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Here's more of the video. Looks like ABC cut some off.
You can see the chick trying to 'get at' the cop and being held back and then breaks free. IMO, his life was in danger with 4 hands grabbing near his gun. I'm not sure it would have been out of line for him to pull his gun and fire.
No way! The cop threw a punch right to the face, this was just pure rage for being pushed. I bet you that if his guy's wife did the same thing she would come away with a black eye. He should have stepped back, pulled his weapon/taser and commanded her to desist. The girl pushes him back and is separated from him and he re-engages. This was a case of rage.
Unless you're a cop, you don't know. Unless you live in that area, you don't know.
I am not a cop nor do I live there, but I can tell you, I have many freinds in blue and have the utmost respect for most police officers. Of course like anything else, there will always be the bad ones.
In this case, we didn't see what happened before hand. What I see is 2 girls, going after an officer, they are resisting, plain and simple. They are NOT listening to his commands, plain and simple.
We were not there and we can't make the call, but I think he did the right thing. Maybe he couldn't reach for his taser, or feared they would get it. You can see it's just 2 officers and a group of lookers. Personally I would rather be punched then be tasered, but that's me. To me it makes no difference if the threat is a man or a woman, you resist, this is what happens. This doesn't mean he would wail off and his wife either. A fight with your significant other is not the same thing as being in a crowd of people you don't know.
Simply put, when you're stopped/questioned by Police be respectful if not it only makes it worse.
I won't disagree with you that the girls should not have resisted. You or I would not be in this situation. However, they are trained professionals and this officer did not react in a professional manner, he let rage take over.
The girl in the pink comes over and pushes the officer. At that moment, they are separated. He wasn't defending himself to get her off of him. He should have stepped back and done what he was trained to do - which I'm sure is not re-engage and punch the person in the face.
Look it's not an easy job and some people should not be officers, this is one of them.
As a professional pilot we are trained to handle certain situations. Every one reacts differently and every situation is unique and you don't know until it happens. In the two major emergencies I have encountered in my career one First Officer handled it well and one froze and cried like a baby leaving me virtually alone in the cockpit to handle the situation. He was subsequently forced to resign. Some people, regardless of their training and past performance don't have the disposition to perform certain tasks. This cop should find something else to do for a living.
I don't think that he should have stepped back and "talked". He should have stepped back and drawn his weapon/taser/pepper spray and commanded them to get on the ground. He didn't.
No way! The cop threw a punch right to the face, this was just pure rage for being pushed. I bet you that if his guy's wife did the same thing she would come away with a black eye. He should have stepped back, pulled his weapon/taser/pepper spray and commanded her to desist. The girl pushes him back and is separated from him and he re-engages. This was a case of rage, he was going to show her who was in charge. Guy needs to be fired.
Couple of observations on my part...
1. Police officer should not have punched her.
2. He should have shot both of them.
3. Do Not J-walk.
4. It's George Bushe's fault.
Whoaaaaa! There's no e in Bush.:biggrin:
Wrong... rage would have been multiple punches. They teach cops to punch/jab people to stun them and re-take control of the situation. There was also a crowd forming.. to pull a weapon (pepper spray or gun) imo would have made it even worse.
She was way out of line... we need to let cops do their jobs... and she deserved everything she got.
Wrong... rage would have been multiple punches. They teach cops to punch/jab people to stun them and re-take control of the situation. There was also a crowd forming.. to pull a weapon (pepper spray or gun) imo would have made it even worse.
She was way out of line... we need to let cops do their jobs... and she deserved everything she got.
Third video, the off duty cop should have been let go. The on duty officer was obviously pulling him over using the fishing technique that other officers here have said they use. Once he informed the on duty officer that he was an off duty officer he should have been on his way, HOWEVER the on duty officer was a FOOL for allowing him to go back to his car to get his ID KNOWING that he had a gun. IMO that was a huge mistake and could have cost him his life if he was in fact not a cop and had a shot gun in the car.