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Caught On Cell Phone: LA Cop Punches Special Needs Girl In The Face On A Bus!
Liveleak.com ^ | 01/19/2014 | Mr. Lunk

Posted on 01/19/2014 9:12:26 AM PST by DariusBane

A Metro passenger used his cell phone's video camera to capture a confrontation between a woman and two LA County sheriff's deputies on a bus in Bellflower.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: abuse; assault; coverup; donutwatch; lapd; leo; police; specialneeds
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To: 4yearlurker

I don’t know exactly. She is described as pushing a baby carriage full of pillows, greeting everybody on the bus and being “obviously special needs.”


61 posted on 01/19/2014 10:13:23 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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To: Safetgiver

She was described as pushing a baby carriage full of pillows, greeting everybody on the bus and being “obviously special needs”.


62 posted on 01/19/2014 10:14:48 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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To: DariusBane

Any luck finding the raw unedited version of the video? It should of been linked by the web site, but I could not find it.


63 posted on 01/19/2014 10:15:01 AM PST by LowOiL ("Abomination" sure sounds like "ObamaNation" to me.)
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To: LowOiL

The fact that you cannot absorb bad behavior from the mentally ill or from special needs citizens is evidence why you should not be a cop. I shouldn’t be one either. For the same reason.


64 posted on 01/19/2014 10:16:04 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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To: DariusBane

The guy who filmed this assault (Germain Greenman, if I heard the video correctly) is a great American.


65 posted on 01/19/2014 10:19:18 AM PST by Skepolitic
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To: INVAR

Your kids will have arrest records, no matter what happens in court next week. That will come in handy when they have kids of their own and the gummint decide they don’t like the way they’re being raised.

It’s not going to stop until they start getting their fool heads blown off after breaking through the wrong doors. As long as they are confident they’ll go home safe at the end of their shift after spending many happy hours breaking down the doors and jaws of innocent citizens, they’ll just get more and more abusive.


66 posted on 01/19/2014 10:21:28 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Repeat Offender

That’s good to know. I hadn’t read about that.


67 posted on 01/19/2014 10:21:44 AM PST by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: Thumper1960

Sadly, I know what you mean. But not all cops are bad. I used to think it was the 5% of bad actors that gave the other 95% a bad name. Now I wonder whether the proportions should be reversed (not literally, of course, but it does seem like many LEOs have forgotten who they are supposed to serve.)


68 posted on 01/19/2014 10:26:59 AM PST by Skepolitic
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To: Repeat Offender

It’s worth noting it’s very difficult to prove officer malfeasance if they’ve destroyed the evidence. Make destruction of evidence by jackboots a crime all you want, and cell phone cameras will continue to be destroyed under the jackboots.

Technology is helping. There are apps available to automatically upload photos and videos to the cloud real-time. The last thing on the video will be the cop as he’s smashing the phone.


69 posted on 01/19/2014 10:27:21 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: DariusBane
The fact that you cannot absorb bad behavior from the mentally ill or from special needs citizens is evidence why you should not be a cop.

You act like this lady was a blooming idiot, obviously she is highly functioning and knows most right from wrong albeit probable from a 5th graders level. But my kids knew spitting was wrong at age 2 if not sooner. Being special does not mean you can do whatever you please w/ immunity.

That said, for the third time I will mention that I did NOT see a spit for anyone in the video. I did not even see a flinch from the officer which would of been a reaction to a spit. I am just stating what I would of done if such a scenario happened to me. I am not a police officer and have never played one on tv. I would like to see the unedited version of the video.

Other observations: If it came down to it, that lady officer would of been absolutely useless in helping handcuff the lady punched. Sometimes I think male officers have too much put on them when they have to get physical and lady officers are not much help. (Yes I am guilty of some PR crime here, sue me).

70 posted on 01/19/2014 10:28:51 AM PST by LowOiL ("Abomination" sure sounds like "ObamaNation" to me.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
I’m glad embedding videos isn’t allowed, opening a thread could launch as many as 50 different viewers, which would crush bandwidth.

Not if autoplay is not allowed.

71 posted on 01/19/2014 10:31:45 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: DariusBane
Let's wait to hear both sides of the story...

/sarc.......

72 posted on 01/19/2014 10:32:43 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: LowOiL

Here’s a question, out of the blue. What would you do if a cop pushed you? Put his hand on your chest and shoved until you were on the ground. Would you get up?

Or say, he grabbed you by the wrist and started dragging you? Would you hit him? Would you hit him if he wasn’t a cop, just another little person?

According to the law these days, if you resisted either of these assaults the cop would be seen as within his rights to beat your face until it looked like hamburger.


73 posted on 01/19/2014 10:33:31 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: DariusBane; humblegunner

He’s drinking Memosas and beer.

It’s Sunday and game day.


74 posted on 01/19/2014 10:33:35 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Repeat Offender

The cop clearly knew that. But he threatened the guy with a search for warrants. Intimidation was the order of the day.


75 posted on 01/19/2014 10:34:26 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Then bandwidth still gets sucked up by the sample picture. I like having just the links, and if John ever enables video embedding I’m gone from FR.


76 posted on 01/19/2014 10:35:17 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: LowOiL

If you are liable to beat somebody almost to death for spitting on you, then you should never be allowed near a position of authority. Period.


77 posted on 01/19/2014 10:37:55 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Vendome; humblegunner

Me too. But beer. Soon.


78 posted on 01/19/2014 10:39:56 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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To: Skepolitic
The man who filmed this assault is a great American

Yes. Now he may not be Harvard. He may not be post-American. He may not be"the next Messiah."

But he plainly knows duty and honor, love of country, and right from wrong.

Imagine how much better off we would be after five years with him sitting in the White House.

79 posted on 01/19/2014 10:40:59 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Safetgiver

what is special needs about the woman who got punched?...She needed another Big Mac.
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The coward db cop used his fist. You use words.


80 posted on 01/19/2014 10:41:38 AM PST by bramps (Mark Levin: Would Christie, McConnell, and Boehner repeal obamacare? Not a chance!)
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