One dude walks right in front of her and there are 3 more standing in the door way. If she saw abuse I'm sure many more did too. Plus, there are a bunch of cops on the scene. If it comes out they abused the suspect they should be dealt with. They will also be dealt with abusing her.

Alright. I'm sitting out on this one for a while. Sports guy, tagging you back in. :lol2:

I didn't say I could prove that. I said I could assume it based on her previous actions. She refused to get out of the road, she refused to get out of the car...

 

What is your assumption based on?

 

That there was a man laying on the ground and the police had an overly aggressive approach to handling her situation...

Alright. I'm sitting out on this one for a while. Sports guy, tagging you back in. :lol2:

 

I LOL'd at this so hard. Good thing I have 5 mins left on my lunch break.

It's just very sad that "Our" society has taken the "I dare you approach" recently in the last 10-15 years. Doesn't matter what color skin you have. I remember the days when people respected law enforcement and a higher authority just because it was the right thing to do. Just move along! But no, today's society decides that they have been given some bad information, right or wrong along the way by someone and they think they have their Constitutional rights and nothing can happen to them.

 

Well guess what, sometimes the little voice in your head that's telling you the right and wrong thing to do might have a good point and in this case by telling you that's it's none of your business and please just move along. Sorry I am from the old school and that's just how I feel on this situation.

What I'm trying to say in the above post (#21): maybe she was disrupting traffic flow by sitting at a green light, but the officer's concerns in approaching her were probably more geared toward knowing they'd been filmed doing something they shouldn't have been doing and trying to get rid of any evidence of it happening.

If they did act in bad faith and delete the evidence that incriminated them, I hope they didn't realize she could have a backup of it and denied those allegations, even if it was to the point of perjury, so that they can be even deeper into the mess that they got themselves in.

 

Officers openly beating someone in handcuffs is just as much of a disturbance to the peace as someone sitting at a green light filming them doing so.

 

Hummm...and is it possible this is your "unconscious bias" towards police officers talking?:idunno:

Hummm...and is it possible this is your "unconscious bias" towards police officers talking?:idunno:

 

 

Would be interesting to see a study on whether or not people have unconscious bias toward police officers (I would imagine that they would). I actually don't hate all police officers or anything like that at all. Really nothing beats a police officer who takes their job seriously and does things the right way. I've seen and encountered plenty of good officers as well, whether it be people I've known personally or ones I've had interactions with.

 

Also, I'd add that moving to a fairly large city (i.e., 7th most populous in the U.S.) has changed my perspective on it quite a bit as well.

 

I'll admit that, going through law school and reading about the best and worst cases daily, and then on top of that, being someone whose worked in Legal Aid for two years, yes, I probably did develop more of a skepticism toward police officers. I'd be lying if I said it didn't change my perspective, even if it's things I am not necessarily consciously aware of.

 

I'd say that my experiences, sometimes having to view things from the other side, has definitely changed my thought process just as much as someone's would change from the time they started working in law enforcement. That's just kind of an unavoidable part of human nature on some levels, IMO.

 

There are days that I genuinely am glad that I just get to go home and don't have to think of work, which is something that you don't really have the opportunity to do when you are in a Legal Aid type setting. Can also honestly say that if you go into Legal Aid without having some type of experience with it before, then I honestly don't see how it wouldn't change you at least some, because some of the things you'll wind up seeing and hearing are just heavy.