Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/29/act-like-a-lady-denver-po.html
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In Copspeak, “lady” means “obedient, child-like subhuman.”
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“obtain her”
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Stop resisting.
Fuck you! I’m resisting RIGHT NOW!
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Ugh…
he grabbed me and twisted my arm in ways that arms aren’t supposed to move.
At some point in the blur, either he or Officer Adam Paulsen, badge No. 08049, locked one or maybe two pair of handcuffs on my wrists, tightly, and pushed me toward a nearby police car by grabbing my arms hard enough – and with a painful upward thrust – that I told them to stop hurting me. Their response: That I was hurting myself by resisting.
But I wasn’t resisting. Not even close.
I had heard from my work reporting on several excessive force cases troublesome accounts of police injuring arrestees, yet claiming they injured themselves. But to hear it first-hand, uttered obviously for the benefit of whoever might some day review the body-camera footage, was infuriating.
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If someone tells me to act like a lady then they will regret not specifying which lady I should act like.
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HIPAA does not apply to her unless she is a Health Care Provider.
So First Amendment does “supersede” this guys “HIPAA Rights” in this instance.
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HIPPA? They cite HIPPA? That pertains to protected medical information and has nothing at all to do with law enforcement, nor actions playing out in full view of the public on a public sidewalk. Somebody have a theory as to how this became a thing?
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Everyone knows that the Fake News Media is Hungry Hungry Hungry for a story.
/s
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Two things: the fellow they were arresting sounds like he may have been high or mentally ill. They took him to the hospital. So there was a health concern there.
But it sounds like they’ve been using HIPAA here and there around the nation just because most people don’t know what’s in the law. So they can just make shit up. And no, it doesn’t apply to journalists.
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I’ve heard of cops citing HIPAA before. It’s bullshit and they know it. The problem is that unless you have a lawyer and a judge and supervising officer standing behind you, they can get away with claiming whatever they want in the moment. Sure, they’ll get reprimanded, maybe, or told off by a judge when it finally gets to court a year later if you’re lucky, but they control you in the moment and will use whatever bullshit argument or fake law they want to make up to justify it to achieve their desired outcome.
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Throw the table, Alan! You know you want to! THROW IT!!!
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Act like a public servants and law enforcement officers?
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Too much like ‘right.’
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methinks he would not have taken kindly to her suggesting he “act like a man”.
give people a little bit of power…and it brings out all the bad apples.
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Sometimes, the entire ‘orchard’ is already “rotted,” never mind the ‘barrel…’
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I fear you are correct. HIPPA compliance is a significant factor in my daily work life, so this struck a real chord with me. For most folks, the actual content of the law is a mystery and I guess that confusion is enough for the cop to exert his authority. Really disturbing though.
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