Off duty SWAT cop puts man on life support

[riverwalker]

(for "talking too loud" on cellphone. Punched man for using cellphone on outdoor patio of local pub, victim on life support after two emergent brain surgeries last night. Witnesses say the only interaction between the two men was when the off duty cop said he was talking too loud on phone, then decked him. WTF?)

Minneapolis police officer punches man unconscious on bar patio in Andover


ANDOVER, Minn. (KMSP) -
A father of four from Ramsey, Minn. is not spending this Father's Day as anyone would like. Brian Vander Lee is fighting for his life at Mercy Hospital.

"Everyone is taking it hard -- it's tough," said Mike Archambault, Vander Lee's longtime friend.

Archambault says Vander Lee was on the patio at Tanners in Andover around 7 p.m. Saturday night. Vander Lee was talking loud on his cell phone when a stranger at another table asked him to be quiet. Minutes later, Archambault spoke to Vander Lee as he was pulling into the parking lot, but the cell phone went dead.

"He did a Superman punch," Archambault said. "Brian went back, feet up in the air, and the guy landed on top of him and his head bounced off the concrete


Read more: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/18810192/minneapolis-police-officer-punches-ramsey-man-unconcious-on-bar-patio#ixzz1y6mfrImS

[WingDinger]

1. roids, particularly in SWAT type areas.

They are aggressive as all hell.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Yeah, I would not be surprised. nt

PB

[think]

2. According to the article he's the executive officer of the SWAT team.

Very disturbing news...

[Dawson Leery]

4. David Clifford, another overpaid roid addicted parasite.

[Warpy]

6. Well, the 'roids just cost him that paycheck and possibly his freedom

Cops don't do really well in prison and if he's got a history of street violence, I don't fancy his chances of serving his term.

[gregoire]

9. And what does prison have to do with this?

Your point is correct, but is completely out of the blue considering this guy obviously won't get punished. People like him never are.

[Warpy]

10. He'll be punished.

You lose it and put a civilian you are not trying to arrest on a vent, you get punished.

If he doesn't get prison, he'll get a hell of a civil suit that will leave him with nothing.

[Xipe Totec]

5. What ever happened to protect and serve? nt

[Warpy]

11. It went out when "herd and control" came in

You didn't honestly think they were there for us do you?

[Logical]

7. Want to bet ths diot cop DOES NOT lose his job or get charged?

[Heywood J]

12. No.

Clifford made a statement to police and was booked into the jail awaiting charges for first and third-degree assault.

I can't really believe that, though. The description sounds like assault causing bodily harm or aggravated assault, since punching someone doesn't normally lead to surgery and a ventilator.

the guy landed on top of him and his head bounced off the concrete."

That says a little more than common assault. It makes me wonder if the SWAT guy curbed him.

[Lurks Often]

13. See Minnesota law

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=609.221&year=2011

Apparently 1st degree assault covers what would be aggravated assault in other states.

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. Oh, not to worry. I'm sure this was just a simple misunderstanding. One of our brave and heroic

protectors of Truth, Justice, and the American Way obviously had ample justification to sucker punch a guy half his size while he wasn't paying attention.

After all this is one of our guardians of society, a member of that thin blue line that stands between us and the horror of chaos that lurks around every corner, just waiting to overcome us all at any moment.

[uponit7771]

14. +1

[Rex]

15. Why?

Was it worth it? The cop better not just get off with a citation.