No way to treat a lady? No way to treat anybody.

[marble falls]

#t=0


FINALLY, one cop gets to trial. Being an assaultive prisoner is one thing, summary "justice" from a cop with depraved indifference is all another.

[blackspade]

1. Seems pretty typical of cops these days

What I am surprised about is that other officers are testifying against him.

[marble falls]

2. Like someone said on another thread, its pretty hard to contradict a tape of the entire event.

[Th1onein]

3. What do you think the chances would be if someone hadn't filmed this pig at work?

Say zero? Zip? How about zilch?

[marble falls]

4. As Elvis once sang.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MHQK3yo9CBA#t=0

[sulphurdunn]

5. Had he pulled

his gun and shot her in the head he would have claimed self-defense because she touched him, and he felt threatened. The woman is very lucky to be alive.

[Th1onein]

6. She's lucky she's not brain dead. He could have destroyed her brain.

We really need to get these pigs off the streets.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

8. It is, of course, unlikely that she didn't sustain some brain damage and scarring inside the skull.

[sulphurdunn]

11. What disturbed me

even more than what he did was the utter casualness with which he did it and then returned to what he'd been doing.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

12. Yes. To me that indicates that this is not the first time that this cop did that.

[Owl]

7. He'd better be fired and pay damages+ for her med care if needed. And incarcerate the ASS.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Is there an update to this?

I hope he doesn't get off for what he did. Yeah, she kicked him on his legs as she was piss poor drunk and I'm sure he barely felt it. He's nothing but a thug. And you notice how when the other cop said he did nothing after he kicked the woman, the coward looked down to the floor. I hope his goose gets cooked!

[dougolat]

10. Learned tactics and attitude in Iraq

But still waiting for the lesson to be learned.

[Madmiddle]

13. This was nearly 4 years ago for Christ sakes.

This asshole cop is nothing but an idiot that doesn't belong on any police force.

[okieinpain]

14. i think she got what she deserved. n/t.

[marble falls]

15. So you don't believe in justice. You support vigilantes and necktie parties, too? What ...

if he had killed her. We all have the right to due process and protection from cruel and unusual punishment, even drunks you take an instant dislike to from a video.

[okieinpain]

19. i agree with you but she still hit a police officer and I believe she

hit someone else in the video. she might have had too much to drink but I think or I believe that is her natural frame of mind. I believe that she thinks she can do that and get away with it because who's going to do anything to her.

[rexcat]

16. You make a good argument why...

I will never go to or through Oklahoma!

[okieinpain]

21. lol. I've never hit anyone in my life that hadn't hit me first. the people in oklahoma

are some of the nicest people on earth. some of them.

[rexcat]

25. I don't put myself in a position to have someone...

hit me in the first place. If needed I could defend myself because the taekwondo would probably kick in (figuratively and literally). From my experiences to date, and I am 61, the nicest people I have run into are from Nebraska and New York City (of all places). Oklahoma not so much. The most obnoxious people I have dealt with are from Texas. Generally in the south they are friendly to your face but mostly a front but being from the "north" does not help.

From your comment that I originally commented on you were perceived by me as someone who lacks empathy, just saying!

On edit: The cop really didn't have to kick her. That was unprofessional on his part and not required considering her attempt was pretty lame. To kick someone in the position that she in shows a total lack of humanity on the cop's part.

[rexcat]

29. In the context of...

you being black, as you stated in a post downstream from here, puts your comments in a different light. The police should not be kicking or abusing anyone like the women was treated in the video. The cop has no humanity and should not be carrying a badge or a gun. There seems to be a real problem in this country with the police. Some of them are out of control and the other police officers are only looking the other way. Your point about "white privilege hits a nerve and is a valid point.

[CBGLuthier]

26. do not assume all oklahomans think like this particular oklahoman

I am sure you have "less compassionate cop apologists" in your state also.

[rexcat]

28. No doubt...

I live in the most conservative county in Ohio and the local police departments suck eggs and I would also say that for the entire Cincinnati metro area. I live just north of Cincinnati. This type of behavior is not isolated but appears to be an issue nationwide.

I don't think all Oklahoman's think like the poster that I responded to but you have to admit Oklahoma is as red as it gets in this country and I am sure the opinion he expressed here is not that atypical in Oklahoma.

[CBGLuthier]

30. Oddly enough I was born just north of Cincinnati

But I notice no real difference between the knuckle dragging population here vs. my alleged home state.,

[MrMickeysMom]

17. That's seriously a bad comment...

I guess you might have been raised differently than people with respect for each other.

[okieinpain]

20. I don't think so it's my opinion. I didn't call her a name I just think if you go

around hitting people somewhere down the line you're going to get hit back.

[marble falls]

18. Here's what could have happened (and did).....

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f10_1381417405#818Jj8dxkcsG54BP.99

But what the heck, two wrongs make a right, am I right?

[RebelOne]

22. Oh, you condone kicking a handcuffed woman in the head? n/t

[okieinpain]

24. No i do not. but she started it. look I'm black and I was raised not to

mess with the police. they tell me to shut up, i shut up. I informed my kids no matter how wrong the officer is just shut up and do what they tell you. don't argue, don't try to explain, don't roll your eyes, if spoken to answer with a yes sir, no sir or ma'am if needed. when most black people i know see a white person do what she did, we refer to it as white privilege or as dave chappelle says his friend told the officer, "i didn't know I couldn't do that".

[RedFury]

31. You Sir...

...appear to think it is OK to live in a police state, where wearing an uniform makes you magically a 'Superior Being' to whom you should totally surrender. I am not there yet -- guess it'll take a few more kicks to the head before I surrender all my hard-gained rights...which are quickly eroding due to people like you.

I rather be dead than cowered by my own Government. No matter how many times it takes, I'll keep reminding them they work for me and not the other way around. And they need to uphold the laws they swore to protect, not abuse me for expecting to be covered by them.

[okieinpain]

32. so you just do what ever you want in front of the police. you would not

hesitate to like correct a police officer how ever you feel like correcting one.

[bunnies]

27. Leg shackles is what she deserved.

Not a kick to the fucking head. What a sick thing to say. Seriously.

[wxgeek7]

23. That's one cold son of a b****!

Let me see...

1.) She's drunk
2.) Got her hands cuffed behind her back, and in a seated position
3.) She's a woman (respect)
4.) She kicks a cop's leg, while not wearing shoes

And in return, gets a martial-arts-like kick to the head (with work boots on), from a cop that afterwards coldly returns to what he was doing, like nothing happened.

There is something extremely wrong with that guy!!!