A Louisiana Cop this time:

CSI Topeka · #1 02-20-2008, 12:53 AM

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/myfox/pa...1.1&sflg=1

Lemme guess.......She fell down.....

At least THIS one was fired damn near immediately.

I couldn't quite make out what the reporter said......the guy is facing NO criminal charges, or IS facing criminal charges?

If he is NOT, he damn sure should be. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened...........however, his defense will be "PROVE she didn't fall down".

T Rat · #2 02-20-2008, 05:28 AM

$#!T BAG! Damn, a handcuffed woman...makes me wanna puke.

hk_shooter · #3 02-20-2008, 02:53 PM

I just caught the end of that story on Fox News.
Mighty starnge how the tape "just happend to be blocked and paused" from her just resisting(cuffed behind her back)to laying in a blood puddle on the floor.[:@] I can think of nothing that a smaller, rear 'cuffed woman could do to a LEO to warrant that kind of beat-down...
I have nothing but respect for the tens thousands of LEO's who do a fantastic job, but one POS like this makes them all look bad.
I say he should do some time in 'general population' and get some of what he apparently dished out.

MNPEEPS · #4 02-20-2008, 03:07 PM

I feel sick !!
They need to make it so the camera can not be paused or blocked.

Xtreme Hawg · #5 03-03-2008, 03:25 PM

An a$$hole like that gives all Law Enforcement a bad name!!! Serves him right for getting fired, I hope they charge the ba$tard!!!

GeeLP · #6 03-03-2008, 07:02 PM

Hi, I normally just lurk and learn here, but being from Shreveport, Ihope you don't mind if I make a couple of comments...

First, let's look at the intro by the Fox News anchor, the one also written out on the website:

"Louisiana police officer is out of a job after video shows him beating a female inmate. The entire beating, which was caught on tape, sent the female prisoner to the hospital with bruises on her face and several broken teeth. Fox 10's Troy Hayden takes a look at what happened."

The video doesn't show him beating a female inmate. The "entire beating" was not caught on tape. Fox 10's Troy Hayden does a great job of sensationalistic reporting but there are a couple of things he doesn't say.

First, the officer had observed the woman driving erratically in a parking lot. She allegedly hit a couple of cars and a light pole before he stopped her and arrested her for DUI. In the more complete version of the tape that aired in Shreveport (I think it is on YouTube as well), the officer tries to get the woman to breathe in a Breathalyer and acknowledge her Miranda rights. She refuses to breathe in the Breathalyzer and she does not acknowledge her Miranda rights. She yells at the officer and is uncooperative.

Second, he turns off the tape recorder. He said he turned it off to make sure it was actually taping. Then he turned it back on and turned around, and she was lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Again, no beating is caught on tape. It is also unclear when and where the graphic photographs of the woman showing her cuts and bruises were taken. Were they taken at the police station? The hospital? Somewhere else? How long after she was taken out of the room with the officer were they taken?

The woman has hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit against the city and the officer. It is my understanding that she released the video to the media.

The officer was immediately fired. Standard police procedure requires that there be two officers in a room with a suspect (she was not an inmate) and that the video recorder NEVER be turned off. The police union is protesting the firing. The officer has two other on-going investigations into incidents where he may not have followed standard police procedure.

I know several Shreveport LEOs. They work very hard to follow procedure and "do it right" even under very demanding circumstances. This case, on both sides, is very upsetting to them. If you had seen the woman yelling to use a phone and getting up and banging around the walls and door without even saying, "Yes, I understand my rights" while the officer tried to get any kind of acknowledgement from her....

Did he do things wrong? Absolutely. Was she an obnoxious (and possibly) drunk suspect who would not do what the officer requested her to do? Also absolutely.

BTW, no affiliation, yada yada yada, with either party. Just a Shreveport citizen who is afraid his taxes are about to go up to make a very expensive lawsuit go away!

GeeLP · #7 03-03-2008, 07:14 PM

I think I may have made a mistake in my previous post....according to ABC News, it was standard practice in Shreveport to turn off the video recorder if a suspect refused to breathe in the Breathalyzer. Which the suspect did. This has apparently been changed by the Shreveport Police Department...now they want to make sure there are two officers in the room most ofthe time and the video recorder stays on all the time.