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- numb, on 05/23/2009, -11/+403
"The preliminary conclusion is that our deputy didn't break any laws from the use of force."
http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=364153
It's time to demand a change in the law then. These "isolated incidents" are becoming more common every day. It's an epidemic. We're only going to see more of this, and it's not just because there are more cameras. It's happening more often. - MrColdheart, on 05/23/2009, -9/+342That cop needs to go to jail for a long time.
- neocommenter, on 05/24/2009, -3/+286An innocent man is in a coma and law enforcement won't do anything about it? How is this not a violation of his civil rights? How would they feel if this was done to someone they loved? This Judge Dredd attitude needs to stop.
- Noods, on 05/23/2009, -5/+199"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot, stamping on a human face forever."
- firesights, on 05/24/2009, -3/+192This is pathetic. So cops can go around laying a hit on someone like an NFL lineman before they're even positively IDed? To say nothing of the fact that they HAVEN'T BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME YET.
I hope the cop wakes up every day with the knowledge of what he did to that man. - markf3388, on 05/24/2009, -19/+200Cops are just thugs with badges and a community college degree.
- inactive, on 05/23/2009, -4/+176this is sick, we need to rewrite police brutality laws to make them more responsible and no more paid suspensions!!!!!!!!
- voyetra8, on 05/24/2009, -3/+117"The preliminary conclusion is that our deputy didn't break any laws from the use of force."
Except for the part where he applied this force to AN INNOCENT ***** MAN.
Sweet raptor ***** christ. These ***** cops just neeeeeeeeeeeever seem to be guilty of anything, do they? - stealthspc, on 05/24/2009, -3/+109*****. I know I'm not the only one getting extremely pissed of by this. It's getting ridiculous. These cops think they are superior to citizens or something. They are there ONLY to enforce the law using fair means. They plastered that guy in the video, seriously way too much force.
We need a new law. Police brutality => 20 years in jail. Maybe they'll think twice before acting like maniacs. - inactive, on 05/24/2009, -28/+111For those of us that haven't read this before:
"Police officers behave this way because they tend to have very small genitals.
I had many good friends who worked in emergency medicine... while attending one party, someone brought up the "race and penis size" issue. After some discussion about race and penises, one woman brought up something i had never heard from any of them before - she mentioned something about police officers almost always having very small penises. Several people mentioned personal anecdotes about treating police officers, and how they almost always had a very small penis. Apparently this is some sort of running inside joke in the medical professions. I asked them if they were serious, and they said yes, it is common knowledge that police officers usually have very small penises and testes. These people would know since they have to give physicals to them and also deal with them in emergency situations. As one of them put it "If we get a call that there is a police officer coming into our trauma ward, we immediately know we'll need a catheter from the pediatric ward."
I think this may help explain the behavior we see caught on tape from time to time." - AceAMasta, on 05/24/2009, -1/+84Holy ***** at how his head slammed against he wall. This is sickening.
- sunsetprojects, on 05/24/2009, -0/+69College degrees are not required any more to be a cop.
- breakzoidbeg, on 05/24/2009, -1/+69Just a sad reflection of the times we live in. If the man recovers, he'll sue and cost the tax payers millions, and rightly so. I wonder however, if the King County cops will charge the officer if the suspect never recovers.
- inactive, on 05/24/2009, -3/+69The headline is a little disturbing. It appears to carry a possible implication that there would be a "right" person for the police to slam into a wall.
- t0ny, on 05/23/2009, -4/+66He us going to get the punishment of a life time.... Paid vacation!
- mrno, on 05/24/2009, -2/+59What is up with today's American Police Officers? Why do they have so much rage?
- lnxfi, on 05/24/2009, -2/+58Even if he was the correct suspect... as far as I can see, the officer never stated that he should remain still before he made his head into a pancake. i hope he loses his job.
Then again, I didnt hear audio, so there may have been a " I'm the mother f'in PO!!!!! BAM!!!! KAFUKInPOW!" - inactive, on 05/24/2009, -1/+52All you need is a GED to be a cop.
- mesasone, on 05/24/2009, -1/+50Yeah man, let's just shoot them all and let God sort it out!
- barkus, on 05/24/2009, -0/+47I understand that he had been running from the cops moments before, and I know he was mistakenly identified by witnesses. But that was an insanely hard hit. In the NFL that would be considered a really hard hit, only he's a regular guy standing on concrete with a wall a few feet behind him. Completely reckless use of force. And what's with forcefully dragging an unconscious man with head and possible neck trauma by his arm? Twice this cop showed terrible judgment.
- iamacyborg, on 05/24/2009, -0/+46Seriously, for anyone that defends the officers actions - how ***** off the chain does this guy have to be to do this? You know you're a lot bigger than the kid. He's about 8 feet from a wall... you're going to body check him like that? It's gratuitous violence, is what it is. Cop is angry at the world and wants to take it out on this kid. Obviously, his action was not necessary.
I can cut a cop some slack if there's the possibility of violence against his person, like if the guy has a knife or looks like he's going for a gun or something, but in this case no way.
And who checks it out? The prosecuting attorney's office of... King County? Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. - inactive, on 05/24/2009, -0/+45The family's attorney says he has taken affidavits from two witnesses who say that Harris had his hands up and was surrendering when a deputy named Matthew Paul "blasted" Harris headfirst into the concrete wall of the Cinerama Theatre just as a late-night screening of Star Trek was getting out.
