Thanks for proving my point, GG.
This happened about two miles from my office — I use that onramp regularly, and there’s a group of “homeless” people who sometimes panhandle at that location. About two weeks ago, a “new’ person showed up, who could even be this woman. She didn’t so much panhandle, as yell at passing cars, and on occasion just step out into moving traffic. This could be the same person, or someone different, it doesn’t really matter, but it does color my own perception of the events because I know, from seeing it with my own eyes, that there are occasionally crazy people at that location who really do wander around in traffic. It’s insanely dangerous, places everyone at great risk, and is manifestly something that I want the cops to address...either by citing the non-crazy people for the VC violation (to try to get them to stop), or taking the crazy ones for a 5150 evaluation (so they can get some help, at least temporarily). The way we deal with psychotics is a topic for a different day: at the moment, we’ve dumped them on the street, where we expect the cops to deal with them.
So, I fully believe that this person was a danger to self/others. The cop had a couple of choices: play shoo fly, tell her to get out of traffic and leave. Of course, she’ll be right back at it as soon as he’s gone. Or, do what he decided to do (his duty, by the way), and take her 5150.
Now, you don’t like the fact that he had to use force to do that, and you don’t like the force that he did use. I get that. But, since you’re the expert, what would the proper course of action have been? Seriously, you seem to have a better idea, and I’d like to hear it.
Nice way to kill the thread:)
What should officer friendly do? How about his g0d-damned job? You know, "protect and serve". If this tan shirted NAZI is so incompetent to be unable to handcuff a woman, perhaps he'd best get another job......like sweeping dog crap up for the sanitation department. Let's not even get into a discussion on how rotten we now treat those mentally challenged and dump them on the streets and allow them to fester and sink into Hell on Earth so they end up in already overcrowded and festering prisons.
When your wife/daughter/mother or mistress get bashed like this woman, I cannot wait to hear you say she deserved it.
I usually suspect cops given my own history with them and don’t trust their versions
That said I’m ambivalent and your back story jives with the one the FOX LA reporter told Julia Banderas today on FNC....and she was livid
I think some gals like her and on this thread are sensitive to men beating women and the imagery sometimes for understandable personal reasons
It just looks worse than pounding on a grown man which can be brutal too
My first instinct was he laid on about 2-3 times the amount of punches he should have
Never arrested anyone but I have hurt people....other males
Never put my hands on any split tail in my life who didn’t want me to