Posted on 06/15/2010 8:23:39 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
SEATTLE -- Seattle police are investigating what they call an assault of an officer in South Seattle. However, a police officer is seen punching a 17-year-old girl in the face during the incident captured by a video camera on Monday.
According to Seattle police, the incident began when an officer spotted a man jaywalking in the 3100 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way S. at approximately 3:10 p.m. The man was some 15 feet away from a pedestrian overpass, police said.
as a Democrat.
Is that your excuse for why a professional punched a minor/teenager in the face....on duty? =.=
Screaming and swearing at cops? If a child of mine did that the LAST thing they would have to worry about is how the cop felt about it
I feel bad for the cop- he will probably lose his job. But I think screaming and swearing at a cop should get the kid tossed in a cell until mom or dad can come get them AT MINIMUM and a fine of a few hundred dollars
My first thought was what did she do to deserve it.
Seattle cops are not very smart in any situation.
Maybe the officer felt threatened for his life. /sarc
This whole situation smells funny to me. If you watch the video, I can’t see how this officer can explain himself. He was pussyfooting the entire process. Cops here in Florida would’ve tased the perp, tackled them to the ground and cuffed them. This guy just manhandles her around his patrol car while a crowd grows around him. White cop in a black part of town, he’s not called for backup, AND he’s not taking assertive action to put this woman down on the ground to subdue her.
Either they don’t train their cops the same way on the Left coast, or something else was going on here that the video doesn’t explain.
LOL!
See the video.
The woman got in the way of an officer performing LEGITEMATE duties. She laid her hands on him and used violence in an attempt to prevent him from detaining her friend.
Multiply that with a surrounding and encroaching crowd and you’ve got a cop with no time to focus on one beligerent bitch. Notice how may people close in and how many times he has to warn people off.
Good punch.
Straight in, solidly landed.
Well done, Officer.
She’s as big as he is! He’s a brave dude, punching her. If it were me, she’d probably have started to kick my butt and I would have had to taze her, bro.
Another day, another group of Obama voters “acting up”...
Oh... AND he’s focused on the initial woman NOT the one who he punched. What’s wrong with this cop?
Of course he should not have punched her!...Would you scream and swear at a policeman?
Nobody was injured during the incident, police said.
Seattle police have not reviewed the video of the incident. Sgt. Sean Whitcomb said investigators may review the video on Tuesday.
Whitcomb said the officer involved in the incident sent out a call for help, prompting other officers to rush to his aid.
All use of force on the job is reviewed, Whitcomb said, as use of force is under the officer’s discretion. He added that punching is a trained tactic.
“There will be a thorough investigation into this incident,” he said.
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Hoo boy.
**Nobody was injured during the incident, police said.**
I’m sure the girl’s lawyer will prove otherwise. Who gets punched in the face and not have some sort of injury?
Clearly these yoots were mouthy and pushy. But for the 17 year old? She won the lottery
Stupid Amish are at it again. Think they rule the world. Our first mistake was not picking our own cotton.
I’m not going to second guess the cop in this situation. On the whole, he did what he needed to do.
On Martin Luther King Blvd? Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Well, the officer is lucky the crowd was more into video tape than jumping him. He should have called for everyone on his radio.
I saw nothing wrong in his smacking the girl. I saw no excessive force on the “Get the ***** off me” girl either. In fact, he seemed to let it go too long for someone resisting arrest.
It’s good advice to avoid any road in America named Martin Luther King Blvd.
Whether jaywalking or not.
It’s usually injun territory.
Ditto. To all of that.
The “women” were acting like barbarian animals that they are, uncivilized and, yes, attacking the officer as he tried to arrest the mouthy slim creature.
“Teenager” is irrelevant to the situation, as if a “teenager” can't do any harm, or at worst, cause little resistance. Age is irrelevant when the “teenager” is taller than the officer and weighs more, and is actively trying to help her ‘ho escape.
The poor little ‘dahlin’ was just set upon by the big ol’mean policeman.
The 3100 block is in the Rainier Valley, aka da ghetto. Yes, even Seattle has one.
I think that the officer in question acted with tremendous restraint in this situation.
I guarantee you that there should have been a few more arrests.
Wow, I expected more CODE ORANGE FREEPERS here by now.
Maybe so, no sac/.
Ever been in the middle of a bunch of angry black women?
back in the day, when I was a police office in Texas, found myself in that situation and they WILL try and kill you.
People should resist arrest and always fight with cops./s
That whole jaywalking law is totally unreasonable and an abridgment of personal freedom and liberty.
Indeed.
Nothing good ever happens on Martin Luther St, Ave, Parkway, Blvd.....no matter what city you're in.
I find that when walking my BLACK Lab downtown, most black women tend to step back and let us pass.
+1
That's exactly what I saw.
