Posted on 06/07/2018 7:44:40 PM PDT by lowbridge
Getting him to sit down reduced the opportunity of him physically going off on the officers.
It also allows them to humiliate anyone and put them in their place...as subservient "civilians".
Passive/aggressive behavior might work in some settings for some people...
It surely works for cops when they attempt to frustrate and escalate.
Example: watch the video. The white-haired fatass cop asks questions, then talks on the radio or interrupts as the subjects try to answer.
He got is way in the end...he got to throw a few punches from the cheap seats after the roid ragers did their thing.
He won't need the Viagra tonight.
Watch him proudly punch his hand to signal his conquest to the two even-fatter-asses that come up the elevator afterward.
There was no humiliation attempt going on in the video. The responding officer didn’t know who was who or what was what...and told two people leaving the scene to stop leaving and sit down, a reasonable request or order. One complied, one did not. The one that did not reaped the harvest he sowed.
“Megan, it was a reasonable request by the officers...”
No, it wasn’t. They were imposing their will and when the man didn’t do EXACTLY as he was told they beat the shit out of him.
Therefore their initial request was NOT reasonable.
Where the man was standing against the rail, on the phone, and going nowhere the cops had the option of simply letting him stand there. Instead they had to try to intimidate him into acknowledging their badassery and when he didn’t play their game they threw a tantrum.
Keep in mind this is the same department where a cop murdered an unarmed man and that cop proudly had “YOU’RE F*CKED” engraved on the murder weapon.
The collective impact here is that anyone encountering Mesa PD officers from here on out should have a reasonable fear for their lives and their persons.
And considering that Arizona is a Constitutional carry state then the next such encounter may not turn out well for the Mesa PD.
And I will not give a damn.
THAT looked pretty brutal to me. I’m generally inclined to support LEOs, but several-on-one, when he didn’t appear to be threatening, doesn’t quite seem necessary. As a young, long haired dopey kid, I received some rather painful encounters with the local L.A. County deputies, that I didn’t deserve...I’m not okay with this one.
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