'Lower your voice or you're going to jail!' -- police officer has been fired after body cam footage

[Demovictory9]

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‘Lower your voice or you’re going to jail!’ — This police officer has been fired after body cam footage revealed him abusing a 69-year-old Florida veteran


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How the incident happened

DeLandite Allan Kidd and another man were sitting on the corner of South Orange and West New York avenues, next to some low-hanging power lines, which were apparently damaged from then-recent Hurricane Irma.

DeLand police Officer Johan Mulero directed the men to sit on a different side of the corner in front of him, but almost immediately got upset that Kidd apparently stepped too close to him while walking where he was directed.

“Get away from me. Sit over there … I don’t need you stepping up to me like that,” Mulero said.
“Stepping up to you?” Kidd asked.
“Sit down, or I’m going to sit you down!” Mulero said, raising his voice.
“I wasn’t stepping up to you, sir,” Kidd said.
Mulero then grabbed Kidd and forced him to the ground.
“When I tell you to do something, you do it,” Mulero said.
“You’re on a power trip, is that what it is?” Kidd asked.

Mulero let the other man, who was talking with Kidd on the corner, leave the scene, and asked Kidd what he was doing.
"I'm just standing on the street corner, talking to this guy I just met, and all of a sudden you're pushing me down and being real physical with me,” Kidd answered.
“Do you know why?” Mulero asked.
“No, I don’t know why,” Kidd said, emphatically, but not yelling.
“Lower your voice. Lower your voice,” Mulero said, pointing his finger at Kidd.
Kidd appears incredulous in the video, looking at the other officer present in disbelief.
“Lower your voice or you’re going to jail!” Mulero yelled.
The rest of the incident continued in a similar tone, with Mulero telling Kidd to calm down and threatening him with arrest if he doesn’t. Mulero explained why the officers were called to the scene: a report of a man yelling at passing traffic.
Kidd attempted to deny the allegation that he was yelling at passing cars.
“Are you going to stop talking so I can explain?” Mulero said. “You’re about to go to jail.”
Kidd explained that the other man he was speaking with was simply “trying to be a good Christian,” and helping him “in a spiritual way.” Mulero asked Kidd for his ID, and Kidd stood up to get it out of his pocket.
“I don’t understand why you’re doing this, why you’re pushing me around,” Kidd said.
“Because I don’t like people testing me,” Mulero said.

“I don’t like f------ Nazis, either,” Kidd said, pointing at Mulero.

The remark apparently angered Mulero, who proceeded to tackle Kidd to the ground and place him in handcuffs.
The rest of the video shows Kidd continuing to question why he’s being arrested, and Mulero continuing to tell him to be quiet. It ends with Kidd in Mulero’s squad car.
— By Anthony DeFeo, based on body-camera video of the incident. Watch the full video at www.beacononlinenews.com.

https://www.beacononlinenews.com/news/deland-police-making-changes-after-officer-fired/article_7f958072-f8d8-11e8-a309-efe142fa47e2.html

[DFW]

1. What I don't get is why it took a year for the film to surface

The cop shouldn't just have been fired. He should have been charged with assault. "Abusing" is exactly the right term here.

[Shemp Howard]

2. Here's a nasty little secret.

When a cop like that gets fired, he is usually quickly hired by another department. Why? It's because he's already an experienced, certified officer. Good to go on day 1. No need to put him through the academy.

Let's just hope that Mr. Kidd sues DeLand police department, and gets a six-figure judgement.

[Aristus]

3. I guess 'lower your voice!' is the new 'stop resisting!'

[oasis]

6. Exactly.nt

[flying_wahini]

4. I wish that cops had to undergo drug testing after these arrests. I just bet they all have

STEROIDS in their systems. Remember ‘roid rages? Still around but nobody ever mentions it.

Cop in Texas got busted last week to selling ananbolic steroids to other cops.

There are dozens of these cases every damn month.


Here’s just one:
[link:https://kfor.com/2018/11/06/former-edmond-police-officer-accused-of-running-steroid-ring-pleads-guilty-to-manufacturing-money-laundering/|

[Stainless]

5. Some Cops are Truly "Pigs"

Pig cops have been around forever.