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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Feb 23, 2014 - 7:16am |
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imho
i actually feel for police officers
think about their job
a bazillion rules (the vast majority are unnecessary and senseless)
they are tasked to enforce on people who in most cases probably aren't aware
trained in the initiation of overwhelming force/aggression on folks who are ignorant of the violation
or are committing victimless crimes
what could go wrong?
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Feb 23, 2014 - 7:04am |
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Ed Krayewski|Feb. 19, 2014 10:41 am
Last Friday, an unidentified female police officer in Euharlee, Ga. Fatally shot 17-year-old Christopher Roupe after officers showed up with a probation warrant for Roupe’s father. A Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesperson alleged Roupe answered the door holding a handgun, while the family’s attorney claims Roupe was holding a Wii controller and opened the door after the cops knocked but failed to identify themselves. The officer shot Roupe once in the chest, killing him. WSB-TV in Atlanta also relays witness accounts: Neighbors said they ran to the home after they heard the shot. “When we got up there, they said there was a Wii remote in his hand and she shot him,” said Tia Howard, who lives a few doors down. Neighbor Ken Yates said he saw the female officer moments after the fatal shot. “This is tragic. She came out of this house. She put her head in her hands and she was sobbing. Supposedly, he opened the door with a BB gun and in my opinion I think he was playing a game with his neighborhood buddies,” said Yates. The female officer is unidentified, and there have been no charges. The GBI generally investigates police shootings in Georgia, but the spokesperson’s seemingly definitive statement on what the teenager was holding before any investigation is complete and with contradicting witness accounts available in the press would appear to preclude the possibility that any investigation could be impartial. The GBI said an autopsy was completed Monday.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Feb 23, 2014 - 5:32am |
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RichardPrins wrote:It gets "better"...
(...) “This person absolutely took something that was as simple as ‘Austin Police – Stop!’ and decided to do everything you see on that video,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a press conference Friday, according to Austin NPR station 90.5 KUT. “And quite frankly she wasn’t charged with resisting. She’s lucky I wasn’t the arresting officer, because I wouldn’t have been as generous. … In other cities there’s cops who are actually committing sexual assaults on duty, so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas,” Acevedo said. Not long after that, it became clear that Acevedo had essentially told the public that they should be grateful that all the police officers did was bundle a woman who had been jogging through the streets of Austin into the back of a police car because she crossed against the light, instead of molesting her or charging her with more serious offenses. Saturday evening, Acevedo issued an apology for his earlier comments, calling it the result of an emotional week. (...)
What a great guy.
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R_P
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Feb 22, 2014 - 9:08pm |
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It gets "better"...
(...) “This person absolutely took something that was as simple as ‘Austin Police – Stop!’ and decided to do everything you see on that video,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a press conference Friday, according to Austin NPR station 90.5 KUT. “And quite frankly she wasn’t charged with resisting. She’s lucky I wasn’t the arresting officer, because I wouldn’t have been as generous. … In other cities there’s cops who are actually committing sexual assaults on duty, so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas,” Acevedo said. Not long after that, it became clear that Acevedo had essentially told the public that they should be grateful that all the police officers did was bundle a woman who had been jogging through the streets of Austin into the back of a police car because she crossed against the light, instead of molesting her or charging her with more serious offenses. Saturday evening, Acevedo issued an apology for his earlier comments, calling it the result of an emotional week. (...)
