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Hitting her in the eye would have killed her. So funny! What is wrong with these people?
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One reason to remain hopeful about the USA is that there’s still means to correct it’s own mistakes.
Hope this lady can sue the bullies who did this homeless!
I saw this video a year ago and it made me sick in the stomach. I won’t watch it again but I have to say it did have an impact on my life as I hope it does for many others.
I’m sorry but I had a good chuckle on this one. She’ll sue the department because she can’t prove who actually shot her. 2nd, its easy for the police to say that they used the rubber bullets as intended and that one might have bounced from the ground (as intended) and struck her in the head by accident. I think the serious problem for the police is the video on them laughing about it. She’ll get an out of court settlement but the bad side (and I know this for fact) she’ll be in the police cross hairs for the rest of her life. I’m not saying their gonna kill her, I’m saying their gonna gonna do a lot more traffic stops on her, and ticket her for the most moronic things you can think of.
#3, Based on that video I would say the police are mostly morons anyway so doing moronic things to this woman should come natural for them.
I was under the impression that firing rubber bullets at that distance was not allowed. It’s a very strong punch to any part of a body, and possibly lethal, not only if it hits the eyes.
Not for nothing that the rallying cry used to be “off the pigs”. They’re trying to “off” us.
I used to live in Broward County (Fort Lauderdale) and can say this police schmuck aspires to be another Nick Navarro.
See..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Navarro
Basically, relishing in abuse of power and loves the accompanying media attention. This is the type of shit law enforcement condoned in this country which is now also an amusement industry.
Where are all the people who claim the police are completely innocent and challenge us to find any example of police brutality now?
The loss of one wrongful injury lawsuit could easily buy enough use-of-force judgement training simulators to cover a metropolitan city police force. But city officials complain about the upfront costs and try to save a buck by hiring under-educated and under-trained cops.
http://www.virtra.com/tr_prd_360.htm
It’s a no brainer, but city officials need a few grey cells to make the right decisions.
First, the lady was not threatening anyone, so there was no reason to shoot her with anything at all, much less using potentially deadly force at close range, as they did.
I found the comment by one of the police very telling, calling citizens “cockroaches”, and then the rest of the them laughing.
If citizens are “cockroaches” it is perfectly OK to shoot them, or do anything else you want to them. Cockroaches are vermin and don’t even deserve to live.
Broward County “police” are nothing more than thugs with uniforms. I thank God I don’t live there.
If they had shot her in the head with a rubber biscuit, THEN maybe it would have been funny.
Oh how I yearn for the simple days of pistol whipping.
Pussies. both sides.
The police departments around the country are staffed, largely, by borderline psychopaths, thugs, sick creeps….many of whom were in the military in Iraq or Afghanistan and having committed sadistic acts and atrocities against the populations there, return to the States and join the police forces.
These sickos love violently assaulting people. They can’t get enough of it.
And as this country morphs further into a fascist police state, these sick fucks will truly be in hog heaven as they get carte blanche to inflict the most brutal, vicious and sadistic acts against us.
they are satanic inspired evil demons posing as cops.
Well, she is ugly. It did no permanent damage and it might keep the attention whore from holding up a sign in front of an approaching group of police.
Another reason not to visit.
She should have been ironing my shirts.
Oh come on! Those officers are just trying to have some fun at work. It’s not like they shot her as a joke, they were just laughing about the results afterward. They’re just trying to lighten things up. These are the same people who have to deal with murderers, drunks, and all kinds of criminals all day. Let them have there laughs.
I have long maintained that to even want to be a law enforcement officer requires a character flaw (personality defect): the inordinate need to control others. It’s closely related to the Peter Pan Syndrome. It can be characterized by imagining a kindergarten child saying, “Oooh! That’s against the rules; I’m TELLING!” Only these guys are armed and barely have a minimum of restraint.
(Of course it doesn’t help that we have WAY too many laws, and the average citizen is an idiot.)
I have a personal anecdote. It is telling because it is the small sort of casual humiliation which makes forms your view of someone ever after.
It was really a very small matter but it is the same general type of thing, something that cops do to non-cops and get a big laugh about it. When they have their “cop face” they are not one of us, they become occupiers, or something like that.
