Posted on 03/05/2009 5:24:15 AM PST by RobinMasters
Perhaps you’ve seen the video of the King County, Wash., sheriff’s deputy dishing out a bit of the rough stuff on a 15-year-old girl. At 3:45 a.m. last November 29, the girl was arrested while riding as a passenger in her parents’ car, which had been reported stolen to police. The video shows Deputy Paul Schene, 31, and a second deputy escorting the girl into a holding cell. The girl, apparently at Schene’s request, takes off one of her shoes and, apparently not at Schene’s request, kicks it at him, striking him in the shin with it.
It seems fair to say that at that point Deputy Schene … lost it. The video shows him charging into the cell and striking the girl, then shoving her against the back wall before throwing her to the floor. After handcuffing her, he picks her up and takes her out of the cell while holding her by the hair. A detective who later reviewed the video reported the incident, and Schene was charged in King County District Court with misdemeanor assault. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Move on? Haven't you heard, fedgov has Deputy Paul Schene in its sights. He could face years in Federal prison:
Department of Justice investigating sheriff's deputy in jail cell videotape
Mar 3, 2009
The videotape of a King County sheriff's deputy roughing up a 15-year-old girl in a holding cell has caught the attention of the Department of Justice, which "is definitely looking into the matter," according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Harris, who heads the local office's civil-rights division.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008807012_webvideo03m.html
So if this officer had decided to rape and kill her because she accidentally hit him the the shin with her sneaker you would be a-ok with it huh?
You are a sheep. Just because someone has a badge and a gun doesn't mean you should respect them or even do as they say necessarily. Certainly that is the easy way, but the Jews who died in the gas chambers obeyed orders too. Look what it got them.
We can't allow officers to do whatever they want just because they have a badge and a gun. If we do, they will conclude, rightly, that they are above the law and can abuse anyone they want for any reason or no reason. When that happens, the police become more of a danger to innocent people than the criminals they are supposed to protect us from. Sheep are victims. Don't be a victim.
“Ah, name calling and verbally assaulting behavior from behind the safety and anonymity of the Internet.”
Who did this ? It certainly wasn’t me. Although it was very tempting.
It’s funny how even though I didn’t do either of these, you’re crying about it. Especially considering the thread we’re in. It’s downright hilarious.
I know there are a lot of people here who jump to the defense of police officers and members of the military no matter what they do and I understand people in those jobs have very difficult jobs and that they are human. But protecting bad police officers and bad members of the military just because of what they do is doing exactly what unions do when they protect bad employees from legitimate employer action and defending the indefensible only undermines one’s credibility and those entire professions. Even if they should be given some slack, that doens’t put them above the law, nor should it.
lol, are you serious? Please tell me you are a little girl, because I can't believe a grown up could believe something so ridiculous.
re: “Sorry... I don’t make the rules.”
And fortunately you don’t get to provide any binding legal interpretation of them either.
98 percent of the time I would be on the side of the officer. Not this time. That treatment of her was brutal and there was no reason for it. Also where was the female officers? Unless things have changed or I am ignorant of the booking process, I thought there was supposed to be one present when females were taken custody, done so to protect the male officers from being accused of something falsely.
Man, that police officer must have skin made out of toilet paper if a sneaker to the shin caused him to bleed.
Agreed.
There are times and people and circumstances where the reaction of the officer would be justified.
I think getting her up against the wall and cuffing her would have been fine. Probably enough to scare her and stop her rebelling.
I think the level he went to was acceptable for people actually fighting back, or adopting a fighting stance, or at a higher level of disobedience.
Given this particular officers’ history, it appears he has problems determining what acceptable levels of force are given certain situations.
This is King County... aka San Francisco North... wadaya expect. If the Dept. of Justice has time to look into this bullsh*t, they’ve obviously got too much time on their hands.
Yes I do.
RE: “Yes I do.”
No you don’t.
(Hey this is fun. it’s like we’re five all over again)
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Federal prosecutors investigating deputy
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If Schene is prosecuted and found guilty of depriving Calhoun of her civil rights while acting in his official capacity, he could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, Harris said.
Schene and a rookie deputy who was present during the beating, Travis Brunner, asserted in a report that the tennis shoe -- seen in the video flying off the girl's foot -- struck Schene's shin and caused "bruising, bleeding and pain."
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Harris wouldn't comment on whether Brunner also is the subject of the federal civil rights investigation.
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FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs said the bureau has opened a preliminary inquiry into the incident.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/402103_schene04.html
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Deputy Travis Brunner could be in BIG trouble with fedgov, as well:
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 1 > § 4
§ 4. Misprision of felony
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Yes I do. :)
Yes. The officer is human and has rights too. Her rights do not supercede his rights.
RE; “Yes I do. :)”
Security guard at Popeye’s chicken doesn’t count.
Mashood: Yes.
Did you see the tape? Do you honestly believe that the shoe caused "bruising, bleeding and pain"?
RE: “Do you think the deputies were telling the truth in their report when they report that the shoe struck Schene’s shin and caused “bruising, bleeding and pain”?”
I’ve been hit in the shin with a basketball shoe that was kicked off someones foot and it hurts. Not as much as smashing your shin into a toilet as you assault a teenage girl, but it still hurts.
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