Tag, you're it!

letsseeaction · 2012-09-18T20:12:02+00:00

For the record: the cop was fired, put on a suspended sentence, and the town wound up paying over $100k to the woman.

Source

Captainpatch · 2012-09-18T20:26:51+00:00

That police officer is obviously violating the established rule of "No tag backs."

chewydive · 2012-09-18T20:04:57+00:00

This cop lost his job over this

skratchx · 2012-09-18T22:08:41+00:00

Aaaand the reposting of the 700+ gif album, one at a time, has begun.

Unconfidence · 2012-09-18T20:48:26+00:00

I feel this was excessive. Excessive means more than necessary. Was it necessary to kick her? No. She could have simply been put into the back of a patrol car, where she couldn't kick anymore. It's not like she could resist that.

The officer kicked her for revenge, not for necessity.

T3hp3trock · 2012-09-18T21:13:45+00:00

Probably could have just farted on her and gotten away with it.

scruffy01 · 2012-09-18T18:23:14+00:00

Fuck the anti-cop circlejerk.

Don't assault a police officer and you won't get hurt. This woman is a fucking idiot.

secret_marish · 2012-09-18T21:08:59+00:00

This is retaliatory childish bullshit. Rolling her over and holding her face against the concrete until you could put physical barriers between himself and her behavior is fine. Hold her real tight, put your knees in her back. This isn't how you go about it. This is definitely WTF. I work with combative people. If they kick me in the shin, my response is not to one-up them with physical abuse. You are TRAINED on how to subdue, not overreact.

locklin · 2012-09-18T21:05:11+00:00

Sorry to have to be one of those guys in the "Anti-Cop circle-jerk", but what that officer did was not appropriate or reasonable.

She was stupid for kicking the officer in the first place, you do not assault a police officer. However, she hit him in the ankle bare-foot, while sitting on the ground handcuffed, with her ankle - and his first instinct was to kick her even harder, with his BOOT, in her HEAD.

Do you guys honestly believe he was thinking about "preventing further escalation" as he kicked the back of her head? Really?

compareandcontrast1 · 2012-09-18T22:10:12+00:00

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever. "

dinostar · 2012-09-19T02:16:35+00:00

Anybody ever work with jerkoffs like this? Obviously he was wrong, but it wears on you. Every day, people like this. Every goddamn day. People on reddit complain how stupid everyone is around them, "this person did that, yadda yadda, some days I wish I could just yadda yadda", then as soon as someone who has to deal with scum day in and day out as their job description snaps, they get crucified. Obviously there's a problem with abuse of power, and I'm no cop, but I work with people like this and you lose all sense of humanity very quickly when you have to deal with the trashy lowlifes that are 90% of your human contact for your underpaid, under appreciated job.

hgodby · 2012-09-19T03:01:24+00:00

I see nothing wrong here

pseudoguru · 2012-09-18T20:34:25+00:00

Oh look the violent cop defense brigade is out again! I am seeing more and more of these guys. He kicked a seated, handcuffed woman in the face. There is no valid defense for his action. If the officer can not control this situation with a more reasonable use of force (preferably one that does not open up the state to litigation) then he does not deserve to hold a position of authority.

MrButtermancer · 2012-09-18T23:21:47+00:00

Reverse the genders. Make the (woman) cop a minority. Is this the same situation? No. This thought experiment demonstrates to me that there is grey area.

He was struck. He struck back. He probably used excessive force, but this is absolutely not police brutality. Lack of judgement and a poor temper, yes, but this should NOT have been a big deal. The police officer was struck. With racial and gender ambiguity this situation is transparently a dumb citizen and an angry cop.

i_love_younicorns · 2012-09-18T22:37:07+00:00

What cops should be are shining examples of the law. Instead, a good deal of them seem to think that they are above the law.

scruffy01 · 2012-09-18T18:42:25+00:00

Just to make this shit clear.

Cops aren't trained to respond to an attack with the exact same force used on them. They are trained to IMMEDIATELY take control of the situation and place force onto the person that will keep them restrained.

