the video is unreal. but you see this type of thing on other police video - they seem to want to play "twister" with people at traffic stops. hands on your head, hands down, sit down, stand up, lie down. you just don't know what to do, and this cop blew this kid away.
Correct. This seems to be SOP.
I watch "Cops" on court teevee once or twice a week. In easily 75% of the arrests they make of a previously fleeing perp (knowing full well that the cameras are running) they continue to beat on the perp well after he is subdued and/or cooperating. The same is true for most live telecasts of car-chases.
I empathize with the cops frustration and anger, and most of these of these perps deserve (INO) slapping around a bit for what they did, but excessive force is excessive force.
Well, not quite. Despite the officer having fired 4 shots at Carrion at virtually point-blank range, and hitting him with 3, the hospital lists Carrion in good condition.
Fortunately the deputy is a lousy shot, and the Airman will probably be OK.
I was just getting onto a fly-over bridge when a policeman flashed his lights behind me (he'd clocked me speeding). For my safety and his, I thought I was doing the right thing to keep going, but at a reduced speed, and then pull over when I got to the other end of the fly-over bridge and then pull over on solid ground. But, by the time I got to the bottom, he had turned on his speaker and was commanding, "pull over RIGHT NOW".
Sorry, but no way was I going to pull over on the practically non-existent shoulder of that fly-over bridge with other cars whizzing by at or above the 60 mph speed limit.
By the time I came to a stop, I was scared and feeling humiliated. When he came to my window, he was full-up ANGRY and demanding to know why I hadn't pulled over. I wanted so badly to call him a Barney Fife, but I just told him I did it to be safe. He said, "When a police officer tells you to pull over, YOU PULL OVER!!!" in kind of a Frank Constanza type rage.
I bet he's impotent.