OT Body camera footage shows Windsor traffic stop

I got that expression from a movie starring Idris Elba, The Take. Idris plays a CIA agent chasing this pick pocket sll over Paris. Idris asks the guy why he was running away and the pick pocket answers "Have you seen you?"

 

Years ago when I was young, early 2000s, I got beat up and thrown in the drunk tank by some cops, for finishing my beer from the bar on the sidewalk. It was before cell phone camera days but they only relented when someone with a video camera showed up and and started yelling "they are Rodney Kinging this fool". All I could do was yell "help, I am not resisting" while it was happening. After the incident I was handcuffed and thrown in a cop car for awhile, the initial cop who started it got into the front seat of the cop car just to power trip and ask me "how do you like me now", at which point I told him to go fuck his sister. I asked him for his name and he laughed at me. I asked everyone for his name over and over and was only told it would be on the police report, but when you get thrown in the drunk tank for nothing there is no police report, and when I asked for it on my release the drunk tank cops said they had no idea who even brought me in.

 

I had a very similar experience 10-12 years ago. It was a Friday the 13th and the cops were doing a sweep. I was sober as a judge but still got hauled in by a very arrogant (and certifiably incompetent) buffoon. They never charged me and turned me out on the street at 3 am. Cost me $400 in car retrieval fees. My sister in law was a former Assistant DA for the county and she made some inquiries after it was all said and done. All she got was a bunch of cops playing (I assume) stupid. From that point on I stopped giving the police the benefit of the doubt, regardless of the situation......badges are shields for abuse.

 

Thanks, but at this point in my life its just a good story of my wild years and the only story which I got to ride in a paddywagon. No lasting damage other than my deep seeded distrust of police officers now.

Yep, me too.

I got a breathalizer at the drunk tank. 0.06%, still legally sober enough to drive. The incident that started it all was my sitting next to the wall by the bar drinking a beer discreetly from a bottle, he came over talked shit to me, got in my face chest to chest with me (even though Im 6'3 and hes probably 5'7) and told me I had 2 seconds to get out of his face. I said ok, turned around and thats when he took me down from behind and the other 4 saw jumped in from there. Other than drinking a beer my only crime was not taking him seriously until he bumped chests with me, then I was shocked and scared. It was a total power trip, he just wanted to show me who was boss.

One funny side note to the whole story was that it turned out that one of the guys in my paddywagon worked with me. We bumped into eachother a few weeks later on the elevator and both just stared at eachother for like 10 seconds before we both just busted up laughing.

Edit: I felt like I should clarify that the other cops were not beating me up, they were assisting in the take down and had my limbs pinned down. The original cop was the one cuffing me, and he cuff'd me in a way that jammed 5 fingers, including both thumbs and I thought one was broke, I also had bruises up and down my backside rib cage where he was grinding elbows and knees into me, I had some scrapes on the front side because when he took me down it was armtwisted and leg swept so I went down hard and fast on the sidewalk.

 

It’s probably been 30 years, but when we lived in our last house we were very good friends with a group of neighbors who all lived within a half block of us. We all had work schedules that pretty much gave us Fridays off, and in the good weather we’d all get out early to get our yard work done together so we could hang out, drink beer and play volleyball. We also had a big, ugly white feral cat that terrorized the neighborhood cats and cost us a fortune in vet bills. So anytime I saw it I was taking shots at it with my BB gun. One sunny Friday afternoon we were all out working in our yards when I saw the white cat stroll brazenly by and flip me the paw. So I ran and got my BB gun and started stalking him through the immediate vicinity. As I was doing so I heard a car turn the corner behind me. Call in sixth sense, but I just KNEW it was a cop. Sure enough, I heard him hit the brakes hard and I couldn’t put that BB gun down fast enough and show my hands. The neighbors thought it was hilarious and the cop was very cool, but I came close to literally loosing my bowels. It was scary, and even back then I wondered how it might have gone down if I hadn’t been a pasty faced white boy. And if anything ever got that freakin’ cat, it was either old age or a coyote.....

 

Remember, 12 year old Tamir Rice was playing with a toy gun and was killed within seconds of police arriving.

Us there a single boy who hasn't played with a toy gun? And so have lots of girls, myself included.

 

It's a great movie and kind of reminded me of Bond.

 

All the kids I knew had sticks for guns and leaves for money,

 

This Kaepernick thing has really come full circle. He began kneeling for the anthem to protest police brutality against minorities. The backlash insisted he was "disrespecting the troops" (despite the idea coming from a Green Beret). Now the police brutality has targeted one of those troops.

 

The police disrespecting the troops is an interesting twist to see the right try and rationalize.

 

I'm not sure if there is, but there should be laws against police intimidation and "police brutality" should include unreasonable use of pepper spray. This guy shouldn't just lose his job, he should face some legal jeopardy too.

 

He should be barred from ever being a cop anywhere.

 

Damn straight and what took so long?

 

Are there psychological evaluations required? Had a run in with an off duty cop yesterday, total hot head. Could not believe the gall of this dude.