Police brutality?
You decide. Is this another instance of police brutality?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBU3Wo5rXH4[/youtube]
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about 3 years ago
not a good idea to flip off cops, and not a good idea for cops to get worked up about being flipped off. What an unnecessary confrontation between officers and citizens.
Obviously, flipping someone off is probably a breach of the peace, although cops have a heightened duty to take things that others don’t. If flipping them off is an offense, she can be arrested, and she obviously resisted.
I don’t know what police training is with a restrained person. Probably not a good idea to hold someone down like that either. Where is she gonna go if cuffed?
about 3 years ago
I agree on all points, actually.
about 3 years ago
Believe it or not, you and I may agree on more things than you think. We probably get there from different positions though.
You wish that cops could be a little more circumspect sometimes. But I think cops are a lot more restrained than people give them credit for. Take a look at the cop who was physically assaulted by Kwame Kilpatrick in Detroit. That situation could have gotten very ugly very quickly. Let’s say he decided to arrest Kilpatrick–Kilpatrick’s bodyguards were armed. Yikes.
Of course, now you have to wonder whether any cop gets to arrest anyone for assaulting him. Hey, the Mayor can do it.
about 3 years ago
The video really doesn’t show me enough of what happened in order for me to decide either way if there was some police brutality. It doesn’t show what actually happened. It shows the cops trying to cuff her and then it jumps to her off the bus and face down on the ground yelling at the top of her lungs that she can’t breathe.
She claims that her nose was bleeding, but the video doesn’t show it or show the cop slamming her to the ground as she claims.
The mother wasn’t there so her account of events is worthless. I’m not sure why she thinks her daughter being gay is relevant or had anything to do with what happened.
I’d have to hear the testimony from the witness’s in order to decide if there was some police brutality or not.
about 3 years ago
Obviously there is not enough to be certain but this appears to be a serious assault and battery under color of authority. I fail to see here any lawful reason or purpose that the police had to stop the bus, question any passenger, or physically batter anyone.
about 3 years ago
Well obviously the flipping off is unwise but wouldn’t it be constitutionally protected free speech?
about 3 years ago
where I’m from, you can’t disturb the peace of an officer. You can’t resist an unlawful arrest either. Another example of police bent on redistributing the wealth of the community through the courts.