He probably wouldnt have got his ass kicked if he had just pulled over to begin with.
I saw a clip of this and the police did use a nightstick and another kicked him. It was hard to see if he was resisting. However, the black activists failed to mention anything about him endangering innocent people by running from the police in a vehicle. It must have slipped their minds.
What the #$%^ does "in a van acting suspiciously" mean? Was he just sitting there? Was he snorting some coke off the steering wheel? Parked outside a high school with some candy? What?
I saw this live on Fox and was wondering when the bleating would commence.
If this is the clip I saw, the cop who ran up and started kicking him was clearly acting unhinged. There is the faint possibility the suspect had something in his hand, but it seems unlikely.
I know that the adrenaline gets pumping, but this is unsportsmanlike activity. The irony is, they call this, "Subduing the prisoner." -- Yeah, with a boot.
Man, they treat alligators with more care.
Punishment is, in our nation, a matter for judge and jury, outside the heat of the moment and in public view.
That said, it's awfully hard not to be aggressive with the guy after he has endangered many lives and the LEOs are wound up on adrenaline. Good job catching him. :-)
Who obtained permission to video-tape the officers? Was there a check and balance in place or was a rogue responsible for the taping? Because you know, the taping, if illegal, is more important than anything wrong the officers in question may have done.
In a recent case here in Houston, a mentally ill man died when he was tasered several times when the jailers were trying to get him to the mental health facility. Our local Jesse Jackson wanna-be didn't just ask that the jailers be fired; he said they were murderers, that they had intentionally killed the man. The man, Quannel X never missed a chance to divide this city on race.
What could not be clearly seen on the video was how much the suspect was resisting......
[[The chase began Monday in Maplewood, where officers said they noticed a man in a van acting suspiciously. It ended in St. Louis. Much of the chase was shown on live television shot from a KTVI-TV helicopter]]
----If they were engaged in a chase, then he WAS resisting arrest.
There seems to be an awful lot of people with nothing better to do than follow cops around with video cameras.
I have a problem with the kick that the one officer delivered.
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Big deal. Anyone who has spent the least bit of time around the criminal justice community is well aware of the time honored rule that says if you run from the police and they catch you, there will be an ass-whupping. Every streetwise person is well aware of this rule and makes a calculated decision when they decide to run from the cops. Is it right for the cops to do this? - NO. Do I really care or have any sympathy for someone who suffers the wrong end of this rule? - NO.