Posted on 02/10/2019 10:02:55 PM PST by ConservativeMind
On July 27, 2017, Johnny Wheatcroft was a passenger in a silver Ford Taurus when a pair of Glendale police officers pulled in front them in a Motel 6 parking lot.
The stop was for an alleged turn signal violation.
Minutes later, Wheatcroft was handcuffed lying face down on the hot asphalt on a 108-degree day. He'd already been tased 10 times, with one officer kneeling on his back as another, Officer Matt Schneider, kicked him in the groin and pulled down his athletic shorts to tase him a final time in his testicles, according to a federal lawsuit and body camera footage obtained by ABC15.
The scene was witnessed by his 11- and 6-year-old sons.
Multiple independent law enforcement experts, who agreed to review the incident, said the officers’ conduct was unlawful, potentially criminal, and one of the most cruel and troubling cases of police misconduct they’ve ever seen.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc15.com ...
No offense but that has to be the most ASSINE comment i have seen!!!
Have YOU ever forgot to use YOUR turn signal or made any other minor traffic violation??? If yes, and I am sure it IS a yes, then you shoukd not be surprised if this happens to you.
As people mentioned in the timeline breakdown the passanger DID not have to give ID since he was the passenger and did nothing wrong since the stop was traffic related. Many times I have been a passenger in the car with my wife and did not have my wallet with me. All the passenger did was ask pertinent questions which the police officer never answered and tried to abuse his authority with threats.
Also common sense would dictate that if one is put in a pain hold what would the logical reaction be to such a hold...fight back to stop the pain and anger on being hurt. Ever hear of fight or flight?? As was also said the passenger and officer were in a no win situation where the passenger couldnt comply because of the seat belt entanglement and the pain hold. If the officer de-escalated the situation and allowed the passenger to get the seat belt off and explain the situation more clearly rather than abuse his authority it could have turned out much different.
Don't you know that by now? Sarcasm off.
He’ll be a prisoner with a well-stocked cell while he serves out the other sentence.
Win-win.
CC
Officer Matt Schneider, kicked him in the groin and pulled down his athletic shorts to tase him a final time in his testicles, according to a federal lawsuit and body camera footage obtained by ABC15.
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Sadist cop.
In a recent Cincinnati court case it was revealed that police policy here is that they cannot tase more than three times. It is considered brutality after that.
Good one LOL
And your tagline is Revolutionary? Should be "Lay back and enjoy it"!
White adult wearing a flat brimmed rapper cap turned backwards and calling people “Bro”. That’s a tazing.
Good thing he didn’t roll through a stop sign.
That’s a 18 taser violation.
“I think all those cops should be tased in the testicles, in public......all of them.....”
You are worse than they are.
Not at all. It's just that there weren't any dogs to shoot.
Part of the 90% that give the other 10% a bad name
The taxpayers of a city don’t owe a victim millions.
Wheatcroft isn’t going to have to stay at Motel 6 anymore. He just won the multimillion dollar police brutality lottery.
> lesson in what happens when you don’t comply
Comply or die, right?
We didn’t need that pesky Constitution thing anyway.
May your life be filled with rubber gloved inspections and KY.
They most certainly are on the hook, as well they should be. That’s in addition to the thug cops personally.
> a flat-out refusal to comply is a very convincing sign that the subject is working up the nerve to assault the officers with a weapon
It’s also a convincing sign that the person has gotten true and correct legal advice never to talk to cops. Look at Mueller prosecuting people for “lying to the FBI” if you have any questions about why it’s a bad idea to talk to cops.
Oh, absolutely. That's why Jefferson put it right there in the Declaration.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Don't forget, however, that 'I don't have to' is never a good response to a police officer!"
A stun gun to the privates should be characterized as sexual assault.
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