There’s not much, but here’s a non-youtube link
And you can clearly hear the officer commanding his dog to “bite him” and “get him”.
Thanks for that link. That’s some new information: one of the officers involved later died in a shootout. I can’t say that I’m shedding any tears.
If you put the URL on its own line and add a ‘/’ at the end it should work around the current issue.
Ironically, if he’d been held accountable and at least kicked off the force, he’d be alive today.
Small comfort to those whose lives he destroyed in the meantime.
Thanks. I generally prefer not to link to youtube videos because they don’t always provide the most context, but its good to know that its possible.
I blame Richard Gere and Andy Garcia.
Or perhaps George Murdock (Scanlon on Barney Miller)?
“The number one thing cops care about is getting home alive!”
And Cleveland recently had a ballot measure that created a civilian police oversight board, with power to fire officers. The immediate effect was a large fraction of the force quitting. I haven’t yet seen statistics on the longer-term effect.
One wonders how much if at all the rate of complaints about excessive force will go down.
Sounds like the oversight board managed to get rid of many of the problem cops before they even had their first meeting.
no one likes to be second-guessed
sigh
What? You are not a dick? Sorry, the PD has no openings just now.
In the past, I would’ve said “unbelievable”. Unfortunately, now it’s: “yeah, of course that happened.”
They are all bad apples. Prove me wrong.
Speaking of which: revelations of police corruption force the vacation of dozens of criminal cases—
Seems like this should be the normal outcome in a situation like this: if the police want to waste time and public money inflating and entrapping and in some cases outright fabricating criminal targets instead of working on actual crime, and they get caught, then all of their work should be simply thrown out and their targeted people freed, possibly including some who were actually guilty and shouldn’t be freed but who were not investigated and prosecuted properly; and then the public gets to decide if this is really the kind of police force they want.
When confronted with a 9 year old black child having a mental health breakdown, the school’s resource officer couldn’t think of anything more constructive to do than call for backup and handcuff the child to a pole. Wouldn’t you stop for even a second, and think, “how is this going to look?” Just the latest example of why police officers don’t belong in schools.
But if they don’t traumatize them as kids, they won’t be able to charge them with resisting arrest when they’re adults and take off running every time a cop shows up.
I dunno. The kid wasn’t shot, wasn’t choked out. Isn’t that a win?
In the very sad situation we find ourselves in, I suppose it is.
Cops in NSW, Aus, taser a 95 year old woman in a nursing home,
Well, apparently she had a knife! Jesus bloody christ, how hard could it be to find a different way to subdue an elderly woman?
The facility seems to be the first point of failure here. She was apparently out of control in some way, and they were afraid she had a knife (apparently not in view), and they were not able to deal with her. Even in an old age home they ought to have procedures in place to deal with feisty old people with dementia who do things like threaten self-harm or harm to others.
The police there probably don’t have anyone trained in dealing with this sort of thing, which is another shortcoming.