Posted on 10/01/2012 3:31:28 PM PDT by Altariel
This is the shocking moment a police sergeant punched a young woman in the face because he thought she sprayed silly string at him during a peaceful parade.
The video was recorded during yesterday's 50th anniversary Puerto Rican Day parade in Philadelphia - where around 1,500 people were in attendance.
The 36-second clip shows a number of people milling around enjoying the festivities in the 'City of Brotherly Love'.
From the left-hand side, someone can be seen throwing an unidentified liquid towards a group of police officers.
At the same time, a young woman is walking past - who also gets hit by the liquid.
As she turns around to see where it came from, a police officer in a white shirt - which means he has acquired the rank of sergeant - comes towards the woman and delivers a brutal punch to her face, knocking her to the ground.
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Doesn't matter what happened 30 seconds ago...Had she assaulted the cop, he has the means to arrest her and be charged in court...But we know for sure the cop assaulted the woman; and her recourse is that he will get his day in court and the taxpayers will be poorer for it...
I suspect the cop knew there was nothing to arrest anyone for so he clobbered the person who would be the least to resist his attack for someone showing disrepect for his ego inflated position...
It was however a slap and not a punch as the media would like us to believe...
I don’t care what she did to him.
No man (real man) would hit a woman like that.
He is a cowardly puke. If Philly needs puke like this on their force they should just close down the city.
What a cowardly act. What a low life POS this guy is.
Probably got his rank through affirmative action.
Probably got his job the same way.
The cop is a prime example of what happens when you give a piece of crap with a 9mm manhood a badge. I know for a fact he wouldn’t try that on 6’ and 265# of me, and you know why? Because he’s slime, and it takes a tiny little woman to make him feel man enough for “one on one”. After his scumsucking lawyers get him off, I hope the woman’s lawyer finds out from his relatives and his neighbors which females he’s assaulting or molesting on a regular basis, because to my eyes, he’s used to this...he’s had practice. When he’s mad, and he sees a little woman, that means beat down... and I’m restraining myself by only calling him a worthless piece of crap.
I wonder if she needs a date, I would love to go out with a rich woman, and a jury is going to make her rich.
But we can address the facts that we do know: among them, that a government employee punched a woman.
Amen
Your knowledge of the law is flawed, and I would strongly urge you to learn what a legal response to a minor "assault" such as being hit with silly string is. Should you decide that punching a woman in response to what may be an incorrect belief that she had something to do with you getting silly string on you is a good idea I think you will learn what the law is the hard way in court.
I would also consider your attitude somewhat dangerous. Would you physically hit a child who sprayed you with silly string? I would hope that you wouldn't even consider such a thing.
Then shut it down now! You really have no idea what a cesspool that place is, apparently. Even if unjustified, what he did to that woman pales in comparison to the rancid corruption of that city.
Haven't had a ticket since 1985 (Illegal U turn - guilty)
But I have been the victim of lying cops whose "Established credibility" with the courts allows them to lie on the witness stand. And the only result of reporting a burglary and theft of a gun was that I can no longer purchase a firearm in that state (Where one is required to get a permit to purchase from the police), having had one stolen from me, you understand.
Is it never justified to “punch a woman?”
And does merely being a government employee condemn one as being “not one of us?”
I never made that claim, but I am also not the individual who has asserted that police provide the more reliable testimony in court.
The claim is as ludicrous as a claim that teachers or librarians or politicians are automatically a more reliable witness in court than the average Joe by virtue of their occupation.
But since you are determined to worship government employees, it is clear that either you are either a police officer yourself, a family member of a police officer, or a government employee in a different field.
Say rather “LEOs”; the mentality of an LEO and the mentality of a peace officer are vastly different.
Our problem is too many LEOs and too few peace officers.
We are losing the ents and hiring orcs, to use an analogy.
