Another fatal police shootin

[AngusJS]

What do you do when a DRUNK, HANDCUFFED, ~100 POUND WOMAN lightly kicks you in the shin when you're an undercover cop, with three other cops right there beside you? Why, punch her as hard as you can in the face, twice. Because obviously she's an imminent threat that must be neutralized.

No worries if you get caught, either - your punishment will be 4 weeks suspension, served two days at a time per week.

Pathetic.

http://www.local10.com/news/video-shows-miami-beach-detective-punch-handcuffed-woman-in-face/32802592



Alright, I'll stop using up Neal's bandwidth posting these stories, even though the stories themselves keep on coming. It just infuriates me to see police who abuse the power they have over others, and then got off scot-free, while many Americans prefer to look the other way.

[Buddahaid]

Most Americans have enough on their plates just earning a living for their families. Go ahead and call that a preference if you will. I prefer to earn a living rather than be unemployed and protesting for lack of a better occupation.

Fair? No, but life has never been fair and someone will always be deprived. Even in an utopia there will be people unsatisfied with their lot. Rich, or poor.

I refuse to be branded as supporting police abuse simply because I don't put bumper stickers on my car, or risk losing my job to stand within a civic protest.

[Von Tonner]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/sgt-jon-levi-rescues-dog-with-mouth-to-mouth-resuscitation-cops-say-1.10418423

Good on you Sgt Jon Levi:rock::up:

[Jimbuna]

The page you requested cannot be found.

[vienna]

Turns out there is precedent for the murder of Grey in Baltimore. In Baltimore and other cities, cops have been known to handcuff suspects but not buckle them in when transporting them, then deliberately drive recklessly, sending the suspect flying against the metal interior.

This has resulted in several spinal injuries.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-baltimore-rough-rides-20150501-story.html#page=1


But what am I saying. These are obviously all isolated incidents which just happen to be spread across the country. And there just happens to be enough of these isolated incidents caused by the few bad apples that the practice is given a name: "rough rides", "nickel rides" or "joyrides." But I'm sure the good cops put an end to them wherever they sprang up and certainly didn't look the other way and do nothing. So obviously these methods can't have been in use for decades.

I found this report interesting coming as it does from the LA Times. The LAPD has/had a practice called the "screen test":

http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/05/02/51400/rough-rides-in-baltimore-police-cars-are-screen-te/

Strange the Times didn't see fit to report an abuse happening in their own backyard...


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[August]

What do you do when a DRUNK, HANDCUFFED, ~100 POUND WOMAN lightly kicks you in the shin when you're an undercover cop, with three other cops right there beside you? Why, punch her as hard as you can in the face, twice. Because obviously she's an imminent threat that must be neutralized.

No worries if you get caught, either - your punishment will be 4 weeks suspension, served two days at a time per week.

Pathetic.

http://www.local10.com/news/video-shows-miami-beach-detective-punch-handcuffed-woman-in-face/32802592



Alright, I'll stop using up Neal's bandwidth posting these stories, even though the stories themselves keep on coming. It just infuriates me to see police who abuse the power they have over others, and then got off scot-free, while many Americans prefer to look the other way.

Here's a very similar incident from 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKHyXF_cnKQ

[Betonov]

Found this in my FB news feed

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a15597/obama-military-gear-restrictions/

[Platapus]

Found this in my FB news feed

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a15597/obama-military-gear-restrictions/

It's a start.

[vienna]

Here's a story about the other 99% of the cops we don't hear about:

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/moms-facebook-photo-of-hero-cop-strikes-a-chord-119449508142.html


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[Onkel Neal]

I'm reading a book now, called Homicide, by David Simon. He's a reporter who spent a year in 1993 embedded with the Baltimore homicide detectives. Man, I never realized what a crap hole Baltimore is :-? Seems like they were doing a pretty good job exterminating themselves without any help from the police.

What's interesting about the book is, it was written years before all this recent attention was focused on the BPD. So the cops are not really on their guard in the book. Yeah, they are pretty insensitive, but going by what they have to deal with, I think anyone would be.

[Platapus]

Another good read is "what cops know" It is dated, but the psychology of people does not change that much.

