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ORIGINAL: cpK69

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ORIGINAL: NihilusZero

The officer acted thoroughly responsibly.

Opinion.

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ORIGINAL: cpK69

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She acted like an idiot and had the audacity to lie about it to millions of viewers.

Millions of viewers lie to themselves everyday; your point?

Kim

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What about changing one’s mind?
Kim

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ORIGINAL: Loxosceles

She deserved a beat down Rodney King style with a fucking metal baton.

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If your support for your point is so flimsy that you have to trot out the "O" word, everyone here would be better served abandoning the discussion with you.

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Huh? If you could please clue me in as to how your response here follows any linear logic to what I said, I'd be delighted.

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I talk about the kind of person who lies about an encounter she has with an officer in order to garner sympathy until video proof makes her out to be a fraud.

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ORIGINAL: NihilusZero
How did I miss that twice? Is it muddled during one of the moments when a car is passing, making audible clarity iffy?

Anyhow...it's interesting to see some comments about how the tasering was "too far"....because it doesn't make any sense. It's his job to request compliance with the law. If that fails, it's his job to enforce compliance. The taser appears to be the least aggressive (yet perhaps a more embarrassing) means of doing that. Despite her earlier piss poor attitude, the officer still takes time afterward to calmly make sure she's healthy and comfortable.

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ORIGINAL: cpK69
So, you saw the missing 37 sec worth of missing tape? OMG, not the age card!!!

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ORIGINAL: cpK69
I hear oral sex is too; sad, ey?

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ORIGINAL: cpK69
The point was, people were claiming the “cop” had no choice; he did, and therefore made a judgment.

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ORIGINAL: cpK69
You're really not seeing it, are you?

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Yeah, I don't do the "becuase I say so" thing to well.

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You seem to think "millions of people" should be offened because "she lied to millions of people"; my belief is, millions of people lie to themselves everyday, so why should they be offended by someone else lying to them.

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The majority of America believed "We know they have weapons of mass distruction"; please.

Kim

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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady

Just to be clear, I believe she said give me the "fucking" ticket.  Yes, she played the age card.  Personally, I didn't count, but it seemed like every other sentence out of her mouth was "I'm a 72 year old woman" like it should have made a difference.  The officer acted within the SCOPE OF HIS DUTIES that he is permitted as an officer of the law.

For Christ's sake people, you don't like the laws of this country, get your J.D. degree and work towards changing the law or move the fuck to another country.  If American is so bad, why the hell does everyone from everywhere want to move here so bad?  If all the people who join the corrupt, conspiracy chain would leave and go somewhere else, we would have less crowding and more room for people who would be grateful to be here and allowed to have some say on the way the country works.

Granny ran her mouth and paid the price for it.  She even had an attitude on the segment where she tried to claim she was just some sweet old woman.  Her injuries weren't so profound that she couldn't make the appearance.  Hell I shocked myself probably worse than that once when I used a potato to try to get out a broken lightbulb, but forgot to turn the stupid light out.  Blew my ass right off the dining room table.  Half the people here who are into electical play probably get close or past the shock she got.  She will sue, they will settle rather than draw things out in court and her attorney will take a third.

This thread is now ELEVEN pages long and it isn't even about poor foul mouth granny anymore.  It's all about how all or nearly all the police, judges, lawyers, any government worker has some sort of God complex and wants to make your life miserable.  People need to stop and think that maybe if they would stop behaving in inappropriate manners they wouldn't have issues with law enforcement. 

I'm going to be 45 later this month and I have NEVER been arrested.  Never gotten more than a traffic ticket.  Yes, I have been handcuffed, but it was NEVER for breaking the law.  Yes, I have had my problems with how the system was working and I put myself in a career position where I could make changes to it.  I didn't keep whining about how bad our system was and do nothing to change what I didn't like.  I DID participate in changing certain laws in my state.  I continue to do my part to make a difference.  For those of you who don't like how things are working, what have YOU done?  Have you done anything besides complain that things are not to your liking?

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You seem to think "millions of people" should be offened because "she lied to millions of people"; my belief is, millions of people lie to themselves everyday, so why should they be offended by someone else lying to them.

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You want to know what the sad thing is?

People who jump in to paint brush-strokes across the board just because something is an event of a certain type (police officers enforcing the law). It's noticeable when the arguments don't stay on the individual case, but lump the incident into a big box of similar events which can all be unilaterally decried as "abuse of power".

And you know why that's sad? Because real incidents of police abuse do happen and they deserve harsh reprimand. Not all cops are fuckers and not all instances of cops enforcing the law are abuses. But treating them all like they are harms the credibility of instances when it does happen. It sets people to automatic "pro" or "con" positions on the topic before the evidence of each case is even presented.

It treats the victims of real, harmful abuse as parallel to whiny egotists with attitudes of entitlement who use their episodes as PR moves to make themselves look good. And that hurts real victims. It disenfranchises them of the reality of the trauma they've experienced. It robs them of their individual pains in favor of the agenda to paint all instances of something in one color.

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ORIGINAL: cpK69

You guys have been great. The opportunity to be accused of doing the very thing you are, only at the opposite end of the situation; priceless.
My need for a sense of balance has been the cause for my responding to this thread.
I can’t see how Mr. “Cop” can be raised any higher, without his head popping from high altitude; and I don’t find it very sporting to kick people while their down. Even if I did, it’s been covered, beyond reason.

I've had enough

You win!!! Congrats.

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You seem to think "millions of people" should be offened because "she lied to millions of people"; my belief is, millions of people lie to themselves everyday, so why should they be offended by someone else lying to them.

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But you didn't read the whole thread so you decided to jump on the opposite side we were on.

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Really? Is that on the video as well?

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I thought I would work on it from the trenches; looking for that mythological creature “We the People”.

Seen it?

Kim

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Men and women have been fighting and dying for years for YOUR freedom,

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so you have the right to sit on your computer and say how they are all a bunch of assholes who abuse their position.