Cops beat down 90 year old black woman in Columbus Ohio.

[Fire1]

WARNING: This is sickening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7qyXvoM5E

[Kind of Blue]

1. Disturbing, indeed, she slammed the old lady like a rag doll

:cry: Her head was actually busted open, Fire1! I don't know how they can justify the punishment fitting that crime. Too brutal but I'm sure the D.A. will rule it appropriate action for a big thick woman to slam down a brittle old crazy woman.

[Fire1]

3. That brought tears to my eyes. She's somebody's

Great grandmother or mother!! THAT'S WHY I HATE COPS!! They're all fuckin NUTS!! Anybody who would put their life on the line EVERYDAY for a salary that is obviously not comparable to the high risk involved, HAS GOT TO BE MENTALLY DEFICIENT WITH LOW SELF ESTEEM! :grr:

[Kind of Blue]

4. I totally understand. My husband and had this

same discussion a few weeks ago and his opinion is that perhaps a lot of these cops are ex-military still looking for that rush of combat-like situations. The crime rate within the military in my area is just crazy. We are all the enemy, like a lot of doctors look at patients as just specimens.

I wanted to see if this theory has any truth in it and found a recruiter at this police forum - I think LE means law enforcement and LEO means law enforcement officer - but here's what he said

"As a recruiter I attend general population job fairs, university and junior college career fairs, and job fairs at military installations. If those job fairs had an equal number of people attending I would receive more quality applications from the military job fair.

My theory, and I could be wrong, it that it is personality driven. The personality of the person that causes them to have an interest in military service also leads to an interest in law enforcement. I have also noticed that the spouse of a LEO, including female LEO tend to also be in a public service type employment. The spouses of LEO are often in LE, education, or a medical field. I believe that this is also a result of their personality, how they view the world.

A high percentile of former military LE service members enters civilian LE. Therefore as a recruiter I make a special effect to make the military LE in my area know that we are extremely interested in the skills that they have mastered while in military service.

Former military LE along with lateral LEO (both in and out of state) brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to an agency."

I can't bear to discuss the video because I keep crying, so that's why I've diverted my attention to why the incredible aggression. This was not the only recruiter who prefers military before civilian, though they all say it does not eliminate police training. Somebody needs to study the psychological makeup of these nasty cops because I just wonder if there's a high correlation with military combat.

Any military or officers here, please forgive me for linking the two, I'm just trying to understand the brutality.

(edited to change policy forum to police forum)

[Fire1]

6. It's not surprising that there is a strong correlation between

military and civilian recruits. There is definitely a psychological profile for these kinds of people and there are TOO MANY of them for this to just be coincidental. These people have personality DISORDERS! I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for police officers, dead or alive.

[Number23]

2. I can't even watch it. I'm sorry but I can't.

[Kind of Blue]

5. I wish I hadn't seen it either, Number23. It's messed me up. n/t

[M0rpheus]

7. There aren't any words for what I would do to ANYONE...

Who did that to my grandmother. They would have to throw me under the jail once I was done.

A 90 year old woman with a cane and a knife outnumbered by police and, they couldn't find a better solution?
:nuke:

[Fire1]

8. Your reflexes are quick enough to draw a side arm from

your holster but your reflexes are not quick enough to disarm a ninety year old woman on a fuckin cane???????????????? BULLSHIT!! PURE UNADULTERATED BULLSHIT!!!! THEY WANTED TO DO THAT!! THE SICK FUCKERS WANTED TO DO THAT!!!!!

Edit to add: All they had to do is grab her wrist and take the pocket knife out of her hand. I could have done that! ANYBODY could have done that.

[M0rpheus]

9. They just jumped right to the most violent option.

What the hell happened to *talking*?
She was obviously in some kind of distress. What the hell would make someone think "taking down" a 90 year old woman was the right thing to do?

I suppose they'd tell us the upside, is that she wasn't shot.

Did I mention, I'd be under the jail after I was done?

