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There's no other way to describe what this Henderson police officer did in this video. Yet so far the city of Henderson refuses to give citizens the specifics of their review.
It grinds my teeth to read stories like this in which our government refuses to give us the basic information we deserve -- like the names of all the officers involved and outcome of the internal police investigation. After all, this video just cost Henderson taxpayers a fair chunk of change. We ought to know more than we do.
You can see the video for yourself and make up your own mind. For me, the officer who steps in and unnecessarily kicks the man in the head while he's down displays poor judgment, maybe even to the extent of costing him his job. Was that considered? If not, why not? If we're unlucky enough to get pulled over in Henderson for a traffic violation today, are we in danger of running into this guy and getting our heads kicked, even if we comply with every command?
You also can read the latest story here. Stop stonewalling, Henderson. Treat people with a little more information and dignity than this.
PS: Henderson PD has not revealed the name of the head-stomping police officer. You can find it here. Still not as forthcoming as the department and the city should be.
How could anyone vote for Gillespie after the innocent lives his clowns have taken and the millions in payouts for their actions.
Henderson has the same problem. Lousy training, lousy screening of applicants and ZERO enforcement when rules are broken.
The officers were reacting to what they were trained to do for their defense and the protection of the public. If you have an argument with their training in the "Use of Force Technique Training," take it up with the state and Homeland Security. They, and the police, and the military, have more experience in this than some street-coroner lawyer like you that thinks they're smarter than the professionals. Then try blaming the guy that didn't take his medicine and then drove in that condition, endangering us all.
There's no justification for what he did.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE... right!
This 'discipline' is from typical pressure by an uninformed public and an excited press. Notice they picked one of the police, yet none of the others? Why not? We see this happening continually where the police know that uneducated juries would find fault with the police in this sort of action and in the shootings we've seen in the press. So they settle out of court. But in the end, you continue to see these types of arrest procedures continuing because it's what the officers have to do.
There's no justification for what he did.
Yes, actually there is. As I stated, it's the results of year of experience, resulting in "Use of Force Technique Training," that protect the police while protecting the public.
So it obviously was not part of his training.
Obviously you're wrong. It is part of the training. You and the public simply have no understand of what it takes to make these sorts of stops and arrests. You just expect the police to wander up to a window of a car and tap on the window and ask if they're having a bad day. Too many cops have been shot doing that.
When the public decides that an encounter with the police has got a high probability of being shot, beaten and/or humiliated, I think the number of cops getting shot will be going up.
If police training is to have some overweight slob walk up to a restrained man and kick him, then there is a serious problem with whoever trains these police.
I have seen more restraint in a UFC cage match. I have seen more professional control of emotions in a little league baseball game.
These cops were beyond wrong and they are directly contributing to the next cop that gets a 9mm response to his traffic stop.
Well you think wrong. I was a cop. I have a California POST Certificate. I've had the training and experience; you haven't. So now it's you that lost "whatever infinitesimal speck of credibility you ever" though you had.
You probably don't know it; but you just made my (and the police's) point. Thanks.
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