• Cop throws peanuts at hungry handcuffed homeless man
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[QUOTE]SARASOTA - As he was being booked into the Sarasota County jail, an officer tossed peanuts into Randy Miller's mouth as if feeding a dog or an animal at the zoo. Miller, intoxicated and handcuffed, was unable to catch them with his mouth. Several fell to the ground. Minutes later, Miller slumped out of his chair and began eating the peanuts off the booking room floor. Sarasota Police Officer Andrew Halpin, who had thrown the nuts at Miller's mouth, kicked them with his boot toward Miller so he could better reach them on the floor. [B]A source familiar with Miller's July 18 arrest says Halpin was giving the homeless man "dog commands" during the incident.[/B][/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20150727/ARTICLE/150729737/2416/NEWS?Title=Exclusive-Officers-investigated-after-inmate-is-treated-like-animal&tc=ar"]Source[/URL] [video=youtube;aoBeK1k-8-c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoBeK1k-8-c[/video]
well that's not cool at all do cops like this even know that they're being recorded when doing dumb stuff like this?
Just another man that doesn't need the job nor respects the people who he is suppose to take care of.
Name and shame
That's just cruel.
Not suprising, peanuts are clearly the food of the bourgeoisie oppressors: [IMG]http://i61.tinypic.com/6jk1vl.jpg[/IMG]
This guy deserves to be fired and tossed in jail himself.
[QUOTE=MissingNoGuy;48322857]well that's not cool at all do cops like this even know that they're being recorded when doing dumb stuff like this?[/QUOTE] This is what I don't get, seriously, why risk your career to humiliate someone
Rude. The homeless is still people. Everyone is still people. That police will probably be looked down upon in the future due to this act.
Sit, Ubu, sit! Good dog!
[QUOTE=Kylel999;48323358]This is what I don't get, seriously, why risk your career to humiliate someone[/QUOTE] they aren't smart
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;48323239]This guy deserves to be fired and tossed in jail himself.[/QUOTE] Fired? Probably just needs to be giving a citation or a suspension. Tossed in jail himself? What the fuck for?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;48323961]Fired? Probably just needs to be giving a citation or a suspension. Tossed in jail himself? What the fuck for?[/QUOTE] There should be zero tolerance for this shit. To Protect and Serve isn't simply a fancy motto to slap on your badge and then act as though you yourself are the law, and somehow immune to the consequences of your actions, as opposed to simply being an enforcer for the law itself. This may not be the worst abuse you'd see from an officer, but it's still disgusting and creepy that the homeless dude was treated like an animal. I wouldn't trust anybody who behaved this way with any power over anybody else. Maybe the tossing in jail part was a bit excessive, I'll admit, but there's no way I'd let this guy even remain on the force. The fellows who hung back and laughed also should suffer some consequences, at the least be forced to attend mandatory lectures on how this sort of thing isn't OK, if nothing else. There was literally nothing in here to mitigate the actions of the dickhead who started it. He deserves to be tossed out.
More shit to tarnish the reputation of the silent majority of good cops, who will get shit on and millennials with #staywoke and #handsupdontshoot on their twitter profiles
I'd fully expect this kind of behavior from the average, elementary school bully, but not a trained officer of the law.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;48323857]they aren't smart[/QUOTE] A good chunk of people who become cops had control issues as kids that are never resolved, and most aren't particularly bright, as we can sample for our dear facepunch ranks. Add the modern policing sensibilities of performance and arrest based bonuses and using catchphrases and entendre to dehumanize people like referring to any civilian as "perps" and using trainees to haze potential stops to start inculcating the "us vs them" mentality even in ride-alongs, and here we are. The local police are literally an armed gang with ties to the cartels. My ex-neighbor's ex-husband use to run a local drug gang, and he always got a heads-up when the they were going to sweep for drugs because he was high enough up the food chain and had friends on the force who went to high school with him and a couple even used to be in his gang before they became cops. The chief before the one we have now was up to his ass in dirty construction contracts, and the one before him ran a weed ring out of the sheriff's office. I can count on one hand the number of honest cops I've met locally, and their promotion chances locally are pretty much zero unless they learn to play ball. [quote] trained officer of the law. [/quote] And when they're trained to be bullies?
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