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Police Chief: Officer Accused Of Choking Civilian Was Disciplined [Video of choking]
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| 7/1/08
Posted on 07/02/2008 12:10:57 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Perhaps a better video
here.
To: LibWhacker
Wonder how long it will take for the boot lickers to show up here and tell us all how the cop was completely justified....
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:13:02 PM PDT
by
frankiep
(Every socialist is a disguised dictator - Ludwig von Mises)
To: LibWhacker
But if you REALLY want to learn how to choke someone, you need to take lessons from the jailers in PG County, Maryland.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:13:12 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Sarcasm Alert!!! (for the thick-headed))
To: frankiep
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:13:58 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Let's have More Andy Taylors & Fewer Barney Fifes in Law Enforcement!!!)
To: LibWhacker
Fire that son-of-a-b*tch and take away his pension.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:15:46 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(This tagline is completely naked - STOP STARING!)
To: LibWhacker
After viewing the tape, General Sessions Judge Barry Tatum dismissed all Cosby's cases. He called what Cosby did inexcusable and said Cosby is no longer welcome in his court. In essence, any tickets he writes now are meaningless. The judge will dismiss them. Well, there goes the revenue stream. Not much reason to keep Cosby on the force unless there is some way to make sure his tickets only go before another judge.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:23:39 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
To: KarlInOhio
General Sessions Judge Barry Tatum dismissed all Cosby's cases. He called what Cosby did inexcusable and said Cosby is no longer welcome in his court. So the Judge has prejudged all of Cosby's cases, not much of a judge.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:28:01 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
To: LibWhacker
I see this technique used all the time on the 'Cops' Tv seriers.
The perp ususlly coughs up several little baggies of crack.
To: LibWhacker
The cop was clearly wrong... but what's up with that last statement?
"We trust that an officer has to have the type of demeanor that when someone is treating them badly, spitting on them, trying to hit them, that that officer will have restraint in his actions toward that person," said Wilson County General Sessions Court Judge Bob Hamilton.
Cops are citizens too and should be able to defend themselves in the course of their duties.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:30:28 PM PDT
by
pgyanke
("Huntered"--The act of being ignored by media and party to prevent name recognition)
To: frankiep
i'm here! the cop smelled drugs and was right. there were drugs.
swallowing drugs happens all the time and is usually the first place you look. it's evidence tampering and it's a felony in most places.
so go ahead and tell me that a little pot is no big deal. hindsight is 20/20. policing isn't pretty sometimes.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:33:58 PM PDT
by
thefactor
(the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
To: pgyanke
"We trust that an officer has to have the type of demeanor that when someone is treating them badly, spitting on them, trying to hit them, that that officer will have restraint in his actions toward that person," said Wilson County General Sessions Court Judge Bob Hamilton.
I agree with you. I don't like cops who act like bullies, but if someone is trying to spit on a cop, or hit him, that someone needs a good butt-whooping.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:36:55 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
(So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
To: thefactor
2 of the first 10 posts supporting police violence, in this case choking someone until he passed out. No big surprise.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:38:19 PM PDT
by
frankiep
(Every socialist is a disguised dictator - Ludwig von Mises)
To: TexasCajun
The perp ususlly coughs up several little baggies of crack. Well, then the perp will die of an OD, his family will sue and win millions for wrongful death, but at least the cop did not choke him.
/sarcasm
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:38:31 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
To: LibWhacker
I can understand trying to prevent a suspect from swallowing evidence, but in this case it seems like the suspect had plenty of opportunity to swallow any evidence before the officer put his hands on his neck, so there seems to be little reason for him to believe that the suspect had something in his mouth, unless the suspect sounded like he had something in his mouth when he talked, which I couldn't tell from the bad audio.
It sounds like a technique that is useful and reasonable in some circumstances was used when it shouldn't have been. It didn't seem like the officer was being malicious, just foolish.
The video was just a clip, so it's hard to tell if the suspect was cooperating or not, so there might be more to this than is obvious, but it is really strange that the officers didn't do a better job of controlling the suspect for his own safety. There's seems to be no good reason for the suspect to have been allowed to fall and hit his head. They had him cuffed, and even if he wasn't cooperating, which is unclear, he wasn't actively resisting either.
The officers screwed up. What's not clear to me is how badly they screwed up.
To: frankiep
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:45:29 PM PDT
by
pgyanke
("Huntered"--The act of being ignored by media and party to prevent name recognition)
To: frankiep
not for nothin frankie, but if this drug user/dealer was black and had just sold some drugs to a kid related to you somethin tells me you'd feel differently.
this is like tasing. it looks all scary, but when it comes down to it, it's a relatively safe exercise where the perp is fine 10 minutes later. but the point is, the cop had cause. that's all.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:46:51 PM PDT
by
thefactor
(the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
To: LibWhacker
Another pig on a power trip. He must have been teased in grade school.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:48:07 PM PDT
by
Darth Hillary
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun, Because folks in Philly like a good brawl.")
To: thefactor
So now I’m a racist?
Talk about twisted logic...
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:48:16 PM PDT
by
frankiep
(Every socialist is a disguised dictator - Ludwig von Mises)
To: frankiep
Wonder how long it will take for the boot lickers to show up here
++++++++++++++++++++
Officer smelled drugs. There were drugs and it is common for drug runners to try to swallow drugs to hide evidence and to resist arrest. I’d like to see the rest of this officers record before I side with those ready to bash cops so readily. I’ll give you 10 to 1 odds the judge in this case takes drugs regularly. The fact that a judge rules one way or the other, these days, doesn’t mean much. For a judge to issue a blanket statement that the cop is unwelcome in his courtroom in the future is, in itself, suspect behavior from a judge who should form an opinion on the case before him. It appears to me that the Judge is reacting in an unfair and arbitrary manner. I’ll back the cop for now until I see his entire record that might give us more insight into his character and performance. I question the character of both the punk and the judge.
To: frankiep
lol you beat me to it, the ‘LEO IS NEVER WRONG’ crowd should be along soon.
It should scare the devil out of other freepers to contemplate that even members of this forum support the actions of this officer, or other similar cases.
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