Posted on 02/10/2019 10:02:55 PM PST by ConservativeMind
On July 27, 2017, Johnny Wheatcroft was a passenger in a silver Ford Taurus when a pair of Glendale police officers pulled in front them in a Motel 6 parking lot.
The stop was for an alleged turn signal violation.
Minutes later, Wheatcroft was handcuffed lying face down on the hot asphalt on a 108-degree day. He'd already been tased 10 times, with one officer kneeling on his back as another, Officer Matt Schneider, kicked him in the groin and pulled down his athletic shorts to tase him a final time in his testicles, according to a federal lawsuit and body camera footage obtained by ABC15.
The scene was witnessed by his 11- and 6-year-old sons.
Multiple independent law enforcement experts, who agreed to review the incident, said the officers’ conduct was unlawful, potentially criminal, and one of the most cruel and troubling cases of police misconduct they’ve ever seen.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc15.com ...
I heard about this, had no idea he was a passenger and not the driver. Yea he’s gonna own that city.
I remember one video I saw, a woman questioned the cop why was she being detained, and was she free to go. Cop kept harassing her. She said why am I being detained, and I should be free to go or tell me why I'm detained. Finally she said contact your supervisor to explain why I'm being detained. Cop calls in, and the supervisor ordered him to not detain her. Some rookie cops are naive and don't understand the law; other cops are a-holes. One time I got incorrectly stopped by a pair of cops, and I verbally challenged them about what they were doing. Icing on the cake was telling these rookies they were delaying me from a meeting with some police brass at the Hall of Justice (true), they turned tail quick. I know good cops, but am aware of jerks who shouldn't be cops.
“Someone will have to decide whether this response was over-the-top, but based on what I’ve seen of traffic encounters, a flat-out refusal to comply is a very convincing sign that the subject is working up the nerve to assault the officers with a weapon.”
Dude, watch the video at the link. It clearly shows the accused cop pulled down the man’s shorts from behind to tase him on his testicles. If this man had been a wanted fugitive resisting arrest, that would still be criminal behavior on the cop’s part.
As it appears, the cop did pretty much EVERYTHING wrong, from start to finish. And no one in the car had any contraband. They had no weapons. The cops just disgraced their badge and uniform in front of young children with their jackboot thuggery.
I have used a stun gun on myself to see how much I could take. With a number of attempts, I haven’t been able to hold it on me for more than a moment. Just thinking of being stunned on the testicles hurts my brain. Anyone who justifies this cop’s actions should stun his own testicles and report back that he still thinks this is reasonable behavior for a cop.
The fact that this officer is still on the job indicates that the department is corrupt.
This is the kind of police state behavior the gun-grabbing Dems would bring to our whole nation if they ever got their way.
Yeah, thanks a lot for bringing it back up.
So nice to see our jack-booted thugs have their priorities straight. Can’t touch an illegal alien, but those domestic turn-signal terrorists should be beaten. Apparently, they have to take their frustrations out on somebody, right?
From the Fox10Phoenix article above -
“Officers found a usable quantity of meth inside the car in an investigation.”
So it is NOT true, as you said, that no one in the car had any contraband.
So, the guy's no angel. Still, the officer went too far with the tasing. The guy's lucky he wasn't killed, instead of being tased. Now he can sue - and probably blow all the money on meth.
Yours may be the most absurd statement I’ve read in weeks :)
You’re right!!
Beat the HECK out of ANYONE who runs a light, speeds, doesn’t signal...
I’ll just assume you weren’t thinking AT ALL when your fingers typed that post out.
They must of known him.
I’ve never heard that is illegal not to have ID to be a passenger in a vehicle.
And if he was a passenger what did he do that was illegal? He wasn’t driving.
This ofcr shouldn’t be on the force.
Heck in AZ it is rare when someone actually does signal. LOL
Doesn’t matter his criminal history. What matters is what he was doing at the time.
He was the passenger. He wasn’t doing anything illegal.
A turn signal violation? LOL
He was the passenger. He didn’t do anything illegal.
But they didn’t arrest the adults in the vehicle for possession though did they?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. and do it in front of kids, you're teaching them the same game...
You’re kidding right? Police pretext stops all the time not every time but often enough for broken taillights, not signaling, minor speed violations et al. Sometimes it gets washed when the officer gets a felon or the driver in question finds it too heavy to file a lawsuits.
The first 10 times just weren’t convincing enough?
I bet a tazer shot to the testicler twins will prevent us from having to twist your arm and tell you 10 times in the future.
They shoulda just lobbed a coupla frag grenades into the car and then casually drove off.
Thats how they train to do it in Venezuela.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3725781/posts
I think you’re the one not thinking. Clearly that was sarcasm at those that say just follow the law and you’ll be ok.
Same goes for the cops. Tasing a guy in the nuts... Play stupid games...
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