Evidently these 'ladies' have heard Chris Rock's advise.
She should have been injured—greatly.
Looks like he had an eye witness throughout the whole ordeal.
The officers in my area would have tasered her and her friend if she too forcibly resisted as well. We can’t have members of the public assaulting our officers in uniform while trying to do their jobs. He handled himself very professionally IMO.
LOL!
She was Black, and convinced that any type of action taken against her or her friend had to be racist. “You have to stand up to the man honey!!!” I honestly see this as a young woman trained to object to authority.
Then you’ve got the black guy with the camera shooting his mouth off.
I’m not necessarily in favor of striking a woman like this. The problem is, officers are human too and sometimes they react out of frustration too.
Unless an officer is clearly out of control, doing something totally against the law and endangering your life, you don’t screw with them. They are operating under the cover of authority, and you need to follow their instructions even if you don’t understand or like it.
You can always file charges later if you object.
I can see this officer getting a reprimand of sorts, but this girl was clearly out of control. Doing whatever it took to cuff her early on would have been advisable.
He didn’t seem to be able to control her as well as he should have been able to.
Officer was in the right. She asked for it and her BFF contributed. Baby daddy knew better.
He had several folks getting physical with him and she pushed him.
What sort of folks think it’s ok to push cops around or a traffic stop?
(disclosure..I have been beaten badly by cops for racial reasons and while handcuffed so I am no copophile)
I have seen big black women act just like this over shoplifting stops in a fancy mall and with all the little rich white toddlers in fancy prams with yoga mommies looking on in astonishment....repulsed and fixated as the robust black woman rolls around on the floor fighting with security guards and all the booty falls out of her leggings and bag.
I think you misdirected that post to me.
Good punch, Officer!
Thank you Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Barack Obamah.
State and provincial road rules in the United States and Canada typically require a driver to yield the right of way to a pedestrian crossing a road when the pedestrian crosses at a marked crosswalk or an unmarked (but not closed[clarification needed]) crosswalk. Unmarked crosswalks generally exist as the logical extensions of sidewalks at intersections with approximately right angles. Following the Uniform Vehicle Code, state codes often do not prohibit a pedestrian to cross a roadway between intersections if at least one of the two adjacent intersections is not controlled by a signal, but stipulate that a pedestrian not at a crosswalk must yield the right of way to approaching drivers. State codes often permit pedestrians to use roads which are not controlled access facilities and without sidewalks but they must keep to the leftmost side of the road unless this renders them invisible to approaching traffic.
1937 WPA poster warning pedestrians not to jaywalk
State codes may include provisions that allow local authorities to prohibit pedestrian crossing at locations outside crosswalks, but since municipal pedestrian ordinances are often not well known to drivers or pedestrians, and can vary from place to place in a metropolitan area that contains many municipalities, obtaining compliance with local prohibitions of pedestrian crossings much more restrictive than statewide pedestrian regulations can be difficult. Signs, fences, and barriers of various types (including planted hedges) have been used to prohibit and prevent pedestrian crossing at some locations; where detour to a legal crossing would be highly inconvenient, even fences are sometimes not effective. Street design, traffic design, and locations of major building entrances that make crosswalks the most logical and practical locations to cross streets are usually more effective than police enforcement in reducing the incidence of illegal or reckless pedestrian crossings.
At a signalized crossing, a pedestrian is subject to the applicable pedestrian traffic signal or, if no pedestrian signal is displayed, the signal indications for the parallel vehicular movement. A pedestrian signal permits a pedestrian to begin crossing a street during the “Walk” display; the pedestrian is usually considered to be “jaywalking” only if he entered the crosswalk at some other time. The meanings of pedestrian signal indications are summarized in Section 4E.02 of the national Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.[13]
Jaywalking is commonly considered an infraction but in some jurisdictions it is a misdemeanor or requires a court appearance. The penalty is usually a fine. In some cities (e.g. New York City, Chicago and Boston), although prohibited, “jaywalking” behavior has been so commonplace that police generally cite or detain jaywalkers only if their behavior is considered excessively dangerous or disruptive. Penalties for jaywalking vary by state or province and, within a state, may vary by county or municipality. In Tempe, Arizona, as of June 2006 jaywalking carried fines up to US$118; a sampling of other U.S. cities found fines ranging from US$1[14] to US$750.
The only reason why this is remarkable is because it was filmed.
Now they are making arrest filming a CRIME.
See?
I do think she deserved 2b arrested, 4 sure.
Black people will make cops’ jobs impossible, then lawyers assure the job becomes hyperLegal, engineers give us cheap reliable tiny cameras, and disliking the resulting footage, then authority turns to dictatorship.
So law abiding citizens lose, and become fodder for abuse by authority.
We’re entering the last stage described above.
Bingo!
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