Anyone know why he did this? (police brutality)
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Good, I hope it comes out the cops pay check.
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don't know why he did it but it looks like he meant to do it.
image 1 he sees a bike coming up fast. you can see from the line the bike is going he's ahead of the cop and also he's moving far too fast to just let the cop walk past
image 2 he's proper running for it and the bike is trying to get out the way. if the cop had not moved he'd been fine.
image 3/4 shows difference of where the cop was and where he ended up to "get out the way"
now i'm not saying the cop did anything wrong, just that i think he meant to do it. for all we know the cops could have been on high alert and then seen some guy in some red mask, panicked and acted a bit too quick.
image 1 he sees a bike coming up fast. you can see from the line the bike is going he's ahead of the cop and also he's moving far too fast to just let the cop walk past
image 2 he's proper running for it and the bike is trying to get out the way. if the cop had not moved he'd been fine.
image 3/4 shows difference of where the cop was and where he ended up to "get out the way"
now i'm not saying the cop did anything wrong, just that i think he meant to do it. for all we know the cops could have been on high alert and then seen some guy in some red mask, panicked and acted a bit too quick.
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It wont do, because he's no longer a police officer.
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imo the cop is heading for the bikers route as the biker was moving at some speed it's obvious who needed to do what. the cop should have stopped and he'd been ok. the biker moved out the way by quite a distance but the cop ran faster and faster. it's the same as if you see a car coming, you don't run into it's path to then get past, you stand still or take one step back.
image 2 shows how far the cop was running. i honestly don't think he was trying to get past but purposely stop the biker.
"The jury cleared him of assault back in April but convicted him of falsifying the criminal complaint that claimed Long knocked him over."
So this copper committed a felony to cover his own back? Corruption at it's finest....
So this copper committed a felony to cover his own back? Corruption at it's finest....
True, but this goes to show that as soon as you put on a uniform you're legally allowed to assault a member of the public and lie about it under oath, and receive no punishment.
Way to win people's respect for authority.
"The jury cleared him of assault back in April but convicted him of falsifying the criminal complaint that claimed Long knocked him over."
So this copper committed a felony to cover his own back? Corruption at it's finest....
So a Jury think he didn't purposefully knock the guy off his bike?, I guess we'll not know what extra evidence was put forward, but I think the video can be construed in different ways.
I'm glad he was done for lying, the Police are made up of 'people', people lie, that's why stuff has to be in place to catch and punish them, which appears to have occurred, although not much of a punishment is it..
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Err? What?! You cant just walk onto a road with traffic (definition of traffic includes cyclists) and plead ignorance like that.
I hate when people do that. Last year I was cycling (my green light, pedestrian red) and a woman just stepped in front of me without even bothering to look if there was traffic (luckily I was going slow) and I ended up colliding with her.
She then claimed she had right of way (!?!?) so I offered to go the police station with her to contest and let them review the CCTV, or the witness driver behind. She declined.
This is a big problem here in London where many pedestrians (Usually in iZombie mode) just walk out in front of buses, cars, taxis, cyclists, motorcyclists with no respect whatsoever for their own or others safety.
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I'm not going to comment on what happened in the video as it is out of context (although it does look like the Police Office did it deliberately) but what I will comment on is how quickly the anti-cycling brigade come out of the woodwork here in GD.
Anybody would think cyclists kill kittens or something.
Anybody would think cyclists kill kittens or something.
Likewise the anti-police brigade rock up pretty sharpish.
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The policeman's posture before, during and after (extended arm ensuring contact to push the cyclist off his bike) makes it obvious that he intended to knock him off.
It was a stupid thing to do, and he should be disciplined - assuming the protest was legal.
Not really sure it's career-endingly terrible as lots of people in this thread are making out.
It was a stupid thing to do, and he should be disciplined - assuming the protest was legal.
Not really sure it's career-endingly terrible as lots of people in this thread are making out.
Anybody not think it that it's a clear cut case of the police officer doing it delibrately is mad.
The fact that he lied in his police report and the jury convicted him of falsifying the criminal complaint that claimed Long knocked him over shows his true intent.
If it was just a genuine accident why try to get the cyclist charged?
The fact that he lied in his police report and the jury convicted him of falsifying the criminal complaint that claimed Long knocked him over shows his true intent.
If it was just a genuine accident why try to get the cyclist charged?
It was for him. He was 11 days into the job and resigned afterwards.
