Biff_Poindexter
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Hotel Worker Subdues Combative Guest He’d Kicked Out. Now Leaked Video Shows How Florida Cops Manhandled Employee Before Arresting Him and Giving Drunken Guest a Ride to a Friend.
A Fort Lauderdale police officer assaulted and arrested a Black man at his job after he and a guest had a physical altercation over a racial slur and a
atlantablackstar.com
"CBS4 reports that on Jan. 19 Raymond Rachal was working at the front desk of the Best Western hotel, located at 1180 Sea Breeze Blvd., in Fort Lauderdale, when Jason Rabe, a guest who had left earlier after his reservations were nixed, returned in a fury. The video shows Rabe charge past the closed gate to where Rachal seated. When Rabe gets into Rachal’s area, the clip shows the Lauderdale Lakes resident jumping up and punching the aggressor in the face. Eventually, he beats the man down to the floor.
Another person comes into the area. As the two fight, once Rabe is pinned to the floor by Rachal, the man calls 911. Later he's heard saying, “And they let him go, they stupid as sh-t.” The comment references an earlier incident where police came to the property because Rabe was being disruptive and didn’t arrest him. This time, when the police came, they made an arrest. They cuffed Rachal, without hearing the nature of the fight or who they were called for. Rachal was detained for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest with violence, however, those charges were dropped, Local 10 reports."
Luckily the hotel made the right decision and fired this guy.....that is not how you handle a customer....has he not heard of the phrase "the customer is always right"? -- Even when that customer is being drunk, belligerent, verbally abusive, you still don't react with violence...even when that customer has already had the cops called on him for refusing to leave -- and even when that customer comes back and charges at you, you still have no right to react with violence like that...The guy is claiming self defense? Really?? You are physically superior to the guy, how can you believe you were in any danger?
Then when the police arrive the second time, you try to assault the police too?? Well, technically, he didn't assault them, but he tensed up and was uncooperative with the police when they tried to arrest him....and if you refuse to follow police commands, you get what's coming to you....Yea, you can say the drunk guy didn't exactly follow police commands by returning back to the property they had just removed him from -- but the guy was obviously having a bad day and from what I can see in the video, was for the most part being nice and calm...which is why the police were kind enough to take him to a friend's house instead of jail.....but to make matters worse, the person they should have took to jail and charged; they ended up dropping the charges against...WTF?
