Yet if any civilian broke someone’s face in a bar brawl or went all Ike Turner on their spouse would be rightly doing jail time. And people wonder why Sharpton exists.
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What’s just as sad as no indictments is the equally depressing fact that, in those rare instances where an indictment is obtained, a jury almost never convicts. The only sure thing is that the criminal cop walks and the tax payer is on the hook for the customary large civil settlement. There’s really no incentive for bad cops to stop brutalizing the public…
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It’s even deeper and worse than that. The DA’s are corrupt as hell.
Prosecutorial misconduct is widespread. Guess what? They are never punished either.
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pfft, look I dislike authoritarians as much as the next hippie but if you fight with a cop you get what you get. If we go making an injustice out of every drunk that fights a cop and gets clobbered we will get nowhere.
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That a cop would punch someone who is handcuffed is, well, what can I say. Did he feel threatened. Or was he trying to “protect and serve”?
Or was he just a goddam thug strong arming a woman?
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You will now be absorbed. Resistance is futile…
Only a prosecutor with the integrity of Jesus is going to indict a cop. No cop gets charged with perjury for the same reason that the Seattle DA refused to indict the cop. The prosecutor’s job is to gain convictions and the DA’s office needs the cooperation of the police to win those cases, and the former will not get the support of the latter if the cops are not given carte blanch for their behavior. Thus, no conviction, soon no prosecuting attorney. In sum, the prosecutors turn a blind eye to police criminal behavior because eventually they would lose their jobs if they prosecuted cops.
I am waiting for some cops to fuck up the relative of a US Army Ranger or Navy SEAL and expect more than a little violence towards the popo. Once that bridge is crossed lone wolves akin to that nutbag cop killer in Pennsylvania are going to copy-cat that type of violence.
The law is the law.
Without a jury trial to look at the facts and evidence to determine if he used excessive force, we can’t be sure if he was justified or not.
The problem with this kind of people get what they deserve if they resist, run from, or even show disrespect for the police is that it opens the door to extra judicial punishment and street justice.
Ironically, the same people (DA’s, Police, Judges) who insist on strict adherence to the letter of the law and harsh punishments for others, demand understanding and special treatment to avoid having it applied to them.
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Pardon but this woman was handcuffed. The best abuse she could possibly dish out would be verbal, certainly not physical. Should bad mouthing an officer result in broken facial bones? I think not. And I didn’t hear any bad mouthing. She repeatedly said she hadn’t done anything and had not threatened anyone. Then again in today’s America the cop might have shot the woman to shut her up even though cuffed and a Grand Jury would have let him off w/o even a scolding.
Just how would a woman fight with a cop if she’s cuffed?
I watched the video and it looks to me like the cop KNEW the camera was on and acted to it like he got kicked in the face as he shoved her in the car. It’s clear her foot was nowhere near his head.
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Obviously there is unequal justice under law. Grand Juries, courts and prosecutors go easy on officers who have been caught dealing out “street justice” as you term it. In this case the cop got pissed and punched out a hand cuffed woman. In my view she was assaulted. Now she could have a record. I don’t know. I don’t think that it should matter.
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Punching ANY person with hands cuffed behind his/her back is about as cowardly an act imaginable.
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Yes, I agree it shouldn’t matter. I further agree with your interpretation of video.
The officer should stand trial for excessive force, or assault or whatever charge fits.
Why on EARTH would you charge the cop with anything?
There’s a difference between BEING in the back of a police car and REFUSING TO GET in the back of a police car when being arrested.
There’s also no rule that says a cop can’t hit you with a closed fist if you’re resisting arrest.
I hope this woman had to serve some time for resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.
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I think this one will get Justice Department action. The cop says someone is going to jail because his “patience is done”… Like all the other cases of excessive cop action its an affront to the officers authority ( not a crime ) and not a violation of the law that sets the cop aflame. He is responding to a domestic violence call in which a man claims to have been threatened. I am not sure about the State of Washington but in every state I have lived in the officer must witness the threat being made. He can not act solely on the deposition of a citizen. If you could just maker an allegation of a threat there would be folks all over the place being arrested. Nor could the cop foresee a ‘he said she said’ is going anywhere so he should have issued a warning and left.
Again…you have a citizen injured because a cop got mad. I am not sure why he had her cuffed but he did and then he broke her face. I realize a bunch of folks are cop lovers and authority lovers but this is one they better think twice on. If that cop can walk doing this…he can do it again as well as all his colleagues and do it with impunity. Her can cuff you rendering you defenseless and then bash in your face if he cannot control his emotions.
The Justice Department needs to act on this one. It really needs to act. I think the DA should be fired and disbarred and I hope the women is successful in Civil Action. A DOJ action is the only thing that’s going to stop this crap.
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Prevent? No. Reduce? Yes. Significantly.
But Rialto’s randomised controlled study has seized attention because it offers scientific – and encouraging – findings: after cameras were introduced in February 2012, public complaints against officers plunged 88% compared with the previous 12 months. Officers’ use of force fell by 60%.
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Yes, it’s all over his face. He was about to text his union rep for help.
What law do you think was broken here? She was resisting arrest. The fact that she was hand cuffed is irrelevant.
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Riiiiight. The POLICE are the problem, not these two idiots who can’t be civil to each other even though they have a kid together and are causing such a disturbance in the middle of the night that their neighbors had to call for help to make it stop. They aren’t the problem. The POLICE are the problem.
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Cowardly? Mean, spiteful, illegal, vengeful, unprofessional, asshole-ish, corrupt, sociopathic, wrong, immoral…
That was pretty weak resistance, if you can even call it that. And to haul off and belt a handcuffed person in the face should take severe provocation. He’s larger than her, he’s armed, she’s handcuffed. Come on.
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