Cop who smashed 18-year-old woman's face on ground remains on regular duty

[SteampunkBanana]

I have a small person around the house. They get tired, hungry, angry, they’re liable to take a swipe at me. If they do so, they’re in big trouble. So my job is to make sure they don’t take a swipe at me, and if they do, make sure it doesn’t connect.

Being a cop is a lot like being a parent. You can’t get angry at people when they are in your custody, you are responsible for their safety and well being. So, as a message to police everywhere, grow the fuck up and don’t let the kids hit you when they take a swipe at you. And if they do connect you don’t get to hit back.

[popobawa4u]

@CarlMud

The problem is that the cops are the ones who are often defended with the excuse that they are equivalent to animals and you don’t “mess with the bull” or whatever cliche they want to utter to say “you should have known better,” ignoring that police officers are supposed to be level-headed enforcers of the law, not enforcers of their adrenaline-hyped whims.

But they only use those excuses if you’re the one who ends up hurt. If it is somehow the cop who gets injured, maimed or killed in their duties as a belligerent jackass, they are much less sympathetic.

[popobawa4u]

@Lailoken

I feel that it is prudent to give wide berth to anyone who has the power to seriously threaten freedom and life. Especially undertrained and low paid goons with a badge and uniform.

Better to ride them, and ride them hard. Train them to a life of service. It is safer for everyone.

[BryanOBlivion]

@redesigned

if I had been kicked in the dick while armed, I dont know if I would have been as civil.

if you are a trained professional, you press a charge against the person for assault, you don’t assault them in retaliation. Cops need to be more not less accountable for their actions.

When you corner an animal it may react in an aggressive way, so it goes to reason that it is wise to take precautions. This is the cop’s error, not the young woman’s. I hope she sues.

Exactly. He should have been trained to deal with this sort of situation professionally.

@BryanOBlivion

Which I am not. The job title used to imply a level of logic and restraint beyond the common civilian. That was basically my point. After a solid nutshot I can’t react beyond blind fury or fetal curling. I am also not, nor would ever want to be, a cop.

please see above.

[Lailoken]

My educated guess is that he has been trained to deal with this situation professionally and then took the lazy cop short-cut option.

[Lailoken]

Who are they serving though? Mind you, I didn’t write who are they supposed to serve.

[popobawa4u]

It is kind of indirect. They serve the municipality. But the municipality serves its constituents. The reason why it’s indirect is because they suppose it allows them to get away with horrors like this.

[Lailoken]

He is serving poorly if he is costing the municipality $500,000.

[anon26940528]

Earlier today, I was wondering what the circumstances were in which I would call the police. That list just gets shorter and shorter.

[cameronh1403]

Which is sad. I was raised to trust the police, but now I would be more likely to avoid the police.

[popobawa4u]

@Lailoken

He is serving poorly if he is costing the municipality $500,000.

And the municipality would be serving poorly also, if they were assuming that taxpayer money is to be used to pay for government indiscretions.

[SteampunkBanana]

They’ve been making it hard to talk to your kids about who they should go to for help. At this point I’m recommending the fire department to them.

[LDoBe]

At least firefighters don’t have a long and growing documented history of killing people (although the profession itself is very attractive to arsonists, in the same way and for similar reasons for why the police are very attractive to murderous psychopaths)

[asdadsas]

Two things I always told my sons: 1) don’t join the military and 2) don’t become a cop. Especially my younger son who has anger management issues as it is.

[daneel]

So…paramedics?

[Lailoken]

This seems to be the modern version of “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town”.

[luis_stoole]

low paid?
they are better paid then most low paid people.
$52k average.

[Lailoken]

You are right, that’s pretty good money. Although I am not sure if it’s worth the risk, but that’s another story.

[MarjaE]

Wait, another one?

Somehow I was thinking of the beating and “suicide” of Sandra Bland. @#$%

[anon41977465]

that didn’t look like a bad kick really, which I guess was why he was able to react immediately with no apparent problems.