Second Video Emerges Of Hot-Tempered Canton Police Officer

Video once again shows Daniel Harless threatening to kill citizen

A second dash cam video has emerged showing Canton police officer Daniel Harless overreacting to finding a gun in a man's car.

The video is from July 29, 2010, exactly one year ago today.

Like the video that emerged earlier this month (second half of story), Harless can be heard threatening to kill the driver because of the gun that was found.

Unlike the last video, it is not clear whether the driver had a concealed weapons permit.

But the one thing that is clear is that Harless has a very hot temper and does nothing to deescalate a potential violent situation.

Here is just a small sample of what Harless told the man he pulled over.

"Do not move a muscle or I will put you in the grave."

"I’ll shoot you in the face and I’ll go to sleep tonight."

The first video to emerge has prompted gun advocate groups to call for Harless' resignation.

Canton residents also created a Facebook page demanding his removal.

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This "officer" is an absolute danger to society. It would be interesting to see his file.. has he ever shot anyone? been accused of excessive force? He is a time bomb waiting to go off. I had already joined the FB group that Carlos mentions here, before seeing this video.. you all should join it too... call/email the city council president in Canton, Ohio.. he lovvvvvves hearing from out of towners..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfpBxY2J00

"The newspaper reports that Harless, a 14-year department veteran, remains on "sick" leave. The Repository had previously reported that Canton's internal affairs unit has investigated 16 complaints involving Harless dating back to 2000.

According to the newspaper, he was reprimanded in one 2003 case. Harless and another officer were exonerated of using excessive force, but were given a letter of reprimand for not activating the in-car video camera at the scene per department policy."
------http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/7913

Well if the guy with the gun had any thoughts of using it on the officer he probably changed his mind really quick.

Carlos Miller - Photography is Not a Crime
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Yes, because armed people are just so afraid of foul-mouthed bullies.

No, because if he knows the cop has the drop on him and going for the gun is going to get him shot then he won't go for it.

I don't have a problem with this incident. A cop sees a gun he doesn't want that person going for the gun. The other incident I think the cop was out of line, but this one, an unsecured guy with a gun, hell yeah the cop is going to be telling him not to fucking move.

If this is an appropriate way to treat people with guns in your opinion.
Then this is the way people should treat cops?

Absolutely, especially since so many cops are nothing but armed thugs with badges.

There's a point when you fear for your life and take whatever chance you can to save yourself. If some punk kept threatening to shoot me like that, over and over, and getting angrier and about to explode, I might take the chance. Don't want to kill anybody but self-preservation will override.

Actually, if anything, that officer INCREASED any thoughts the driver had of going for his gun. After all, if someone is obviously about to murder you, what do you have to lose?

It was obvious to me that if that guy went for his gun he was going to get shot. About to murder you, what are you smoking.

If you were in that car you would probably be dead because you confused the cop telling you not to move with I'm going to shoot you in 3-2-1 bang. A cop telling somebody with a gun at their feet not to move or he will shoot him is very reasonable. He has to get the guy out of the car and away from the gun.

009

There was a definite escalation by the police in this case. As long as the gun isnt being wielded or pointed at the officer there is no need to start threatening to outright murder the guy. A clear step out of the car and keep your hands in sight and away from the firearm. If I see you go for it i will shoot is sufficient. This is all assuming that the firearm is a surprise and it isn't legal to keep a firearm in the vehicle. Otherwise the choice to escalate to a ready to kill situation was premature. Deadly force and "im gonna kill" you are two different things. Firing at a suspect to incapacitate them in a life threatening situation is reasonable, but telling a man that he will murder him and make an effort to kill him is not in line with what an officer is granted power to do. In short he does not have a license to kill. You sugar-coated the encounter in your comments. From what we can see the only person whose life was in danger was the driver.

hal

from rumors i have heard, 009 has a license to kill. is this true?
i have been there done that, and this bully/COP is all mouth. or mostly mouth! he
talks alot but got nothing to back it up. now i aint saying this gives him the right by any means to talk this type of crap.
he needs to lose his job before he talks he shit to the wrong person and someone gets hurt. just a matter of time, someone will figure him out and that will be it.
has anyone found out if he has even fired one round while on duty? or even shot anyone?

