Old friend and cop goes to jail!

[SpatiallyAware]

I'm all for defending cops,.. especially when a cop does something bad, and then some asshat paints ALL cops as being just as bad.

But, this guy did something very wrong.

They were subdued. Your friend did his job. It's done. Great. No need or justification to take it further.

Read the thread. Plenty of people think crooked gang members like the OP's friend should be given a pass.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

That was an old video. You can see his hand around the convicts throat.
Is that harassment?

Read the article it explains what he did.

Nice job on posting a totally unrelated video to show what your disgusting crooked friend did to a person in handcuffs.

 

[smitbret]

Probably not long enough.

You need some better friends.

One of my best friends since junior became a deputy for the local Sheriff's Department when we were in our mid 20's.

We stopped being friends when he told me the story of Joe.

Joe was a well-known drunk; fit the picture perfectly, he was in his 50's about 5'8" and probably pushed 155-165 lbs. Because of the many nights he spent in the drunk tank (public intoxication) he got to know many of the policemen and Sheriff's Deputies quite well. They knew a lot about him from the stories he would tell in. In particular, he was proud that when he was younger he was a Golden Gloves state boxing champ.

These pigs, including my friend, thought it would be funny to kick the shit out of a drunk guy, so they devised a clever plan. Knowing that everything in the jail is taped and archived, 3 of them went into the cell with Joe and started some friendly conversation.

As they were talking, one of them says "Hey Joe, didn't you used to be a pretty good boxer when you were a kid."

Joe perks up and slurs, "Yeah, I was pretty good in my day."

Cop retorts, "Hey Joe, show us your stance."

Joe, all common sense wiped out by alcohol, complies thinking it's just a friendly request and receives the beating of his life. Ended up in the hospital for X-Rays and stitches.

The cops get away with it, because Joe made a threatening stance and it was caught on tape to prove it.

My ex-buddy just thought that was the funniest thing he'd ever witnessed and told the story like it was some great accomplishment while four of us were golfing. None of us hang out with him anymore. We'll make casual conversation with him if we bump into him in a store or something like that. But he and his other cop buddies make me sick and I would rather defend myslef and let the streets go lawless than have people like that protecting me.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Read the thread. Plenty of people think crooked gang members like the OP's friend should be given a pass.

Just like Oldgamer wants perfect cops who do no wrong, these people want to give this guy a pass,... and for each of these (one being an extreme and the other an exception,...); it is not going to happen.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Just like Oldgamer wants perfect cops who do no wrong, these people want to give this guy a pass,... and for each of these (one being an extreme and the other an exception,...); it is not going to happen.

Not sure if you're insinuating that this situation is rare, but is definitely is not.

I worked closely with court cases involving crap like this, it happens all the time. People with boot prints on their faces, cameras being physically destroyed at the scene.

Police brutality and illegal coverups are really not an uncommon thing.

 

[chimaxi83]

Yes. His father was pretty bad. I've heard some pretty awful stories. He abused his power and was able to get away with it. Back then, I'm sure there were a lot of bad cops.

Has anyone seen Serpico? Its a movie that shows the corruption within the NYPD, and it stars Al Pacino. Love that film.

Oh, I believe it. I worked for a small company whose owner was an old timer cop in one of the predominantly black suburbs of Chicago from '55 to '87 iirc. He brought in his old partner as his head of sales. I heard plenty of stories from the owners son and younger brother about them both. Crooked as they come and got away with it all. You'd never believe it though because they were the nicest old dudes ever.

 

[Phoenix86]

5 years, I'm ok with that number.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Cops are not personal vengeance machines, they are people, they have to follow the laws. When they break the laws, they themselves no longer have any credibility to be qualified to enforce them.

Anyhow, your friend would have been fine and gotten away with it in Chicago .... but I suspect this village/town/city of wildwood might not be run by gangs/criminals/thugs.