Timex
1641
Is this the general “WTF Police” thread?
Cause the crazy pool party thing happened a few days ago.
On the video captured, the crazy cop does a totally crazy barrel roll thing. It honestly confused me more than any of his other behavior, because it just seems so random. If he wasn’t in uniform, I believe other cops would assume he was on drugs, tripping his balls off or something.
Anyway, someone made a vine combining it with the Beasty Boys’ Sabotage.
Whoa holy cow, he wasn’t holding his gun at that point, was he? If so, I would’ve been ducking behind cover. :)
The whole incident was weird.
For example McKinney, TX was picked last year as the “best place to live in America” by Money Magazine.
The Atlantic wrote a pretty good piece about the weirdness in McKinney
ShivaX
1644
Yeah that roll… what the hell. I didn’t watch much of it, but it seemed the other officer had things well in hand and was talking to people, then drop roll comes running in and starts shit with everyone like they just busted a cartel ring or something.
Dude was like a real life Farva or something.
When I saw the clip, I found myself thinking “this is a guy who’s seen way too many action films and is desperate to star in one of his own.” That’s not the sort of person you want on the force.
magnet
1646
He has already resigned from the force.
Unless there is other footage, it’s reasonable to just assume he tripped before the roll.
But what a fucking cock.
Timex
1648
Well, there is other footage prior to that clip. He basically runs into the scene all crazy like, and then does that roll.
It’s possible he tripped I guess, there isn’t any footage that shows his left foot when he rolls. But he probably wouldn’t have tripped if he wasn’t running around like a crazy person.
He claims that his work earlier in the day (responding to one suicide and attempted suicide) took an emotional toll on him and lead to his actions at the party.
KevinC
1650
I hope he resigned with a resounding “I’m too old for this shit!” before barrel-rolling his way out of the building.
This is really pretty close to how these things ought to go: officer acknowledges his mistake, realizes maybe he’s not cut out for this, RESIGNS, and then later we learn about some extenuating circumstances. Since no one died (always key!) there’s nothing left but the civil suit and some sensitivity training. The end.
Timex
1653
Yeah, I don’t think he actually broke the law. He didn’t actually hurt anyone, as far as I know.
The author was a teacher. She was fired.
The best part of her post was the hashtags. WTF
RichVR
1655
Guy who called 911 on black kids at pool is a sick fuck.
The man who called 911 to complain about a group of black teenagers at a pool party in Texas, and defended the controversial police response as a “good amount of aggression”, is a convicted felon who spent time in jail for violent behaviour and torturing animals.
Judge holds that there is probable cause for murder charges in the Tamir Rice shooting.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/11/tamir-rice-police-officer-murder-charge
This is one of those cases where I do not see any possible outcome besides a guilty verdict. A 12 year old boy is playing with an airsoft gun. Someone calls the police. The police cruiser flies up right next to the kid, the officers jump out and within two seconds they have fired two shots at almost point-blank range. It was not a police action, it was an execution. Their actions left virtually no chance that this episode would not result in the death of the child.
magnet
1657
Hmmmm…
The judge’s recommendation, however, was brushed aside by Timothy McGinty, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor, who pledged to proceed as planned with having a grand jury decide on whether the officers should be charged.
“This case, as with all other fatal use of deadly force cases involving law enforcement officers, will go to the grand jury,” McGinty said in a statement. “That has been the policy of this office since I was elected. Ultimately, the grand jury decides whether police officers are charged or not charged.
I just hope that he isn’t following in the footsteps of St. Louis Prosecutor Bob McCulloch.
If only we put more money into education so underprivileged youth could have teachers as good as her!
Teiman
1659
The job of police is to enforce the law, even when it don’t make sense.
This make the police force undemocratic.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the crowd streams out onto the street, chasing 30 to 60 men dressed as Indians down to Griffin’s Wharf. In what John Adams calls an intrepid “exertion of popular power,” the men proceed to dump 342 chests of tea into the sea.
You have a country that is called USA, because something between 30 to 60 men decided to savotage a tea transport by dumping it into the sea.
Is a good thing to have a police force, but is a bad idea to give it extraordinary power, specially if that power may allow police (under bad guidance) to hurt a lot of citizens to protect a law. Most police forces have a pseudomiltiar structure, they receive orders, they obey these orders. Is not the best system to have people think about what they are doing and disagree with the orders if they feel are wrong.
At the same time, I think a police force can be the democracy best friend. By being less military than actual militar forces, by working for and with civilians, they are the people best positioned to say “No” to a order to kill civilians. Anything that push police into a militar mindset, push them to say “Yes sir” to a command to kill civilians, and thats a bad thing, you don’t want that.
Cops should not be a military occupation force, but civilians dressed with uniforms trying to maintain the order with their voice, their presence and the menace of violence in 99% of the cases.
In my humble opinion :P
Teiman, I fear a hell of a lot was lost in translation.
