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Scrap with cop lands her in jail
Philadelphia Daily News ^ | Aug 14, 2009 | Stephanie Farr

Posted on 08/14/2009 5:39:08 AM PDT by Owl_Eagle

THE ALTERCATION began when Officer Tamika Gross challenged Latifa Savage to a brawl in front of a vacant store next to Savage's Mill Creek home on Saturday, according to neighbors.

" 'You got a lot of mouth 'cause you holdin' that baby,' " Gross said, according to witnesses.

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Still, witnesses said the tiny woman got the best of the cop in the fight. When backup officers arrived and restrained Savage, Gross kicked her, slammed her head in the sidewalk and screamed threats, forcing her colleagues to repeatedly pull her away, witnesses said.

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Savage was face down on the ground. As Gross rearranged her hair weave, officers handcuffed Savage, witnesses said.

"When the officer found out she [Savage] had pulled out half her weave, she snapped," McGill said. "She jumped on the girl and began beating her, kicking her and slamming her face in the concrete."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: affirmitiveaction; beatdown; cops; ghettocop; ghettocops
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No mention of the benefits Tamika Gross brings to the police force via her diversity.
1 posted on 08/14/2009 5:39:09 AM PDT by Owl_Eagle
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To: Owl_Eagle

Let me guess.

One month’s paid leave with promotion to administrative assistant for Tamika.

Her victim will be brought up on assaulting an officer and will face up to 5 years in prison and a felony record.


2 posted on 08/14/2009 5:42:38 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Tamika vs. Latifa

Need we say more?


3 posted on 08/14/2009 5:46:38 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Whatever happened to the cop in the “Banana Eating Jungle Monkey” story? Haven’t heard a word since he sued. Did he ever get fired as the mayor ranted?


4 posted on 08/14/2009 5:47:07 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Westbrook

Actually, if you read the entire story at the link, that’d be a good outcome for the victim.

But you’re right, Tamika won’t get held to the same standard a white male cop would. And why should she? She wasn’t held to the same standard when she was recruited or in the Academy.


5 posted on 08/14/2009 5:48:48 AM PDT by Owl_Eagle (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: freedumb2003

Read the whole article. Too funny, you just can’t make this stuff up.....


6 posted on 08/14/2009 5:49:29 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: Owl_Eagle
"When the officer found out she [Savage] had pulled out half her weave, she snapped," McGill said.

NEVER mess with an officer's weave.

7 posted on 08/14/2009 5:49:29 AM PDT by two23 (czars are for commies)
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To: freedumb2003
Tamika vs. Latifa

Isn't anyone named Jane or Mary anymore?

8 posted on 08/14/2009 5:49:32 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Kenya tell me where Obama was born?)
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To: Owl_Eagle

“B****, you ****ed up mah weave!”


9 posted on 08/14/2009 5:50:49 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("A cultural problem cannot be solved with a political solution." -- Selwyn Duke)
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To: Owl_Eagle
before they knew it, Gross had shoved Savage into the fence of the store and hit her in the face with the palm of her hand - a move described as "mugging."

MEMO TO SELF: face-slap is now called "mugging".

"I hate the fact that my niece was in an altercation with a police officer," she said, "but how are you supposed to respond when an officer is calling you out for a fight?"

Sensible people swallow their pride, shut up and, if possible, get their badge number and walk away. There are ways to deal with uppity cops: fighting with them is not one of those ways.

Fighting with cops invariably involves handcuffs -- which are uncomfortable at the best of times -- and can additionally involve anything from batons to mace to pepper-spray to Tasers to police dogs to guns.

No it isn't fair, neither is it intended to be.

10 posted on 08/14/2009 5:52:16 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Isn't anyone named Jane or Mary anymore?

Not in the 'hood. Its all fake African names like Janika and Maritafa. And even in the 'burbs it's Jayne and Mari...

11 posted on 08/14/2009 5:52:21 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Owl_Eagle
"They got her [Officer Tamika Gross, apparently, a Jewish officer, since we all know there is no such thing as a black-on-black crime] in the car, but she was still screaming like an animal."

Enough said.

12 posted on 08/14/2009 5:52:44 AM PDT by DocH (Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran Seal Of Approval)
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To: Owl_Eagle

You can take the cop out of the hood but you can’t take the hood out of the cop.


13 posted on 08/14/2009 5:53:40 AM PDT by shaft29 (Just your typical black woman.)
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To: two23

LOL


14 posted on 08/14/2009 5:54:24 AM PDT by shaft29 (Just your typical black woman.)
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To: freedumb2003

Tamika if fake African, but Latifa is Arab. I am not sure what it mean.


