Cop Who’s Being Sued for Assaulting a Woman, Caught on Video Assaulting Same Woman AGAIN

[FreakinDJ]

Cop Who’s Being Sued for Assaulting a Woman, Caught on Video Assaulting Same Woman AGAIN


A woman who filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Bridgeton, New Jersey Police Department was apparently targeted by the officer who is the central defendant in that suit — and the result was a replay of the incident that precipitated the lawsuit.

On March 31 of this year, Marella Lawson was dragged from her car by a scrum of Bridgeton police officers, pepper-sprayed, had her already-crippled right shoulder injured as her arms were wrenched behind her back, and thrown face-down to the pavement. Because the assailants were police officers, Lawson has been charged with two misdemeanors — resisting arrest and harassment – after initially being charged with felonies.

Lawson, who was pulled over on suspicion of driving with a suspended license, recognized the officer who conducted the traffic stop as Bridgeton Patrol Officer Shane Sawyers, the lead defendant in her ongoing civil rights lawsuit. As she explained in a recent interview with the Philadelphia Fox affiliate, Lawson was afraid to roll down her window and interact with Sawyers because of his behavior during an April 2013 arrest in her home, and because of his “aggressive” behavior during the traffic stop nearly two years later.

A dashcam video provided to Fox 29 shows a visibly agitated Officer Sawyers screaming at Lawson to “Open the car,” eventually using his baton to punctuate his repeated demands. After crossing to the rear passenger side of Lawson’s orange Dodge Neon, Sawyers radios a supervisor for permission to go “Code 9.”

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/jersey-cop-targets-injured-woman-assaulting/#dZQrwZQFEjWRwO23.99

[Rex]

1. What the hell!?

Why is this man still on active duty?

[valerief]

2. "Rough and tumble stop" the newscaster calls it. It's fuckin' police brutality.

Aren't there non-violent ways to fine/arrest someone for driving with a suspended license? Like follow them and when they get out of the car, calmly tell them they're under arrest. Is that so hard?

[2naSalit]

3. It's the adrenaline rush

precipitated by steroids that they get off on, and bragging to their fellow cops about.

[valerief]

4. Right, but that should be illegal by any stretch of the imagination. nt

[2naSalit]

5. Totally agree. nt

[appalachiablue]

6. Are cops ever tested for steroids or other meds. that can affect behavior?

[2naSalit]

7. Doubt that they are.

They may have to pass a piss test for controlled substances for which they can bust others but I don't think steroids is a consideration in most places. I do wonder to what extent their background checks explore the personality too.

[appalachiablue]

8. Personality profile and drug issues must evaluated for heaven's sake.

[csziggy]

10. Just being in a position of power can boost testosterone apparently

According to a program about the Sanford Prison Experiment, people such as cops and prison guards may get an increase in male hormone levels that will have similar effect to "roid rage" without having to take any drugs.

No links - saw it on a TV show a while back.

[appalachiablue]

11. That I can believe. It also must relate to sports, competition, financial success,

conflict, combat and war. And it explains violence, rape and abuse.

~ Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. ~ Henry Kissinger.

[rocktivity]

9. It isn't as though there was a high-speed chase going on

Sawyers should have called for backup and peeled off after it showed up. He only SUSPECTED that she was driving with a suspended license:

Bridgeton (population circa 25,000) is one of several cities in New Jersey...with a police department whose patrol vehicles are equipped with Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR)...(which) scan(s) the plates of all vehicles in the vicinity, capturing images that are “stored...in a database...(that) provides the officer with licensing, registration, and insurance information on the driver..."

So despite that fancy surveillance database, he wasn't CERTAIN that Lawson's license had been suspended? That's even worse!


rocktivity