Vulgar Displays Of Power From America’s Worst Men In Uniform
Police brutality is one of those things that is probably happening less but, in a time of cell phone and dashboard video cameras, is being reported more. We are certainly seeing more of it on the computer screen, some of which would be more than disgusting enough to make Vic Mackey blush.
These days, actual police beatings are less frequent, but what is perhaps more worrying is law enforcement’s increasing willingness to use the taser. It has risen from being a weapon with the potential to provide a less lethal response in high-risk situations to a tool of first resort that is employed at the slightest provocation. Citizen rights seem to have been eroded to the point that people are little more than recalcitrant cattle, with a zap of the cattleman’s prod awaiting anyone that dares to question the authority of our men and women in blue.
The cases in the videos that follow serve as a clear demonstration of the dangers of allowing the wrong people to be placed in positions of authority, but are far from worst on record, those tend to happen when cameras are not around or be so offensive that we choose not to show them here.
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Seattle Police Beat 15-year-old Girl For Kicking Off a Shoe
Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Schene attacked a “real lippy” teenage girl for calling he and his partner “fat pigs”. Monica Calhoun and a friend were arrested after they borrowed her friend’s mother’s car without permission.
What happened next defies belief. Shown in the video, Schene slams Calhoun face-first into the cell wall, throws her to the ground and strikes her. Considering the fact that Calhoun is only 15-years-old and considerably smaller than her adult assailant, it seems a little excessive.
Outcome: The officer in question has been charged with assault and faces up to a year in prison if convicted.
Oklahoma State Police Pull Over Ambulance, Choke Paramedic
In this video, Oklahoma police officer Daniel Martin pulls over an ambulance with a patient en route to a hospital, because one of the paramedics allegedly made a rude hand gesture. When the police officer starts to issue the driver with a failure to yield citation, the commander of the ambulance, paramedic Maurice White attempts to intervene the situation quickly escalates.
When officer Daniel Martin tries to handcuff the officer in question attempts to employ a painful wrist lock in order to handcuff him. When the paramedic pushes him away, officer Daniel Martin grabs him by throat. It is believed that Martin’s wife was in the car at the time of the incident.
The dashboard cam footage below shows the incident in its entirety.
Fox News provides a few more details about the altercation.
The driver of the ambulance Paul Franks gives his version of events.
Outcome: Trooper Daniel Martin has since been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation.
Five Police Officers Beat Unconscious Suspect
Five police officers in Birmingham, Alabama beat a suspect who was lying on the ground unconscious after his vehicle crashed while evading police. The victim, Anthony Warren had no memory of the beating.
Outcome: It is alleged that police initially tried to cover up the evidence of Anthony Warren’s beating and provided a tape to the Court that did not include the assault as he lay helpless upon the ground. When the original tape was found, the five officers involved in the incident were dismissed. Warren is currently serving 20 years for assault.
Police Deploy Taser on Compliant Man For Being “Snotty”
In this footage, South Carolina police use a taser on a “suspected” drunk driver while he is lying on the ground and then pepper sprays his mother for good measure. Six police were involved in the arrest of the compliant suspect.
A taser was deployed after the suspect became “edgy” and “snotty.” He was warned of the impending use of the taser with the following:
Get on the ground, get on the ground right now, you’re going to be tased.
Unfortunately the only footage available is from British police reality show, The Fuzz.
Outcome: Unknown [via Wimp]
Police Subdue Baptist Pastor With Tasers and Beating
Baptist Pastor Steven Anderson was repeatedly shot with a taser and savagely beaten by Border Patrol officers, one of whom used nunchakus, for refusing to consent to a search after a K-9 unit “indicated” that there were drugs or people in his vehicle. He was 50 miles from the border driving from west to east. After beating and arresting Anderson they searched his vehicle to find nothing but tools.
Steven Anderson gives his version of events in the video below.
Outcome: Anderson was charged with blocking a public highway and failing to obey an officer’s orders directing traffic.
[Steven Anderson]
Police Officer Deploys Taser on 72-year-old Woman
Seventy-two-year-old Kathryn Winkfein was shot with a taser by officer Chris Beezie.
The course of action was defended by the deputy’s commanding officer who explained:
She turned a very simple interaction with police into a very difficult one.
Outcome: Winkfein has been charged with resisting arrest and detention and at the time of writing awaiting trial.
Comrade Stalin would be proud.
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That’s messed up.
(cop pulls over black man)
(altercation begins)
(about 6 black guys walk up, each twice the cops size)
Tensions?
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