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| You be the judge; Cop pleads not guilty. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 17 2008, 09:47 AM (150 Views) | |
| George K | Dec 17 2008, 09:47 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkiyBVytRQ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/ap_on_re_us/youtube_cyclist
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| Frank_W | Dec 17 2008, 10:01 AM Post #2 |
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Guilty. WAY guilty! In slow-mo, you can see him walking, the bicyclist swerving to avoid him, and he just steps in and slams him. What. The. Fcuk.
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| ivorythumper | Dec 17 2008, 10:10 AM Post #3 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I think the biker failed to yield to a policeman -- he CLEARLY steered his bike into the direction that the policeman was walking, instead of away from him. He should have come to a complete stop and allowed the policeman to walk in front of him.
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| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Frank_W | Dec 17 2008, 10:11 AM Post #4 |
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WHAT??? What video did YOU watch? The biker was swerving to the left. The policeman even increased his pace so that he would be in position to assault the bicycler. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 17 2008, 10:18 AM Post #5 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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It only looks that way because it was played in slow motion. It actually happens very quickly. To me it looks like the cop was scurrying out of the path of a reckless bicyclist, and had to stop him before he hurt some innocent bystander. The cop made a quick judgment to protect the public from this scofflaw who had callous disregard for the public safety and was intent on running down an officer of the law. hint
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| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 17 2008, 10:18 AM Post #6 |
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Not sure if the bikers were breaking any laws...doesn't look like it, but who knows. If so, perhaps the cop said something about the biker stopping and when he didn't he pushed him off the bike. But all that is highly doubtful. The video by itself shows the cop using excessive force and should be punished accordingly. |
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| Frank_W | Dec 17 2008, 10:23 AM Post #7 |
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89th, even if that were so, the cop still used excessive force. I would have laughed if about ten cyclists stopped and beat the ever living piss out of that cop. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 17 2008, 10:26 AM Post #8 |
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If the biker was evading arrest, I wouldn't call it excessive force. But dont get me wrong, I dont think he was evading arrest. |
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| Frank_W | Dec 17 2008, 10:28 AM Post #9 |
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Yes, it was. The cop could have grabbed the cyclist and pulled him off the bike. By shoving him like that, the cop had no control of where the cyclist went. (i.e. he could have smashed his head against a fire plug, light post, been impaled on a fence, cracked his head on the curb, smashed into an elderly pedestrian and caused them grave injury, etc. etc.) |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 17 2008, 10:31 AM Post #10 |
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I keep thinking your Opt when I see that Calvin avatar! |
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| Aqua Letifer | Dec 17 2008, 10:32 AM Post #11 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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That's so absolutley insane that you have to be joking. Even if he was trying to cross the street, the public safety bull**** flies right out the window because it would have been a thousand times more "safe" for the cop to dodge the cyclist -- which could have been easily done since the cyclist was swerving to miss him and the cop still hit him at an angle -- instead of bodychecking him into the ****ing crowd. The cop needs to hang. |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 17 2008, 10:34 AM Post #12 |
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I think everyone is in agreement here that it was excessive force. Ivory was being sarcastic, and I was exploring any possible reason why the cop might have done that. But the proof is in the |
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| Frank_W | Dec 17 2008, 10:37 AM Post #13 |
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There simply is no good reason for what that cop did. Even giving him the greatest leeway and the most generous benefit of the doubt, what he did endangered everyone, and could have had massive and potentially fatal consequences. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Dec 17 2008, 10:37 AM Post #14 |
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Yeah, see, I really don't give any kind of a crap what the cop's "reasons" were. Given any possible scenario in which the cop needed to get that guy off his bike -- and he didn't even need to in this case, clearly -- there are far safer ways to do it than that. There is absolutley no way to justify the cop's actions. None. |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 17 2008, 10:50 AM Post #15 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Pull my finger, Aqua.
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| Frank_W | Dec 17 2008, 10:52 AM Post #16 |
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IT...
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