 'known spitter' is understood have approached Mosley and another officer before spitting at them.
Mosley - who testified that he was once an amateur boxer in Philadelphia - threw a hard right cross punch at the man.
The video revealed the disturbing aftermath of the abuse - three other cops had to lift Mosley away from the patient who had been punched all the way to the ground.
Another patient had been caught up in the attack and one officer immediately went to their rescue - dragging them away from the violence and escorting the distressed bystander out of the room.
The victim was left lying limply on the ground as an officer crouched down to check on him.
The former cop from Virginia Beach didn't deny his attack, admitting in bodycam footage after the attack: 'He ain’t really hit me in my face, but the fact that he spit, I reacted on that.
'I punched him in the face with my right hand, dropped his ass.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Unfortunately, they don't put the mentally ill in psych centers anymore, so there's no one to give them a knock-out shot when they need it. When they emptied the psych centers in NY State, the residents eventually ended up in the State's prison system. I know, because I spent 25 years working in them. Before I retired, they had so many inmates getting psych meds, they had to move them all over to one side of the prison, in order to contain them when they went to the infirmary to get their meds.
When I first started working as an officer at Auburn prison in 1980, we were responsible for handing out their psychotropic drugs to them every night when we headed down the gallery to take the count. The union finally complained about the fact that we weren't medical personnel, and shouldn't be handing out any medications. They stopped the practice, and the convicts had to head up to the infirmary so the nurses could hand the meds out.
Before I worked in Corrections, I worked for six months as a Safety Officer at a NY State Psych Center in Syracuse. We were constantly being called to restrain residents. One kid was trying to hang himself on the cord of the blinds in his bedroom. Other times, we had to transport drunks from Upstate Medical, to the alcohol rehab building. That was always fun, because once the drunk found out he was going to be locked up in a building, all hell would break loose. I saw more physical confrontations at the psych center in the short time I worked there, than I did in my 25 years in Corrections. It was one of the reasons I took the job at Auburn when I was called. I figured that if I was going to get my butt kicked, I'd be better off getting paid as a Grade 14 than as a Grade 9 at the psych center.
As Paul Harvey used to say: "Now for the rest of the story..."
The resident, a known spitter, spit at the cops. I don't know about you, but when I worked in NY State Corrections, that was considered assault, especially when AIDS was first discovered in the early 80's, and other diseases like drug-resistant TB, flu, Hepatitis B and C, viral meningitis, etc., that can be transmitted through human saliva. The Daily Mail makes it sound like having someone spit on you, isn't a big deal.
Good point, and one I thought of after I first replied to you. Where is the hospital security? Is it possible that this so-called "resident" of the hospital, is actually a jail or prison inmate only in the hospital temporarily? In that case, then jail or prison officers should be assigned to supervise. Police department officers shouldn't be called in to do the job of hospital security, or jail/prison staff. As usual, the Daily Mail only tells half the story, to push their agenda.
Don’t know about VA, but...
“Under Florida law, a person who spits in another’s face could be prosecuted for committing battery. For spitting in another person’s face, the battery is a misdemeanor and could result in probation or imprisonment up to one year.
However, it is a separate crime to spit in the face of law enforcement personnel. This conduct is characterized as a felony and can result in imprisonment for up to five years”.
Or maybe Jemarr is just another thug cop which is probably closer to the truth.
True but you have to take into consideration this man is in a Nervous Hospital so he’s not in his right mind. He is also suppose to be protected because he’s there against his own will.
A person in a Nervous Hospital can’t sign themselves out AMA like they can in a normal hospital. They say you can but I’ve seen youtube videos about it and one almost needs a lawyer to get you out of those places. Once you are in they keep you till your insurance runs out then and only then do you get out.
the guy is in a nervous hospital or the mental ward of a hospital. Trust me he is in a secure unit even if he was an inmate he is not going any where. Nervous Hospitals are lock down facilities. They have security all over the place. If an patient is getting out of control I don’t understand why the doctor was not called.
You know you have walked through a circle of Dante’s inferno when you have walked through a Nervous Hospital’s 5 year old unit. Yes they have them for children. I never want witness that again.
I can't imagine having to deal with a unit of kids locked up for mental problems. The adults were bad enough, but at least we could lock them up in a cell if they acted-out, or put them in a stripped cell or a stripped and locked hospital room in the prison infirmary if they said they were going to, or had tried to hurt themselves. I've always said I would rather work behind the walls of a prison, than having to deal with children that had behavior problems in a school.
Yeah, my kin were in that one too. Not on the uk side!
I don’t give a shit why...
Spit on me and down you will go, psycho or not
Video at the link. Think what you will.
Where are the hundreds and hundreds of good articles of police committing positive acts to protect the public?
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