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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘Goddamned Nazi Stormtrooper’: Texas cop Tasers 76-year-old man with expired inspection
A Texas police officer was placed on administrative leave on Friday after he reportedly used a Taser on a 76-year-old man after the suspect had already been forced to the ground.
The Victoria Advocate reported that 76-year-old Pete Vasquez was driving a work-owned vehicle back to his place of business on Thursday when 23-year-old Officer Nathanial Robinson pulled him over for an expired inspection.
Vasquez said that he explained that the car belonged to a car lot, and that the dealer tags made it exempt from having an inspection.
But dashcam video obtained by the paper shows Robinson using force to arrest Vasquez for what should have been a Class C misdemeanor. In the video, Vasquez pulls his arm away from Robinson, and the officer slams him into the hood of the patrol car. The two men disappear from camera range as Robinson places Vasquez in a hold, and then forces him to the ground.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/goddamned-nazi-stormtrooper-texas-cop-tasers-76-year-old-man-with-expired-inspection/
catbyte
(34,458 posts)malaise
(269,187 posts)They don't even have respect for age
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)If that was my dad I would go to his house with a baseball bat. You can kill old people so easily
ncjustice80
(948 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)that man resembled him so much. Some day that will happen. A mob will turn on a cop and tear him apart. that is about the only thing that hasn't happened yet.
ncjustice80
(948 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)ncjustice80
(948 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)response from all Americans - prison for him and all of the thugs that are cops.
TexasTowelie
(112,453 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Typically, they put them on "administrative leave," which means PAID VACATION.
I wonder if these bastards are doing this on purpose so that they can get that paid vacation?
ncjustice80
(948 posts)If a cop.is being invwstigated, he gets suspendedb WITHOUTpay. If he tries to work another kob, he gets fuckin fired.
marym625
(17,997 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)to see beauty in your own mind, life, around you in nature, in others. We must not allow them to make us despair. We must increase the perception of beautiful life, even in the ugliest moments.
marym625
(17,997 posts)More often than not, I do.
Thank you
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)it fully for only one quick moment, then lift ourselves out of it into action.
Despair is not an emotion to spend much time in.
marym625
(17,997 posts)But it can lead to some really bad stuff.
Thank you
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)A mega-asteroid to collide with us. The billionaires would be just as helpless.
marym625
(17,997 posts)BubbaFett
(361 posts)it's just now many, many people have video recorders in their pockets.
Cops have always pulled that kinda shit just because they don't like the way a person looks.
marym625
(17,997 posts)That doesn't mean that we should ignore it. Nor does it mean that we shouldn't grow as human beings
And although it has always been, it hasn't been as prevalent with so very many cops and departments.
It hasn't been that the cops and departments have been equipped with military gear. Or have been trained by military outside the country.
So, even though police brutality has always existed, it is worse.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Think of your entire neighbourhood being covered 24/7 by video surveillance in parked vehicles.....in the hands of private citizens, not the state.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Just to cover my butt in a car crash. Everybody in Russia has one now, so why not me too?
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)interesting an outcome, and nothing else can beat the evidence value, generally speaking.
Record both accidents and road rage, and it is all under your own control, that is the best part.
Each day you can go through your parked cars nightly recording to see what went on...or not in my neighbourhood, but there were a couple of incidents that a dash cam on my car might have made a lot of difference in.
The Russian dash cam accident recording compilations on U tube are interesting.
Spooky69
(30 posts)Ask Eric Garner
7962
(11,841 posts)And we MUST make sure the cops dont force laws to be made outlawing the use of cameras by citizens. They're trying that already. They dont WANT to be watched.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Then arrest him.
K&R
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)And still never be held accountable.
What a job for sociopaths and psychopaths.
Heck, Charles Manson would fit right in with the rest of them.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Cancel his credentials. He needs to find a different line of work,
he sure as hell is no good in law enforcement. Maybe something
like "ya want paper or plastic?" is more in his line.
onecaliberal
(32,902 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts)Thin-skinned assholes like him don't belong in law enforcement.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)This cop is clearly unsuited for police work of any kind anywhere in the US. The old guy said he thought the cop was going to shoot him for a while there. These cops should be tested for steroids.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Maybe they could get some training, for those that don't utterly fail the entrance exam?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)2naSalit
(86,802 posts)where else will these testosteronemen find work?
I have thought, since that cop in one of my law classes years ago and who had biceps the size of my upper thighs scared me, that these guys are steroid junkies, they have no sense of compassion or rationale after a short spell of regular use.
doc03
(35,382 posts)ago for urinating in the park.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Idiots!
doc03
(35,382 posts)they claimed he became belligerent. Two cops half his age had to use it to control him.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)It wouldn't be at all unusual. But cops seem to have a need to abuse.
