Watch yourself if you are driving in Glendale ! (crime, gated)

[AZgarden]

The police are especially agressive. See Channel 15 report on Police Abuse. Disgusting.

[Chairmaker13]

That wasn't aggression. That was sadistic and amazingly cowardly.

[Zippyman]

Originally Posted by AZgarden

The police are especially agressive. See Channel 15 report on Police Abuse. Disgusting.

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-new...ndale-officers


Important to note that the passenger(s) in a vehicle pulled over for a traffic violation in Arizona do not have any obligation to supply identification unless officers have a "reasonable, articulable suspicion that a crime has been committed" - this is well-settled law, yet officers routinely interpret refusal to identify as being "resistant" or belligerent. The man clearly is attempting to invoke his constitutional protections against an unreasonable inquiry & getting abused for it.


By allowing the police to abuse citizens for invoking their constitutional protections, the prosecutor is effectively declaring open season on the citizens they are supposed to be protecting.


What we have now in Glendale is an armed criminal gang on the payroll.

[LBTRS]

This one bad apple doesn't make this an across the board problem in Glendale.

[Zippyman]

Originally Posted by LBTRS

This one bad apple doesn't make this an across the board problem in Glendale.

half a dozen bad apples visible in the video. A press release was issued by another bad apple lying to the public about what happened. The police who investigated the police didn't even mention the fact that the man's constitutional rights were egregiously violated. Then, the bad-apple prosecutor refused to prosecute multiple officers who were assisting and abetting in this criminal act. There is no defense to pulling a handcuffed man's pants down (who is being sat on by an officer) and tasing his behind - and that's assuming that any part of the arrest was valid.



They had a year and a half to fix this, and chose not to. that's a whole bunch of bad apples. And don't forget the rest of the "bad apple" statement - "one bad apple spoils the bunch". Any public official who had knowledge of this and helped cover it up is a bad apple.



This is worthy of prison time. If the police are "owed" the "benefit of the doubt" in their encounters with the public, they also need to be accountable when they step way over the line.



What would the punishment be for a gang of citizens who grab a random cop, rip his pants off & tase him 11 times? That's an *appropriate* and reasonable place to start for punishment for guys who wear a cop costume and do the same thing to a citizen.



It's not a "double standard", it's the *same* standard that citizens are held to.

[MN-Born-n-Raised]

A massive settlement is coming. This is a perfect case of guilty until proven innocent.

[Zippyman]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

A massive settlement is coming. This is a perfect case of guilty until proven innocent.

I don’t think a civil settlement is enough in this case - you had fabricated charges that caused this man to sit in jail for months & only one cop got three days off for a vicious assault participated in by several officers. The prosecutor can’t claim he didn’t see the tapes, he did & used that information to free the man.. but clearly there was a brutal gang-assault under color of law here & clearly the “assault on an officer” charges were fabricated. There’s a conspiracy here - in filing the changes and in refusing to file charges against the offenders in blue.

Someone needs to go to jail for this. Several someone’s need to not be employed as officers & should not be on the streets carrying deadly weapons. The prosecutor who viewed these tapes & chose not to prosecute, needs to be removed from office. That’s a minimum. Whatever minion produced the press release lying to the public needs to be removed. If you don’t remove the bad apples, you spoil the bunch.

[skydude24]

It appears that Glendale is employing criminals who are carrying badges. I'd be very careful driving through Glendale. I imagine this will hurt businesses in Glendale, not to mention the financial hit the city will take.

It will be a travesty if these "cops" are not criminally tried in court.

[Jnvlv247]

Who cares, he was a white guy, nothing to see here

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by Jnvlv247

Who cares, he was a white guy, nothing to see here

Some people just have to drag race into everything. How weird.

This situation is abhorrent period.