BOOM HEADSHOT!

Boom. headshot.

boom headshot

Boom... headshot.

Standard? When I worked the crowds there was no standard push. It was order them to leave or arrest them. There was no pushing, macing, or tazering. Just a good snatch and grab.

Just calmly walk up with a smile and hold your hand out, they will instinctively hold their hand out. Cuff them read them their rights and take them to a place where they an cool off.

Generally done with the baton at mid chest height? That's lethal force, targeting the heart. It is done when it needs to be, with the round edge of the baton(just like the officer did), never the point.

Simply should have just arrested her, do not mace. Just arrest, simple and easy.

>> ^McFarQue:
Protesters piss me off.
More so the confrontational ones that just have to be at the front of the line.
Also, that wasn't a head shot, it was a standard forward push used to force a crowd backwards. Generally however, it's done with the end of the baton at mid chest height. That was a little high, but still not in the head.
Oh and look, theres a megaphone on the ground beside her. Makes you wonder how long she'd been there playing the goody goody two shoes facade.



To erimus:

All the more reason to try and be a good cup, not a storm trooper. Why is that a stereotype? Because they never show when a cop is punished, they only show that he got his gun taken away and he is on a desk job. Or administrative leave.

Simple solution if you are a cop and in a situation like this do not act like an ass or a bad mamajama. Just smile and arrest them for disobeying an officer of the law. Simple and clean.

The less authority looks like gestapo the better.

>> ^rottenseed:
>> ^BillOreilly:
that Madonna look-alike got what she had coming to her

I agree with you BillOreilly. I think there are many instances in which striking somebody with a baton while their back is turned is warranted. This is definitely one of those instances. Especially considering the fact that she was female, the fact that she was tiny and the fact that she was peacefully protesting.


Her back wasn't turned, she rolled over while on the ground. She saw what was coming. Again, I'm not saying she deserved it in any way, but the cop doesn't deserve to have false information spread about what he did. Nobody would.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
^You need to lurk more.
BillO's comments are generally satire or just not serious.

Well then I hope he doesn't pull a muscle straddling that fence.

>> ^BillOreilly:
that Madonna look-alike got what she had coming to her

I agree with you BillOreilly. I think there are many instances in which striking somebody with a baton while their back is turned is warranted. This is definitely one of those instances. Especially considering the fact that she was female, the fact that she was tiny and the fact that she was peacefully protesting.

I just realized that vids where *humanitarian and civil rights are being violated, whether or not it's *nsfw, probably belong in that channel, eh?

Also, I checked out the full story from the link below.

>> ^EDD:
"Last night at approximately 7:30pm I was arrested <snip> a second protestor who was shot three times by what appeared to be three separate officers with bean-bag guns while KNEELING, motionless, 15 FEET AWAY, hands outstretched as if in prayer, and wearing nothing but a pair of POCKETLESS shorts."
-Nathan Acks' experience. Read full story here.


The cops sound like complete tools for what they did - but so does this PZ Myers guy. Looks like one of his fans agrees.

http://pzmyers.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/pz-myers-is-an-endless-distortion/

PZ failed as a blog writer by combining two disparate topics into one post. Way to undermine messages through conflation.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
You mean I didn't with my last comment?
I've already admitted that I was wrong - what more can I say?


Too many people like to shoot off their comments before they get to the end of the thread. They must just love hearing the sound of their words in their head, typed out and submitted for all to see.


>> ^joedirt:
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
1) There is never a good reason to hit a small innocent unarmed woman in the face with a baton.

Well, unless she is a bitch, you mean.


A comment dripping with satire.

>> ^DrPawn:
Everyone else except MarineRock crying police brutality here.
She was begging for it. Thank god our policemen and policewomen are willing to protect themselves. I take the side of the police officers here. Then they arrest her on top of it. Excellant job. Pwnij.


A comment which proves my first point... read the entire thread or face the wrath of the mighty downvote (wooooo). Sheesh.


>> ^Xax:
Something is seriously, seriously wrong. Videos like this reinforce my belief that all citizens should be allowed to be armed. I'm not saying the cop should've been shot, but I think he might've hesitated before throwing his weight around and grossly abusing his power and position.


Um, I'm not an American Rights Scholar or anything, but I think you already have that right.

Oh man, that's a video I want to see on the top 15.

"Code Pink armed with shotguns"

Might end up violating the no-snuff rule, though.

^SDGundamX:
I do agree with MG though that on the Sift people all too often watch 30 second clips (like this), make a TON of assumptions, and then act as if all of those assumptions are indisputable facts. I would really like to have seen the footage leading up to this clip. Clearly it exists, but the original poster probably felt that this edit would accurately get out his/her political message.

>> ^imstellar28:
>> since we don't have a video of the events leading up to what is shown, but we have brains--how about you go ahead and describe an event leading up the start of the video which would justify the officer assaulting her in the manner he did.
heres one:
"the woman just shot another cop in the face, dropped her weapon, and started to get in this cops face"
even in this situation, you cannot justify the cops actions! in fact there is no possible situation that you could conceive that happened before this that could have justified it. so why don't you get over your prejudice and wake the f ck up?


You just made my case for me with that post right there. Exactly where is the prejudice in my original post? Exactly where do I state in my post that the cop is justified? All I said was that I wanted to see what happened leading up to this and somehow you jumped to the conclusion that I blindly approve of all police actions in this video and beyond. You claim to have a brain--please use it more effectively to stop acting like your assumptions are categorically true.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
2) Stop calling women bitches. It's a gender-specific sexist term. The 90's are over, it's 2008. Show a little respect.

Eh? I've been called a bitch before..

(often after being slapped in the face and kicked in the nuts and ooooh i liked it!)

Seriously though, it's not..

edit: lol at implied invocation of tossed salad man

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
1) There is never a good reason to hit a small innocent unarmed woman in the face with a baton.


Well, unless she is a bitch, you mean.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
You mean I didn't with my last comment?
I've already admitted that I was wrong - what more can I say?


I would like to give massive respect to MarineGunrock for changing his mind on the issue.

>> ^SDGundamX:
I do agree with MG though that on the Sift people all too often watch 30 second clips (like this), make a TON of assumptions, and then act as if all of those assumptions are indisputable facts. I would really like to have seen the footage leading up to this clip. Clearly it exists, but the original poster probably felt that this edit would accurately get out his/her political message.


since we don't have a video of the events leading up to what is shown, but we have brains--how about you go ahead and describe an event leading up the start of the video which would justify the officer assaulting her in the manner he did.

heres one:
"the woman just shot another cop in the face, dropped her weapon, and started to get in this cops face"

even in this situation, you cannot justify the cops actions! in fact there is no possible situation that you could conceive that happened before this that could have justified it. so why don't you get over your prejudice and wake the f*ck up?