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- dreamtiger, on 02/20/2008, -1/+477They are allowed to turn off the camera?
- MacWriter, on 02/20/2008, -1/+330What a damned liar this officer is. Having been in a few fights and sparring matches in my youth, I can guarantee you that it takes hard, solid punches to produce injuries like that. No floor in existence is going to give you two black eyes, even if you dive head first into it.
- ZacT, on 02/20/2008, -4/+234This is abuse of power. There is no question about what happened. This man should be in jail for his actions.
This is an alarming trend with police officers. While they do have a difficult job to perform, there seems to be more and more officers losing their temper and committing crimes themselves. How many stories like this have been in the news and on Digg this year alone?
How many more will follow? - reflectionsv37, on 02/20/2008, -19/+234That scumbag cop deserves to spend the rest of his natural life in prison! Welcome to the Police State of America!!
- Elissar, on 02/20/2008, -0/+188That cop needs to go to jail, that's battery and police brutality.
- TecHeavy, on 02/20/2008, -6/+165I hope that everyone can see exactly what is happening in our society. Cops are becoming more and more brutal towards the people they are supposed to protect. Citizens are being electrocuted (tazed) and beaten on a daily. You have to ask yourself the question, are we being conditioned to act and behave a certain way? Now I know that you can't be an ***** while being approached or questioned by a police officer, but it has gotten to the point where even if we know that police officers are over stepping their boundaries they think its acceptable. One other thing can anyone tell me if police cruisers still have the quote "To Protect and To Serve"? In my town that quote is no longer on the vehicle.
- ZacT, on 02/20/2008, -2/+135As a boxer myself, I’ve had broken noses and taken hits, but never have I looked like that after a fight. One can only imagine what happened in that room, and it’s not something one would want to imagine.
- wborgstro, on 02/20/2008, -10/+129Time to dust off the muskets yet?
- Exekutor, on 02/20/2008, -0/+115Then, what is the tape for?
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -2/+109Sick, power tripping scum bag. I don't care how lippy the woman was, nor that she tried to "run". She's in handcuffs in a 15'X15' booking room, which is attached to the god damn police station; how far can she possibly get before another cop restrains her correctly? You have the audacity to beat a woman like that, you deserve an ass pounding and jail sentence of epic proportion. If there is any justice, this coward will be looking at some time where "suspect control" will take on an entirely new meaning.
- jeffiek, on 02/20/2008, -0/+94Doesn't it make you wonder what went on BEFORE video cameras?
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -1/+86*"One criminologist stated, "I think we have a situation where the arrested person is refusing to cooperate and the police officer apparently overreacted."*
refusing to cooperate? ........."police officer apparently overreacted" ? Really , ***** really !! Overreacted is a ***** understatement !!
Apparently they should have FIRED the "Criminologist" right along with that ***** OFFICER !! - sovietninja, on 02/20/2008, -2/+85What I think is the true injustice is that since they don't know what happened while the tape was off, therefore they cant prosecute the officer. So how did the man who killed his daughter while playing GRAW 2 get prosecuted for murder. There was no tape either. I hate how these jerk-offs make up rules just to protect the honor of the badge.
Again, the reason why they won't prosecute is because there was no tape to show he did it. Under this reasoning most crimes cannot be prosecuted since there was no tape. I don't understand this reasoning.
Also the whole she fell and got messed up excuse is used by those who cops arrest for domestic abuse charges. Yet when someone tries that in court its tossed out the window for how ridiculous it sounds. I've seen kids get flung off their bikes and eat ***** on the pavement and they don't look as ***** up as that lady.
She fell, my ass.
I know there are good cops out there but when you let your department make excuses like this, that badge that you wear shows you have no honor. You should take it off and do the what is in the best interest of the public which you swore to protect and serve. - piratearggghhh, on 02/20/2008, -1/+83And cops wonder why they're not respected and treated like professionals.
- XNihil0Zer0, on 02/20/2008, -1/+80The tape is to show the highlights of what good officers they are, not for objective recording as some would claim.
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -6/+84Allowed? They make the rules in their little game. We are their pawns and to be used as they see fit. I thought everyone already knew that.
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -0/+72they never said she only fell once. She fell 14 times, amazingly managing to fall the last 6 times while out cold.
- d3lta, on 02/20/2008, -6/+73As a kick-boxing, muppet-punching ninja, I have taken a few chops, but never have I received those kinds of injuries. There's no way she just fell on the floor and got those black eyes.
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -2/+66The video recording is not to protect the inmates or those being booked from the police but rather so the police can show when an inmate harms them.
