Oh yeah, I would put it right at the top "Suspect grabbed my balls". If I were the officer I would have left it out, I know he would have taken some sh!t about it at the station from his fellow officers.
To all you flaming liberals, one day you will have your wish and make it illegal for an officer to defend himself against someone of a different race. I hope someone grabs all your balls!
man. we agree often.
brackis is a damn moron. perhaps 1.6 mil might have been excessive had his name and reputation not been tarnished by the media. most importantly, this decision will serve as a good example of what can/will happen should a similar situation arise.
You people who are claiming it's all the flaming liberals who hate cops are still forgetting one simple fact, there is zero proof that the guy had his balls even touched. The assault was caught on tape and is against protocol. Nothing in the even remotley indicates that the officer had his balls touched, and certainly does not warrant giving him 1.6 million dollars.
Vic
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Bullsh!t. All this does is reward bad cops for being bad cops, and make it that much harder for municipalities to rid themselves of problem police officers. I couldn't give a sh!t what color the suspect's skin may have been.
Now a city will say, "Yeah, we're paying out lawsuit after lawsuit for this one particular officer's excessive brutality, but if we fire the offending officer or take disciplinary action against him, we will end up having to pay him a huge sum plus hire him back anyway. So we're stuck with a bad cop on the streets and there's nothing when can do even if he finally murders someone."
Don't fool yourself (or try to confuse the issue) that this prevents officers from defending themselves (against anyone). The suspect was in handcuffs. Who should have been in control of the situation? If the suspect did grab his balls, as the officer alleges, then he clearly was not in control and was not following his training, now was he?
As for your flaming liberal comment... I'm not, fsck off <^> Good luck trying to clean up the streets with corrupt cops. :roll:
I swear you fools think that just because you give someone a badge it prevents them from ever committing a criminal act for the rest of their life. I got news. 'Taint so.
edit: I wonder when the so-called "real conservatives" who are backing the officer in this case stopped believing in "at-will employment" and became socialists in regards to guaranteed lifetime employment for government employees?
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This is really, really big. I'd say that it's the first high-profile reverse discrimination ( that terms means nothing) case I've ever heard of.
Fired police officer gets last laugh...
The American people, specifically Arnold's Californians lose with this.
Actually because I'm sure the City will rely on some sort of Bond or Insurance we all wind up paying for it one way or another
Stupid Liberals.
This was a suit against the city not the person who was arrested. So i don't see how race could have played an issue unless his superior officer was black.
fixed?
Not enough evidence to make the assumption from this article alone, but it sounds like a bunch of bull all the way around to me.
Vic,
While I agree with your point of view it doesn't prevent the fact that publically media lynching a police officer is popular these days. We face it here in Louisville, KY.
Black guy gets into altercation with police and tries to kill said police - police are bad guys and its plastered all over the front page. White guy gets killed by black police and its buried in a two paragraph story on page 4 of the metro.
Just recently an officer was cleared of any wrong doing for protecting the lives of citizens and taking out the threat, but he still lost his job and was fired by the black police chief. This reverse discrimination and lynching of white cops has to stop.
Please provide factually based informatuion when bringing up other examples. It makes it much easier to discuss. The fact of the matter is that this guy didn't deserve to be a millionaire for being caught on tape doing something, which is entirely different from an untaped event.
But don't you understand? That is NOT what the award was for. The award was for the damages or and wrongful discrimination.
Vic
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Well, I appreciate your point of view, Spidey, and see your point, but IMO it's at-will employment. Personally, I would like to see legislation go through making it illegal for public employees to unionize. If you or I or almost everyone else who reads this makes a major mistake on the job, chances are that we're gonna get fired. Not so with the police. Nowadays, they can't be fired even with cause. How can that be good for law enforcement?
And when it becomes impossible for even the worst, most corrupt police officer to be fired (and we're almost there), then the police will rule the city and the law-abiding citizens, and not the other way around like it is supposed to be. Just my $0.02
Uhh... if that's the case, then why did his partner, who is black, who filed the falsified report, and who only received a 10-day suspension, also get half of the settlement?
From article: "... the jury was unanimous in awarding $810,000 to Morse's partner, Bijan Darvish, who had been disciplined in connection with the 2002 incident."
Yes, I do understand. He was fired and a jury was stupid enough to give him heaps of money because he claimed he was fired improperly.
He can claim racism, testicle touching, insanity, LSD in his cereal, or celestial imbalances, but it doesn't refute what was caught by a camera.
He can claim racism, testicle touching, insanity, LSD in his cereal, or celestial imbalances, but it doesn't refute what was caught by a camera.
um, again. What was caught on camera has nothing to do with the chief lynching him and making an example. The reverse discrimination has to stop and it has to stop now.
Heaven forbid that the chief of police reprimand an officer for hurting the reputation of his force by hitting a teenager.
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