If he had just wagged his finger after she did this shit then it could easily escalate. Starts with a kick, she gets brave and then she stands up, next thing you know he is head butted while she is running away, or worst case scenario her friend gets a hold of the dazed officer's weapon.

That is what they avoid. That is why they respond QUICKLY and FORCEFULLY.

What he did was not excessive force, that woman will be absolutely fine. Save your bullshit for when cops actually do step out of line.

Lurkerhereduh · 2012-09-18T22:21:49+00:00

All I see is two dumb people interacting.

dr_magillicuddy · 2012-09-18T22:18:56+00:00

To all the people saying "but she hit him first,"

Taxpayers fund his salary to not be petty and retaliatory, but rather to be the bigger man and diffuse the situation.

KristinnEs · 2012-09-18T20:39:16+00:00

God damnit Farva!

red989 · 2012-09-18T21:49:58+00:00

Didn't take long for people to start taking GIFs out of that huge imgur post earlier.

goobyplease · 2012-09-18T22:31:10+00:00

How can she kick?

ideanmalek · 2012-09-19T01:19:04+00:00

I admit that a kick to the head was a bit excessive, but WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE THINKING?!!! Anyone that fucking stupid deserves it. And to think he lost his job, and she got 100k from that? Bullshit.

mikesguitar · 2012-09-19T02:19:53+00:00

No startsies, triple stamped it, no erasies.

RegCharles · 2012-09-19T05:26:45+00:00

Boop.

squirrelballs · 2012-09-19T05:43:17+00:00

Of course there is a lot of police brutality going on in western states, and it is often ridiculous how these cases are prosecuted.

But WHO THE FUCK KICKS AN OFFICER?!

riseofazrael · 2012-09-18T22:19:06+00:00

Police Officer are supposed to exercise restraint, she was already subdued. There was absolutely no need to kick her in the head, in fact the only reason I can think of why he did was a bruised ego.

I_Think_Alot · 2012-09-18T21:16:37+00:00

/R/JUSTICEPORN

kamiikoneko · 2012-09-18T23:29:34+00:00

I love how he just casually goes back to what he's doing, like swatting an annoying fly.

sgtbridges23 · 2012-09-18T18:14:13+00:00

For once, i agree the cop was justified.

Mythran12 · 2012-09-18T18:52:20+00:00

hahahahahaha yes

Moops7 · 2012-09-18T19:12:58+00:00

I like to picture him calmly stating, "Lay the fuck down."

Alyssa_With_an_R · 2012-09-18T18:38:13+00:00

Deserved it

ToasterbathAftermath · 2012-09-18T17:23:15+00:00

That's actualy assault on an officer and self defense, he had every right to skull fuck the side of her head with his shoe,

NetWt4Lbs · 2012-09-18T21:28:24+00:00

I would have fucking kicked her too, Someone strikes me in any way I've got no problems striking them in return.

pinkythug · 2012-09-18T21:17:07+00:00

I feel bad for laughing at this video

monoenojado · 2012-09-18T22:14:10+00:00

I hate cops and i hate drunk idiotic bitches... this is dilemma...

Sirspen · 2012-09-19T02:03:08+00:00

I don't understand why people are saying he shouldn't have reacted merely because she was restrained. People in cuffs headbutt cops all the time. Should nothing be done in response to that?

Bluesky95 · 2012-09-19T02:18:05+00:00

Totally warranted... IMO

Abeis · 2012-09-19T02:47:48+00:00

Y'all are taking this too seriously. Watch close, the kick wasn't hard enough to cause an injury, but just hard enough to teach her not to kick a fucking cop. Sure the cop doesn't deserve a medal, but he doesn't deserve a fine and suspension for enforcing the law. Also, shut up it wasn't in her face, it was the back of her head, I donkey punch harder than that.

whatevesbro · 2012-09-19T04:41:34+00:00

I have done martial arts my entire life and I have never thrown that good. He kicked THE SHIT out of her.

WTF

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