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Feb 22, 2014 - 8:13pm |
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RichardPrins wrote:Cops arrest jogging woman because she couldn't hear them | The Daily CallerMembers of the University of Texas-Austin community are outraged that cops arrested an unnamed jogger who ignored police orders because she was wearing earbuds and couldn’t hear them. The arrest happened at an intersection near the UT campus. Cops had been camped out at the intersection, issuing dozens of citations to people for jaywalking. They planned to ticket a jogging woman, and ordered her to stop. But she was wearing earbuds and couldn’t hear them. The officers chased the woman down and grabbed her arm from behind. Not knowing what was happening, the woman pulled away from the officer. This meant that she was resisting, and the woman soon found herself sitting on the ground in handcuffs. Local man Chris Quintero watched the incident from a coffee ship window, and was irritated by the police officers’ behavior. He snapped a picture of the woman during her arrest. “I was annoyed that the cops were kind of just hanging out on the corner giving citation after citation,” said Quintero in an interview with My Fox Austin. “She grabbed his arm and she shook him off.” Quintero said it was clear that the woman couldn’t hear the officers, and didn’t mean to disobey the police. A video of the arrest was posted to Youtube. Four cops eventually escorted the woman to a police car. When she realized she was going to be put in the car, she began screaming that she hadn’t done anything wrong. (...)
she failed to respect their AUTHORITEH!!!
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R_P
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Feb 22, 2014 - 8:10pm |
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Cops arrest jogging woman because she couldn't hear them | The Daily CallerMembers of the University of Texas-Austin community are outraged that cops arrested an unnamed jogger who ignored police orders because she was wearing earbuds and couldn’t hear them. The arrest happened at an intersection near the UT campus. Cops had been camped out at the intersection, issuing dozens of citations to people for jaywalking. They planned to ticket a jogging woman, and ordered her to stop. But she was wearing earbuds and couldn’t hear them. The officers chased the woman down and grabbed her arm from behind. Not knowing what was happening, the woman pulled away from the officer. This meant that she was resisting, and the woman soon found herself sitting on the ground in handcuffs. Local man Chris Quintero watched the incident from a coffee ship window, and was irritated by the police officers’ behavior. He snapped a picture of the woman during her arrest. “I was annoyed that the cops were kind of just hanging out on the corner giving citation after citation,” said Quintero in an interview with My Fox Austin. “She grabbed his arm and she shook him off.” Quintero said it was clear that the woman couldn’t hear the officers, and didn’t mean to disobey the police. A video of the arrest was posted to Youtube. Four cops eventually escorted the woman to a police car. When she realized she was going to be put in the car, she began screaming that she hadn’t done anything wrong. (...)
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bokey
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Feb 22, 2014 - 9:26am |
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mutepoint wrote:Careful what you might conjure up. Mkay? Please.
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Coaxial
Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:
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Feb 22, 2014 - 8:05am |
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This stuff happens everyday in Chicago....
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bokey
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Feb 22, 2014 - 7:55am |
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DaveInVA wrote: That kid is just lucky he didn't get shot dead instead as trigger happy cops are these days.
Most of the younger cops got their heads messed up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead of like in the old days when they were members of the community, they consider everyone to be the enemy.
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DaveInSaoMiguel
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
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Feb 22, 2014 - 7:26am |
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RichardPrins wrote: That kid is just lucky he didn't get shot dead instead as trigger happy cops are these days.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Feb 22, 2014 - 6:19am |
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RichardPrins wrote: Sure glad that dangerous criminal is off the streets.
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R_P
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Feb 21, 2014 - 9:33pm |
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DaveInSaoMiguel
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
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Feb 20, 2014 - 7:34am |
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Wasn't sure if this belongs here or in the "Oh the stupidity" thread.
