Store video catches cop bullying woman

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20090720_Store_video_catches_cop_bullying_woman.html?viewAll=y ^ | Mon, Jul. 20, 2009 | DAVE DAVIES

[grjr21]

WHEN AGNES LAWLESS and three friends were inside a Lukoil convenience store in the Northeast at 3 a.m. last August, they'd all but forgotten the fender-bender in which they'd been involved moments earlier.

There was little damage, and the other driver had left the scene, near Northeast Philadelphia Airport.

[MrB]

OK, give me a word that would commonly mean a system of governance under which a “nobility” would have control of all resources including land, energy, food, weapons,

and the “peasants” live and die at the whims of “nobles”.

And don’t use terms that weren’t invented yet in the times when this was the norm.

[sport]

They will be here. It may take three or four responses for them to get here, but they will be here. Saying how the girl[s] deserved what they got, how brave the officer was and more of the same.

[montomike]

You gotta admire that Lawless chic. She wasn’t taking any crap. I’d like to see what she looks like.

Jest call me Xena!

[glasseye]

So I wonder....how many cops think/feel the store clerk is the bad guy?

Do they(JBT’s) think/feel the clerk needs more attention?

How many(non JBT’s) think/feel the clerk will get ‘more attention’?

My experience leads to me believe the clerk may want to relocate...or he can hang out and let the obviously corrupt Philly cops have there way with him....

Just say’n...

[Kakaze]

In 20 plus years of traveling to that city I have never seen “Brotherly Love”....thankfully I don’t have to go there anymore.

[rawhide]

This cop needs to lose his job, period. And he needs to be charges with simple battery.

And all the other cops who tried to get the store owner to erase the tape, they need to be charged with the crime of trying to destroy evidence and they lose their jobs.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

This sounds rougher than what OJ did to get (practically speaking) life in prison.

[rawhide]

video link at post #19.

[SJSAMPLE]

I think your use of the word fit very well.

[mrsixpack36]

The sick thing is if wasn't for this video, that girl would have been giving a nice long jail or even prison sentence, and the cop would have happily went on his way. He is only sorry he got caught. Was a POS dirtbag cop. If he and his corrupt officers who tried to destroy the tape are all not fired, it would be a grave injustice. I Hope this girl sues and wins huge.

[mrsixpack36]

Ain't that the truth. Even though OJ is scum and I don't feel sorry for him, his trial was a sham. I feel his conviction my be reversed.

[Entrepreneur]

Think if a private security guard anywhere in America acted like this cop. He would be out on his butt in a heartbeat. Yet, police are civil servants and thus, difficult to fire even when they abuse their power, act like jack booted thugs, and it all gets recorded on video.

Because of their power, abuse by the police is all the more egregious. This government employee not only deserves termination, but possible jail time. Yet, as usual, the government is unaccountable.

Now, most police officers are honest, hardworking, and do their jobs to the best of their ability. But some are not and it’s difficult to get rid of them as this story illustrates.

Can’t you just wait until the same permissiveness toward callousness comes to a doctor or nurse near you? Or how about the green coated energy inspectors?

Call your Congress Critters an oppose Obama’s socialized medicine and his cap & tax.

[rawhide]

Shouldn’t the cop’s son be charged with assault? He is not a cop, yet he assaulted the young woman.

[mrsixpack36]

You only get put in prison for that if you are protecting the Southern Border.

[rawhide]

I wonder what their defense will be in backing up the cops who tried to get the store owner to erase the security tape? How can they justify that? I would like to see them even try, if they dare!

[SJSAMPLE]

Do you actually need to pull the trigger before “Assault with a deadly weapon’ is a concern?

Placing the barrel of a gun into somebody’s neck is “assault’.
The weapon is certainly “deadly”.

Sadly, I don’t exepct much to come of this.

[HamiltonJay]

Its Philly, the rule of law doesn’t matter there. And thanks to the idiots of PA putting the mafia man fat Eddie in Harrisburg, it doesn’t matter there now either.

[Nevadan]

I wonder what conclusion our next Supreme Court justice would reach on this case. I see no indication from her record that it would be the same. After-all, a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion. The fact that the police officer was Hispanic and his son was Hispanic would need to be taken into account so that “justice” could truly have been served.

[rawhide]

She is beautiful looking.

[TalonDJ]

Feudalism covers it. Someone can romanticize it all they want but it is still about those with power and connections exercising it over others. All that honor and loyalty nonsense is probably what the officers who demand the tapes thought they were doing. Honor and loyalty are/were often used for ‘cover your buddies misdeeds’.