His excuse was that his cruiser suffered from “break fade”, and that the kick happened because his muscles had already fired.
Good thing he didn’t already have his trigger finger muscles fired or he wouldn’t have been able to stop himself from shooting the victim. He is a bastion of self control, just the sort of person you want to give authority and a lethal weapon to.
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Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Oh, Canada. You are so dreamy.
Oddly, in the world of healthcare malpractice, saying Sorry REDUCES the number of filed lawsuits. People know we aren’t perfect, and they’re sometimes OK with mistakes when folk own up to their behavior.
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Do they do that in your country for cops?
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We’d be reading a different story about a dead biker then. Cops kill people who kill or attack cops.
That biker was driving like maybe the guy behind him wanted to knock him over and then kick him at gunpoint.
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Speaking as a rider, the part where he rear ended the bike was the single item that I was most galled by, because it carried the highest risk of injury. Well, okay, assuming the cop doesn’t actually shoot the guy, anyway. When you knock over someone like that, there is a substantial risk of serious injury, depending on a bunch of factors like the weight of the bike, the angle, whether the bike gets stuck under the bumper of the car, whether the rider’s leg gets stuck under the bike, and on and on. While injury isn’t certain, there’s a very high degree of uncertainty about what might happen. It could potentially have resulted in a lot worse than a broken collarbone.
Generally speaking, you just do not ever run into a bike with a car, under any circumstances.
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Generally speaking, you don’t run into anything with anything. Unless you’re jousting. But yeah, bumping the biker with the car is pretty much intentionally trying to hurt the biker. Much like shooting a horse is going to very likely injure the rider.
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Okay so its a traffic accident, not part of an arrest. Did he get a ticket?
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What kind of fool holds a handgun sideways, with only one hand and charges an opponent. Use the gun or melee you can’t use both. Should this have been a dangerous person and that kick missed we would be talking about a very dead cop.
The wise choice if he thought the person dangerous would have been to hold his gun in a ready position (pointing down) about 10 to 20 feet from the cyclist (victim), Identify himself and order compliance.
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No, you see, he can’t ejaculate until after he knows the biker is scared and injured.
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hough I’d like to know how much time passes between the biker going down and the officer kicking him. the cut to the tape between the two events may show the biker non-compliant (with good reason).
I know that my riding gear is very protective against physical blows, so it’s vaguely possible that the officer thought that knocking the person to the ground with a kick would be more effective than using his baton or a grapple lock. (taser would be useless against riding gear and the helmet would make pepper spray less effective)
But the real problem is why is he that close with a drawn weapon. (telegraphing you intent to melee not withstanding)
Do we need a poster up in police offices with a little kid reminding them to use their words.
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That’d be a good one. Along with a big ass diagram of a Betari Box fucking everywhere they have to look in order to do their job. Just to remind them that if they’re an asshole, then that makes people react to them as if they’re assholes.
It’s beautifully simple. And it’d serve the asshats in blue well to remember it. Maybe fewer of them would be killed in the line of duty if they actually treated non-police as if they’re people.
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My Dads a LEO and most of them read books like Verbal Judo and such that encourage deescalation through communication. It only takes one mistake to really make a mess of things in that like of work. But your right “Don’t be a Dick” should be order of the day.
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Sorry for the invective. It’s perhaps unnecessary, and counterproductive. Hey man, as long as your dad reports on his colleagues when they break the law and take liberties with their power, I consider him a good cop.
Really, a lot of people talk a big game about good apples and bad apples, and yeah it’s nice when a cop doesn’t injure and kill people pointlessly, but that’s sort of asking for a cookie because you didn’t rape someone.
The good cops are the ones who have the fortitude of character to be intolerant of their colleagues abusing those they are charged with serving and protecting.
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Which, valid as it may be (although I wouldn’t be too confident of the taser-proofness of most bike gear), is rather missing the point that there is nothing in this situation that comes anywhere close to justifying the use of a baton or a grapple lock, let alone the actual assault shown. Even a drawn weapon at a sensible distance would have been excessive for this situation.
It was an arrest for speeding and making an illegal overtaking move. No person was harmed, no person was ever at serious risk of harm except the rider (and even that is highly debatable; he didn’t appear to be going that quick by sportsbike standards).
These are not major felonies; they do not justify an aggressively violent arrest in the absence of violent resistance. Even if we add an attempted evade arrest to the charge list (it’s unclear that the rider was aware that the unmarked car was there before the end), there is still nothing there to justify violence.
The rider was stationary at the time of the assault and making no attempt to either flee or resist. There was absolutely no cause for any violence of any sort.
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There are few jobs that make you really really want to kick people so fucking much as helldesking does.
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