Posted on 01/18/2014 8:15:46 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Unnerved by a chaotic scene that involved a bolting dog, a sick husband and an aggressive police officer who ignored her pleas, it was "hardly surprising" that Suzanne LaFont tried to physically stop the officer from handcuffing her husband, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Steven Statsinger said....
For 30 to 60 seconds on April 11, 2013, the judge noted, LaFont tried to pull on the arm and shoulder of Officer Anthony Giambra to stop him from restraining her ill husband, Karl Peltomaa, outside their apartment on West 83rd Street....
According to the ruling and LaFont's papers, her husband had only been home from Roosevelt Hospital for one day after surgery for an aortic aneurysm when he began to feel very anxious on April 11, 2013. In two calls to 911, LaFont said her husband had just been in the hospital, was on a "lot of medication" and that he was "freaking out."
LaFont also explained that Peltomaa did not have a "psych history," just a "medical history."
When Giambra and other first responders arrived a short time later, LaFont's dog dashed out the door. After returning the dog to the apartment, LaFont said she found Giambra attempting to subdue her much smaller husband by pressing his chest against a hallway wall.
She said that despite her trying to tell the officer that Peltomaa had just had open-heart surgery, he threw her husband face down onto the floor. According to statements by the couple, Peltomaa was hospitalized for two days following the incident with a cut to his chin and a dislocated thumb....
"Rather than interfering with the responders' task, her providing them with accurate medical information about Peltomaa could have assisted them in managing the situation more effectively," the judge wrote.
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Probably the only reason the cops backed off. I'm guessing the Mayor got a call from the dean, saying "If you don't want every professor here calling you a crypto-fascist in every class, you better make this go away".
There would have been less chance of a good outcome if it had been a truck driver who was registered Republican.
Cops are all about ego and display of power.
Much like a liberal.
Why are you digressing with things that are entirely beside the point?
It would be a step away from the welfare state that everyone could agree with. People get a part or all tax CREDIT for donations to anything that is currently considered charity.
Well if you want to get dully pedantic, a crazy person is a “threat” but one that is best dealt with using means that actually have a HEART.
And now visualize yourself having had to defend yourself against a black thug, in a town where the Sheriff got elected by the black vote.
No mechanism on earth can defeat raw politics.
Only what is OFF earth, can.
She's lucky he didn't shoot her dog.
Militaristic training. Most of the good cops are over 45. Old school vs new school.
*shrug* it was the trajectory our conversation took us on.
no hounds were abused or shot
And the next step after weaning from the welfare state by making donations be tax creditable, would be to eliminate the taxes. And guess what... the donations would probably keep up.
And you want to hobble it up with all kinds of human minded garbage!
I'd be getting out of dodge if I defended myself. No police involvement.
It was the trajectory that YOUR thoughts went in. (Fixed, as you say.)
Or any case where the sheriff is beholden to any special interest group. Yep, that's the downside.
Military training would be an improvement.
There would be far, far fewer officer related shootings if we held our police to the same rules of engagement that we hold over our military.
An Afghanistani terrorist is safer in the sights of a US combat professional than John Q. Public is answering a cop’s knock at his door.
Wait, are you saying the cop didn’t “follow protocol” in this case?
Bad cop! No doughnut!
This sort of thing would end if all training academies had to have certification which judges could pull.
As no dog was shot, we can safely say that protocol was not followed here.
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