Officer to douchebag in 3.1 seconds.

screaminglemon

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wow. am i the only one with jetjock on this one? i feel that officer used a minimum amount of force. remember if this happened before TASR stock rose sharply, that retard would have had a nightstick to the back of his head.

bottom line, if you dont treat peace officers with the respect they deserve, then dont expect them to be very peaceful. especially if youre stupid enough to resist arrest.
 
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Pretty clear to me the cop wanted to be obeyed simply because of his badge. He had every opportunity to prevent an escalation with an answer to the man's questions and a quick explanation that his job is simply to write the ticket based on his observations and that the traffic court judge has the responsibility of sorting out the disagreements when the driver disagrees with the citation; just appear in court if you're right and the ticket will be dismissed. People forget too often that just because a ticket has been written, it's not a done deal unless they pay up without question - they can be easy to beat. Remind them of that and the situation will be far less likely to escalate.

This officer demonstrated precisely how not to handle issuing a ticket.
 
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jetjock said:
What the guy did by not following commands was resist that arrest. The cop acted as expected and within the scope of the law.
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If I grant you that he was within the scope of the law and his rights as a LEO, consider this JJ: Sometimes a person has a moral responsibility not to exercise every right or action granted them under the law. There are a lot of really crappy things that I can do to other people under the law, but it doesn't make it the right thing to do; I think we can all come up with many examples of this. This officer had better options available to him (see above), and a moral responsibility to take take the high road, not taze this guy.
 
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lagged said:
i vote we bring back public stoning but for police officers and public elected officials only.
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"Let he without sin, cast the first stone"

Sorry, I had to. Death isnt a just punishment, some more training on how to handle a situation and not be overly aggressive would be great, along with a pay suspention durring training.
 
willfish

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you know , to be completely honest here.

with all the cases of police brutality, all the cases on video tape of one cop or a group of cops, beating of pple of color that of white , black mexican or whatever,

it doesnt bother me the least an I end up saying to out loud : "good, fucking cop got what he deserved " when I hear about a cop getting his ass beat down an getting killed..

sorry,
but thats how i feel with all the cases an video of police brutality. plain an simple..

flame me all you want,
but thats what they fucking deserve :3d_frown:

Will
 
Dunckel

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Just thought I would chime in here. I am gonna have to side with the cop on this one. Yes, he was pretty quick to grab the taser, but what I saw was a civilian not complying to an order from a state officer, then putting his hand in his pocket and turning his back. (that's the point I would've drawn on him) and then proceeding to return back to his car. Those are scary situations for an officer. Whether or not the guy had anything in his pockets or not, or whether he was going to run or not. The officer had no idea.
 
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Neither the driver nor the officer was "right".

The driver overreacted to a speeding ticket:

Instead of asking why the officer would not answer the driver's question, maybe ask yourself what the driver is going to accomplish by whining and arguing.

He isn't going to do anything but upset himself and others around him. He should have taken the fucking ticket like a man and dealt with it later if he really felt like he was being wronged.

The police officer escalated matters a bit too quickly (and lied - if you watch and listen carefully):

I don't have a problem with an officer protecting himself, but it seemed to me that is not what prompted him to use the force that he did. Again, it's just my opinion, but I think he was a little to quick in his decision.

Police officers deal with dangerous people all the time. Most officers use their experiences to recognize when they are dealing with someone who can be a danger to them. I would have liked to see this officer use his reason rather than flexing his authority.

People make bad and stupid decisions all the time. It's only getting worse.
 
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The officer was out of line, as you can see he started off showing he had a bad day as you hear his opening conversation and this led to his overeactive state. As you can see when the man is being placed in the police car the officer is thinking of something to use against him as the man asked SEVERAL times why he is going to jail and the officer first said "not following instructions", then it changed to you were speeding, and if he was speeding your telling me he was doing 15 over? Which would give the officer right to take him to jail?

Overall it was a cop that had a bad day using his attitude and power in overaggressive ways.
 
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IJ. said:
It's a speeding ticket.... Yes sir no sir sign it and go on your way

If you think you've been hard done by fight it in court end of story.
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Well, that would just make entirely too much sense.:icon_razz
 
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