Video: Teen girl roughed up by cop describes beating
posted at 8:45 pm on March 2, 2009 by Allahpundit
A follow-up to yesterday’s megathread and poll. As of this writing, 48 percent of you want the cop canned and prosecuted, another 18 percent will be satisfied if he’s kicked off the force. I’m mystified as to why CBS thinks it’s relevant whether the shoe hit the cop or not; Calhoun insists that it didn’t, but the hallway surveillance cam seems to show it glancing off his hand. Who cares, though? Nothing would justify punching a teen girl in the back of the head when she’s on the floor, let alone having her Converse bounce off your wrist. Throw the book at him. Click the image to watch.
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One thing to consider before jumping on hte bandwagon for the firing of the LEO:
The only thing we’ve actually seen is a SELECTED portion of the security tapes and the statements made by the girl about the incident. Untill all the facts are known, judgements against the officer should be withheld. You know, Innocent until proven guilty and all that. We already know the girl has been charged with auto theft.
Hick on March 3, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Since the issue is the assault of the girl by the officer, all we need to consider is if the cop assaulted the girl or not. The video shows that he indeed did – quite thoroughly.
That only applies to those on the jury, Hick. Everybody else can make judgment as they see fit. Just as we don’t suspend our judgment on Obama until his 4 years are finished.(or suspend judgment on any politician, for that matter)
whatcat on March 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM
It takes a village to raise a child and the village that raised that child is called the black culture. A black culture wholly responsible for it’s continuiing and self perpetuating dysfunction. She is typical. I’m not afraid to say it, holder.
peacenprosperity on March 3, 2009 at 11:10 PM
You’ll have to say it louder; that unique looking kid playing the banjo in the background is drowning you out!
whatcat on March 4, 2009 at 12:00 AM
“we didn’t steal the car, we just borrowed it without permission”. How funny, isn’t that the definition of theft?
Dollayo on March 4, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Yeah, I guess it is asking too much for a car stealing kid living away from her parents to realize that it is pretty stupid to mess with a big guy carrying a gun. We’ll send flowers when she messes with the wrong person. That will make everything ok.
DannoJyd on March 4, 2009 at 6:28 AM
It does not matter what this girl did! She was in police custody at the time! This puts her and any citizen in a position where we as a civil society have certain expectations of our law enforcement people and the way this police officer acted is not acceptable under any reasonable explanation! EVER! This is not North Korea or the USSR! I do not want to live in a country where the police get to act like this! I support our police every time…but not like this!
sabbott on March 4, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Another case of a child with no home training. She should’ve gotten her discipiline at home long before this.
TrickyDick on March 4, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Normaly I side with the officers in these kinds of thing, but really, there is no reason for a strong rugged police officer to be beating up a female teenager like this. This speaks terrible things about our culture where we are okay with people in authority beating up on lesser people (or for men beating up women in any case) just because the woman is a spoiled brat. We American men are better than that, aren’t we?
Lawrence on March 4, 2009 at 11:23 AM
I’d say it says a lot more about us that we are willing to essentially ruin this cop’s life over this. I mean here’s a guy who’s dedicated his life to providing us security, who was assaulted and lost his cool (probably because this isn’t the first time he’s had to deal with this), and now he’s screwed, he’ll be a mall cop at best for the rest of his life.
And I’m all for it, it’s important that our law enforcement holds itself to a high standard of abiding the law themselves, and the only way to have that is to punish severely those that flagrantly disregard the law and the security of the citizenry. I just think our response confirms good things about our culture.
galenrox on March 4, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Her parents were probably attempting a belated instillation of discipline.
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A “Dutch Uncle” told me, “The time will come when you get arrested. The only thing that will help is being polite to the police.”
Having been wronged by the police; not a beating; I’m not a real fan of the police. But she used violence, and then he used affective violence. Absent of real injury that wasn’t out of line. The way she was going a real beat down to control her would become necessary.
darktood on March 4, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Nope, gaenrox, it only speaks to this police force having an out-of-control cop – nothing more. He made the choice to “ruin” his own life here, as he did when he was arrested for driving around high on pills and booze.
There is no excuse or reason to blame-shift for assaulting teenage girls, by his psychotic actions he brought it all on himself. As AP says, it’s book throwing time.
LOL! I love early afternoon comedy!
whatcat on March 4, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Yup, just as it’s asking too much for a police department not to have a violent psychotic with a need to beat up girls on the force. Life is tough all around.
whatcat on March 4, 2009 at 1:25 PM
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