Seattle officer charged for stomping handcuffed man in head (Union Prez: Officer was victim)

King TV / AP ^ | July 8, 2011

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The other side of the story

Thought I would post this because this article tells a completely different story, which does not make the cop look too good.

[Stoat]

A much better and more complete article than the KING5 one, thanks for posting.
If it’s true that Officer Haynes was ‘extremely’ drunk and acted the way it’s said in the KOMO article, then a lot of questions are answered.
Very sad and ugly & I’m just glad nobody got killed.

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A much better and more complete article than the KING5 one

It seems to also explain why the charges were dropped against the three guys, which I was wondering about.

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That wasn’t a cop, that was an individual that was being detained by a cop.............

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From what I could see the cop put his foot against the guy’s head and shoved it.

That wasn't a cop.......look very closely at the video. That guy that put his foot down was being held by a cop, not the cop himself........

[CodeToad]

This should be a felony with 25 to life.

[TankerKC]

From the cotext of the story, the guy is an off duty police officer. No?

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the guy is an off duty police officer. No?

I don't know, I'm just going on what I saw in the video. And for what it's worth, I've seen stomps worse than that in soccer games..........in fact, I wouldn't even call it a "stomp" but rather a "tennie rub"..........

[TankerKC]

Well, yeah, it was a cop. *If* is weren’t a cop, and he interfered in that way (no matter what you think of it) the other cops would have handed him his ass.