[Potroast88]

It gets good at :37 seconds.

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Notice how the officers high five and slap each other on the back. Disgusting.

 

[Slugman]

Good for them!

 

[WhoRyder]

I would kick him in the face too for Crashing and putting other people in danger... WTF.....

He deserved a Rodney King beat down.....

 

[drkenan]

That's what he gets for giving up so easily.

 

[Total Heckler]

wow... looks like someone is going to lose their job. Hopefully... but probably not.

Street Justice.

 

[WhoRyder]

lol

I would have let the German Sheppard on him...

 

[vtjim]

I like how the fatty gave the other guy the high five. What for? If the dude kept running he would never have caught him.

"Yeah, he gave up! high five!!"

 

[WhoRyder]

 

[GiantRider]

Don't be a bad person and you won't get kicked in the head, hows that?!Proly not the right thing do to for the cop but hey, you do the crime you do the time.

 

[Prettym1k3]

My dad was a copy for almost 30 years in a small city. And he had his fair share of near-death experiences.

I can't even fathom was L.A. cops go through dealing with some of the most rampant gang violence, with thousands upon thousands of gang members ready to do nothing but pop off a few cops at the blink of an eye.

This cop already saw what this guy did. Endangering others' lives, running from the cops. Who's to say this guy didn't have a gun? The quickest and easiest way to keep this guy from running further or from reaching for a weapon is to knock him out. And if you ask me, a kick from a boot is better than a thud from a baton any day. Especially with those new Asp batons.

Plus, at the time, this cop was by himself, gun drawn.

Personally, I think they deserved to high-five each other.

 

[vtjim]

My dad was a copy for almost 30 years in a small city. And he had his fair share of near-death experiences.

I can't even fathom was L.A. cops go through dealing with some of the most rampant gang violence, with thousands upon thousands of gang members ready to do nothing but pop off a few cops at the blink of an eye.

This cop already saw what this guy did. Endangering others' lives, running from the cops. Who's to say this guy didn't have a gun? The quickest and easiest way to keep this guy from running further or from reaching for a weapon is to knock him out. And if you ask me, a kick from a boot is better than a thud from a baton any day. Especially with those new Asp batons.

Plus, at the time, this cop was by himself, gun drawn.

Personally, I think they deserved to high-five each other.

Sooooo... it's ok for cops to break the law? Right. Gotcha.

 

[Slugman]

Video wasn't working earlier... now that I see it, that kick to the head was uncalled for.

Give that cop a week vacation, WITH PAY! Good job!!!

Dude slip and fell - only reason he stopped running.

 

[boxxerace]

It gets good at :37 seconds.

Notice how the officers high five and slap each other on the back. Disgusting.

The officers who high fived and whatnot were not the same officer(s) who kicked the guy in the head. I am not even sure they witnessed what the first officer did.

What the officer did was wrong and it is very likely that he will be punished. Clearly the suspect was giving up and was not in a threatening stance. The officer had him at gunpoint and he should have waited for his officers arrived prior to getting anywhere near him. An alternative for someone unruly, this side of using your firearm would have been a taser or pepper spray.

Nonetheless, let's not forget who the criminal is in this story. Everyone always plays the actual criminal off as some "nice guy" who "just" got mixed up with the wrong crowd or some B.S. No! Maybe the kick to the face will put some common sense into the guy, wrong as it may have been.

If that guy had just smashed into brand new car, I bet you'd at least like to give the guy a good smack in the face, wrong as it may be.

 

[Slugman]

Sooooo... it's ok for cops to break the law? Right. Gotcha.

It's OK for a cop to use his best judgment in a situation that you will never understand because you've never experienced, except from the other side of a TV.

He hit him ONCE.

 

[vtjim]

It's OK for a cop to use his best judgment in a situation that you will never understand because you've never experienced, except from the other side of a TV.

He hit him ONCE.

My defense is that if kicking the guy in the head when he's down and given up is this cops best judgment, then maybe he should not be in a profession where he doesn't have to make these decisions.