[Onkel Neal]

No shooting, thankfully, but several things worth noting. (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/08/the-invisible-white-man-in-mckinney.html)

For starters, just what is so god-danged critical for these cops to be swarming all over a bunch on kids? Not thugs, protesters, or biker brutes, just a large number of kids, many of them young. Doesn't make sense.

That one cops does a Capt. Kirk barrel roll, he's all over the place. Drug test that man :shifty: He's clearly too wound up for this kind of work.

Another thing, a clear example of kids have no concept of what the situation calls for. Cops everywhere telling you to sit down and be quiet so they can do their work...most kids just chattering and wandering around oblivious. Kinda reminds me of my brief stint as a teacher. Hmmm.... I think I can identify with Capt. Kirk.:hmm2:

[Stealhead]

Maybe he just likes Captain Kirk's command style.You never know a Gorgan might suddenly appear you need those rolling skills to sharp.

[Onkel Neal]

:har:

[Stealhead]

I meant Gorn oops
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQeMknVWuU0

Again though dodging skills are paramount in sudden unexpected Gorn attacks.

[Oberon]

Well, he's still Gorn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hnBp7x2QAE

[Onkel Neal]

Officer Casebolt quits the force. (http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/6-things-to-know-about-the-fallout-from-mckinney-officer-eric-casebolts-resignation.html/)

Before the infamous pool party, McKinney Cpl. Eric Casebolt saw the body of a man who shot himself in front of his family by an apartment pool, and then consoled the man’s widow. Then, he helped talk another girl out of a suicide attempt.

By the time Casebolt heard the report of “a violent assault” at the neighborhood pool, his “emotions got the best of him,” his attorney said Wednesday at a news conference in Dallas.

“He is apologizing that his conduct offended,” Dallas lawyer Jane Bishkin said.

Bishkin said Casebolt didn’t intend to harm anyone and only wanted to investigate a violent assault. She said the 7-minute viral video doesn’t capture the totality of the incident, and said Casebolt also detained a white girl, but it wasn’t seen on the video.

Casebolt, who resigned Tuesday, did not attend the news conference at the Dallas Fraternal Order of Police Lodge. Bishkin said Casebolt, who could still face criminal charges, will speak to the media sometime in the future, but has been receiving death threats and didn’t feel safe showing up in public Wednesday. She said he and his family have left their home and are in “an undisclosed location.”

Bishkin said Casebolt was “disgusted” to hear he had been called racist. She said he was not racially motivated in his actions.

She said Casebolt’s “lifelong dream” was to be a police officer, so he’s not sure what to do next. Casebolt quit with “a heavy heart,” but decided to resign for the good of the city and the department, Bishkin said.

[Stealhead]

Officer Casebolt quits the force. (http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/6-things-to-know-about-the-fallout-from-mckinney-officer-eric-casebolts-resignation.html/)
Man that's pretty lousy. That's the thing with media and video footage they can only show a part (the most damning) without showing the entire context. Then the media shows it to the world and the person gets unfairly judged.

Or a person can only film a portion of an event in the first place just to make the subject look guilty. The whole race thing bugs me. If I cut off a driver of a different race of in traffic dose that make me racist?

In my opinion one must prove beyond doubt that an act was racially motivated. For example if the person I cut of happened to be Italian and I said "take that ya language specifically offensive to a person of Italian decent" now that would be a racially motivated act. If I used those exact words would that make a passive aggressive racist or a borderline politically correct racist. What if I had intened to cut the car off anyway and then realized that the person was Italian?

[vienna]

Regarding the Capt. Kirk roll, I always thought it wasn't so much a planned action as it was Shatner tripping over his own ego...


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[August]

Actually when I first saw the video of the cops Captain Kirk roll I figured that he had tripped over his own big feet and just went with it. Done the much the same thing myself once or twice. Luckily I wasn't being video taped at the time... :)

[Stealhead]

Well I'll look at this in a positive light and hope that he decides to be a stunt man ideally specializing in stunts requiring comedic value.

[August]

Well I'll look at this in a positive light and hope that he decides to be a stunt man ideally specializing in stunts requiring comedic value.

One door closes and another opens... :yep: :D