I'll be very heppy to 'tell you', old sod...
...what "law enforcement duty" is being "exercised" in whipping a 16-year-old girl in a bathing suit to the ground by her hair?...
That is not for your nor I to judge.
The hell it ain't. You can't answer because it doesn't HAVE an answer.
That is for the arresting officer(s) to approximate, a DA to gauge for further action, and a court-trial to judge.
If only it would get that far. From your lips to Fate's ears. But it won't. They'll just make "um we're still completing our investigation" grunts indefinitely until they sense the outrage has died down, then they'll quietly slip him back in to do it again. It's how they roll.
This was a matter of crowd control, in a situation clearly deteriorating, as those kids kept 'pushing' the cops, rather than just backing off.
Actually it's a matter of a perfect example of something I was posting about recently --- cops swaggering in with this confrontational attitude to make a bad situation worse or, as here, a neutral situation into a potential riot. So a racist white lady comes out yelling at people? That's no reason to start whipping black people into the turf. People who, I might add, were not suspected of anything nor arrested.
And, if memory serves, the kid in the yellow swim-suit was a mouthy little brat, who had refused the officer's orders to evacuate the area, and who continued to defy that order.
An illegal order. Cop can't tell you where you can stand. But good point about "mouthy little brat" -- please to link the local Brat Statute that mandates the legal level of mouthiness.
Wow. The authoritariain mind -- I'll never get it.
The cop was well within his on-duty rights to lay hands upon her and to sit her down, as part of that refusal, and as part of crowd control in a deteriorating situation.
Again --- WHO deteriorated it?
Aye, there's the rub.
...What "law enforcement duty" is being "exercised" in pulling a gun on a bunch of bystander kids, also in bathing suits...
As the officer was putting the girl in the swimsuit onto the ground, I saw two (one black, one not) boy-men jump at him, and, I thought I saw one of them (the black) strike the officer.
I could be wrong, but I've re-run that part of the video three times and I could swear that I saw the black kid strike a blow, each of those three viewings.
That's not even an answer. The question was about pulling a gun on kids in bathing suits.
PULLING A GUN. Even his fellow fuzz went after him to restrain him. Were they wrong then? Are they some kind of anarchist element planted in the police force??
Frankly I'm amazed I didn't see anyone try to push him off her. For all we can see he's suffocating an innocent teenage girl, and it's certainly happened before.
If true... IF true... then... pulling a gun, in a deteriorating crowd-control situation like that seems 'kosher'.
More like "bizarre".
...and hurling a plethora of profanity at them?...
We all do it... minor detail... let's not let it distract us from the Main Course here.
Again, inability to answer noted.
...What "law enforcement duty" is being "exercised" in handcuffing another 14-year-old girl --- who to be fair, we don't know was in a bathing suit -- for shooting a video?...
I truly don't know... perhaps none... although I'm guessing it's easily-enough tucked under the umbrella of the exigencies of crowd control in a detiorating situation.
AH, well why didn't you say so. It's an "exigency".
Hey everybody! It's OK, I got an Exigency Card!
...And pray, which of these "law enforcement duties" was Casebolt suspended for, once the video came out and it became clear the incident wasn't going to just go away?...
Suspended is a far cry from terminated or indicted.
Sadly, you are correct. But happily it's also at least a little bit deeper than "no action was taken". Which clearly would have been the case had the video not been made.
And, given the current cop-hating climate, I'm not surprised that the Star of the show has to eat a suspension, to placate The Herd and to lessen chances of another flare-up.
Phrased like a true authoritarian sycophant.
..."When they came for the kids in bathing suits I said nothing...."
The trick, my Niemoller-paraphrasaing colleague, is to know when to hobble the police, and when not to. WIth so many of those kids egging-on the cops to the edge of patience and toleration, those little twits are lucky that none of them ended-up in a body bag.
Aaaaaaand right back to where we started, not listening at all, OK then.
"Bystanding" .... "egging on the cops"... know the difference.
