Posted on 05/10/2005 1:51:41 AM PDT by Stoat
"HA, HA. Did you see the Chris Rock video on how not to get arrested?"
I know someone who's given copies to some troubled "yoots" in his community.
Cool, I have never heard of the Kumeyaay. I think I will google and get some more info. Nice to meet you.
"BTW, the way to handle POMS is to announce at dinner "Nobody's checking out to play this weekend until this pigsty is cleaned up!"
That's what I call "the nuclear option"
How humane .... just pepper spray her... you guys are a trip.
LOL. Why is it the when the sticks come out invariably someone will be filming nearby?
Because Law enforcement is truly governed by Murphy
Yoot's! Ha, ha...
You were SERIOUS about that?
In real world application, thats probably what I would have used in this situation when it denegrated into resisting arrest. All it does is burn the eyes and make breathing a little difficult (when it works.) It injures nobody.
"You were SERIOUS about that?"
The guy who was doing it sure was...
It makes the point; and it does so memorably.
By burn I mean irritate considerably.
The interesting thing about that film is that it really is instructional - the points really are practical and instructive...
The pepper spray would be less of a concern for a pregnant woman also.
No matter what is done to effect the arrest, it will be perceived as being too much. Most decisions made by Police officers aren't very popular
As long as policy and the law are complied with, and reasonable steps are taken to minimize risk to all parties, legal exposure to the officer and the city is
minimized.
I would hope at least one of the officers had a vehicle mounted camera that recorded the incident. Those can take a lot of steam out of unfounded complaints
Make no mistake about it, though, she would have gone to jail.
Ain't that the truth. This is interesting that this was a Seattle incident. IIRC when SPD was first issued tasers Chief Girlikowski and the local NAACP president, Carl Mack, actually tazed each other during a demonstration designed to show the public that tasers were a valid LE tool. Murphy's law here being that SPD went out of their way to demonstrate a way less than lethal force option and have the police brutality complaints stopped? Heck no.
They never will.
We have morphed into a "The rules apply to everyone but me" society
"Ma'am, you have a choice. You can come quietly, you can continue to resist arrest and get tased, you can continue to resist arrest and get pepper-sprayed, you can continue to resist arrest and get some stick time, or you can continue to resist arrest and get a bullet in your head. Which would be your preference, ma'am?"
Yeah, 32 mph in a SCHOOL ZONE. So, if a child had darted out into the strreet and this foolish woman had hit the child with her car because she couldn't stop in time because she'e driving 32 mph in a school zone, would you still have the same attitude?
Now there's a few choice words to bring an Internal Affairs complaint. No thanks... 8>) You're joking, right?
"Now there's a few choice words to bring an Internal Affairs complaint. No thanks... 8>) You're joking, right?"
I actually had to discuss with one of my troops why saying "We can do this the easy way or the hard way" was not appropriate during a traffic stop.
I am still not sure he gets it, but won't do it again because he doesn't want any more discussions of that type with me :)
"Now there's a few choice words to bring an Internal Affairs complaint. No thanks... 8>) You're joking, right?"
Well, they're griping about tasers now...
I suppose that they're going to have to have a law where the officer offers a menu of choices, and let the arrestee pick the consequence s/he wants.
("Hi, I'm Chad, and I'll be your law enforcement waitperson this evening...")
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