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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Is that him? The guy has a friggin’ pierced nipple! Yuck!
She was over close to the police incident at the start of this video and seemingly agitated and saying something to the police to get their attention or a rise out of them. And when they did she immediately retreated.
The officer should not have hit her but she should not have been mouthing off at them either. She might have been trying to start a riot and wouldn't shut her pie hole.
It doesn’t matter if she taunted the police or not. He wronged her. His behavior is caught on video and substantiated.
There is no “but”. You are trying to weakly justify his behavior.
“He shouldn’t have hit her.” Period. He is responsible for his behavior, not her behavior.
The decision to punch the young woman came from within the officer. His sin nature. His desire to hit her.
You keep trying to blame the victim of his blow for his decision to hit her.
The victim is not responsible for the behavior of the assailant. The assailant is responsible for the behavior of the assailant. Period.
At first I was with you on this but a closer look shows that she was taunting the police, trying to get their attention or anger them in some way to overreact toward her. Start there and then place blame for the punch/slap if you must but don't start with a lie.
Again, you are still trying to put the blame onto the young woman, not the officer.
I’m sure that is very appealing to the sin nature of the officer, but regardless of what she said or did not say to the officer, she is not responsible for his behavior.
Anything she said or did prior to his commission of battery is irrelevant. *He* decided to commit battery.
No conservative should make excuses for a man who punches a woman. Let the progressives defend women-beaters.
There is no evidence she was taunting anyone. That is your latest theory to divert from the clear evidence of battery.
Try again.
“He should not have hit her.” Period. There is no excuse, no justification that makes woman-beating acceptable.
Conservatives understand this.
Progressives defend woman-beating.
and look at those cops.....most of them could miss a meal or too....
Would you rather have a full scale riot caused by one mouthing off woman who wouldn't stop or whack her across the face and haul her off to jail and end it right there. Your choice.
And conservatives consider all the facts and are capable of seeing through things like string theory to reach the proper conclusions.
She was taunting them -- start at that.
Unfortunately, you’re getting an idea of how many men are on the side of woman beaters, whether they’re conservative or not. How much they identify with these people, and why, is a matter for conjecture.
More “men” are defending this obvious assault and coming up with these fantasy explanations and conspiracy theories than any threads for a police vs dog incident.
If that is true then post the audio that goes with the video and let's hear what she was saying the whole time.
That is your latest theory to divert from the clear evidence of battery.
If she was taunting them then she was interfering with police business and probably trying to start a riot -- perhaps the October Surprise. I also notice that she was trying to run away from the officer until he caught her with a punch. It sure stopped her from running and running her mouth off as well.
Conservatives understand this. Progressives defend woman-beating.
Conservatives do not want an October Surprise or rioting in the streets or someone trying to cause it. And if it is a woman trying to cause a riot then she deserves to be dealt with as the law allows.
You seem to be invested in this video. How come you didn't tell us that she was taunting the police??? Why did you lie about what was really going on here???
Post the audio of the video and let us hear what she was taunting the cops with.
This is a clear cut case of excessive use of force as well as battery by the cop.
You sure have the lingo down. It makes us all suspicious about why this video was posted with the lies attached to it.
If the agitator was trying to run after the officer said to come here, then his use of force to stop her from running and running her mouth may have been appropriate.
You want us on this forum to believe that the police arresting this female agitator is part of the War on Women???
And anyone who sees what's really happening in this video is just unsympathetic to women???
Is that why you are here???
Students surrounded campus cops, who warned students that if they didn’t disperse, they would be subject to the use of force and pepper spray.
They stayed. They videotaped. They sued.
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/Pepper-spraying-California-taxpayers-3905142.php
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This police officer hit the woman when he didn’t need to. He lost control. The city will pay. This is worse than pepper spraying.
Well, right now, “Uncle Chip”, I’m here to tell you that you’re full of shit. And I mean that sincerely.
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