Metro Police use tazer on bystander

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids were attacking passengers and this guy was defending the attackers

There's no law that says someone should be tazed for talking to a cop and expressing an opinion with which the cop disagrees. That's the country I thought I lived in. What country do you live in, pp?

he was obstructing justice

He was obstructing justice AND the police acted with excessive force. I think that's what the video shows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids were attacking passengers and this guy was defending the attackers

There's no law that says someone should be tazed for talking to a cop and expressing an opinion with which the cop disagrees. That's the country I thought I lived in. What country do you live in, pp?

he was obstructing justice

He was obstructing justice AND the police acted with excessive force. I think that's what the video shows.

yes to both but his obstruction will be ignored

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, a lot of times these videos are borderline in how they could be interpreted. I still tend to side with the citizen because the cops are supposed to be professionally trained and behave like professionals regardless of what the citizen is saying to them.

But in this one there is NO question that this cop behaved inappropriately and should be FIRED. And I know for sure that if I, an older white woman, had done the same thing as this citizen, that officer would never have shoved me and tazed me.

contrary to popular belief police tase she even kill unarmed whites. It just doesn’t make the news. Fairfax police killed three unarmed White’s over 9 years and their stories barely made the news. Police in Frederick killed Ethan saylor who had Down’s syndrome for not leaving a movie theater

Pp here. Oh, I know about those incidents. My point is not just that I'm white but I'm an older white woman. White people in general benefit from being white when it comes to interacting with the police but older white women really really benefit from undeserved positive attitudes towards people like us. All I'm saying is that I could have done the exact same thing that citizen did and no cop would have touched me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids were attacking passengers and this guy was defending the attackers

There's no law that says someone should be tazed for talking to a cop and expressing an opinion with which the cop disagrees. That's the country I thought I lived in. What country do you live in, pp?

he was obstructing justice

He was talking to a police officer and expressing his opinion. The police officer he was talking to seemed to be functioning just fine. It was the cop who decided he had to throw the guy down on the ground who interfered in an interaction that didn't need interference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids were attacking passengers and this guy was defending the attackers

There's no law that says someone should be tazed for talking to a cop and expressing an opinion with which the cop disagrees. That's the country I thought I lived in. What country do you live in, pp?

he was obstructing justice

Not even close and the fact a bench separated the police from him ... no threat.

[Anonymous]

You clearly don’t know what obstructing means.

[Anonymous]

Flashing high beams is obstructing justice . He was impeding police

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, a lot of times these videos are borderline in how they could be interpreted. I still tend to side with the citizen because the cops are supposed to be professionally trained and behave like professionals regardless of what the citizen is saying to them.

But in this one there is NO question that this cop behaved inappropriately and should be FIRED. And I know for sure that if I, an older white woman, had done the same thing as this citizen, that officer would never have shoved me and tazed me.

contrary to popular belief police tase she even kill unarmed whites. It just doesn’t make the news. Fairfax police killed three unarmed White’s over 9 years and their stories barely made the news. Police in Frederick killed Ethan saylor who had Down’s syndrome for not leaving a movie theater

Pp here. Oh, I know about those incidents. My point is not just that I'm white but I'm an older white woman. White people in general benefit from being white when it comes to interacting with the police but older white women really really benefit from undeserved positive attitudes towards people like us. All I'm saying is that I could have done the exact same thing that citizen did and no cop would have touched me.

and if you got tazed or arrested nobody would ever have known because there would have been no interest in what happened

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, a lot of times these videos are borderline in how they could be interpreted. I still tend to side with the citizen because the cops are supposed to be professionally trained and behave like professionals regardless of what the citizen is saying to them.

But in this one there is NO question that this cop behaved inappropriately and should be FIRED. And I know for sure that if I, an older white woman, had done the same thing as this citizen, that officer would never have shoved me and tazed me.

contrary to popular belief police tase she even kill unarmed whites. It just doesn’t make the news. Fairfax police killed three unarmed White’s over 9 years and their stories barely made the news. Police in Frederick killed Ethan saylor who had Down’s syndrome for not leaving a movie theater

Pp here. Oh, I know about those incidents. My point is not just that I'm white but I'm an older white woman. White people in general benefit from being white when it comes to interacting with the police but older white women really really benefit from undeserved positive attitudes towards people like us. All I'm saying is that I could have done the exact same thing that citizen did and no cop would have touched me.

No, I don't think that's true. Aggressively getting in police officers' space and speaking loudly & angrily to them while they are conducting an arrest/investigation is going to get anyone some kind of consequences. Maybe you would not gotten tased, true.

[Anonymous]

This is why the WMATA Compact, which is the transit authority’s guiding document, needs to be amended.
It has language that gives WMATA immunity from being sued even if one of its officers is found guilty of civil rights violations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids were attacking passengers and this guy was defending the attackers

There's no law that says someone should be tazed for talking to a cop and expressing an opinion with which the cop disagrees. That's the country I thought I lived in. What country do you live in, pp?

he was obstructing justice

He was talking to a police officer and expressing his opinion. The police officer he was talking to seemed to be functioning just fine. It was the cop who decided he had to throw the guy down on the ground who interfered in an interaction that didn't need interference.

No, he was arguing with them loudly and not backing down, while they were trying to deal with the kid. I am NOT saying that he should have been tased - not at all. Just - be realistic, SJWs. You can't get in cops' faces while they are conducting arrests and not expect any repercussions. Maybe in some cases this is the right sort of conduct to prevent unlawful arrests etc - I'm not sure. But had the police just calmly put him under arrest, then I don't think there would be any argument here. Moral of the story is - bystanders need to know what they're doing.

[Anonymous]

I fear police will stop policing and crime will skyrocket on metro and the metro death spiral increases

[Anonymous]

I know a white guy who was physically assaulted by a metro . Absolutely no reason for it and it never got any media coverage

[Anonymous]

This is wild.
Got two WMATA police officers talking to a 12 year-old boy on who is seated on a concrete bench and a bystander questioning their inquiry on the other side of said concrete bench posing no threat.

All the sudden Officer Steroid rushes up and shoved the bystander - the two officers already present didn’t need his intervention and didn’t ask for his intervention he just took it upon himself to flex his authority even though the situation was clearly under control.

Why Officer Steroid chose to rush in and start pushing people with several other bystanders present including a woman taking a cell phone video of the whole incident is beyond idiotic.

Then Officer Steroid proceeds to pull out his taser on a guy who is unarmed and not physically threatening him but understandably objecting to being violently shoved repeatedly. Officer Steroid escalates the whole thing.

AND THEN Officer Steroid has the audacity to lie on his police report about the events that transpired even though he knew there was a woman recording the whole thing that would totally discredit his story.

The guy is a either a maniac or an idiot or both.
SMH

[Anonymous]

The man was distracting and interfering with the police contact with the juvenile. He was also creating a disorder. He was told to move. Then he got moved. Then he rushed the officer and got tasered to subdue him. He deserved to be arrested and the force was reasonable especially considering that he had started to become physical. The woman should have been arrested also. She was extremely disorderly. The arrest of the juvenile was none of her business. She had no authority to demand to "check on" the juvenile.

The police have a sworn duty to act in certain circumstances. They were there to investigate reports of assaults by armed juveniles. They detained an individual. He did not seem in distress and they certainly were not abusing him. The third parties had no standing or authority to interfere. There is a big difference between quietly filming public officials in public and officiously intermeddling in their actions while trying to incite others.