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California Sheriff Investigates 'Disturbing' Video of Suspect Being Beaten

Screw him.

The POS was the jackass crook that ripped off someones property in a attempt to allude the Police.

You're not going to get any sympathy from me. He's a low life and he'll survive that beating to rip someone else off another day.

Hell, let's just get rid of justice system altogether and let cops be Judge Dredd, amirite?
 
And I wouldn't fault the horse's owner for kicking the guy's ass. I DO fault law enforcement officers for doing it.
That's the thing... I would NEVER convict an owner from kicking the guy's arse (if I were on a jury), but I'd convict these officers in a heartbeat. The difference, IMO, is interest in the horse. The owner has an interest, the police do not. It shouldn't be so personal for the police, they should be detached.
 
The very first deputy that rushes in and kicks the Taser-stunned prone suspect to the left side of the head, should be charged with felony assault, and face criminal prosecution.
 
If yall want to holds cops to a higher standard maybe you should pay them more first. They are regular people working a dangerous job for **** money and then get every single thing they do under heavy scrutiny. Yall are lucky there are any policemen at all.
 
If yall want to holds cops to a higher standard maybe you should pay them more first. They are regular people working a dangerous job for **** money and then get every single thing they do under heavy scrutiny. Yall are lucky there are any policemen at all.

But people choose to become police officers, maybe they deserve some pay increase but they choose to do this job.

They may be regular people but they are hired by "you" the people to protect "you" the people (cannot say "we" because I am not an American) and they have to be held to the highest standard possible and let's be honest, these police officers massively failed those standards. And yes, they are the people who use violence on your behalf to apprehend people to make sure justice is served, so they must be held to a high standard to prevent innocent people being jailed, people being shot by cops gone wild, people getting their bones broken and their head kicked in by officers gone wild.

To complain about the heavy scrutiny is insane IMHO, they have to be under heavy scrutiny because they have immense power and can misuse that power massively, hence the heavy scrutiny.

And yes, we are lucky there are police officers but we are not lucky if all police officers are like officer Slager or the 6 numb nuts who were beating this suspect who had surrended to them. That is why there is heavy scrutiny so that we can weed out the bad apples to get to a better police force.
 
That is a lot of "bad apples" in one place....

And the fact that some conservatives actually defend scum like this..... just proves that some conservatives want a police state.
 
If yall want to holds cops to a higher standard maybe you should pay them more first. They are regular people working a dangerous job for **** money and then get every single thing they do under heavy scrutiny. Yall are lucky there are any policemen at all.
lulz at a conservative saying we need to throw more money at a problem involving corruption in government union employees. Just goes to show you how the dishonesty of conservatives.

Damnit, if only we paid those EXECUTIVES at ENRON even more money, then they never would have been so corrupt...

Oh wait I know...Crovax hates Obama...

If only OBAMA had even more power, then he wouldn't be so corrupt!!! He has a hard job and is under heavy scrutiny! You're lucky he even presides this country on your behalf.
 
I really don't understand the type of person that could watch that video and conclude the man deserved it.
 
American police are going crazy, out of interested how many of your Police force are Iraq/Afghan war Vets?

I don't think they are going crazy. This has been going on for a while. The problem for them is they are getting caught on film more and more.

Some go into law enforcement because they enjoy being thugs. I've even had one tell me so.
 
I really don't understand the type of person that could watch that video and conclude the man deserved it.

Me neither, just imagine that was your son, husband or brother.
 
I don't think they are going crazy. This has been going on for a while. The problem for them is they are getting caught on film more and more.

Some go into law enforcement because they enjoy being thugs. I've even had one tell me so.

The Lucifer Effect in action. Philip Zimbardo coined the term based on his experience with the Stanford Prison Experiment.
 
No doubt, but I was responding to this Brit who seemed to think that all the cops in the USA are getting rabies or something.

Well, don't be too hard on Higgins. You acknowledged he's from the UK, so when he turns on the news in his Soho flat, weekly he sees cops shooting unarmed people, choking them to death on the sidewalk, or ganging up on a man laying on his face with his arms behind his back, like a wild pack of dogs, kicking and punching him. This is being seen on international news. International news may also be showing similar in North Korea, or Pakistan or Egypt. But then this is America.
 