I don't know their answer, but from my point of view, enlightened only by reading crime fiction books, there may be many scenarios where a throw down gun may help the good guys.
For example, you chase two suspects. One stops, produces a gun and points it at you. You react fast, just as trained - you shoot and you drop the bad guy. The other suspect grabs the gun and runs away or, as an alternative, throws it into a bottomless pit - which may be a river, or a big truck going by, or a train, or some other convenient means of disposal. Long story cut short, the gun will never be located. You may fish it out of the river, but the fingerprints will be long gone.
This is not contrived - bad guys do not want to be caught with a weapon, especially with a "hot" one. They want to dispose of it. If they are successful you are left with a slowly cooling body that has no weapon on it. Any court will review the evidence and say that you shot an unarmed guy. Dura lex sed lex, as they used to say in Rome.
The opposition is not always playing by the rules. As matter of fact, it never plays by the rules. They will want to hurt the cop at every opportunity; a setup is not just possible, it is very likely. If the cop wants to escape the trap he has to bend the rules in the other direction, to make things fair again. In the end a crooked cop will be doing bad things and an honest cop will be doing good things. The presence of a throw down gun will not prompt a good cop to shoot people left and right. The bad cop will not need a throw down gun - he already has you framed in a much better, carefully planned way. He will stuff your car and your pockets with drugs, cuff you, and you will spend the next 20 years of your life in confinement. The cop's actions will not be even questioned. If he is so desperate to kill you he will inject you with an overdose. Who is going to investigate that, and how?
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is out of town at a conference. Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Ross called Sunday's incident "disturbing."
Ross said Josey has an exemplary record, but he expressed concern over the apparent hit to the head on the video.
Josey was cleared two years ago when he was off-duty and fatally shot a suspect after a robbery at a 7-Eleven in Lower Merion, Montgomery County.
I surprised at all these blind folks posting in the thread that the video doesn’t show whether the woman threw something at the cops. Open up your eyes!
It is plain as day at 00:03 that a portly person in a black shirt, black shoes, and black calf-length baggy pants steps into the frame briefly from the far left and tosses stuff at the cops. That is the perpetrator, not the woman.
It doesn’t even matter though, because a sucker punch like that is clearly brutality. The cop must be canned, sued, and jailed for his crime.
Yep, he certainly showed his cowardice for the whole crowd to see.
I didn’t say the police are perfect. Those who do wrong should be pursued. I have enough respect for those who are good and decent people to not call them names used by the far far left loonies. You may not remember the 60s but I do and it was an awful awful time
Yeah something like that. quoting from http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/19682950/pur
“That video shows the woman — who has a small flag of Puerto Rico in the back of her pants and is carrying a water bottle — jumping up and down, shouting and pointing near a group of officers. Then, someone else sprays water on the officers from behind the woman. She turns around after apparently getting wet and, as she starts to move away from the approaching officer, is struck in the face by his right hand and in the back of the head by his left as she goes to the ground.”
It is very clear when the video is played in slow motion that the officer was reacting to getting sprayed with a liquid. He saw the woman retreating from the scene and thought it was her. The video appears to reveal “ALL” the relevant facts. The officer's instincts got the best of him. He is the one who reacted without “ALL” the facts. Anyone who grew up in a large family experienced this type of mistake when their parents blamed the wrong kid for starting a fight. Fortunately the punishment from our parents didn't generally come from the clenched fists of a 250 lb brute smacking us first in the face and then in the back of the head.
One thing is for sure... the woman can take a punch; even most men would have been knocked unconscious by those kind of blows. There is no doubt that the Lieutenant just cost the Philly police department a not so small fortune. And his fellow officers will be watching videos and going through endless boring PowerPoint presentations for years. Thanks a lot Lt. Moron. His dark complexion will probably keep him from getting fired, but his fellow officers will never forgive him.
But see, what you fail to comprehend is that perhaps two weeks earlier she called him a n....n....ninny - or something /sarc
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