Posted on 10/02/2014 5:38:05 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A Tallahassee police officer has been placed on administrative leave after he was caught on camera shooting a woman in the back with a stun gun, CBS affiliate WCTV reports.
In the video, which was posted Tuesday on the website YouTube, 62-year-old Viola Young can be seen approaching officers who had arrested three people and put them in squad cars.
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I realize there are two sides to every story...
Even in the Old West, shooting in the back was considered bad form.
“””I realize there are two sides to every story....””””
Okay, come up with a scenario to justify this.
the outcome of this incident will most certainly be based on the “race” of those involved....
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There was some uncertainty of whether Hardin was shot from the front or in the back.
The Judge said that if the man shot him from the front, he had good aim and if he shot him in the back he had good judgment!
Cops love a back shot. Couple of years ago son of one of the janitors where my wife worked was running from a car that the cops stopped (it turned out he had a bag of pot) so they shot him in the back and killed him.
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Duh beyoch dissed him by turnin' her back on him?
That looks like violence upon a woman. uLEO War on Women.
” I realize there are two sides to every
story...”
I’ve heard this refered to as the grey falicy or grey lie.
One says black, the other says white. People assume the truth is grey. It is lazy thinking. It assumes both sides are lying a little. But far more often, the answer is flat out black or white. The trick is determining which is true.
unless one has access to the complete unedited video it is really hard to pass judgment.
Yes. I agree. I tried to qualify my concerns.
Much of the time I believe cops are justified. There was a case in Miami Beach a couple years ago when a perp, vandalizing private property, fled cops ordering him to stop. Cops gave chase and tased him. The individual had a reaction to the taser. Police called for an ambulance, but the subject died.
The media and family began screaming about brutality....which was, imo, RIDICULOUS.
On the other hand, earlier this year a couple of Broward county deputies face slammed a drunk but non-threatening man into the concrete....The incident was caught by a security camera that the cops didn’t know was there. And the media, except for the initial report on the incident, has been silent.
The best course, I think, is to look at each incident on a case by case basis.
I didn’t mean to insinuate the truth was in the middle. I just know there are two points of view. One may be right, one may be wrong.
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There is enough evidence given here to pass judgment easily.
The woman was 61 years old, there were several cops, they could have easily restrained her if they wanted but they didn't want that they wanted to punish her for asking why they were doing what they were doing. She was leaving, she didn't attack anyone she just asked a question the cop didn't like.
She knew he didn't like it and decided to leave but the cop was having none of it. I hope the cop is soon not a cop and never trusted with a gun again.
Having seen to many edited videos I don’t believe them until I can watch the whole un edited one.
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