I don't need to experience being a cop in that situation to know weather or not taking pop shots at a dude that's given up is legal/warranted or not.

 

[WhoRyder]

no, what had happened was the Officer was walking to apprehend the Perp, then the Office slipped and accidentally kicked the Perp in the face.... Sorry perp... won't happen again....

 

[Potroast88]

Who knows what crime the guy had committed prior to this? Maybe he had a warrant for his arrest for a speeding ticket and got scared when they tried to pull him over......it doesn't really matter. It's not the officer's job to administer "street justice". It's his job to apprehend the suspect and that's it.
Believe me, I'm not some bleeding heart human rights activist. If the guy had been fighting or resisting, the kick and jabs from the baton would have been justified, but he was not. He had completely surrendered.
Because of this cops actions, and the video evidence, this guy will now have a lawsuit against the City of L.A. and will probably be awarded a multi-million dollar settlement.

 

[Da Peach]

I just take it for granted that if I ever get into a situation where I'm sprinting away from teh fuzz, then get caught, I'll get my head kicked and neck knelt on.

It's been working out so far.

 

[manimal]

wow..um...adrenaline overload much? it's a bummer to see officers lose control like that but on the other hand, how would you treat that dude if he plowed into your wife/mother/sister/daughter while he was driving like a douche? i'm not condoning the officer's actions just bringing up the fact that criminals don't have to play by the rules and that cop's career is now probably over for giving the criminal what most would say he deserved. the problem is that punisher/executioner isn't the job of the police...even though the court system fails at it to.

 

[I Are Baboon]

Bad move on the part of the cop but I have no sympathy for the perp.

 

[Total Heckler]

wow..um...adrenaline overload much? it's a bummer to see officers lose control like that but on the other hand, how would you treat that dude if he plowed into your wife/mother/sister/daughter while he was driving like a douche? i'm not condoning the officer's actions just bringing up the fact that criminals don't have to play by the rules and that cop's career is now probably over for giving the criminal what most would say he deserved. the problem is that punisher/executioner isn't the job of the police...even though the court system fails at it to.

+ Rep. Nicely put.

 

[Upgr8r]

It's situations like this that gives cops a bad name. That bad name is then the justification for gangbangers shooting cops.

Cops like this make it harder for the cops do do their job. A couple of mil in settlement money to this guys means less money for officers on the street, less cooperation from the public etc. Don't get me wrong, this guy is no saint but that does not allow the cop to stoop to his level

 

[Sghost]

If he smashed into a loved one, all of us non cops would have done a lot more than kick him the head once then hire a good lawyer after the fact if needed.

 

[mattmatt86]

I hate fox news.

 

[sanjuro]

Love Tap.

Compared this to what Rodney King received when he was tripping his balls on PCP.

 

[eric strt6]

If you're gonna play bad ass violent street thug you have to understand that a good beat down comes with getting your ass caught acting like a punk

 

[X3pilot]

If the bleeding heart reporter (who I assume is another unbiased journalist) was so upset that the perp couldn't get over the fence and escape and cause further mayhem and then was shocked when he got subdued for failing to follow the command "freeze, stop, don't move, etc." why didn't he direct the helicopter to go down and rescue him?

 

[manimal]

If he smashed into a loved one, all of us non cops would have done a lot more than kick him the head once then hire a good lawyer after the fact if needed.

and then us cops would have had to restrain you...we're supposed to be neutral although sometimes it's nearly impossible. you can only subdue human emotion so far.

 

[TKCastle]

The Banger deserved a german shepherd chomp to the balls after the kick, but when are they going to teach the cops especially in and around LA that there is eyes on them constantly?

The officer should of waited to get the guy some place away from prying eyes of the media then play beckham with the dudes face.

He just made a low life, gang-banger a multi-millionaire.

 

[BurlyShirley]

The Banger deserved a german shepherd chomp to the balls after the kick, but when are they going to teach the cops especially in and around LA that there is eyes on them constantly?