I would say the thoughts of using it on the "scum-bag" cop came after he was threatened by the "scum-bag" cop!!!

hal

this COP has a two inch dick! but a big gun! And ADAM, i got a feeling about this ass wipe, he has never shot anyone. person like that dont have the balls it takes to pull the trigger!

More like he's look'n for a cheap excuse to blow somebody's brains out. Officer safety you know.

Then why didn't he shoot? Surely he could have done it and claimed the guy made a movement toward the gun.

Oh but he didn't do that did he?

Yeah this officer has a problem with interacting with people but if you think he just wants to go around shooting people...well you are a fool.

Reverse the situation; if the officer came upon a civilian armed and acting like that, what would happen? At best, arrest for any number of reasons (assault, menacing, etc), at worst a dead civilian and a review board for the officer-involved shooting.

If it's not kosher for a civilian to act in that manner (and I'm gonna say pretty straight-out that it's not), it's more likely than not gonna be not kosher for a cop to act like that. Given the power that we invest in police officers in our society, they should be held to a higher standard of behavior, especially while armed and on-duty.

So that's how you'd do it is it little Johnny Lawless is it.

Make an excuse to kill, yes it struck me you are probably worse than Harless. Chances are you think Abuse of police powers is an oxymoron.

It takes a while for a psychopath to work themselves up to murder. They usually start with violent assaults and rape, which I'm sure his complaint file is just full of.

Maybe Officer Butch will get to shoot a pet. That seems to be the new found outlet for sadistic aggression.

At a certain point in watching the video of the other incident which was more recent than this vid, I was thinking, man at this point I would be subtlety instigating him do something. Although if he did use unjustified physical force, I wouldn't be surprised if the dashcam had "technical issues".

I can't believe the back up officers didn't pull him aside and tell him to chill the fuck out... what's it called the blue code or something like that?

Is there any other job where you can be caught on two separate occasions threatening to murder people and NOT get fired immediately? I read posters here talking about de-escalation; do they teach that ANYWHERE to cops in the U.S.? From watching cop behavior on film it looks to me like they are taught to be as aggressive and confrontational as possible. Of course when people naturally react negatively to this attitude, out comes the tasers, clubs, mace, and guns

I really, really hate this guy...

Where is JL to give us a positive spin on this?

hal

KILROY
lift a few rocks, you may find him!

I don't see any of the other officers acting that way.

I noticed in an article that is linked to this page, that the the driver is in trouble for "failing to properly notify the officer he had the gun."

In the state of Washington, if you have a permit to carry, you are not obliged to tell an officer that you are carrying.

On a personal note: the officer is a realy jerk.

With Ohio's CCW permit you do need to notify an officer immediately if the interaction is one of "official police business". Meaning if you are just walking by saying hello to a cop, you don't have to notify.

As for this clown, in the other incident, the guy was a permit holder and twice he started to tell the cop he had a permit & firemarm on him and this cop almost immediatley to shut up.

Ohio has a very effective firearm rights organization, Ohioans For Concealed Carry (OFCC). I am almost certain OFCC are the ones that made this cops crap brought out to the public.

Hey, Daniel Harless (tough guy pussy). Why don't you come out here to Seattle and visit some of us who arn't quite so intimidated by your mocho cop attitude. We don't think to highly of cops who pick on people who have done nothing wrong except in the eyes of idiots like you. luckily we don't have to inform you that we have a concealed weapon in our car when you stop us for no good reason. I hope and Pray you don't come up on some pissed of X-con whose got a vindetta against you for all the stupid shit you've been throwing around at all the law abiding,legally carrying citizens of Ohio.

