Metro Police use tazer on bystander

[Anonymous]

Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau said on Monday that she has been in touch with Metro Police Chief Ron Pavlik about the incident.

“The video leaves little doubt in my mind that what happened was unacceptable.”

She called for the officer to be “removed from contact with the public” until the investigation concludes.

[Anonymous]

Why were the kids in trouble? Did they actually do anything wrong?

[Anonymous]

Why were the bystanders yelling at the police? They were detaining the guy sitting on the bench, correct? The others were defending him?

[Anonymous]

Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen commented about about the incident Sunday afternoon on Twitter.

"I’ve just seen this video & the actions of the officer involved escalated the interaction into a dangerous confrontation - could have led to greater injury & damages public trust. I’ve reached out to Metro Transit Police Chief to get details on their investigation & next steps."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why were the kids in trouble? Did they actually do anything wrong?

they were allegedly attacking passengers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not a good situation. Also, the woman recording added to all the drama too. She was ranting and screaming calling the to the police (white men) colonizers, getting in their faces. She was too much.

Frankly, I've seen people acting aggressively on trains, throwing garbage, etc. I wish a few of them would be 'Tased.'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

How about the three jurisdictions amend the Metro Compact to give exclusive effect to Virginia law and Virginia courts for crimes committed throughout the Metro system. That would be a setback for the criminals and a win for us passengers!

[Anonymous]

Prosecutors dropped charges against the unarmed man tased by Metro transit police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why were the kids in trouble? Did they actually do anything wrong?

they were allegedly attacking passengers

They coudln't find any victims who had been attcked so they left them go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

If I was one of the other two calm cops, I would be so mad at Officer Steroid. Other two officers are pretty relaxed and dealing with Mr. Advocate. Then out of nowhere Officer Steroid decides to just get aggressive and tazer the guy. The other two cops are now stuck in a situation where they have to take Mr Advocate down and are on film and going viral. I would be very annoyed if I was them. Hate it when a colleague jumps into a situation I am dealing with and decides to escalate it to 100 and create a scene.

[Anonymous]

Wow that dude got tazed and didn’t even fall down. Also, is it me or does he sound like Chris Tucker??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow that dude got tazed and didn’t even fall down. Also, is it me or does he sound like Chris Tucker??

Who is that?

[Anonymous]

This will happen again unless it’s made clear people aren’t supposed to interrupt the police

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

If I was one of the other two calm cops, I would be so mad at Officer Steroid. Other two officers are pretty relaxed and dealing with Mr. Advocate. Then out of nowhere Officer Steroid decides to just get aggressive and tazer the guy. The other two cops are now stuck in a situation where they have to take Mr Advocate down and are on film and going viral. I would be very annoyed if I was them. Hate it when a colleague jumps into a situation I am dealing with and decides to escalate it to 100 and create a scene.

No kidding! They seemed to have things under control, and some other guy swoops in and escalates the situation into violence. Totally unnecessary. Good cops can handle stuff like this without violence, de-escalate the situation, etc. Bad cops are looking for an excuse to escalate things.

[Anonymous]

DC police are notoriously. Well how do I put this politely...Not too many first round draft picks in their department.