Local residents near Toledo, Ohio, captured the incident on video and posted it on YouTube Both Tatkowski and Meyers were charged with related offenses
Anybody know if the family dog is OK?
THANK GOD FOR THE UK PRESS reporting this stuff
This crap is getting old.
Hey litterbug, *blam Blam*
The Oathbreaker in question is on PAID leave.
When will we see police raiding government offices and throwing criminals on the floor at gunpoint?
Oh wait...the government people are like illegal aliens. They have the right to commit crimes without penalty.
....and that's when it started spiraling out of control.
Raintree, eh?
Key phrase here is *minor traffic dispute*, IOW a piddly sh1t civil matter.
When you dovetail this sort of thing with swat teams busting into homes for relatively minor *suspected* offenses, and the fact that thanks to things like youtube informing a mass of people of the evolving police state, it’s really no wonder that the average person is primed to go off on cops.
We can reasonably assume now days that odds are not bad that we will be bullied and threatened by police in even minor situations. This is turning the citizen/police relationship into a powder keg. It is guaranteed to get worse.
Not sure of all the events that led up to the three people being ordered to the ground but that isn’t a gun he is pointing.....it is a taser.
I appears that a traffic stop occurred and others showed up and got involved.
One officer, two adults and a teenager. Outnumbered with a hostile group opposed to you....a good reason to handcuff people to keep from getting assaulted.
Not sure that pointing a taser at someone is excessive force.
I reserve final judgment because I’m not privy to the whole story....nobody got beat up and nobody got shot.
Not seeing the excessiveness here.
Article from the Local Toledo Blade.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2013/09/18/WashingtonTwp-TPS-officer-puton-paid-leave.html
It seems Officer Hart has worked part time for the Washington Township as a
partol officer for the past two years. Hart is also an employee of the Toledo
Public Schools as a school resource officer and has been placed on paid
administrative leave awaiting the outcome of the Township incident.
I am sick of the “How dare you speak to me that way” cops. They are supposed to be trained to difuse situations not just bark orders.
“He is reported to have said: ‘I’m [expletive] sick of you cops. I’m [expletive] sick of you harassing people for no reason.’ “
So cops are supposed to ignore license plate violations?
Whose voices are those, that voiced concern for the officer’s safety and told “Aaron” to shut up? It seems the people who were there video taped the event for the benefit of the officer. One of them even gave his phone to the cop, who resisted taking it. When the guy literally forced the phone into his hand, he tossed it aside.
This does not look to me like police brutality. It looks like an inbred family that likes attention.
He’s is suspended with pay, so a paid vacation, and will come back and be on duty to march on as he currently does. The one thing about cops, they are like major league umpires, they think it is about them. AND, hey, I have all kinds of cops in my family. My cousin is county sheriff; my nephew is a cop in the Birmingham area; and his brother is a Alabama state trooper. I can tell you that BOTH of my nephews think it is about them. They both have become blow hards. They drive their PERSONAL automobiles 20-30 miles above the speed limit. If stopped, they flash their badge and lie they are going somewhere. When I came down to visit my mother in Alabama, the Bham cop picked me up at the airport. We hit the interstate and he was doing 90-100 MPH all the way. I questioned him and he said he could drive like that with no fear, he’d just flash his badge if stopped. One of my trooper nephew’s fellow troopers around here has a huge reputation as a smart ass on EVERY stop he makes. Complaints about his behavior go unheard. Just saying, they all ain’t saints.