Posted on 05/16/2013 10:18:37 AM PDT by edcoil
In perhaps one of the most shocking police brutality videos of recent years, police in Cotati, California respond to a call about “domestic violence” by kicking down the door of a man’s home before tazing him and his wife as they scream in agony.
(Excerpt) Read more at presstv.ir ...
Just in competition.
If the IRS can be out of control, EPA, and the Executiv, certainly the police should have license to be out of control too. Otherwise, we’d be discriminatory against police.
Suspects? Victims? Targets? Conservatives?
Did they shoot the dog and kidnap the children?
The woman had her hands in the air and they tazed her anyway.
And if they don’t respond and the wife winds up dead?
There are times when the police can’t win either way.
As for the woman being tazed, she may have turned her focus to the police. It happens all the time.
The guy beats here up. The police show up, and the woman attacks them.
My friend and I were entering a club one evening. Outside a guy one foot taller than the female he was with, was throwing her up on the car hood, and being violent towards here.
We asked if she needed help, and she flew into a rage at us calling us every name in the book.
We’ll see what happened here. It may not be as bad as you think.
Tazers suck. Bullets are worse.
These people mentioned their rights. Obviously, they’re troublemakers who not only deserved to be electro-shocked, they also need the IRS to audit them.
All it takes for cops to claim exigent circumstances is “a claim” of domestic abuse and they can enter under the color of law.
Well, they were called to the home for “domestic violence” ... and that’s exactly what they did!
Did you watch the video even? The woman wasn’t doing or saying anything and had her hands up. The police should and did respond, but a neighbor calling in doesn’t give them a warrent to bust down the door and taze people. Or if you think it does, maybe your neighbor should call about you.
there were no exigent circumstances allowing for warrantless entry unless something huge is missing from the story.
In reality, under Florida v. J.L. (March 28, 2000), “the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that anonymous tips are not sufficient grounds to constitute probable cause for a search. Judge Ginsburg, writing for the Supreme Court, stated, “Such an exception would enable any person seeking to harass another to set in motion an intrusive, embarrassing police search of the targeted person simply by placing an anonymous call.…” Prison
Police policy is to make sure the woman is okay before leaving. The guy should have had his wife appear in the door, and show the police she was okay.
By refusing to respond, he forced the police to enter his property.
When the police get a call concerning domestic violence, they have to make sure the woman is safe before they leave. If they don’t, they get sued for not following through.
If the guy would have opened the door, the wife had merely presented herself and explained she was okay, this would have been over in a couple of minutes.
One morning I got up and started to do some things while I was still half asleep. I needed to get a phone number and I accidently dialed 911 instead of 411. Stupid mistake, but hey...
I explained to the police operator what had happened, but within five minutes the police were knocking on my door, and my wife had to show herself so they could clear the call. I opened the door, explained what had happened. She came to the door and everything was okay within a minute.
That’s what should have happened in this case.
Ahhhh. Spoken like a truly impartial, cognizent observer. When yours is the next door they kick in because "somebody" dropped a dime on your ass, yours and your wife's are the next brains they fry with their Tasers, then I'll want to hear how impartial and logical you are about it.
We'll just call you "The Thinker."
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Wrong!
On a domestic call, the police have to make sure all parties are safe. They’re going to do it whether the persons like it or not.
If the occupant refuses to simply open the door and let the officers know things are okay, then that escalates the fear that someone may already be seriously injured and the person in the home is hiding it.
Yeah, and they can get carried out under the color of red. Lots of red.
8^)
I couldn't get the video at the link to play so I found a copy posted at youtube
Shock video: California police break into home, taze victims(vid)
In reality, under Florida v. J.L. (March 28, 2000), “the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that anonymous tips are not sufficient grounds to constitute probable cause for a search. Judge Ginsburg, writing for the Supreme Court, stated, “Such an exception would enable any person seeking to harass another to set in motion an intrusive, embarrassing police search of the targeted person simply by placing an anonymous call.…” Prison Planet
If the cops can't win either way then come down on the side of “we are not a police state and they have no right to come into my home......” unless they have probable cause which they did not.
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