American police are going crazy, out of interested how many of your Police force are Iraq/Afghan war Vets?

No kidding they are.

More than a few are vets, but I have never heard a percentage - I would guess 20%.

Problem is, in cases like this, all of them are sharing the one moron brain.
 
Good, then please never complain when it happens to a family member of yours or to you. There is no excuse of validity for police brutality.

I didn't raise disgusting thief thugs.

And if one of my Boys did something like that and received a knee to the head or to the groin I would shake the cops hand who did it.

Again, this is in no way similar to what happened in South Carolina.
 
If yall want to holds cops to a higher standard maybe you should pay them more first. They are regular people working a dangerous job for **** money and then get every single thing they do under heavy scrutiny. Yall are lucky there are any policemen at all.
If the risks aren't worth the reward they should get another job. Simple as that.

That's the line many conservatives like to give in any other similar scenario. It goes both ways.
 
I didn't raise disgusting thief thugs.

And if one of my Boys did something like that and received a knee to the head or to the groin I would shake the cops hand who did it.

Again, this is in no way similar to what happened in South Carolina.

Well, you might not have raised thugs, but luckily not everybody who commits a crime is a thug.

And you might want to shake his hand, I would want to sue his ass.
 
If yall want to holds cops to a higher standard maybe you should pay them more first. They are regular people working a dangerous job for **** money and then get every single thing they do under heavy scrutiny. Yall are lucky there are any policemen at all.

Such unfounded apologism!

If you cant do your job right, you shouldnt have that job...whatever the job.

If you dont like the pay and the job requirements, dont take the job.
 
Well, you might not have raised thugs, but luckily not everybody who commits a crime is a thug.

And you might want to shake his hand, I would want to sue his ass.

Sue ?

If you're kid ripped someone off and then stole someone's property to get away you would focus your outrage on the arresting officer for kneeing him in the groin ?
 
Sue ?

If you're kid ripped someone off and then stole someone's property to get away you would focus your outrage on the arresting officer for kneeing him in the groin ?

Yes, because such actions by LEOs destroy any possibility of respect for them. They are human beings but they are required to act in a manner superior to normal human behaviour during times of great stress. To kick a felon in the groin is nothing more than an adrenalin rush for the perp - in that case the cop is the perp.
 
Sue ?

If you're kid ripped someone off and then stole someone's property to get away you would focus your outrage on the arresting officer for kneeing him in the groin ?

Yup, my child would have to answer for his crimes in court, but if he complied with the police officers demands and surrendered and the police did that to him (kicking him in the private parts, kicking him in the head, etc. etc.) then you bet your bottom dollar I would sue. If police does not learn from their officers being shamed and prosecuted then maybe they will learn it if they feel it in their pockets.

Like Brendon Butler in the case of Murder on a Sunday Morning where a kid was hit, lied to, made to confess to something he did not do and put in jail for months for a case of police incompetence and police misdeeds. Financial consequences are maybe the only things that will teach police departments to change their wicked ways.
 
San Bernardino County to pay $650,000 after deputies beat horse pursuit suspect

San Bernardino County approved a $650,000 payout Tuesday to a man who was beaten by sheriff’s deputies after he was thrown off a horse — an incident captured on video by a hovering news helicopter.

Francis Pusok, 30, settled with the county Friday, a little more than a week after the April 9 incident in which deputies kicked and punched Pusok even as he appeared to have surrendered. It was approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors.

The settlement ends any potential claims Pusok could make against the county or Sheriff’s Department stemming from the beating.

It does not, however, put an end to disciplinary and criminal investigations that were launched by Sheriff John McMahon following the incident.....

Read more here: San Bernardino County to pay $650,000 after deputies beat horse pursuit suspect - LA Times

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I think the man deserved some financial compensation, but this is going way too far again, 650k that should be used for good law enforcement has gone bye bye because some dumb and stupid cops thought they were allowed to beat a suspect/arrested individual with camera's hanging over their heads filming every kick and punch they delivered.
 
I would expect that he's still going to face criminal charges for what he did, so I would expect that a bunch of his award will be eaten up in lawyer fees and/or possibly fines.
 
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