Way back in 1977 I pulled over to ask for help from some cops who were directing traffic into a stadium where I was headed for my first day or work there. I had been given one set of instructions for were to drive and park by my employers but the cops were heading us in another direction. All I did was as the cop for help and he reached into my car and shoved my head up against the ceiling and generally rough me up then told me to go on. He and his buddies laughed their heads off. Obviously that was a regular fun activity for them, roughing up someone on a whim, just for laughs.
So, okay, it only lasted a few seconds, and I was hardly injured. But that’s not the point. The real damage to me was in the view I’ve had ever since, of never being able to fully trust cops and knowing that they (when in “cop face”) think of non-cops as others. And the real problem overall is that cops stop being citizens and become something more akin to occupying troops.
it seems like there is a different police brutality incident every week. its insane.
Stupid question #1…
Whom do the police work for??
Not the PEOPLE.
Stupid Answer #1
City, State, Feds, and the highest bidder.
WOW sounds like we are back in the OLD days when Unions were TRYING to start..And the Cops shot them ALL.
Too many cops. Too many laws.
Too many laws-or police not following the law?
Could any of you anarchists give a few examples?
#21, Mike S,
the real problem overall is that cops stop being citizens and become something more akin to occupying troops.
Well put and too close to the truth.
Bobbo
Too many laws; a few examples
Disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct- any law that means anything the officer thinks it does is inherently abusive.
Public obscenity – any law that can arrest people for cussing is hypocritical, wrong, and bound to be applied unevenly. How many cops have been arrested for cussing in public, I wonder?
Free speech zones, protest permits, ect. – Our freedom of assembly and speech is not constitutionally restrained by permits and zones, how do they get away with it?
Prosecutorial immunity – encourages abuse, because there is never any recourse or punishment for wrongdoing.
Knock and announce raids – kills cops, kills innocents. The only ‘upside’ is the chance to pimp the ninja gear.
Online Gambling Bans, taxi medallions, interior designer permits and all other ‘protection racket’ laws.
Silly restrictions on gun rights that never restrain criminals.
Baggie bans – What are photographers and gardeners supposed to do?
TSA anything – doesn’t improve security, makes travel miserable.
Endless executive orders that grant powers from the air to suspend the constitution and end the Republic at the drop of a hat.
How about the endless regs that tie up small businesses and make it near impossible to make it while large government contractors get away with not even paying taxes, or raping their employees?
Shall I continue? Can any one else please give examples?
#28–Li==thanks. What was I thinking?
Of course, any law one doesn’t like is one of “too many.”
I could make a long list myself, but I wouldn’t include your first item WHEN the complaint for public disturbance is made by a citizen rather than the cop operating alone?
I also don’t think a law is too much only if the disapproval is because it restricts someone’s self centered behavior in an invasion of someone else’s rights==as in disturbing the peace?
What would YOU do with a neighbor who won’t turn down loud music at 3:00 AM?
Any law can be abused, that doesn’t mean there are too many laws, just lack of judgment when the cops misbehave. HEY!!!–what we need are more laws like a few that install citizen review boards?
So, I’m sure that you know the 140,000 pages of the US code well enough to never run afoul of it Bobbo? That’s quite an accomplishment.
By the by, did I even mention noise ordinances? Look, just because O’Reily makes stuff up to ‘win’ arguments doesn’t mean that it’s a valid tactic of debate. Oh, and look at all of the points you didn’t choose to refute!
Bobbo is a perfect name for you, for you surely are a clown.
#30–Li==you’re cute. Getting upset when I’m basically agreeing with you, expressly and by implication?
No, I don’t know 140,000 pages of anything. Thats why I agreed with you.
Noise at 300AM gets charged as Disturbance of the Peace doesn’t it?–Your second point? Maybe if you weren’t so ready to take offense, you would see the calm waters of the middle ground?
O’Reilly?–Oh really? bobbo is actually a clown trap.
Lets see, “Li” pronounced “l – eye?” No, too easy. I’ll leave it for the Patriots and Pinheads section.