The officer should of waited to get the guy some place away from prying eyes of the media then play beckham with the dudes face.

He just made a low life, gang-banger a multi-millionaire.

The problem is, even though I dont care in the slightest that this idiot got kicked in the face, when you start excusing this kind of behavior it starts happening more often, and that means to people who don't necessarily deserve it.

 

[sanjuro]

The problem is, even though I dont care in the slightest that this idiot got kicked in the face, when you start excusing this kind of behavior it starts happening more often, and that means to people who don't necessarily deserve it.

socialist

 

[dante]

The Banger deserved a german shepherd chomp to the balls after the kick, but when are they going to teach the cops especially in and around LA that there is eyes on them constantly?

The officer should of waited to get the guy some place away from prying eyes of the media then play beckham with the dudes face.

He just made a low life, gang-banger a multi-millionaire.

If you're a cop and not willing to do something in front of the camera for the public to see, you probably shouldn't be doing it at all (or shouldn't be a cop for that matter). Manimal, agree? Disagree?

And honestly, it doesn't really matter whether that's a low-life gang-banger who gets kicked in the face or the Queen Mum, if the cop shouldn't be doing it he shouldn't be doing. Rationalizing one crime by criminalizing the victim doesn't work.

edit: Just watched it again, and that first cop is wrong not only for kicking an unarmed, surrendering suspect but also turning a tame situation into something possibly worse. The perp had given up with his hands spread out, but after being kicked he instinctively turns his head and tries to shield his face with his right hand. Now the 2nd/3rd cops arriving on the scene don't know whether he's armed, protecting a gun underneath him, etc. it looks like the "body blows" are primarily trying to get his right hand behind his back, something that could have been avoided had the first officer done his job correctly...

 

[BurlyShirley]

socialist

Funny thing is, conservatives will defend police actions, including brutality, to no end, and it's a completely socialized, government run system.

But say the government wants to socialize healthcare, and you get the opposite of support from these same people. Why would you blindly support a system that routinely victimizes people and then blindly hate one that wants to help them?

 

[kidwoo]

Funny thing is, conservatives will defend police actions, including brutality, to no end, and it's a completely socialized, government run system.

But say the government wants to socialize healthcare, and you get the opposite of support from these same people. Why would you blindly support a system that routinely victimizes people and then blindly hate one that wants to help them?

Never thought of it in terms of police.....moreso in terms of the military.

And you're right. The same guys that will berate any and all government funded and run organization as inherently faulted, also act like the military shlts gold in everything they do.

But anyway.....back on topic.

All cops are always dicks.

 

[sanjuro]

Funny thing is, conservatives will defend police actions, including brutality, to no end, and it's a completely socialized, government run system.

that would be fascist

 

[dante]

that would be fascist

fascism

 

[Slugman]

Still do not care.

Flee from Cops = open season.

I wish the cops had the right to shoot all these A-holes that flee... a nice precision shot form a chopper or SWAT on the side of the road would end these nice and quickly.

I bet you wouldn't see too many high speed pursuits after that!

 

[BurlyShirley]

Still do not care.

Flee from Cops = open season.

I wish the cops had the right to shoot all these A-holes that flee... a nice precision shot form a chopper or SWAT on the side of the road would end these nice and quickly.

I bet you wouldn't see too many high speed pursuits after that!

So why dont we just automatically give the death penalty to anyone who resists arrest? That'd be basically the same thing.

 

[kidwoo]

I wish the cops had the right to shoot all these A-holes that flee... a nice precision shot form a chopper or SWAT on the side of the road would end these nice and quickly.

When you get a break from your job as a rocket surgeon, ponder a teenager fleeing the cops because she has too many speeding tickets and panics when she sees the lights again. Yes. Death to her.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

I can't get to photobucket from work anymore...so I don't have my awesome "Broken Sarcasm Meter" jpeg on hand...but that's what I'd put here if I had it.


I'm with ya Sluggo...