[Fire1]

10. I hear you!! I just can't get past this shit! I need a drink! n/t

:beer:

[M0rpheus]

11. I'm with ya...

I was drinking already so, I'll just have another one.
:beer:

[NOLALady]

12. Can. Not. Watch.

[firedupdem]

13. Oh my God!

Tears just shot right out of my eyes! Why in the hell would that Bitch slam an old lady with a cane down like that for? Why did I even look! I am so fucking angry right now. :grr:

[Brewman_Jax]

14. OMG

:scared:

are cops that scared of everybody that they have to body slam an old lady with a cane that couldn't put up any decent resistance? Are they that poorly trained that they can't deal with unruly opponents that they outpower and outnumber? I guess they can't with the articles of tasering and/or handcuffing kids, old people, people with canes, etc.

And the cops and cop fondlers wonders why cops have earned their bad name. :puke:

[firedupdem]

15. Fire1

Did you hear of any followup on this story? I wonder what the outcome was?

[Fire1]

16. Not yet. I plan to google it this evening. n/t

[Brewman_Jax]

20. Very little coverage

outside of various blogs. Only one local newsstation had any coverage on it, http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/local/article/expert_police_handled_knife-wielding_grandma_correctly/20258/P50/

Like most police brutality cases, the cop-in-question will likely suffer no penalities. Probably will get a commendation for stopping such a "dangerous" suspect. :eyes:

[Raineyb]

17. I saw the video and was sickened by it.

I couldn't think of anything to say that could properly express my disgust. Then it got to GD. Let's just say I'm even more disgusted. I want to reach through the screen and wring someone's neck. The excuse making for the police is absolutely disgusting as per usual.

[Fire1]

18. I SAW!!!! That post says she was '80' not 90. Doesn't

matter, though. Either way, there were better and safer ways to solve that problem than slamming her to the ground. They changed the wording in GD but the video speaks for itself.

[Fire1]

19. I should have never, never, never clicked on that thread.

Do you KNOW that one member posted that this lady "GOT WHAT SHE DESERVED" b/c she was waving the pocket knife round at some teen-agers who were harassing her in the parking lot. What I didn't know was that the lady has Alzheimers. Not that this CHANGES ANYTHING! But the circumstances are very close to what I suspected all along. THIS country is FUCKED UP in more ways than you can imagine.

[Raineyb]

21. It's been locked.

Fucked up is too kind for that monstrosity.

[Fire1]

22. Finally. Bout fuckin time! n/t

[Number23]

23. ..

Speaking of locked threads...funny how mine got locked FOUR DAYS after I started it for "calling out" members and there was no mention of a single name of a single person on DU in my OP.

This place is just pure JOY sometimes. But prying eyes will tell all, I guess. ((waving and blowing kisses at the non-sleeping eyes who monitor this forum just LOOKING for isht)) :hi:

[Fire1]

24. Fuck em! We can still PM!!! LOL!!! n/t

[firedupdem]

25. I could tell by looking at her and her movements that she had

alzheimers. That lady couldn't have hurt a fly. Her arm could have been grabbed and the knife, that I couldn't even see in the video, removed. This country is getting sicker by the day. You got all white mobs showing up to Protest the President and not one arrest, even if they have a gun! but this old lady gets her head cracked open while being slammed to the ground for nothing! :grr:

[noiretextatique]

26. i just saw this thread

but there was one in GD that, like Raineyb, made me want to strangle a few posters. how anyone can claim this brutality was "justified" is beyond me. too many of our allies believe police brutality against us is perfectly NORMAL, and the way things SHOULD be. with allies like that...
:grr:

[Karenina]

27. WHO THE FUCK NEEDS ENEMIES???

:rofl: ......... :cry:

Obama's election is lancing this boil. IT AIN'T PRETTY. :puke:

[Number23]

28. Girl, you speak The Truth

Obama's election is lancing this boil

There's not a white person in America that can play the "oh, racism isn't real anymore" game now.

Anyone that still wants to pretend that racism magically disappeared with the Civil Rights Movement is either too stupid to live or too crazy to listen to.

[M0rpheus]

29. "It's not racism!"

We're just oversensitive. Cops are our friends and, that old lady had it coming.

I learned that right here on DU, in the aforementioned GD thread, on this topic. :evilfrown:
They can play that game all day because, they STILL don't have to acknowledge what's right in front of their eyes.

Remember when "I learned that on DU" was a good thing?

[Fire1]

30. So true! n/t