Seattle officer who arrested black man carrying golf club as a cane fired

[Mandres]

The termination notice is suitably harsh: http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Doc.pdf

That's a very thoughtful and well-supported report. She clearly was unfit for this line of work.

 

[cirrrocco]

someone end her misery. maybe she needs a black cock

arrests a random old man
talks shit abt the judge
talks crap abt another black officer.

what a biatch

 

[shira]

Indeed, her behavior was so strange, I'm tempted to conclude that this actually was motivated at least in part by racism. I'm the last to conclude that with these police incidents, but it's difficult to find a rational explanation here. She also apparently has a history of making disparaging remarks about black people.

Something is indeed very strange about this situation.

Notice that as the video starts, you can't even see that the man is holding a golf club. Yet the officer is pulling the car over to the curb to deal with this man and then asks him to drop the golf club. That means there's some earlier video footage that's missing here, when the officer first sees this man with his golf club. Or maybe the officer didn't turn on the video camera until the point at that we see in the online video.

I'm not saying that this officer's approach is remotely rational, but it's clear that something occurred earlier. Maybe the patrol car made an earlier pass by this man, and he raised the club (maybe to say hello; maybe to threaten; maybe not indicating anything at all). But the point is that there's something that obviously happened before the start of this video.

 

[EOM]

I was pleasantly surprised to see the chief talk about trying to deescalate a situation instead of simply using force.

 

[Sonikku]

I'm beginning to see how why so many blacks today are apprehensive when dealing with police.

 

[MrPickins]

Something is indeed very strange about this situation.

Notice that as the video starts, you can't even see that the man is holding a golf club. Yet the officer is pulling the car over to the curb to deal with this man and then asks him to drop the golf club. That means there's some earlier video footage that's missing here, when the officer first sees this man with his golf club. Or maybe the officer didn't turn on the video camera until the point at that we see in the online video.

I'm not saying that this officer's approach is remotely rational, but it's clear that something occurred earlier. Maybe the patrol car made an earlier pass by this man, and he raised the club (maybe to say hello; maybe to threaten; maybe not indicating anything at all). But the point is that there's something that obviously happened before the start of this video.

If I read the termination notice right, she circled the block after she thought she saw him swinging the club and heard a metal on metal sound.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Stay tuned for the inevitable lawsuit against the department claiming racial and gender bias against her.

 

[HumblePie]

If I read the termination notice right, she circled the block after she thought she saw him swinging the club and heard a metal on metal sound.

Correct, her claim was that she thought she saw him swing the club in her direction and at a stop sign before went around the block to get back to him. The video starts as she pulls up after that claim. Which is legitimate for a Terry stop as the firing notice states.

The problem was the whole behavior and attitude in the situation after. Had she just stepped out of her vehicle and done something like the following:

"Excuse me sir, but I was wondering if you could help me today? I thought I saw someone swinging a weapon around here on my first pass and I'm trying to ascertain if that happened. Would you be kind enough to put that golf club you have in your hand on the ground so I can approach you safely?"


Then taken it from there and viola zero problems with the stop had she said that. I'm pretty sure that was how she is trained according to the firing note. Instead she went batshit insane and got fired for it.

 

[HomerJS]

Stay tuned for the inevitable lawsuit against the department claiming racial and gender bias against her.

Stay tuned for another Fox News episode of "The War Against Cops"

 

[JEDIYoda]

"Excuse me sir, but I was wondering if you could help me today? I thought I saw someone swinging a weapon around here on my first pass and I'm trying to ascertain if that happened. Would you be kind enough to put that golf club you have in your hand on the ground so I can approach you safely?"

Victim needed that golf club as a crutch...so walla no solution!!