[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Video of incident at link above, worth watching prior to commenting.

[tuckrdout]

On the BBC? Don’t they have enough problems in their own country to report?

[Charles Henrickson]

Clearly excessive. Way out of line.

[Talisker]

Her shoe triggered him, but I’ll bet her mouth got him so mad he was looking for an excuse.

On the other hand, he was clearly unqualified for the job, or at least badly trained. Once she got under his skin he needed to either exit and cool off, or get a replacement. He got completely psychologically dominated.

It’s the brass that need to take responsibility for this farce, but their work of art, the idiot cop, is going to take the fall for them.

[J Edgar]

I watched the video and definitely think that the officer should be prosecuted and found guilty. She may have kicked a shoe, but she is only 15 yo, and in no way posed a physical threat to two males, who looked to be twice her weight!

This is a 15 yo minor we are talking about here.

[swmobuffalo]

The cop was way out of line. Way out.

It appears that the girl may have been told to remove her shoes. He apparently didn’t like the way she took them off.

Needs to be removed from the force and prosecuted for child abuse.

[Teacher317]

She’s going to have a nice taxpayer-funded trust rather soon.

[dog breath]

I had a friend who was a juvenile probation officer and he was telling me about all the ways the teens would try and press his buttons. The difference being that he was a professional unlike this idiot and could control himself.

[stormer]

The video has been out almost since the incident. For those who are unaware, the cop was fired and charge with assault; yesterday the judge declared a mistrial when the jury hung 11-1 in favor of conviction. A couple of days ago the jury sent a note to the judge saying one of jurors was less than forthright and may not be impartial - the mother of a 15 year old girl. At the time I thought she was the holdout for conviction, and everybody else wanted to cop to skate - guess I blew that call. Anyway, the prosecutor is going to retry the case.

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[JLS]

There were some moderately long threads on this when the tape was first posted on the webpages of some Washington state media outlets.

I am just happy the prosecutor for once is going to do something about obvious criminal behavior on the part of the police.

[truth_seeker]

Career over in LE.

[bamahead]

"We believe this case is beyond just police misconduct, it's criminal misconduct,"



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[kbennkc]

Anybody surprised by the cops reaction hasn't been around cops much . It is going to take some cops a while to learn to deal with cameras . You kick your shoes off in this manner and the cop is going to punish you on the spot .

[Munz]

looks like the police went WAY over the top