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I get tired of reading stories of cops stepping way over their boundaries, but apparently a lot of cops don’t get tired of stepping way over their boundaries. In the spirit of it being Friday, I promise I’ll end on a high note. But first, let’s hear from the jerks.
Here’s a winner from Yuma, Arizona, where a Baptist Pastor was tazed and beaten bloody for refusing to consent to a police search of his car. There’s actual video of the whole incident here. It should be mandatory viewing.
Let’s move from Arizona to California, to this car chase and arrest. After exiting his vehicle and running into a neighborhood yard, Richard Rodriguez realized he was trapped, and laid face down on the ground, spread eagle. He looked like he knew what he was doing, that this wasn’t his first arrest, and he wanted to make sure he didn’t subject himself to more force than was necessary. That’s when police officer on the scene took a running start and punted him in the face. Video and story here.
In Philly a blind man was dragged from a plane (for questioning why there had been a 2 hour delay), and held for 20 hours or so. Of course, our overlords didn’t believe him when he told them he was blind, so he got bloodied up a bit running into things. He is employed as an international interpreter. Now he can tell a lot of people in a lot of different languages what gracious hosts we are.
Now it’s off to Mississippi, where the kind folks behind motorhomediaries.com were arrested for video taping the cops that pulled them over. Apparently the cops said that the camera ‘could have been a gun.’ What the hell does that mean? Did he think they were going to shoot him with a gun cleverly disguised as a camera, or does he have trouble differentiating guns from cameras? 'Jeez honey, I went to take a picture of myself for my officer of the year award, and you won’t believe the mistake I almost made...' Or maybe, just maybe, he was inventing a justification to do whatever the hell he wanted.
Which brings me to my final story, one in which I have to say the cops practiced a reasonable and fair amount of restraint, even when presented with three of the dumbest teenagers to walk the earth since I turned 20. After curfew, they pull up alongside an unmarked patrol car and ad-libbed their version of that old Grey Poupon commercial. From the article:
"At this time," according to the report, "the suspect vehicle approached on our driver side and shouted at Officer Palermo. Palermo rolled the window down and asked if he could be of assistance."
"The passenger in the suspect vehicle, later identified as Alex Skupien, was laughing and shouted, 'You guys got any weed?'" Granto and Palermo wrote.
According to police, Belviso, noticed the word "police" in big white letters on the vests Granto and Palermo were wearing.
"(Expletive!) They are (expletive) cops," Belviso yelled out.
Okay, so the passenger is an idiot. Now the driver gets to show his problem-solving-skills:
Belviso then attempted to make a fast getaway by what Granto and Palermo called "peeling out, making a left hand turn onto Hyde Park Boulevard, without using a turn sign."
The car was immediately pulled over for the traffic violation by the officers.
Big surprise there, guys. The officers found that the driver only had a learner’s permit, and no license. There were also four open cans of beer in the car. But we still haven’t heard anything from the guy in the backseat yet. There’s always a guy in the backseat, and he’s back there because he was wasn’t smart enough to call shotgun. Here’s our winner:
As police interviewed Belviso and Skupien, a passenger still in the rear seat of the car, Steven Carney, 17, opened another beer.
When Palermo asked Carney what he was doing, he told him, "If I'm going to jail, I might as well be (expletive) juiced."
Palermo told Carney to put the beer down, but, in the officers words, "he kept chugging it." When Palermo attempted to take the beer from Carney, the teen responded by throwing the beer at the officer.
Carney then got out of the car and attempted to fight the officers, flexing his muscles and shouting "What the (expletive)."
Wow. Just wow. Here’s how the officers handled it:
Palermo responded by drawing his Taser and training the red laser beam on Carney's chest. At that point Carney stopped threatening the officer.
Huh. No blood, no beatings, no actual tazing, and it appears that Carney did get to go to jail with a bit of a buzz on.
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