Video of Minnesota Cop Beating Drunk Man In Wheelchair

Run_to_da_hills

Every so often something like this gets caught on cam and goes viral.

I hope he gets fired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_pEgaRsBrk

http://www.nasdaq.com/video/video.aspx?vid=Disturbing-Video-Cop-Savagely-Beats-Drunk-Man-In-Wheelchair-517493399

starbelgrade

I've seen this film - I think it's called "Rampart".

frag420

Someone call Ironside!!

aaronjumper

A wheel shame.

SEPT 23 1989

He slapped the copper first

I thought the disabled wanted to be treated equally

Fromthetrees

The guy in the wheelchair should have been shot in the head, stripped naked, tied by his arms to the back of a cop car and paraded around town with the siren blazing while the cops wave and blow kisses at people, these yankee police are way too soft in my humble opinion.

aaronjumper

Fromthetrees wrote: »

The guy in the wheelchair should have been shot in the head, stripped naked, tied by his arms to the back of a cop car and paraded around town with the siren blazing while the cops wave and blow kisses at people, these yankee police are way too soft in my humble opinion.

Any particular reason you feel this way?

Ronin247

aaronjumper wrote: »

Any particular reason you feel this way?

Sarcasm meter needs a battery.




Brave cop, bet his mommy is proud.

ColeTrain

He should have been the bigger man and walked away.

Varied

If the guy didn't have a uniform, would he be as condemned?

Doesn't matter if you're in a wheelchair, if you slap me you are getting lamped back.

aaronjumper

Ronin247 wrote: »

Sarcasm meter needs a battery.

You're not wrong there

pragmatic1

Scumbag with a badge.

Run_to_da_hills

Varied wrote: »

If the guy didn't have a uniform, would he be as condemned?

Doesn't matter if you're in a wheelchair, if you slap me you are getting lamped back.

More importantly he didn't have his hat on.

Technically speaking the man in the wheelchair was not hitting a cop.

ArtSmart

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

He slapped the copper first

I thought the disabled wanted to be treated equally

ah, now that's funny.

naughty, but funny.

Fromthetrees

I don't think this fela was a stand up guy, cop was right to bust him.

tayto lover

Two dickheads meet.

El Horseboxo

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Varied wrote: »

If the guy didn't have a uniform, would he be as condemned?

Doesn't matter if you're in a wheelchair, if you slap me you are getting lamped back.

More importantly he didn't have his hat on.

Technically speaking the man in the wheelchair was not hitting a cop.

Technically speaking. That's a myth. In the United States anyways. Unless some jurisdictions have a dress code that requires it. They're still a cop though and can enforce lie law with or without a hat.

bijapos

Well over the top by the cop there. No excuse for what he did as he wasn't exactly in a dangerous or life threatening position.

He should have cuffed the wheelchair guy and charged him with assaulting an officer in the line of duty and have the judge deal with it.

Run_to_da_hills

bijapos wrote: »

He should have cuffed the wheelchair guy and charged him with assaulting an officer in the line of duty and have the judge deal with it.

Edit: He should have cuffed the wheelchair.

Wee Willy Harris

Didn't pull no punches once he got the "green light" did he.

I know of wheelchair bound, acting erraticly particularly if it's alcoholism that literally put em there, via a skirmish or that but my dad frustratingly lashing out was in a 'can do this myself' manner and it's how the apparent motive for this attack appeared n should most certainly not have bn returned with such a vengeance. By a cop at that

Ronin247

Am I the only one who thinks the cop was pulling his head backwards by the hair and that is why the "walkingly challenged" guy hit him

Super-Rush

Without the audio you don't get the full story.

The guy in the wheelchair could have been standing up for himself.

Probably tired of being pushed around.

Wee Willy Harris

Even if, though. Its just a no-go regardless - cop really waded in and it doesn't look good.

Run_to_da_hills

Super-Rush wrote: »

Without the audio you don't get the full story.

