Posted on 12/17/2014 7:16:10 AM PST by EXCH54FE
A 23-year-old Victoria, Texas, police officer is under investigation after he used a taser on a 76-year-old man twice Thursday following a conversation about a vehicle inspection sticker, which unbeknown to the officer, the man was not even required to have on the vehicle because it belonged to a dealer.
Nathanial Robinson’s dash cam captured a portion of the confrontation, which started after he followed Pete Vasquez as he pulled into the car lot. Robinson can been seen walking up to the car, as Vasquez exits the vehicle. Robinson apparently questioned Vasquez about the vehicle’s lack of a valid inspection sticker, but Vasquez later told the Victoria Advocate, he tried to explain to Robinson that the car, because it was dealer-owned, was not required to have one.
Vasquez then attempted to walk away to get the car lot’s manager, at such time Robinson grabbed his arm and slammed him onto the hood of his patrol car, before placing the old man in a lock and wrestling him to the ground.
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This was for sure an ordeal, what is most important is that this officer got home safe.
Federal gubermint trainin. Train with a hammer and everything looks like a nail.
Don’t tase me, bro.
Locally we have a good sheriff who does not permit that sort of thing or even shooting of dogs among his deputies and in the local city police forces here. Before Sheriff McKiethen it was nly a problem with the Beach Police who were all from somewhere else and hired primarily for their bad attitudes.
If fired he will easily find a new job, probably at higher pay as he has demonstrated now the talents and proclivities much in demand in many large police forces.
Sooner or later groups of citizens will band together, find these cops and put a bullet in their head. Just a matter of time, for deferred justice. Cop Nathanial Robinson can be one of the first. Not that I would advocate it, but that’s the direction things are heading while cops become more militarized and don’t serve the public.
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