Phoenix Police Officer Caught on Tape Body-Slamming Drunk Teen Girl - Polidicks

[quote=ABCNews] Phoenix Police are investigating the arrest of a 15-year-old girl who was seen on tape being slammed to the ground by the arresting officer. Officer Patrick Larrison has been placed on administrative leave while police carry out both an internal and criminal investigation into the arrest. A YouTube video captured the Jan. 25 arrest on camera, but police didn't become aware of the video until this Tuesday. Someone in the police department saw the video and reported it. "That type of video is very concerning to us," said Phoenix police Sgt. Trent Crump at a press conference Thursday. "What you see in the video is of great concern to the Phoenix Police Department about how a member of this community was treated." The 15-year-old and her family have not been identified. The three-minute-long video starts with the girl having a fight in public with a woman who police identified as her mother. The mother has her daughter pinned to the ground in the parking lot of Charter East, part of the Ombudsman Charter Schools in Phoenix. The girl was reportedly intoxicated and sharing alcohol at the school, ABC Affiliate KNXV reported. The charter school works with at-risk students. The girl, wearing denim shorts and a T-shirt, fights her mother's hold, eventually getting up. The mother keeps trying to grab the girl, nearly pulling her shirt off. When the police arrive, the girl is walking away from her mother. Officer Larrison can be seen on camera trying to catch up with the girl. He picks up speed. As she turns around to see him, he body-slams her, sending her to the ground. "A charge here in what we're looking at, is there evidence of an aggravated assault or not," said Crump. "We have notified the County Attorney's Office of the video." Officer Larrison is a six-and-a-half-year veteran of the Phoenix police force. The girl was charged with aggravated assault for striking a school employee along with making threats to officers, police said. The school said the girl is no longer a student there. "The young woman in the video was a student at Charter East, and her last day of enrollment was the day the incident occurred," said Cate Lewandowski, spokeswoman for Charter East. "We are cooperating with the police department's investigation." [/quote] Source: [url]http://abcnews.go.com/US/arizona-police-officer-body-slams-drunk-teen-girl/story?id=13545127[/url] Video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6yJHGAwU2g[/media] That's a bit excessive, why is there a need to slam into her? She was just walking away!

Wow that looked like it hurt [editline]7th May 2011[/editline] her head hit the wall

At that time, she was not free to leave. So, the officer stopped her. With to much force? Maybe.

I don't really see a huge problem with is. She was leaving and ignoring the Officer's commands. He has a right to detain her and since she was already violent, aggressive, drunk and disorderly he subdued her with what he felt was appropriate force. For all we know he could have run to catch up with her thinking she'd run away, since she was speeding up and when she didn't he didn't have the time to stop himself and just knocked her down. The article also says that she struck and assaulted a school employee and than threatened the Officers.

Oh wow what he did I did not at all expect from the title. All he did was push her to the ground, and then arrested her. Not like he choked her or something.

just a little bit excessive. he could've held onto her. she was only walking.

police and the justice system are broken in general. seems like i post this in every thread now, dang.

Looks more like he tried to grab her, and with her balance already trashed (if she was drunk) it probably wasn't too hard to push her over. [editline]8th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Mattk50;29690597]police and the justice system are broken in general. seems like i post this in every thread now, dang.[/QUOTE] Did you even watch the video, maybe you have a habit of repeating the same thing for every police/justice thread because you just lump them all together instead of going on a case-by-case basis.

Reminds me of the time when I was in the 4th Grade, and tipped some books on the ground on accident, and went to pick them up, and the local police officer on campus(about 250lbs) sacked me to the ground... They called para-medics before calling my parents cause they thought he broke something[teacher heard something crack]

What a dumb bitch.

:v: While it was too much force I have to say, I giggled.

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;29690599]Did you even watch the video, maybe you have a habit of repeating the same thing for every police/justice thread because you just lump them all together instead of going on a case-by-case basis.[/QUOTE] well, im not criticising the police officer himself. he didnt really do anything wrong, inside the current system. my problem is that the system itself is broken, not with the people inside it.

