Mar 03 2009
Pig Gets Paid Vacation for Beating Up 15yo Girl
Here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o2j96egJb8
I guess this made the news because she wasn’t a black man. And how did the department react to a cop beating a teenage girl? Paid administrative leave. Must be nice to have a job where you can beat up a child and get a paid vacation for your punishment. Now, I worked in ER for years and have had patients do much worse things to me than that girl did to the pig but if I would have reacted like he did I would have been out of a job immediately. But really it’s not just beating up a teenage girl, its assault under color of authority. Though he is only being charged with 4th degree assault. WTF? Lock the son of a bitch up. What has happened to our sense of decency? Yes the girl called him names and kicked her shoe out the door in his direction, but hey if that’s enough to get you to fly off the handle how the fuck can we trust you with a gun and a badge? So there will be an investigation, like the video of the girl face down on the ground while the pig punches her isn’t quite conclusive. But I am sure he taught her a lesson she won’t forget. Now who is going to teach him a lesson? But it’s not like cops beating people up is anything new. I have seen video of an LAPD officer who didn’t know he was being filmed or that the black man he was questioning was another officer, he grabbed the off duty officer and smash his face through a store window then bounce his head off the cop car. Or do you remember Abner Luima taken into a NYPD station house bathroom and had a plumbers helper rammed up his ass and punctured his bowel. How on earth do cops think they can get away with this kind of shit? Must be one hell of a permissive environment. Police need to be held to a higher standard than citizens. When we give people a gun and a badge we are trusting them with our lives. When they betray that trust the punishment should necessarily be severe. This time he got caught, but how many other people has this guy assaulted or killed? The King County sheriff’s deputy Paul Schene has been investigated previously for shooting two people and killing one, no doubt in the line of duty. All in a days work. Why do you think they call them pigs?
I come at this on 3 ways. 1. The girl obviously did something to get herself in jail and needed to be taught a lesson she apparently didn’t learn from her parents or life experience. Not that I’m saying she deserved all she got. The cop did over-react. However, hopefully, this will be a wake-up-call for this girl. My daughter is being harrassed at school by two girls and I’m sick of it. The girls have been to jail and kicked out of school, but they randomly continue to make life miserable for everyone around them. 2. I know a few cops and they take their job seriously. They want to protect the public as well as scare offenders into not returning to the prison system. 3. The other cop should have stepped in to stop his partner from over-reacting.
The majority of society believes spanking is abuse so they resorted to not disciplining their children. This leads to kids doing crimes. Well, I’m tired of it. It’s time to get a handle on our kids or our world will come to an end. Can you imagine any of the kids these days running the world? I shudder at the thought!
Wow Ginger,
You say “the girl obviously did something to get herself in jail” I guess the presumption of innosenece doesn’t mean much too you ehh? Hey, since she is in jail she is obviously guilty, right, to hell with due process, well I’m glad you’re not a judge cause thats a bullshit position. You admit the cop did “over-react”, well thats mighty even handed of you. A cop punching a 15yo girl as he holds her face down on the floor is a mear over-reaction..Get the hell out of here, yelling out in a movie at the scarey part is an over reaction, beating a child in custody is assault and battery on a minor. And you say the “other cop should have steped in”, NO SHIT, thats my point he didn’t there is such a permissive enviornment that he didn’t, because what he was seeing was not unusual. So you know a few cops who take their job seriously, hmm I bet the cop in the video takes his job serious, way to fuckin serious. And you know what some of the “kids these days” are smart and decent people with a hell of a lot better judgment than that cop. Your reply shows no contempt for the criminal beahvior of the cop, convicts the girl based on her being in custody and lumps all the “kids these days” into one basket. I can imagine you running the world, all I have to do is watch the news or this video.
That’s fucking disgusting… Ginger I shudder at you running the world, it should never be excusable for a cop to act like that…
Indeed skwguitar,
I wasn’t as shocked by Gingers reply as I was by the video but I must say her comments dropped my jaw.
Mr. dsent:
You are correct in pointing out “due process” but I do believe it goes both ways and to cast judgement on either party until “due process” has occured is hasty. On the surface it looks like police brutality but please be consistent in your use of presumed innocent until proven guilty. We can not be the judge and jury and lynch mob. The cop is innocent until proven guilty too! There are cameras in the room for a reason and thankfully there are. Now let’s all chill and let the system do its thing…(Justice or “Just is” lets see) I believe justice system will prevail and the guilty party will be punished. If it doesn’t then go get ‘em tiger.
KonaD,
I am entirely consistent my brother, I cherish the concept of due process. But I am in the court of public opinion and in that court we just don’t get information in a structured fashion, It rushes in constantly. Now when I am presented with the documentation that the space aliens were controlling his mind and body and caused him to attack the girl, well I will take such data into account. In the mean time, I would reiterate, I saw a cop kicking a 15yo girls ass, he slammed her into a wall, the ground and then struck her while she was held face down then he yanked her to her feet by her hair. Now, if you need a jury to tell you what you saw there, well, wait for the verdict. In summation I would say, let’s go to the tape.
Find the highest tree boys…there’s going to be a lynchin’. Yee haw!
konaD?????
No, there is no suggestion that a trial should not take place? Take a deep breath. We are the public not the court and our rights to free speech are protected. If you choose to reserve your judgment that is up to you. If I choose to believe what I see on the tape that is up to me. There is no reason to compare having an opinion about a crime captured on video tape to a lynching, let him have his day in court and let me have my opinion and the liberty to express it freely. There are countries where the release of this tape would not be permitted until after trial, that is not our system. Under our system the public has the right to express their opinions at any time; those opinions do nothing to undermine due process, the court will handle insuring “all” the evidenced is taken into account. Furthermore even a juror will form opinions based on the evidence presented. And in some systems we would never see the tape at all. But it is a straw man argument fallacy to compare having an opinion about the tape to a lynching. He will get his due process; I am not suggesting he should not. I’m simply saying I believe my eyes. I don’t get why you find that so objectionable. Are you trying to tell me you think I’m wrong about what I see, or simply trying to defend the pigs’ actions because maybe, just maybe, there is some evidence we haven’t yet seen that she was threatening him with laser beams in her shoes? If I see that evidence I’m quite sure it will temper my opinion, however, I think it is far more likely a magic monkey will fly out my butt. My opinion and the passion with which I express it have nothing to do with due process. Let’s maintain our intellectual honesty.