The guy in the wheelchair could have been standing up for himself.

Probably tired of being pushed around.

There's audio in the link but not much to be heard.

http://www.nasdaq.com/video/video.aspx?vid=Disturbing-Video-Cop-Savagely-Beats-Drunk-Man-In-Wheelchair-517493399

Wee Willy Harris

Even if the guy didn't even need a chair, you don't know what kind of pathetic wind up merchant - still looks extremely bad.

El Weirdo

Super-Rush wrote: »

Without the audio you don't get the full story.

The guy in the wheelchair could have been standing up for himself.

Probably tired of being pushed around.

2 in 1?

Well played, SR.

dodderangler

El Weirdo wrote: »

Super-Rush wrote: »

Without the audio you don't get the full story.

The guy in the wheelchair could have been standing up for himself.

Probably tired of being pushed around.

2 in 1?

Well played, SR.

Probably TYRED of being pushed around
Spell it right and u would've gotten a thumbs up
Good puns
When a good pun happens I find that an occasion to STAND UP and be counted
If the fella in wheelchair was drunk is that not drink and driving?

Madam_X

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

He slapped the copper first

I thought the disabled wanted to be treated equally

Which would be giving him a slap back, not battering him and knocking him out of his wheelchair.

TwoShedsJackson

RtdH fails to link this incident to Obama, FEMA, or the Jews!??!!! That's the real surprise in this thread.

Duggy747

He's a cop, he doesn't need to be throwing smacks around like that. He was trained on how to handle uncooperative people.

In another video with better audio you can hear him say to the girl (a nurse or whatever she is) "Shut up, back up, or I'll arrest you, too!"

Like every profession, you get dickheads. Even if the guy in the wheelchair is the biggest numpty on the planet, he didn't need to punch him in the head a few times.

GalwayGuy2

Meh, you get dicks in every sector of society. Fire him, charge him, whatever and be done.

geeky

Varied wrote: »

If the guy didn't have a uniform, would he be as condemned?

Of course not. He's paid by the state to enforce the law professionally - and wears a uniform to signify that to the public.

People expect higher standards from law enforcement officers than they do from randomers.

Sir Pompous Righteousness

The man in the wheelchair didn't really hit him in the face, it was more like a pat in the face.

Sir Pompous Righteousness

dodderangler wrote: »

El Weirdo wrote: »

Super-Rush wrote: »

Without the audio you don't get the full story.

The guy in the wheelchair could have been standing up for himself.

Probably tired of being pushed around.

2 in 1?

Well played, SR.

Probably TYRED of being pushed around
Spell it right and u would've gotten a thumbs up
Good puns
When a good pun happens I find that an occasion to STAND UP and be counted
If the fella in wheelchair was drunk is that not drink and driving?

It's tired.

dodderangler

Ur an idiot

Bajingo

Varied wrote: »

If the guy didn't have a uniform, would he be as condemned?

Doesn't matter if you're in a wheelchair, if you slap me you are getting lamped back.

If you're pulling a guys neck back by the hair, which that police officer was doing, you're going to get a slap. Also, the amount of aggression that cop showed was well beyond over kill, regardless of the wheelchair.

jugger0

As the saying goes "dont start a fight if you're in a wheelchair".

Madam Marie

Maybe if he, maybe if the wheelchair .. ah I got nothing.

bluecode

That's nothing, recently a cop shot dead a one armed, one legged man in a wheelchair.

Hard to beat that for stupidity.

usernamegoes

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

He slapped the copper first

I thought the disabled wanted to be treated equally

I don't think the officer should be allowed to do much of what he did to someone not in a wheelchair.

Plus difference in capacity means the officer had more options than in the person wasn't in a chair inasmuch as the officer needed only step backwards and he was safe from being hit again and gather his composition to see how to better arrest and detain the man.

Charles Xavier you're always up to no good.