Dangerous Police Pursuit, LAPD Investigates Officer Use of Force (with video)

KABC Channel 7 Website ^ | 6/23/2004 | KABC Channel 7

[eno_]

May I hit you five times with a nightstick and be given the benfit of the doubt? How about one of your family members?

[FeliciaCat]

Excellent Post.

I get sooo sick of the whinny "Cops-are-all-thugs" crowd on FR....these posters need to buy a clue. When you have just been robbed, raped, your child murdered, your car stolen, who do you call? Your dentist? NO - THE COPS. I believe there are more good ones then bad ones.

[FeliciaCat]

The idiot was RUNNING FROM THE COPS AFTER HE STOLE A CAR ...He had a few wacks coming to him for that alone. I dont advocate beating someone senseless, but I prefer REALITY over namby pamby finger pointing. How do you know the guy wasnt going for a weapon? Were you there?

[eleni121]

If I am resisting arrest after endangering the lives of may innocent bystanders yes, you may hit me 5 or more times until I stop resisting.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Just what we need, another bleeding heart, criminal loving leftist from West Virgina.

You ought to listen to the talk radio shows on the west coast. 90 percent calling in say the AH should have really got the sh*t kicked out of him for real.

People are sick of these assh*les taking cops on high speed chases through their neighborhoods, and killing innocent people in the process. Me personally? I'd let the families of those that have had loved ones killed by those fleeing from the cops take care of him.

But now this freakish, sick judicial system will reward this assh*le with a couple hundred thousand dollars, and the criminal panderers, and other assorted communist and cop haters stand on the sideline and cheer.

It was reported this morning this guy has a *large* arrest record and is a known *felon*. To bad they couldn't just make society safer and just put an end to this criminal assh*le on the spot.

Is that a little extreme for you? To bad, most people have had enough of pussy footing around with these dangerous assh*les.

[pageonetoo]

Joe, you apparently have had too much!

I guess we ought to just authorize our LEO's to do whatever feels good to them. If they look at a perp and think he isn't worthy of their time, they can just shoot them.

That goes for any traffic stop, even "click it or ticket". Shiite, we don't want these lousy crim'nals fowling up our lives. they are all guilty of being slimes, and dregs of society, so why give them a chance, Sadaam, oops, I mean Joe!

By the way, I will be having lunch next week in DC, ath the AFRH with my Dad, a 20 yr career Navy retiree, and my oldest son, a townie cop from OK. He is a JBT, and we swap stories all the time... I get on him, too!

As for bleeding heart liberal, that is an incorrect assumption, and attempt at demeaning me. I guess you don't agree with the ideas, which our founders placed into effect, with the Bill of Rights. There is nothing in there, that allows for adrenalin, nor testosterone, to supercede it!

see this posting I made a few days ago...

Meet Wally (he needs legal help)

Vanity | 6/`4/2004 | pageonetoo

Posted on 06/16/2004 12:28:14 PM PDT by pageonetoo

I guess I must bleed a lot... for injustice, and ignorance!

[Joe Hadenuf]

If they look at a perp and think he isn't worthy of their time, they can just shoot them.

A predictable response.

[evets]

Freepers, can't we all just get along?

[thegreatbeast]

Making the same point over and over doesn't make it correct or reasonable, friend. Work out your issues with the police; much is asked of them. This policeman deserves some sort of punishment but he shouldn't be publicly eviscerated simply to sate the bloodlust of those who hate cops.

[pageonetoo]

...and yours is the only worthy opinion... LOL at your conceit!
Ivehadenuf!

[Joe Hadenuf]

and yours is the only worthy opinion

Thank you.

[paul51]

Not only do I not have any 'issues' with the police, friend, I happen to believe they deserve the respect and level of professionalism a dope like this undermines. Get it yet?

[Mustangcountry]

Thats not what happened. the jackass was resisting arrest and a 4 shots to shoulder with a flashlight along with 2 knees stopped him from doing so. i saw it and the suspect appeared to try to keep his hands from being handcuffed.

[xrcop]

Sir,

Like it or not, the vast majority of YOUR police officers ARE heroes. The general public has no idea what their police officers do every day. I have not seen the video, so I won't comment on it. I will tell you that the rate of police officers who are corrupt is less than 1%, a better average than members of the clergy.

About 170 police officers will be killed in the line of duty this year, many of them violently. But do you see any do-gooder lawyers jumping up and demanding a truck load of money for the survivors of the slain officers? Of course not. Why? Because the people who murder and assault police officers generally don't have anything for the lawyers to take from them. Civil lawyers are well aware that government agencies will pay off to settle even the most bogus of claims because it is cheaper to do so than it is to litigate it.

I have been kicked, hit, punched, spit on, had knives and guns pointed at me, hit with any number of objects and shot at. I have seen other officers badly injured and watched a friend die in the line of duty. In almost every instance, these officers, myself included, were trying to protect an innocent person or apprehend a violent criminal.

Here is little scenario for you. Two armed subjects break into your home in what has become an increasingly popular trend, the home invasion robbery. Someone in your house gets out a 911 call, or your neighbor calls the police about the strange car in your driveway. The police officers who are dispatched to your home {perhaps the same guy you cursed for that speeding ticket} are going to do everything they can to protect you and your family, even to the point of being killed to do so, even though they have no idea who you are. Not because they are paid to do so, but because they believe in what they do.

A relatively unknown fact is that for every police officer killed in the line of duty, two commit suicide. After years of watching the innocent suffer and seeing the very worst that our society has to offer many officers are left dysfunctional and horribly depressed. As soon as you pin on a badge your life expectancy drops ten years.

I'm not asking for sympathy and you certainly don't have to like me, but you should understand the profession if you are going to bad mouth me.

I'm not saying police brutality does not occur, but I am saying it is far less prevalent than the media would have you believe. The bottom line for police officers is this: If you lose a fight, you are perceived a coward. If you win a fight, you are perceived as brutal.

[Sir Gawain]

Here is little scenario for you. Two armed subjects break into your home in what has become an increasingly popular trend, the home invasion robbery. Someone in your house gets out a 911 call, or your neighbor calls the police about the strange car in your driveway. The police officers who are dispatched to your home {perhaps the same guy you cursed for that speeding ticket} are going to do everything they can to protect you and your family, even to the point of being killed to do so, even though they have no idea who you are. Not because they are paid to do so, but because they believe in what they do.

A 911 call isn't going to be made from my home until I call for a cleanup crew. Dial 911 to save your life and you die.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

after he appeared to surrender... ..where the man got out and ran off.

It appears that the suspect clearly confused the LAPD's request to surrender with the FRENCH form of surrender...