The male officer, along with a female officer, tried to eject the passenger, whom they called by name, from a Metro bus in Bellflower, California, Monday evening.
When the reportedly mentally challenged woman put up a struggled and began to use foul language, the male officer struck the woman in the face.
Jermaine Green, a recent war veteran, recorded the incident with his cell phone.
Green said the officer who hit the woman tried to intimidate him into handing over his cell phone, but Green refused.
According to NBCLA, a spokesperson for the sheriff's department said the department had no comment and refused to even look at the video.
The police don't have to wait for you to swing on them. She closed distance with the officer and was not following verbal direction. We had an officer killed here in chicago on a bus in 2010 by a "mentally challenged woman" who disarmed the officer and killed him with his own gun. Bottom line follow the officers orders and fight your case in court.
ReplyDeleteOn WSHH I read she was on the bus with a stroller full of pillows...
ReplyDeleteTOO BAD he didn't have a brick in his hand.
ReplyDeleteMike Payne: How will you handle issues with the mentally ill on your proposed Gray Line? Bored people everywhere need to know!
ReplyDeleteWhy are these mental cases always riding the bus? Where the hell are they going?
ReplyDeleteJust remember PO Richard Francis was murdered about two years ago by a 300 lb female mental. I have no problem with his actions.
ReplyDeleteI won't be "handling", or "in control" of passengers on the Gray Line - any more than CTA is "handling" problems on ANY of the other 'L' lines.
ReplyDeleteI am creating the Gray Line to create JOBS - I obviously cannot be on each and every train,
nor would I have any way of controlling any riders if I was.
If you notice at the end of the video she says "I didn't do nothing wrong," like nothing happened. Either she has a jaw made of concrete, or that officer swings like a girl.
ReplyDeleteThe CTA is just crawling with drunks, stinky homeless types, weirdos, mental cases not taking their meds and other head cases. They should use cattle prods on them to drive them out and away from the regular people. Where are they all going anyway?
ReplyDeleteAll she ever had to was cooperate, mentally ill or not. The police were obviously there because she was a threat to others and the police officer had to force some type of compliance. Violence is the only thing some people respond to.
ReplyDeleteTHAT was an absolute delight to watch!!! Why is it so hard not to mess with the cops?
ReplyDeleteThat "mentally ill" term is being thrown around a bit too much just like "homeless". Some of these people are no more crazy than you or I. If they can charge at you diagonally from across the street (like the one in fancy Andersonville last night), they have full responsibility and capacity to know what they intend to do. I told myself if he was still there when I exited that store and came within 36" of me.......I'd be the next headline on CNR.
ReplyDeleteI will defend myself from these wack jobs even if it means death until I get out of this hellhole of a "city". With a medical condition I have, a good lawyer could qualify me as "temporarily insane" for convenience purposes as well.
Well being a cop myself he handled this the wrong way. I wonder if he slaps his wife around like that. He needs to be fired and the dept should be ashamed
ReplyDelete@Anonymous Cop - How should he have handled it???
ReplyDeleteI have seen this move a few times before.
ReplyDeleteThe idea behind it is to catch the person off-guard with a single, unexpected punch so that an arrest can be made more easily.
Its better than rolling around on the floor and having the person try to go for your gun.
I have no sympathy for that fat cow.
ReplyDeleteShe's evidently mentally capable enough to figure out how to eat.
I have never in my life done anything which required law enforcement to try to control me. Neither has anyone in my family.
She deserved a punch in the face at a minimum.
I applaud his actions whether legal or not. I've witnessed similar incidences on the CTA. Some of us just need to get to work, believe it or not.
ReplyDeleteOne of those incidences involved a violently drunk guy in a wheelchair. It was handled quite swiftly. Sad scene, he slid right out of that chair going down the bus ramp where the cops were waiting for him. No sympathy, he had some unwarranted very foul names for the driver and passengers. Holding us all up. Mentally ill, substance abuse, homeless, whatever, get 'em the F OFF! According to the driver, he was a "frequent flyer" on that route too.
So when I'm old and lonely, I hope I'm still in Chicago. I'm just gonna drink all and ride the bus all day and F everyone elses day up too. Spread the joy.
I can't control the Gray Line because I can't create it.
ReplyDeleteIf somebody is actually out there "approving" comments - WHY ARE YOU LETTING SOMEONE POST UNDER SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME??????
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of "approval" process are you running???
Really people even if she didn't listen there other ways to handle a disbale person we don't know what she has or he has... we can barley understand anything. and speaking of getting close? really they right close to her from the start. we dont know much about this
ReplyDeleteyou people should be ashamed of yourself you don't know what she has or what her issues was you base it off how big she is? you guys are so ingorant beyond belief, i am going to go that she has no clue what she was doing. why were they called???? we need more info
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