15 posted on 08/14/2009 5:54:43 AM PDT by Morgana (Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.)
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To: Owl_Eagle; freedumb2003

I saw this same scene play out on the National Geographic Channel just last week! It was described as some sort of an odd territorial-mating ritual, if I remember correctly.


16 posted on 08/14/2009 5:55:22 AM PDT by panaxanax (We don't dislike Zer0 because he's a Mulatto. It's because he's a COMMUNIST!!)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Philly’s Phinest!


17 posted on 08/14/2009 5:57:30 AM PDT by blues_guitarist (Obama is a putz!)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Exactly what I was thinking. Well said!


18 posted on 08/14/2009 6:02:49 AM PDT by islander-11 (Save Nantucket - Vote Republican!!!)
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To: freedumb2003

all that was missing was Jerry Springer


19 posted on 08/14/2009 6:03:48 AM PDT by silverleaf (If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
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To: Owl_Eagle

“”Officer Gross attacked her again, calling her a lying b—— and started slamming her head on the cement pavement,” Bullock wrote to Ramsey. “It took several officers to subdue Officer Gross. While pulling her away she was yelling ‘I am going to f-— that b—— up. I am going to find that b—— and f-— her up.”’

“Gross kept coming over to the car, knocking on the windows saying ‘B——, I’m going to get you,’ “ he said.

“Other cops couldn’t believe it,” Robin Savage said. “Several of them said to me, ‘We’re not all like that.’ “ Bullock said one officer said the same thing to her as she stood by, “shaking all over.”

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Tamika.....you need a long vacation from this job girlfriend....


20 posted on 08/14/2009 6:04:01 AM PDT by Morgana (Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Tamika has been offfered a spot in the new reality series “Copzillas”


21 posted on 08/14/2009 6:05:06 AM PDT by silverleaf (If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
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To: Owl_Eagle
Tamika Gross: 5 feet 2 and 100 pounds
Officer Savage: 6 feet and 160 to 200 pounds.

...witnesses said the tiny woman got the best of the cop in the fight.

22 posted on 08/14/2009 6:06:38 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: freedumb2003

You wrote:

“Tamika vs. Latifa Need we say more?”

Nope.


23 posted on 08/14/2009 6:07:48 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Owl_Eagle

Just keepin’ it real, nome what I’m sayin?


24 posted on 08/14/2009 6:09:08 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby (Bacon,smokless powder,and boobs are proof that God loves us.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

I just love it when women show their true personalities.....


25 posted on 08/14/2009 6:14:34 AM PDT by thinking
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To: rawhide

I think your names and stats are crossed.


26 posted on 08/14/2009 6:17:56 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Owl_Eagle

“Win or lose... you still live in Philly”


27 posted on 08/14/2009 6:20:31 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Owl_Eagle

The New America is coming fast.


28 posted on 08/14/2009 6:21:43 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Disambiguator
Correction to post# 22:

Latifa Savage: 5 feet 2 and 100 pounds
Officer Tamika Gross: 6 feet and 160 to 200 pounds.

...witnesses said the tiny woman got the best of the cop in the fight.

29 posted on 08/14/2009 6:23:15 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Owl_Eagle

For years, women have believed that, to succeed in business, they have to act like men. But really, women just need to be women to get ahead, contends Catherine Kaputa, author of The Female Brand: Using the Female Mindset to Succeed in Business.

Women have innate attributes that give them an edge in business, particularly in today’s economic climate, in which team-building and superb communication skills reign supreme, says Ms. Kaputa, the founder of New York-based personal brand consultancy SelfBrand LLC.

What are these natural attributes and how can women leverage them? Jennifer Myers spoke with Ms. Kaputa. Here are excerpts from their conversation:

What innate attributes do women have that give them an advantage in business?


30 posted on 08/14/2009 6:23:25 AM PDT by thinking
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To: Owl_Eagle

Before I even saw what paper this was from, I figured it had to be either Philadelphia or New Orleans.

}:-)4


31 posted on 08/14/2009 6:24:45 AM PDT by Moose4 (I took my car in for an alignment. Now my front end is chaotic evil.)
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To: thinking

“What innate attributes do women have that give them an advantage in business?”

No comment.


32 posted on 08/14/2009 6:27:37 AM PDT by mattdono (The platform I want: Stop spending my money. Stop sending my money. Stop taking my money.)
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To: shaft29

“You can take the cop out of the hood but you can’t take the hood out of the cop”

It seems, more and more, that police officers are beginning to behave like gang members.... you disrespect them and they are going to “mess you up”. Perhaps they are watching too much of the Cops series on Fox.

They should get this woman off the force and take appropriate legal action against her or they will have a bigger mess to clean/cover up next time.