The whole idea of jail is constitutionally questionable in the way we use it these days. If we are innocent until proven guilty then why do we people have to sit in jail until they are given a trial/hearing? I understand there is a need to protect society against potential criminals but bails are set so high to keep anyone but the rich in jail until a hearing.
It's nice to know the police have a right to protect themselves but no obligation to protect those they personally feel are guilty.
The camera recording equipment should not be accessible to anyone in the jail and the fact that the system was turned off should be used as outstanding evidence that the police beat her. No court should even question it since they wouldn't question it had it gone the other way. - dreamtiger, on 02/20/2008, -3/+65Cops don't make the rules. Cops are working class people who can get away with this behavior only because they know powerful forces have their back, and the public has no effective oversight.
- d3lta, on 02/20/2008, -3/+64The funny thing is, if you ever visit a cop forum, they all seem to think its fine and that they are the victims. They're like bitching nannies whining about how difficult the kids are to handle. I got a great idea, stop handling them. Jerks.
- AriaStar, on 02/20/2008, -3/+63Cops aren't allowed to do a lot of the ***** they ultimately get away with, but that doesn't stop them, and suing them only results in the tax payers paying. There's no individual accountability. PAID time off (a.k.a. a paid vacation) sure as hell doesn't count.
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -16/+72THE CHANCES OF A COP KILLING YOU
are waaaaay greater than a Cop actually saving you!
Don't believe me? Look it up - benplaut, on 02/20/2008, -4/+58Every day our father would beat us half to death, let us die, and dance on our graves, only to resurrect us so he could do it again the next day. But I never saw damage like that!
- Rhino2, on 02/20/2008, -3/+56I was once condemned to hell for six million years by the lord himself - and as a sufferer in the ninth level of hell, the deepest darkest fury that Satan himself could dish out; I've never seen damage like this!
- ChristPissed, on 02/20/2008, -12/+58wow, just like in Iraq or Iran
- AriaStar, on 02/20/2008, -1/+47Add to this the fact that there is no ***** way to not only get bruises around the eyes, but to break teeth in the same fall without ramming your nasal cartilage into your brain.
- ReturnToFreedom, on 02/20/2008, -0/+45Can you imagine your girlfriend or sister in a room alone with a police officer like that? he can do anything to her. He can feel her up, punch her brains out, and throw her to the ground like a rag doll and you can't be there to help her or they'll arrest you too
- PatrickStankard, on 02/20/2008, -0/+44"There is an apparent cut in what ABC aired, but according to KTBS in Shreveport, Willis turns Garbarino on her back, telling her, 'Lay down, don’t move,' and she replies, 'I can't believe you just did what you just did. I really can't.'"
No criminal charges against the officer due to "lack of evidence", that's pretty depressing. On a lighter note, it's pretty funny that ABC brought in somebody with a PhD in forensic criminology just to say that it looks like the officer overreacted. - spyd3rweb, on 02/20/2008, -0/+40The officer was only fired??? He should be put in jail like everyone else that does when they do something like this.
- apc3161, on 02/20/2008, -0/+40After seeing all of this crap over and over again, I'm thinking of mounting a camera on my dashboard, and turning it on whenever I get pulled over.
- blasian, on 02/20/2008, -0/+39she obviously fell on the part of the floor shaped like fists..
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -1/+40If yours isn't dusted, cleaned and sighted in.....you've got some catching up to do.
- 1town, on 02/20/2008, -2/+38I once went on a date with naomi campbell. and I've never see damage like this.
- Majhem, on 02/20/2008, -1/+33Abso-*****-lutely atrocious.
Is it just me or is this sort of thing becoming more prevalent in the 'Police-state-post-9/11-climate-of-fear'? - OnipSemaj, on 02/20/2008, -0/+31They are allowed to turn it off when they want to BEAT THE ***** ***** OUT OF SOMEONE.
- RealmDown, on 02/20/2008, -0/+30You may have a future in law enforcement.
- LongShlong, on 02/20/2008, -1/+29*shudder*
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -8/+35When this happens to you or a loved one - you wait! Let the story blow over and the hoopla cease. Officer McDickhead will think all is OK and then you pay him a visit the same way his buddies in SWAT do - under cover of darkness. What you do with him is up to you.
Should you go the same route as SWAT would go with you, pick up your brass and wear footies over your shoes to make your tracks difficult to read. DON'T have your cell or anything electronic with you since the built in GPS could give you away. Also, DON'T tell anyone you've even thought about doing it. It will be your little secret with yourself. Run a rat-tail file through the barrel and toss it in a lake or swamp along with the spent brass. Use soft points, hollow points or any other type of frangible round since tracing them will be next to impossible.
I'm not advocating this, just throwing out something to chew on. I think you should just let the legal system do its thing.