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R_P
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Feb 14, 2014 - 1:14pm |
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Innocent man beaten and tasered by California police for signaling he is deaf — RT USAA California man was allegedly beaten and tasered multiple times by four police officers while attempting to signal that he was deaf. Now, he's suing local law enforcement. The suit was filed on behalf of Jonathan Meister by the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, and claims police used excessive force and violated Meister’s civil rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The incident took place on February 13, when Meister visited a friend to pick up snowboarding equipment that was stored in his home. Suspecting a burglary, a neighbor called out to the man, who didn’t respond because he cannot hear. When two officers arrived at the scene shortly after, Meister reportedly put his boxes down and tried to use hand gestures to tell them he was deaf. As he approached police, though, the officers supposedly grabbed his hands, turned him around, and attempted to handcuff him. “Because he is deaf, Mr. Meister depends on using his hands while facing a person to communicate,” the lawsuit states, according to a local publication called the Daily Breeze. “The officers’ sudden aggression, which both caused pain and interfered with his ability to communicate, caused Mr. Meister reflexively to pull his hands away, hop back over the fence and step toward the gate ... to create some space so that he could communicate.” Police then became more physical with Meister, taking him to the ground with a stun gun. Two other officers had arrived at the scene by this time, and helped the other officials by striking Meister with their fist and feet. The Courthouse News Service reported that in the lawsuit, Meister said police then subjected him to multiple "punishing shocks" with tasers and were purposely "burning his flesh." Meister was eventually knocked unconscious and taken to a hospital, where he was charged with assault. Police described him as “aggressive and violent” in their report, but ultimately ended up dropping the charges and releasing him. According to Courthouse News, Meister’s lawsuit claims the entire confrontation could have been avoided if Hawthorne police were trained to properly communicate with deaf individuals. “We’re really concerned about the problem of law enforcement and people who are deaf,” said Meister’s attorney, Paula Pearlman, to the Daily Breeze. “He wasn’t doing anything other than trying to get away from people who were hurting him.” The Hawthorne Police Department declined to comment on the situation.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Feb 12, 2014 - 4:51am |
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Feb 11, 2014 - 6:52pm |
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katzendogs wrote: Yes, but depending on the time of day and the local resources, that may not have been possible to get an immediate response.
Point taken. Animal control is only available 9-5 on weekdays in this town.
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katzendogs
Location: Pasadena ,Texas Gender:
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Feb 11, 2014 - 6:48pm |
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Red_Dragon wrote: Who they should have called was animal control, right?
Yes, but depending on the time of day and the local resources, that may not have been possible to get an immediate response.
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FourFortyEight
Location: The Dirty South Gender:
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Feb 11, 2014 - 6:47pm |
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Lazy8 wrote:Red_Dragon wrote:The incidents demonstrative of the sort of attitude cc speaks of are almost daily reported in the news. ...because they not normal. We've all met cops with attitude issues, in fact they are probably disproportionally represented in police-civilian encounters. The worse the attitude the more likely we are to meet them. That doesn't make this kind of assholery normal or representative of cops in general, and I doubt many of us (Raspy excepted) have much insight into what goes thru a cops mind on a daily basis. Nailed it.
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katzendogs
Location: Pasadena ,Texas Gender:
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Feb 11, 2014 - 6:46pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote: My boss' dogs (Yellow labs), the older female especially, are extremely intimidating when behind a closed door or gate. He put up a gate in the office to keep them from going out and sniffing customers' crotches, but now they stand at the gate and froth and lather and you better believe they are scary. Leave the gate open and they're just normal labs. I'm not joking at all. I know those dogs and when I go to their house and knock, they hit the door snarling, get a whack from the shock collar maybe, or at least grabbed by the collar, and then I go in. Once I'm in they're all dopey hey sniff hey hey sniff. Boss' brother-in-law walked in unannounced one day and got bit on the ass and it was a real chomp... no injury (classic case of ripped pants, the dog got his wallet). If it had been anyone else, the dog would have had to be put down. He is a very conscientious dog owner, too. Works with them a lot, has professional trainers work with them and him and they're great bird dogs. The older one is just wired different, and it's rubbing off some on the new pup, who's not related at all (bought from out of state just to avoid the gene pool around here).
As we were trained back then, it takes 6 months to train the trainer and 6 weeks to train the dog. Labs and other large breeds need basic obedience. But they also need lots of room to run, play and be trained. Simple obedience can be learned online nowadays. But I do agree with all of the comments.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Feb 11, 2014 - 6:37pm |
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RASPUTIN wrote:
Actually, what started it was somebody calling the police about two dogs running loose with no leashes. Just sayin'. Who they should have called was animal control, right?
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