hyunelan2
02-01-2005, 09:10 AM
I had to work late lastnight for a hearing for a police officer (like a trial) being charged with misconduct. I was at work from 8:30 am yesterday until 11:40 pm last night. It sucked. The cop being charged is a great guy. A 13 yr. veteran. He is married with 3 kids, ages 2, 4, and 6. From the time I was 12 yrs. old I remember him. He was the only cop that would stop to talk to all the kids outside playing, or riding bikes. Always fair and friendly. His name is Eddie.
Here's the story. Cop gets a call about a vehilce in the ditch. Responds and finds a wrecked car with front and side damage in a ditch. No people around, no sign the accident took place in the location the car is currently in. He runs the tags and finds that the owner lives about 2 blocks away. He goes to the house. She (the owner) is obviously under the influence. She explains she is on pain killers... yadayadayada. The cop decides to be nice and cut her a break, since she had a DUI last summer, he is going to let her off. He tells her to stay home and not to drive anywhere.
On his way out he gets a call about a loose dog in the same neighborhood. It's the SAME lady's dog. So the cop picks up the lady's step-son and they drive around looking for the dog in the squad car. They pick up the dog and drop it off. The cop returns to the scene of the wrecked car to wait for a tow.
While sitting there, a pickup passes him on the left, swerves wildly, hits the ditch, jumps it, hits a tree and gets stuck. (Mind you this is a 25mph residential neighborhood). The truck is trying to get free, but is stuck in the wet conditions of the ditch. The cop puts on his lights and pulls up to the truck.
He orders the driver out over the PA system, whaddya know... IT'S THE SAME WOMAN! He tells her she's under arrest for DUI and attempts to cuff her. She does not want to be cuffed. They struggle, but he gets the cuffs on her after a small battle (resisting arrest at this point, in MOST EVERYONE'S opinoin). So he finally gets her cuffed and starts taking her towards the police car to search her, she throws a shoulder into the cop trying to knock him off balance.
This is the whole case right here, 6 hours of legal battle over the next 2.5 seconds:
The cop gets shuved, he responds by using a takedown move to get her to the ground. He has her right arm with his left hand and he pushes near her upper chest to taker her down. The video (in full motion) makes it appear as if he choke-slammed her, but frame-by-frame you can tell he didn't. On her way down she hits the tailgate of the truck then the ground. On the ground she tries kicking him... twice.
And that was deemed excessive force. Bull****. There were top experts defending him (made OJs lawyers look like rookies). The deemed that he was guilty. They could have fired him, but I think they were afraid of a riot... there were sooooo many people at the hearing they could have torn the place down. All walks of life came out to support him. Business owners, kids, normal people, people that had even been arrested by him before. He received a 30 day suspension without pay. His kids are 2, 4, and 6. He has a wife and a mortgage. I think I'm going to take the money I got paid for working last night (6 hours overtime) put it in a card and mail it to him annonymously... such B.S.
Oh, and what the police and fire commission says he should have done: Walk away. YEA, THAT'S GREAT. IF YOU ASSAULT A POLICE OFFICER THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO WALK AWAY!?! WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!?
The police department also didn't charger her with resisting arrest. A police 'expert' that was called said she should have received: DUI, leaving the scene of an accident (the 1st one), resisting arresst, and assaultand battery on a peace officer. The only thing the departmente ended up filing was the DUI. I think they're afraid she's going to sue them so they dropped most of the charges and blamed the police officer.
Oh yea, the person who filed the charges against Eddie: the chief of police. Strange world...
Here's the story. Cop gets a call about a vehilce in the ditch. Responds and finds a wrecked car with front and side damage in a ditch. No people around, no sign the accident took place in the location the car is currently in. He runs the tags and finds that the owner lives about 2 blocks away. He goes to the house. She (the owner) is obviously under the influence. She explains she is on pain killers... yadayadayada. The cop decides to be nice and cut her a break, since she had a DUI last summer, he is going to let her off. He tells her to stay home and not to drive anywhere.
On his way out he gets a call about a loose dog in the same neighborhood. It's the SAME lady's dog. So the cop picks up the lady's step-son and they drive around looking for the dog in the squad car. They pick up the dog and drop it off. The cop returns to the scene of the wrecked car to wait for a tow.
While sitting there, a pickup passes him on the left, swerves wildly, hits the ditch, jumps it, hits a tree and gets stuck. (Mind you this is a 25mph residential neighborhood). The truck is trying to get free, but is stuck in the wet conditions of the ditch. The cop puts on his lights and pulls up to the truck.
He orders the driver out over the PA system, whaddya know... IT'S THE SAME WOMAN! He tells her she's under arrest for DUI and attempts to cuff her. She does not want to be cuffed. They struggle, but he gets the cuffs on her after a small battle (resisting arrest at this point, in MOST EVERYONE'S opinoin). So he finally gets her cuffed and starts taking her towards the police car to search her, she throws a shoulder into the cop trying to knock him off balance.
This is the whole case right here, 6 hours of legal battle over the next 2.5 seconds:
The cop gets shuved, he responds by using a takedown move to get her to the ground. He has her right arm with his left hand and he pushes near her upper chest to taker her down. The video (in full motion) makes it appear as if he choke-slammed her, but frame-by-frame you can tell he didn't. On her way down she hits the tailgate of the truck then the ground. On the ground she tries kicking him... twice.
And that was deemed excessive force. Bull****. There were top experts defending him (made OJs lawyers look like rookies). The deemed that he was guilty. They could have fired him, but I think they were afraid of a riot... there were sooooo many people at the hearing they could have torn the place down. All walks of life came out to support him. Business owners, kids, normal people, people that had even been arrested by him before. He received a 30 day suspension without pay. His kids are 2, 4, and 6. He has a wife and a mortgage. I think I'm going to take the money I got paid for working last night (6 hours overtime) put it in a card and mail it to him annonymously... such B.S.
Oh, and what the police and fire commission says he should have done: Walk away. YEA, THAT'S GREAT. IF YOU ASSAULT A POLICE OFFICER THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO WALK AWAY!?! WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!?
The police department also didn't charger her with resisting arrest. A police 'expert' that was called said she should have received: DUI, leaving the scene of an accident (the 1st one), resisting arresst, and assaultand battery on a peace officer. The only thing the departmente ended up filing was the DUI. I think they're afraid she's going to sue them so they dropped most of the charges and blamed the police officer.
Oh yea, the person who filed the charges against Eddie: the chief of police. Strange world...