You have here a bus driver that gets hit by an off-duty cop. On the background is the call made presumably to 911 to report the incident. The driver then claims to have been hit on the left eye. The good thing is that there’s a camera to record the assault.
Some guy (probably a protester) gets arrested by men in military uniform. A civilian-looking car came and took the guy away, like the guy was being kidnapped. What happened next is not known. It kind of plays on everyone’s fears when a seemingly random arrest like this happens, especially if the vehicle is unmarked.
You’ve gotta admire this police officer. He wrestled with the suspect instead of just beating the guy senseless or putting some lead into him. Hat’s off to this police officer. Yes sir, you did a great job with this one. You’re a shining example of how the police should be. Keep up the good work!
These two officers deserve credit for apprehending the suspect and remaining professional all throughout. You don’t see cheap shots, excessive violence, or any form of abuse. This is how police work should be done. Great job you two! You just have to wish that all police officers are like these two.
Well, protests are hard to deal with. You’d have complaints flying from the police and protesters. You have police abuse on the one hand, and protesters being stubborn and belligerent on the other. It’s a hard case to decide. Police stops riots with a hard hand, and protesters are (more often than not) involved in them.
The police are indeed camera-shy. Here, a police officer confronts someone taking a video of an arrest. The video taker was also taken down. What’s disturbing is that the man being arrested is asking for the grounds for arrest. It would be hard to tell from the video what the grounds for arrest is. Is it police violence, or just a crazy guy being apprehended?
We know that resisting arrest forces the police to mete out police violence. But running over a guy with a police car? That’s police abuse there, as if there wasn’t any other way to bring the guy down and arrest him. If this video is true, then this clearly spells out police brutality.
Posted On: September 30th, 2009
By: Stopyo - Submit
I’m divided on this one. The old lady was taken down by a female officer, and on the video, it looked like police violence. But consider the situation where the old lady was handling something like a sharp object. This would be a tough call. If you can disarm the old lady without hurting her, that would be ideal. But then, did the officer exert excessive force?