High school teacher Jesse Hagopian is reportedly planning to sue the city of Seattle after a police officer sprayed him with chemical irritant as he left a rally on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He was simply walking away while speaking on a cellphone, as the video below captures.
Hagopian had spoken at the event about how black lives matter on the Jan. 19th. Officers set up a barricade with their bicycles to prevent protesters from marching. A female officer yells “Stand back, stand back” and then inexplicably released the pepper spray.
The video is quite shocking and it is hard to imagine a context where this force was justified since no one seemed threatening or even attempting at that point to cross the line.
Seattle is the Emerald City. Munchkinland is a suburb. Lot’s of midgets in the metro area.
That cop had a strong element of hysteria in her voice – suggests that if she cannot handle a low stress situation, then she should not be a cop.
That was obviously (based on what we could see)an unwarranted assault by the cop.
There are deeper implications that this one assault; people are getting tired of cops misbehaving. Cops had (still have) a huge reservoir of good will, but the recent spat of doubtful actions is dissipating that reservoir.
Someday, somebody who has had a bad day will react to cop abuse – and he will react effectively. Then the dialogue will take a big step down as cops will use that incident to get even more abusive.
Cops are public servants and they work for us.
They need to remember that (especially as we vote on higher property taxes to fund their very generous pensions).
The key fact to understand about the Seattle video is that it was a midget woman cop who sprayed. Just sayn’
Here is an scholar who did not get his five grand payoff because he actually sunk his ax in a rookie cops head.
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He was not pepper sprayed.
Trooper York, that is truly awful so where are the stun guns? What is the deal with that. That was my question about the Ferguson deal also
“Eins, Zwei, Polizei”
Here is an example of what happens when you have out of control hipster douches where they did not use a preemptive pepper spray in their elitist faces.
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New York Post January 29, 2015
Bill Bratton held his tongue for months as a cold war raged between his NYPD officers and the mayor — but on Thursday the police commissioner finally snapped.
The top cop lashed out at the de Blasio administration for settling a lawsuit brought against the department by a machete-wielding thug who was shot as he menaced cops.
“This morning, I was outraged by the front-page story of the New York Post reporting on a settlement with an individual who had been arrested by our officers and then sued and the city is now going to give him $5,000 to make him go away,” Bratton said, referring to The Post’s exclusive on the payout to Ruhim Ullah.
Bratton later confronted the mayor about why city lawyers settled the “outrageous” lawsuit.
Ullah was shot in the leg while wielding the 18-inch weapon in a 2010 confrontation with cops. He pleaded guilty to the crime, and even his lawyer said the shooting was likely justified.
“Our officers did absolutely nothing wrong. It’s outrageous that the city Law Department is continuing to not support the men and women of this department as they go about their duties,” Bratton said during a blistering speech to the Police Foundation at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Columbus Circle.
“Our cops work very hard trying to keep this city safe, and if they’re not going to be backed up by the city law office, we need to do something about that,” the commissioner said in a stunning rebuke of Zachary Carter, a former federal prosecutor whom the mayor appointed to head the Law Department.
Bratton — who has routinely defended the mayor, or stayed silent, in de Blasio’s disputes with New York’s Finest — went on the attack again after the speech, telling reporters that such settlements are morale killers for cops on the street.
I applaud the spraying of the protesters at UC Davis, but this is the second case of thuggery by Seattle police in two days on this blog. Why isn’t the DOJ investigating them? This is just the tip of the iceberg that we are seeing. Clearly the Seattle PD are corrupt racist power hungry thugs.
I’m a solid supporter of the police but this madness has to stop. Don’t these police ever get any training after the academy?
Trigger Happy little buggers
doglover
By now crowds should know that they need to steer clear of police
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Why? I thought police worked for us not the other way around?
This cop needs to be fired, pronto. No more shocking than this incident. Cowards.
http://youtu.be/6AdDLhPwpp4
By now crowds should know that they need to steer clear of police and police should know they are under a microscope for bad behavior. Neither of those two seems to have happened here.
The crime he committed was that he was next to a white woman and she got nailed as well. That woman cop needs to be off the force now.
If he had just complied with the officer’s demands, he wouldn’t been sprayed.
Clearly the only person to blame is the perp with the dangerous cell phone.
Goes right along with this, eh? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/30/officer-cynthia-whitlatch_n_6578966.html
Overreaction.
What possible defense could be made with this :15 seconds worth of video?
All that I saw was “crowd control”. The officer did not pick him out of the crowd