Hey, if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander. Fighting back in broad daylight will NOT work. We will have to use their tactics to level the playing field. - TecHeavy, on 02/20/2008, -1/+27No seriously that was funny...just wanted to post a couple of links of police officers abusing American citizens. This is what I'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGvgy8lbPO0 Cop arrests firefighter because he refused to move the fire truck that was blocking traffic to protect his workers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtgzBLA9C-k
Oh take a look at this *****....reasonable my ass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBeB81PPlng&feature ... - brufleth, on 02/20/2008, -6/+32Is that why police officers will tailgate you and/or fly by you going in excess of 20mph over the speed limit but will then pull you over for going the speed limit because they "estimated" that you were speeding?
Certainly all police officers are not beating up women. They definitely do feel there is some sort of double standard between what they can do and what everyone else can do. I see cops perform moving violations ALL THE TIME that I or friends have been ticketed for. I've also witnessed cops performing illegal searches of a vehicle. I have never mistreated or even been disrespectful of a police officer. I respect them for taking up a job where you do have to take a lot of crap and potentially put your life in danger. That said, I have never deserved to be mistreated by a police officer but that hasn't stopped them.
Oh and if I trash my office (worth less than your police car by a factor of ~50) I don't just get suspended, I get fired. - brentinkc, on 02/20/2008, -5/+31If that woman was a friend of mine you can bet that ***** would have bet the business end of a bat by now.
- Tenlow, on 02/20/2008, -1/+26I've been punched in the eye hard enough to make me decide to stop fighting and run away like a little girl, and it didn't even leave a black eye, just a little swelling for a few days. That takes a hard punch connecting well to get that much damage.
- kindrobot, on 02/20/2008, -3/+27I have been treated VERY professionally and even kindly by cops. But I have also been treated badly, very badly. I've never been beaten, but I've had guns pulled on me just walking, trying to get home from a party that got out of hand. (I was not intoxicated or acting that way) My crime? Looking like a little punk.
My point? Well, I've said it a thousand times, and even I'm getting sick of it. But why is it people come out of the woodwork every time there's a story about a bad cop and feel it's necessary (hell it almost seems like they think it's their duty) to make sure we all know that NOT ALL COPS ARE LIKE THAT?
Of course they aren't! Why do people come out and say that when it's a cop? Because it's a thankless job? Because people abuse the system and wrongfully accuse cops all the time? No, I think it runs deeper than that. I think it's a defense mechanism. You have such a deep fear of society collapsing and your personal safety zone becoming unsafe that you become part of the problem by inadvertently excusing this behavior. You NEED to believe it's rare, even if it isn't. Because if it's not rare, you're not safe walking out the door every day. I'm not picking on you for it, I GET it. But let's not forget what really does happen, when it happens, by intellectually negating it with rose-colored daydreams about perfect police that never abuse their power. This stuff really does happen.
Look, you even got a "thanks for pointing that out", almost automatically. As if it's something none of us could possibly realize unless you mentioned it. Any idiot knows that there are good cops. If there were not, everyone would stay home and if they went out they would walk down the streets with their heads looking at the ground for fear of standing out and accidentally making eye contact with a cop. None of us would feel safe.
The sad side effect is that the cops that ARE bad look at comments like yours as a free pass and moral enabling. - smurfsahoy, on 02/20/2008, -1/+24What if it was a face shaped floor, but with a big hole where the nose goes? Yeah, that's it!
- joebaloney, on 02/20/2008, -2/+25I anything, police officers should be MORE beholden to the law, not LESS.
- Netrilix, on 02/20/2008, -0/+22No, he should be charged WORSE than everyone else, because he was in a position of authority when he did it.
- frazw, on 02/20/2008, -1/+22"Willis is appealing his dismissal, and his attorney insists that his client was following procedures in turning off the camera."
The procedure that states if you are going to lay into a prisoner, turn off the camera first. - Aitese, on 02/20/2008, -1/+21There's sexism and then there's reasonable expectation. In this case to ASSUME a woman is not going to do much damage to a fully trained grown man in uniform is less sexist stereotyping, more something you would just expect to be true. Seeing as the police love tasers so much why did he not deploy one? CS gas? *****, I'm sure a SINGLE blow would have felled the lady. This was a sustained beating...a premeditated one at that seeing as he had the foresight to turn off the cameras.
- blankoboy, on 02/20/2008, -0/+20Sadly, there is no example set for the other officers. At worst they are generally fired or suspended with/without pay. If they ever hope to set an example for the rest of the law enforcement community they need to hold these animals fully accountable as any citizen would be.
But this is where it all falls down, the politicians and thus the top police brass want their officers to enforce with prejudice and induce fear in the common man/woman. -
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