pepper sprayed for "walking too close"

[#1Freak]

The other video and information about the police responding to the officer who was attacked certainly puts things in perspective. This is a good example of how a video only tells part of the story, and only from one angle. Crowd control situations can get out of hand quickly.

As for the female officer, I think her threshold of danger was a bit lower than the other officers on scene. For no one else was using any physical force. It looked as if she wasn't even trying to spray that particular teacher as he walked by on his cell phone. She was spraying to keep the crowd back and it looked as if she was focusing on others, behind the teach and he got caught up in the over spray.

My guess is that the agency will settle out of court on the civil lawsuit. Her actions are right up to the line of excessive force. In other words, criminal charges are possible, but I'm betting she doesn't get charged due to the totality of the circumstances.

sincerely, thank you for your perespective

 

[#1Freak]

I'm not interested in slamming the popo. I AM interested in not giving the police a free pass on something that would get anyone else jailed for assault. I bet it's a really big deal for the guy who got pepper-sprayed in the face, even if not for you. I'm not sure how you can claim he 'deserved' it. Nor do I see how it's relevant to her action. You wear the uniform, you get the stress response training, you should be held to an even higher standard.

As far as what's real and hideous - let's play out what happens if you use that defense yourself. "I know I crossed the DY into a blind turn back there, but nobody was coming. Hey, no blood no foul, right officer?"

No, of course that doesn't work; it's ethically and legally indefensible. Should it carry the same penalty as if I forced a biker off a cliff to his death? Once again no, but that's a separate discussion (and a separate charge).

I'm not sure what your wolf analogy is demonstrating. Save the cries of police injustice for when someone dies, but don't fuss over less hideous violations of free speech and free assembly? That seems like an odd line of argument.

dead on, except for the fact that unless there is useful feedback/additional training for that officer, god forbid she uses questionable deadly force in the future. and lets hope there is video evidence to help prove one way or another that it is justified. If it is not, god help that poor man/women and their family, and the millions of tax payers who will pay out their ass when the maim''s lawyer plays this video and shows a pattern of behavior that was not rectified.

 

[teg916]

This video reminds me of the compilations on youtube where you can watch people doing stupid things like walking into water fountains because they are paying more attention to their phone than to where they are going. Perhaps if a cop has a can of pepper spray pointed at a crowd, and she is screaming "get back!" The. It is not a good idea to walk between her and the crowd. Maybe if he wasn't on the phone he would have noticed he was walking into a bad situation.

 

[sanjuro]

You notice every other cop in that line didn't give a shit when he got sprayed or do anything? I assume that's your viewpoint.

What a defense of the police!

 

[afm199]

What a defense of the police!

I'm not defending the police. They would have had to do something wrong in order for that to happen. I can name several recent cases where the coppers fucked up. this isn't one of them. This is little league bullshit being played up as major league ball, but it's just a pop fly in the infield caught by a nine year old. Why in the fuck anyone would waste their time worrying about the dimwit on the phone not watching where he as walking is beyond me. He's the guy who just walks out into the intersection without looking, on the phone, cuz he has the right of way. And gets run over by someone who had no idea he was walking out there until too late. Don't you have something better to do with your time? Surely there's a brutal enemy of the people somewhere right now giving wood shampoo's to downtrodden minority members.