that's the way I see it too, from what I see I'm sure he felt more than a little threatened. I think if had been a man resisting, he would have been on the ground already.
Ummm... Everybody knows you can't put your hands on a police officer, ever. When you do, you will be taken down through force. Period. I do think that this police officer lost his temper, and hauled off and punched a woman in the face.
Out of curiosity I looked further into this whole situation and found out that this was all over a jaywalking incident. The girls were 17 and 19 years old.
Tammy Moore Webboard User Reg: 01-14-2010
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I heard these were 17 year olds being issued a citation for jaywalking, not sure if that is true. I also have many family members in LE, watching the video made me want to pop her! If she was upset about it, deal with it in court, she crossed the line, call me evil...the crowd annoyed me too!
The more information that leaks out, the more this makes sense.
The jaywalker...Marilyn Levias is pond scum.
"According to court records, Levias had previously been arrested for assaulting a police officer while resisting arrest last year at a youth center where she was a resident at the time. The documents say that Levias kicked a King County Sheriff's deputy in the stomach during the confrontation at the Ruth Dykeman Center in Burien, Wash., about 15 miles south of Seattle."
It doesn't look pretty, but both the 17 and the 19 yr old will be found guilty for their respective crimes of obstructing a LEO and felony assault on a LEO.
Under no circumstances is it lawful for a bystander to physically interfere with an arrest. As for getting popped, it could have been worse. I would have preferred mace.
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Quote: Lauren Jeffery
Out of curiosity I looked further into this whole situation and found out that this was all over a jaywalking incident. The girls were 17 and 19 years old.
The cop is wrong.
The 19 minute version of this video is a bit harder to find. FYI the street these two idiots were jaywalking on is a 4 lane busy road with a light rail line down the middle of it. There is a footbridge to get pedestrians over the top of it. I'm all for not enforcing jaywalking if we're able to not pay for people hit by commuter trains and cars.
These two street gems decided instead to ignore the cop, who responded by pulling one of them aside. That's when the friend decided that she would try to take on a Seattle PD officer to wrench her friend free. Then the video starts.
Backup was not on the way. This officer didn't have a partner (budget cuts) and followed the chain of escalation. Personally I applaud this cop's restraint in a situation that was going more and more nasty by the second.
So anyway the gem of a person taking the video started a bidding war between two stations which was won by King 5 to air a video which was cleverly titled Seattle Officer punches teen rather than Teens resist arrest, Seattle offices punches teen. The younger of these two who took the punch was in court on assault charges just the other day. The 19 year old gets arraigned tomorrow I think on resisting arrest.
Like I said, I don't question his right or need to do his job, just the way he did it. In my opinion, he should retake his self defense training for a few different reasons.
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Like I said, I don't question his right or need to do his job, just the way he did it. In my opinion, he should retake his self defense training for a few different reasons.
yea the lock was a little weak
could of been his umpteenth call of the day, fatigue and heat could of been part of it for all we know.
I've seen another vid of a LEO trying to arrest a skinny but healthy teenage girl after repeated commands to put her hand behind her back he arm locked one arm and was reaching around to grab the other she bite him quite hard. She got a short sharp jab in the jaw which stunned her enough to get the cuffs on and she still was fighting. if it weren't all on vid people would be raising Hell about it
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