"One witness said the sound of his head hitting the wall was like the sound of a bat hitting a ball at a Mariners baseball game," Osborn recounts. Then, according to Harris' stepfather, who has seen a videotape from Cinerama's security camera, Paul jumped on top of Harris' unconscious body and "flipped him like he was a bale of hay."
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-05-20/news/can-c ... - tama00, on 05/24/2009, -6/+49America ***** yeah!
Coming to save the mother-***** day yeah!
Innocent people your day is through, because now your in a coma too! - AlienMushroom, on 05/24/2009, -1/+44Arrr blah blah blah...
These bastards are the best at covering each others' asses. - voyetra8, on 05/24/2009, -3/+46And by "pursued" I assume you mean "forcibly tackled into a concrete wall, which rendered him comatose."
You don't know the facts behind whether these cops identified themselves, do you? Imagine you're walking along minding your own business and 2 roided-up strangers start running after you. Are you going to stand there and find out what's going on, or are you going to run? Fight or flight? Quick, make a decision.
NOM NOM FACTS NOM NOM:
Blow it out your ass, you myopic prick. - californicator, on 05/24/2009, -4/+46Looks like another cop on 'roids to me.
Steroids make your balls shrink, which might explain the previous post. - UncleRage, on 05/24/2009, -0/+41Here's the story (and feedback) as presented by Policeone.com.
http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/1835181-Fl ...
Please notice the verbiage used by forum members (which are mostly comprised of law agents) there when describing the "suspect". In the eyes of law enforcement officers, suspects are not presumably innocent; they are "dirtbags", "knuckleheads" and "bags of stupid meat".
Want to know what cops think about you? You're not a citizen with constitutional rights, you're just a dirtbag that hasn't pissed them off, yet. - sgerwel1985, on 05/24/2009, -3/+43Ya know what pisses me off the most about this *****... If this was done to a cop by someone else, the national news would be all over it and cops would be up in arms all over the country. But when the cop does this to an INNOCENT man, they don't even have the balls to admit they were wrong.
- CaptObvious, on 05/24/2009, -7/+44Damn! Why couldn't the cop just walk up to him and ask for his identification? If he really was the real suspect, he would've ran.
- 1Bad, on 05/24/2009, -2/+38@DutchGuilder: A cop once slammed me up against a wall because he said "I had a look in my eye and he didn't know if I was going to punch him or run." All I was doing was looking him in the eye, which as we all know in the animal kingdom is a threat... Also, don't smile at them because they will be confused and think you are bearing your teeth at them and are a threat. And don't pound your chest or they will kill you for trying to mate with their woman.
- Velnich, on 05/24/2009, -1/+34Settle down, officer.
- inactive, on 05/24/2009, -3/+33Small penises.
- MrMugoo, on 05/24/2009, -3/+32I really think PIG dosnt work well with cops anymore, it should be something much, much worse.
- inactive, on 05/24/2009, -9/+37Ladeedadeeda... just walkin' alongggggg.... havin' a good time..... BAM YOU'RE IN A COMA.
What if this guy wakes up 28 days later, after the swine flu apocalypse has ravaged the world? - smotpoker, on 05/24/2009, -0/+28Their job is to apprehend, not slam surrendering suspects' heads into walls. Further, monta's comment implies it is OK to ***** up innocent people because they "blend in" with criminals which is *definitely* not the case.
- sunsetprojects, on 05/24/2009, -5/+32Time to start carrying a firearm with you everywhere you go to protect yourself from the police
- inactive, on 05/24/2009, -2/+28"The deputies reported that Harris had a look in his eyes as if he were going to run" ... the video doesn't look like he is running away, it looks like he is trying to get out the the way of someone charging at him.
- Sconz33, on 05/24/2009, -1/+26I work in the medical field and this is very true.
- voyetra8, on 05/24/2009, -1/+26You mean, worse than the ***** coma he's currently in?
- Speed, on 05/24/2009, -0/+24In many towns, all you need is to be over 18 and to have a pulse.
- wastern, on 05/24/2009, -2/+24If I saw someone charging at me like that I'd start running to get out of the way too. That isn't admission of guilt, its a survival instinct.
- thorstrongstone, on 05/24/2009, -14/+36It is not an epidemic. We have better means for spreading info, so it just seems that way. Things are way better now then they were in the past/ Not saying it is not a problem, it is, but still.....
- thorstrongstone, on 05/24/2009, -3/+24Asking for ID is not unconstitutional. Stop giving Liberatrians a bad name- you aare some wayyy different.
- inactive, on 05/24/2009, -1/+22 George Orwell, "1984"
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) - sunsetprojects, on 05/24/2009, -3/+24Seriously your comment is very stupid from every angle I think of. Does it hurt to think once and a while before you write?
- mr1saturn, on 05/24/2009, -0/+21***** you.
- GorfTron, on 05/24/2009, -4/+24He must have had information on the stolen donuts.
- Grym11, on 05/24/2009, -8/+28No, you're completely wrong on that one.
The war on drugs has caused a militarization of domestic police forces and a antagonism between law enforcement and the public that just didn't exist even twenty years ago. - Tenareth, on 05/24/2009, -0/+20@thorstrongstone, you can ask but not demand. The only exception is driving, because they can ask that you prove you have a license to drive.
- newman8r, on 05/24/2009, -3/+22***** this guy, I hope he gets what's coming to him.
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