Cop Slams Special Needs Student To The Ground For Dress Code
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Stumble ThisAnd if there were no cameras there, it would have quietly gone away.
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How can we tell our kids that anymore? These days the police are more like a gang, more concerned about not being disrespected than actually "serving and protecting" people.
In our society, one is considered innocent until proven guilty. This video strives to argue the police officer is the guilty party. This will go to a trial, and both sides will have their say on the issue. The matter will either be decided by the jury and/or judge.
While I do not like police who abuse their power for any reason; I do support police in general. Watch the video, but remeber it is only one piece of the full story.
Simple really, the officer is a Class A felon, and should receive a penalty of no less than 15 to 30 years in prison.
Take a healthy dose of Misanthropy.
Why was the cop there to begin with?
There was a cop stationed at my high school, mainly to handle any situations that might come up. That probably isn't the case for all schools, but it isn't unusual.
It doesn't matter, the no words other than perhaps "I have a gun and I'm going to kill you now." warrants that kind of violence from the cop, and it would have to be followed by an appearance that the kid was in fact reaching for a weapon.
Of course if any such words were spoken the cop would have dropped his coffee to act immediately instead of putting it carefully on the floor.
Remember kids, every Country and state interprets the fighting words doctrine differently so watch out!
http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2009/07/thems-fightin-words.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/10/dolton-cop-in-beating-case-faces-unrelated-rape-charge.html
I think most of us have had one of those situations where we wished we could just fly off the handle and deck some asshat - teenagers especially have an attitude that they're "cool" for ignoring or rebelling against authority. But we don't, because we're civilized and we realize, even over our irritation and frustration, that there are consequences. (Even if we're convinced internally that the smart-ass attitude would settle down considerably if someone just knocked some sense into the jerk.)
Obviously, some people have problems maintaining that rational connection when they're provoked, and some of those people are police officers. How much time and training would it take, and how much would it cost, to implement additional anger management training, or to identify individuals with a predisposition to these disconnects?
Thoughts?
(Also...24 times? How many times do you have to reload before it's obvious you're no longer in mortal peril? It's good to see some semblance of justice might be at hand, but it's disappointing how many people have had to suffer.)
So maybe we should adopt some rule that if you put more bullets directly into a person (not just firing but hitting) than your gun can hold and have to reload to keep shooting them, you can't claim self defense. Temporary insanity maybe but self-defense? And another police department hired him while he was still suspended? WTF? What does a person have to do?
Followup: The cop seems to have bigger problems. He once shot his ex-wife's new husband 24 times, and managed to claim self defense... He's currently in prison on rape charges.
So, what we're saying here is that "police defending their own" allowed this man to commit murder, rape and assault on a minor.
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What's the common thread in these police assault cases?
The common thread appears to be putting people with barely a highschool diploma and no experience that provides them the ability to cope with stress into positions of ultimate authority and then blindly defending their behavior as part of a 'code'.