# Another Taped Cop Interaction **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 10, 2014, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931 "2014-10-10T05:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/1 "2014-10-10T05:31:46Z")
> **[NYPD Cop Knocks Out Teenager Smoking a Cigarette Walking Home From School](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/10/new-york-police-officer-punching-teen-for-smoking-cigarette-taped-on-cell-phone.html)** > > Another brutal video of police violence surfaced on Wednesday, this time from New York City. The incident took place over the summer, when 17-year-old... You’d think that by now the police would have been clued in to the whole videotape/cell phone video thing… I mean, it’s not like it isn’t in the news. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/2 "2014-10-10T05:36:37Z")
“By now” was several months ago, if you read the story. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/3 "2014-10-10T06:19:17Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > “By now” was several months ago, if you read the story. And Oscar Grant was 2009 and Scott Olsen’s skull fracture from a police gas canister at Occupy Oakland was 2011. So it was still known previous to several months ago that people could record video of cops behaving badly. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/4 "2014-10-10T06:19:57Z")
Video recordings aren’t a new phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/5 "2014-10-10T11:28:25Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > “By now” was several months ago, if you read the story. Yeah, if people bring up stories from all the way back to “over the summer”, it makes it so much harder to treat each case as individual and disconnected. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/6 "2014-10-10T13:09:01Z")
At least this one doesn’t seem to have a racial component to it. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/7 "2014-10-10T13:13:00Z")
Our resident fascists will soon be here to defend the cop’s actions. (Or maybe not because the cops are black.) But this is their likeliest defense: “This wouldn’t have happened if the kid turned over as asked! Why didn’t he just turn over?!” Nevermind that, though. Why in the hell was he on the ground to begin with? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/8 "2014-10-10T13:24:30Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > Nevermind that, though. Why in the hell was he on the ground to begin with? It’s the marijuana, it makes people sleepy. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/9 "2014-10-10T13:46:24Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > You’d think that by now the police would have been clued in to the whole videotape/cell phone video thing… Even with video evidence, cops are rarely held accountable for excessive force. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/10 "2014-10-10T15:22:55Z")
With all this outrage, it seems most people are unaware of this story. [http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/06/21/the\_blue\_wall\_of\_silence/](http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/06/21/the_blue_wall_of_silence/) Feel free to read it, then get really angry. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/11 "2014-10-10T15:37:59Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > Why in the hell was he on the ground to begin with? I expect our resident fascists will say we can’t make any assumptions about what is shown on video because there must have been wrongdoing on the kid’s part since he was already on the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/12 "2014-10-10T15:47:14Z")
[Undercover officer that struck him suspended, other officer loses gun and badge.](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-officer-punches-teen-suspicious-cigarette-article-1.1968416) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/13 "2014-10-10T16:14:52Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > “By now” was several months ago, if you read the story. > [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Video recordings aren’t a new phenomenon. Just pointing out that in your rush to open yet another one of these threads (and there is nothing wrong with opening another thread) you clearly didn’t even bother to read the story. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/14 "2014-10-10T16:18:29Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I expect our resident fascists Can I get a list of these fascists please. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/15 "2014-10-10T16:25:00Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Can I get a list of these fascists please. Milk, Eggs, Bread… oh, wait, this is my grocery list… ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/16 "2014-10-11T01:41:17Z")
I’m going to start a new thread for every touchdown scored in the NFL this weekend. I want to be able to discuss each individually. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-taped-cop-interaction/700931/17 "2014-10-11T03:01:54Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > I’m going to start a new thread for every touchdown scored in the NFL this weekend. I want to be able to discuss each individually. Thank god you are posting your disdain in every one of these threads. That Cubsfan! He’s so edgy and cool.