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;29690599]Looks more like he tried to grab her, and with her balance already trashed (if she was drunk) it probably wasn't too hard to push her over. [editline]8th May 2011[/editline] Did you even watch the video, maybe you have a habit of repeating the same thing for every police/justice thread because you just lump them all together instead of going on a case-by-case basis.[/QUOTE] He really didn't need to run at her to grab her. She was just walking. If you look at the video, he takes a fucking running start and pushes her down.

Those who are not respectable deserve the equivalent amount of respect.

She wasn't right to walk off like that, but the officer didn't need to slam her into the wall and to the ground. All he had to do was catch up to her and grab her arm. That would have been perfectly acceptable. As it is, this was excessive force and the officer is in the wrong. The girl was publicly drunk and is in the wrong for that. However, why the mother had to pin her daughter to the ground and why such a fight ensued should be what is investigated here. For all we know shes a victim of an angry mother. Hell, last I checked child abuse is frowned upon, what happened to the mother? [QUOTE=nerdygamer;29691269]Should of been in the kitchen.[/QUOTE] Really?...

Should of been in the kitchen.

[QUOTE=nerdygamer;29691269]Should of [/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/W18Iw.gif[/IMG]

It was a little pinch of police brutality, but I find it pretty hard to feel sorry for the bitch. People like that piss me off.

[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;29690560]I don't really see a huge problem with is. She was leaving and ignoring the Officer's commands. He has a right to detain her and since she was already violent, aggressive, drunk and disorderly he subdued her with what he felt was appropriate force. For all we know he could have run to catch up with her thinking she'd run away, since she was speeding up and when she didn't he didn't have the time to stop himself and just knocked her down. The article also says that she struck and assaulted a school employee and than threatened the Officers.[/QUOTE] Still a smidge expressive though. What I don't get is the officer charged like a fucking hippo, flailing his arms and almost falling over when he hits her. This isn't that rare an occurrence, nor is it that big a deal.

AHAHAHA I drive right past that place all the time lmao, pretty sure that's Thomas road. Obviously the cop is an idiot, he could have just grabbed her arm, she was fucking WALKING away, not "running" or "fleeing". Scary seeing shitcops in my own backyard :frown:

There appears to be a large wound on her head, that is extremely excessive force. She's a fucking woman, what is she gonna do?

[QUOTE=_Twitch_;29691874]There appears to be a large wound on her head, that is extremely excessive force. She's a fucking woman, what is she gonna do?[/QUOTE] I think it may have been partially accidental on his part. I mean, eh stands there in shock for a few seconds after realizing he went in a bit too hard. Also, this is not a body slam. This is merely conservation of momentum.

What the hell happened at the beginning was the girl in brown jacket super hugging her some some shit.

[QUOTE=JgcxCub;29691987]I think it may have been partially accidental on his part. I mean, eh stands there in shock for a few seconds after realizing he went in a bit too hard. Also, this is not a body slam. This is merely conservation of momentum.[/QUOTE] If by conservation of momentum you mean sprinting up to a 15 year old girl and shoving her with all of your force into a wall and then the ground, then yeah, it's just "conservation of momentum".

Age is immaterial here because the officer would not have known. I'm guessing the officer was trying to grab her before she noticed but when she did he had to tackle her.

[QUOTE=angelangel;29692096]Age is immaterial here because the officer would not have known. I'm guessing the officer was trying to grab her before she noticed but when she did he had to tackle her.[/QUOTE] Whether she's 13 or 17 it's still wrong. And no, he didn't HAVE to tackle her, her form of "acknowledgement" came about a second before impact, when she turned her head slightly and realized she was about to get knocked the fuck out. If you legitimately think that the tackle was justified, you are really terrible at threat assessment.

[QUOTE=Kopimi;29692130]Whether she's 13 or 17 it's still wrong. And no, he didn't HAVE to tackle her, her form of "acknowledgement" came about a second before impact, when she turned her head slightly and realized she was about to get knocked the fuck out. If you legitimately think that the tackle was justified, you are really terrible at threat assessment.[/QUOTE] She was leaving the scene when she was told not to, when fuckwits like this step up you gotta knock them down.

From the looks of it, the cop trips and pushes her into the wall, or he trips after he falls, either way. Girls fault.

Hey I seen her boob! [editline]8th May 2011[/editline] Oh wait that's her fat... dang.

misleading title. was expecting the cop to do this [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJ36Y3o3NA[/media]