33 posted on 08/14/2009 6:35:37 AM PDT by Peter Horry (Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded - John Randolph)
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To: Owl_Eagle
"She was going ballistic," Donteze Savage, Latifa's cousin, said of Gross. "It was not like she was on duty. It was like she was at a bar."

Note to self...No matter how thirsty you are, do not stop into a bar in Donteze's neighborhood for a drink...

34 posted on 08/14/2009 6:47:14 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (See www.buyingapuppy.com for News on Dogs and Puppies)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

35 posted on 08/14/2009 6:54:10 AM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Law of the Ghetto on display.


36 posted on 08/14/2009 7:01:25 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: Owl_Eagle

THE ALTERCATION began when Officer Tamika Gross said to Latifa Savage: Yo momma so fat _____________________


37 posted on 08/14/2009 7:24:42 AM PDT by Enterprise (When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
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To: Enterprise
"but how are you supposed to respond when an Offficer someone from Obama's civilian defense force is calling you out for a fight?"
38 posted on 08/14/2009 7:28:25 AM PDT by Enterprise (When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

obama voters


39 posted on 08/14/2009 7:31:49 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Celebrate diversity. LOL

Hope all is good with you FRiend! :)


40 posted on 08/14/2009 7:36:10 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
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To: panaxanax
I don't know what channel it was on, but I was watching a show about the transition into adulthood for an African male.

There is a ceremony, and the sisters and female cousins of the male have the other males whip them repeatedly with thin sticks. And the females don't run away, and they ignored the pain. They chased the males and challenged them to whip them some more and they didn't flinch when they were struck. The females get life long scars from this ceremony.

Finally, the male must jump over 4 oxen which are side by side and he must do this 4 times, otherwise he fails and must do the ceremony some other time. The guy in the ceremony made it three times, but he failed the fourth time. However, the judges gave him one more try because he was so popular, and he made it.

The point of the females sustaining the whipping is that they show their male relative that they were so loyal to him that they allowed themselves to be whipped for him. Then later in life, if things don't go smoothly in their own lives, they can always return to their brother, or cousin, and his is obligated to care for them, no matter what. It is a very painful version of social security.

41 posted on 08/14/2009 7:39:22 AM PDT by Enterprise (When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Sorry, can’t resist:

Philly has Tamika the cop AND Vick the dog killer.

SWEET!


42 posted on 08/14/2009 7:41:58 AM PDT by Tahoe3002
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To: Owl_Eagle

I have to ask, do they send these “officers” to an academy? Do they give them literacy tests and psychological tests before they are hired?


43 posted on 08/14/2009 7:51:17 AM PDT by Enterprise (When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
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To: mkjessup

(grin!) This “Diversity” is something not even Hollywood could script — nobody would believe it!

I’m going well, thanks mate. How ‘bout you?


44 posted on 08/14/2009 8:04:48 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
(grin!) This “Diversity” is something not even Hollywood could script — nobody would believe it!
I’m going well, thanks mate. How ‘bout you?


I'm doing ok, lately I find myself in the mode of 'Try to do my best, and trust Jesus for the rest' and unfortunately I seem to be making more work for the Lord, lol - hopefully he won't snuff me out earlier than He originally planned! ;)

Bottom line for me Brother? I think it's going to get ugly, WAY more ugly before it starts getting better. Judgment is coming upon America, and I dread it, I pray we might be spared, but deep down in my gut I know "we're gonna get it".
45 posted on 08/14/2009 12:39:04 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
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To: Enterprise

They might call me racist, but you just provided the best reason I’ve ever seen to just pave Africa from coast to coast, mow down the jungles, and let the savages that are capable of surviving, survive, and bon voyage to the rest.


46 posted on 08/14/2009 12:41:44 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
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To: mkjessup

> Bottom line for me Brother? I think it’s going to get ugly, WAY more ugly before it starts getting better. Judgment is coming upon America, and I dread it, I pray we might be spared, but deep down in my gut I know “we’re gonna get it”.

God would have spared Sodom and Gomorra for the sake of ten righteous men. Pray God extends similar grace to us all.

God Bless America
*DieHard the Hunter*


47 posted on 08/14/2009 2:02:31 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
You give me cause for hope with that citation of Scripture, *thank you* FRiend!
48 posted on 08/14/2009 2:07:37 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
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To: mkjessup

You’re welcome!

Keep in mind also what happened to Herod, in Acts. He, too, was lauded as a great orator, and was full of conceit. He did not give God the glory when the people said “it is the voice of a god and not of a man!” As a result, God smote him and he was eaten by stomach worms and he died.

God is not mocked.


49 posted on 08/14/2009 2:14:57 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: blues_guitarist

Philly has no finest. All of Philly is below grade crap


50 posted on 08/14/2009 2:30:47 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
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