Posted on 02/07/2024 12:46:04 PM PST by Red Badger
A woman was treated to an asphalt sandwich by an Atlanta police officer after prancing onto the tarmac and then trying to outrun the frustrated cop. Excessive force? Perhaps. But trespassing on an airport ramp is a serious offense.
Cop Takes Down Runaway Woman As She Sprints Past Spirit Airlines Plane At Atlanta Airport We don’t know quite why or how the woman got onto the ramp, but we can observe several things based on a pair of videos captured by ground staff:
* She’s talking to cops, then decides to skip away before breaking into a run
* She runs by a Spirit Airlines jet as a cop takes off behind her
* He stops her by pushing her over, sending her sprawling face-first onto the ground
* She is handcuffed
* A police car pulls up and she is placed into the backseat of the car (resisting arrest while being maneuvered into the vehicle)
Did she really think she would get away?
Take a look at this NSFW video (the ramp workers swear as the incident unfolds):
VIDEO AT LINK.........
Here’s another angle.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2-mq8UR0I6/
Had the engine been on, the officer’s force could have saved her life (remember Courtney Edwards, a ground staffer who was sucked into the engine of an American Airlines jet last year in Montgomery, Alabama?). Maybe the officer could have stopped her more gently and reports of police brutality are nothing to laugh about, but I have a lot of trouble feeling sorry for her…she chose to take off (if you’ll pardon the pun) and that is just not something you do in the secure area of an airport, especially on the apron around aircraft.
CONCLUSION
Video shows an Atlanta police officer knocking over a woman who was attempting to flee around a Spirit Airlines aircraft in Atlanta Airport. I think it’s fair to discuss whether the specific application of force was necessary, but trespassing in a secure area and then running away from cops is just not a smart idea…
She might break a wrist, but she’s doing her best to save that cellphone.
Looks like she is a minority, so the cop is toast.
This is one of my favorite words.
I don’t know anyone else who uses it.
;-)
Lol!
Well worth watching. Good work by the Cop.👍
My guess is she was drunk.
My daughter was in a plane that had just landed and was stuck out on the tarmac due to all that
I would not convict her of “resisting arrest”. I also would not convict the cop of “excessive force”.
Beyond that ... she was at least in an AOA, if not in a sterile area or SIDA ... shouldn’t be there without authorization. Not sure what is the charge for violating those areas.
I have never seen obstreperous used before. I am going to use it three times this week and then forget all about it.
And then I WOULD convict him of "excessive force". This particular officer used the appropriate force necessary to remove her from the secure area. Kudos to him for understanding that his job is to arrest, not to punish.
One of the college room-mates would scold the cat for being obstreperous. Cat didn’t care.
Looks like the right word for this case. Sure don’t see it much. Good thing, because I don’t think I could say it right.
I had nearly forgotten that word, but now it’s definitely coming back.
No, not excessive force. He didn’t shoot her or anything.
Are asteroids space hemorrhoids?
Cop appears to be a minority, and it is ATL, thus Atlanta P.D.; so he probably is.
Offsets.
The most one can say is that she looks like a brunet. That could be from just about any population group, even in countries that are predominately blond or redheads.
The article doesn’t give her name, but her new nickname will probably be “Road Rash.”
I knew I could just read the thread for the definition of obstreperous, but I expected more obstreperous jokes.
or Afroturf face
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