The Wizard
(12,549 posts)with all this abuse of authority is that if you question authority you are subject to a beating or worse. Can you say Cops Gone Wild?
Triana
(22,666 posts)Gotta love our fascist state eh? Pfft.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)We had the Bush Administration falsify intelligence to justify a war. A War! A war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars! Nothing, no investigation, nothing. Bush and Cheney continue to run their mouths on TV.
Same with torture. No justice! None. Cheney even admits his guilt right on TV.
And mortgage fraud. Right in our face. Money laundering for drug smugglers and terrorists by one of the largest banks on earth. No punishment-zero! Nothing!
No wonder the police feel they can get away with anything. They do get away with anything! Anything and everything.
The new century started with the theft of a presidential election and since then the criminality has exploded!
This is the President's greatest failure, and it's a big one, a huge one.
Triana
(22,666 posts)". . . and since then the criminality has exploded!"
It will only get worse since all this crime is done with utter impunity.
Meanwhile children, poor, minorities, elderly (including deaf and blind) - as if THEY were the problem, are beaten to smithereens by abusive cops.
Hell is here now.
Enthusiast
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Chakab
(1,727 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Chemisse
(30,817 posts)I think the police culture is based upon an 'us against them' attitude. Lace that with racism and a complete lack of accountability. Mixed into the pot is the self-selection of this career by those who want power/like guns/enjoy violence.
This all adds up to a culture of police violence and abuse of power. It's not a matter of plucking out the bad apples; it's a matter of changing the culture.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)If the arc of the universe truly bends toward justice, it's got some serious kinks in it.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)They pds need to start weeding out unhinged authoritarian candidates.
Owl
(3,644 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)As psychopaths, they undoubtedly factor in the lack of personal consequence to their actions.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)going to be a messy future
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)Is this punkass moron pig cruising around looking for victims to abuse while listening to fuckin gangsta rap music?
I hope Officer Prick Asshole is fired, prosecuted, convicted and jailed...and if he isn't, I hope one day he tries to fuck over the wrong person, who takes the pig out in self-defense, because if this freak isn't jailed, he will continue the abuse until he fucks with the wrong guy.
And, I hope the victim in this case sues the crap outta the punkass pig and the PD that employs him -- bankrupt the lot of em!
I'm so tired of this shit happening literally every day in this country...what will it take to stop these brutal thugs from their violent, criminal behaviors under color of authority?
I was already in a crappy mood, then I made the mistake of clicking on this thread...
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Need to get pumped up for the battle with the thugs.
GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...but, shouldn't listening to rap music while on duty - or any other kind of music or non-work related distractions - be grounds for disciplinary action or even termination?
Hopefully he's terminated and prosecuted...we'll see.
shanti
(21,675 posts)it's impossible to hear what's going on in that confrontation. you notice in the article that that scumbag took the old man out of the eyesight of the camera too.
he fucking knew what he was doing!
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)You can find shit like this every day with people from every walk of life. Its ridiculous
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Stop being so reasonable!
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)n/t
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)raping female prisoners. The sheriff was voted out and later indicted. The bad cops were fired by the new sheriff, but I heard they just went to bigger cities to work as LEOs.
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)Pt. 1 - Eric Garner dies for "illegal cigarettes".
Pt. 2 - This gentleman gets tazed for a freaking vehicle inspection.
On the second part, why don't states just add the inspection cost to the tags and be done with it, like SC did years ago? It doesn't improve safety, and is another attempt to control the populace since its not a national requirement. I am not for unsafe cars, but TX, NC, VA, and other states that do inspections use it as an excuse for extortion.
Shouldn't laws be in place for important stuff, like murder, robbery, rape, and acts to/against children and otherwise helpless individuals? We are at a point in some jurisdictions that the cost of fighting relatively insignificant crimes exceeds available resources, and will happen with the "war on drugs". I could go on, you get the point here.
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)If not, I won't be surprised to see his name pop up again after he needlessly shoots and kills someone. People like him do not belong in any position of authority, let alone one that gives him a weapon.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)99.99999999% of cops are heroes who would walk through hell to help citizens.
These incidents are not so isolated and apparently haven't been for a while. We just have more cameras now to see it happening.
dissentient
(861 posts)I ran into a cop like that once. Totally power tripping, and didn't like my attitude towards him. I guess I wasn't subservient enough for his liking.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Is there any category of crime more minor than that? Andthe vehicle didn't even belong to Vasquez!
I swear we might as well make all cops wear jackboots and black uniforms with little silver lightning bolts on the collar.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Sending electric shocks through the body of the elderly should be reserved for Automated external defibrillators.