I watched the footage on the news earlier today. All I can say is wow, WOW.

 

OK...some one tell me why I'm brain dead and can't make the Youtube Vid display?

Done it many times before. All I did was remove the "s" from https?

Please educate me? I'm feeling techno stupid.

 

Wrap the part after the '=' in

 

What that doesn't look justified? Looks like she was carrying one of those assault shopping bags.

Sarcasm off

 

I'd sure like to see that event from the start.

 

I doubt you will feel any better about it.

 

 

when I see something like this .... and in this particular case .... what would happen to a motorist that stopped to intercede .... would he/she get the ever living hell kicked out of them also?

 

Shameful, and disgusting!

 

Does anyone have the link to the entire video, uncut, without overlays. I would like to see the approach, which can been seen in the news video but is marred by the overlay.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a54KRz0EGA

 

I would appear to me that when they go to the ground she brings her knee up into his groin. It also looks like he is hitting her arms and hands as he tries to control her thrashing. Anyone else here had to try and control a crazy person, fighting you on the side of a freeway, with cars passing just inches from them?

 

Clearly she was a threat.

 

Whatever it takes to make it home to his family at the end of the day...

Protecting citizens...

Defending justice and public welfare...

Thwarting crime...

Enforcing laws...

Video cameras should be illegal, I'm sooo over cops being victimized by tyranical citizens who think they have a right or a priviledge of providing oversight or observations to what these fine officers do, day in and day out.

Cops, especially American cops, have the most dangerous job on the face of the earth. Everyday thousands of them lose their lives defending our freedoms from traffic violators and jay walkers...

This is getting old pretty ******* fast.

I wish my tone was readable.

 

Had he left her unmolested, and simply followed and "talked" what crime would have taken place? None probably. Even if she was crazy or had "comtempt of cop", that's not a crime.

 

From what I understand, the officer did try to talk with her when she was on the side of the on ramp. She fled through the on-ramp traffic to the side of the highway. Unrestrained, the officer has to consider that she might, once again, cross against traffic, this time on the highway, putting herself and others at risk.
Then the headline would read, "Woman runs onto highway and the CHP officer did nothing to stop her."

PS, pretty sure running out onto the highway is a crime in CA. It is in Ohio:thumb:

 

If a citizen can be forced to take an FST and / or a breathalyzer test when there is suspicion of DUI based on observational evidence, I think that when we see scenes like this of officers brutally using force where it appears to be excessive we should be suspicious of 'roid rage' based on the observational evidence and they should be forced to take a steroids test.

If steroids are found, they should lose their policing privileges for 1 year and they should lose their ability to be covered by corporation counsel and protection under qualified immunity. After their suspension, they should have to self insure for liability.

 

New term. Punching bag lady. Guess he left taser in car.

 

We need to do something to make them go back into the shadows to hide.

 

It looked like the cop was excessively violent. The arrest didn't appear to call for that level of force IMHO. He'll probably get fired and charged criminally. Can we please not paint all cops with this guy’s brush?

 

The cop will probably get a six-month paid vacation and "be back out on the street" as the cops like to say.

 

But it's for the kids!

Children could have been hurt, lest this brave officer didn't make the ultimate sacrifice.

 

Except for the damage that would have been caused to oncoming cars, he should have let her cross.

 

I can understand taking her to the ground for the arrest. Drivers are apt to swerve, emergency brake and possibly crash, in order to avoid hitting a pedestrian. Her running crazy in traffic could get people killed, so tackling her was in order. The punching part....not so much.

 

This looks like a case of someone not having enough hand-to-hand training. Maybe SB LEOs can enlighten me, but there has to be some control and subdue techniques between talking to someone and going UFC on her, right? At least he didn't draw and shoot.

Couldn't pay me enough to do LE work....

 

Did it always go as planned?

 

No. You still only react to what's actually happening. What did you see that justified the repeated punching? Are you saying that every time you have to take someone to the ground, that kind of beat-down is justified?

 

We ask LEO to go out on the streets and do the dirty work that we don't want to do.

Then as a society, when they act with too much force for our blood we call "Police Brutality".

Listen people, all she had to do is stop when the LEO ask her and talk about what she was doing is a safe location --- not in the middle of the interstate.

What I saw was a LEO out there by himself preventing a crazy lady from jaywalking on the interstate. He had traffic in front of him and behind him on the entrance ramp.

The last thing I would want to do as an LEO is roll around on the ground in front of a semi truck. I'd rather go home.

Sure, we could all call it police brutality and get her a nice cash payment from the city.

Or, we could let all crazy people know not to **** with the cops and save a bit on tax dollars - - - or maybe go back to the days where LEO rode in teams.

Two officers could have taken care of this problem, but we only hired enough for one per car.

The officer may lose his job. Maybe he should. However, he did get to go home that night and has the opportunity to change careers.

 

Some pretty good rationalizations here. I especially like the part about this being all someone else's fault.

 

By the way if they are grabbing my nuts or something then punch away. But I don't see the threat here.

 

had to watch it again ... wasn't sure .... the cop had his gloves on .... mandatory for punching out people these days ....

 

Out of curiosity does adrenalin and instincts take over at some point? I realize this wasn't a traffic stop but my buddy is a state cop and he tells me that he never knows who he'll get.
Now days if I get pulled over, I put both hands on the wheel at the 11 oclock position. Years ago I would immediately start rifling through the glove box for insurance and registration. Now I wait.

 

It starts off strategy and training, but if it get's really bad it turns into adrenalin and survival instinct.

 

You would think, her being street savvy, would of put a better fight up.

 

Getting a contact shot off with the Knee shows a lot of street savvy!

A lessor trained person would have been stopped.