You can see by the video on this blog that the attack was unprovoked. The pig walked over to the woman, and started beating her. It was a long while before she even tried to defend herself by hitting back.

Here's a Youtube of the same attack:

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That doesn't look like a woman, it looks like a man. It does look like the officer may have overreacted but we can't hear what the suspect was saying to him. He/she may have provoked him.

The suspect said that the officer was telling hm/her to come over to the fingerprint station but he/she refused. I don't think there is much of a story here.

Jack

You know I've been doing this line of work many years, and it is disturbing to watch this behavior. Unfortunately, not much of this sort of thing is required to have a major effect on people's perception of law enforcement. Public service and customer service have been conflicting aspects, but my business pertains more to private business clients. I still think some agencies or departments could use a little valuable 'customer service' knowledge and practice. I recall a recent incident locally where an intoxicated young man was tazed, managed to get his jawbone broken by falling (while in custody) and spending 3 days in the county hospital on a heart monitor. The older 'rookie' cop stated to the young man he was an former Marine, and a few notches up on his Tazer, 'you would have been * your pants'. That of course prompted someone to ask him "is that went wrong, your training?.

the news link I provided...

hire cops...there's too much self-selection. The very type of person who chooses to become a cop...tends to be one who is eager to resolve problems with violence...one who tends to believe that might makes right, and that everyone is guilty till proven innocent.

To make things worse, cops often come from alcoholic families...IOW, violent households, where they've learned to use violence not only as a tool for control, but as a coping mechanism.

Most cops I've met have never grown beyond conventional morality...It upsets me that we let them run around with weapons, and that their word, or version of events is given more weight than private citizens'.

I'm not excusing what the cops did but had the suspect simply complied with his orders, she might not have gotten beat up.

Jack

So when someone addresses you as "come over here, faggot" you would have done so?

If you're not polite to cops, and not compliant with their abuse, then they have every right to beat the shit out of you. Plus, cops get to do whatever they want. I think it's a law.

I guess Memphis has plenty of money to pay off the lawsuit.

Her first job was working for a company that did psychological testing on applicants to the police force of a medium-sized city in Arkansas. She says that if you knew how crazy the people who got hired were, you'd understand why there's so much police brutality and crookedness. As far as the ones who got rejected--you don't even want to know. And of course, the rejects would go to smaller towns, apply there, and get hired.

To quote the comedian, Ron White: I didn't know how many of them it would take to kick my ass, but I knew how many they were going to use to do it.

Jack

My best friend from high school is a cop. He'll be the first to admit that being a cop has ruined his perspective on people, and on life. He specialized, for example, in investigating sex crimes against children. It's harrowing work.

Transgendered and transsexual people are at more risk for hate-crime violence than any other group, but lack the legal protections afforded to other minorities.

The actions of the man in your video are reprehensible. But choosing to call a police officer a "pig" is in essence equivalent to choosing to call a homosexual person a "fag"; the only difference is the criteria you use to justify the comment.

And it's not really fair to my friend, who has sacrificed so much of his peace of mind, and exposed himself to such awful events and people, in the service of protecting the public. I know you wouldn't call him a "pig", if you met him. But by using the term, you make its use more acceptable, and implicitly make the use of terms like it acceptable. I wish you wouldn't.

it's all about the money.

Cops are poorly paid, so the people who are least motivated by the money, and most motivated by the role, are those who tend to apply.

If we paid them better, we'd end up with better cops.

Thomas Paine wrote the following post at 07/13/2008 1:56 PM: So when someone addresses you as "come over here, faggot" you would have done so?

What would you do, hit them with your purse? Before I take an ass kicking by as many cops as it would take to kick my ass (probably no more than one)....hell yes I'll do what they tell me to do. Words don't hurt as much as a billy club does.

Jack

It's always best to do it with cameras rolling.

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