hal

"Yeah this officer has a problem with interacting with people but if you think he just wants to go around shooting people...well you are a fool.
DUH!!! oh SHIT, ya think? this COP lets his mouth get his ass in deep shit! freedom of speech my ass, you can not just say anything you want in public, and when your a COP, wtf if your not held to a higher standard!
you sure are sure as shit setting a good example for the young to follow talking shit like that, worse then the fcking rappers that do that shit! i think.
and like i said, JL no i dont think this mofo COP "wants to go around shooting people", the balls he does not have, does not allow him to do so. {JL, how many have you killed in the line of duty?}

joe

lets see right to remain silent anything you say can be and will be used against you. and when we use it against a cop we just dont get it. if jl ever shot anyone he would call a public service and want a medal.good work hal keep it up man.he will use our statements in court send us to jail but when we use their statements in the court of public opinion he gets pissed.PS all JL ever shotoff was his mouth. just my thoughts from a armchair quarter back.

Must be Christmas in July

This cop has been an asshole his whole life. And this proves it. He has said he will kill someone and had said this over and over. It is time for this asshole to GO!!!

Has anyone investigated any record Officer Daniel Harless has in actual officer involved shootings? Are there any such incidents? His behavior is wrong and I believe he should be terminated from his position of authority. But if he has actually escalated into carrying out his threats, that takes it to a whole new level. I'd like to know more about his history as an officer.

"Canton’s internal affairs unit has investigated 16 complaints involving Harless dating back to 2000."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-who-is-the-officer-behind-the-vir...

Of course they haven't, why would anybody on this site be interested in facts. Or maybe they have and found he hasn't been involved in any shootings so they won't bring it up. If your going to go around claiming this guy just wants to shoot people it hurts your argument when he never has.

hal

no bart, no one here is interested in the facts, only you. what a jackass statement. you have lowered yourself down to where we are, and you never going to be able to recover. youll be down here with us now forever.

joe

HE WILL BE INVESTIGATED FOR POLICE POLICY NOT ANY CRIMINAL LAW VIOLATIONS!!!

The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, the Supreme Law of the Land, the blueprint/DNA of our system of government and the measuring stick by which all law is evaluated, states very clearly that all citizens have "the right to KEEP and BEAR arms" and that that right "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED." It's astounding to me that not only have some of the people commenting here have strayed so far from the basic foundations of lawful government, but that they have been so seduced by authoritarian/totalitarian governmental propaganda that they react in childish, submissive fear toward "an unsecured person with a gun" at a routine traffic stop. This (evidently psychopathic) cop was a hero in their starry eyes, and the citizen bearing arms, a pillar of our free and open society according to the Constitution, was the "threat." This is perversion, and it is perversion by design.

Daniel Hairless, excuse me, Harless is a danger to society, no, the human race. How the hell did he get hired on the police department. Harless is a psychopath. Harless was attempting to provoke those folks so that he could shoot one or all of them. Harless should be charged with assault with a deadly weapon because that was what he was doing. He needs to be put in jail and not segregated from the prison population. Perhaps that would make these cops, cops who are bullies and who hide behind their position/badge, make them realize that they are not above the law!!
Charge Harless with felony ADW and put him in prison for three years. Too many cops are behaving like this moron and they need to be re-educated in the PROTECT and SERVE mode, not the intimidate and abuse mode they seem to be acquiring. If Harless had been shot and killed and I was on the jury I would have called it justifiable homicide and let perpertrator walk. Abusive cops, abusive parents and abusive clergy are all in the same category when you are supposed to be protecting someone and you use that authority to abuse them you need to be dealt with severely.

All I have to say is that Police have had just about enough of this kind of Garbage that is over running OUR Country,And it's this PC Bullshit they have every day to put up with!!!!!!! Wake up Fools!! You all know that Freedom has rum amuck,iT'S THESE MONKEYS FROM HELL that are ruining our Country!!! Open your eye's and look around everywhere,it's on your TV and your street corners and you Liberal Pigs want to look at and blame the white man for all this shit!!! Well the white man should have nipped it in the bud when he had the chance!!!
There was a white man in the 40's that did try but He was slain! too bad cause that's a crime in itself. It's coming folks and it may be a Cop that you wish was there with you as your throat is about to be cut!!! We shall all find out very soon!!!

jn

dont cry now but your homo drug addict wasnt slain. the pussy ass bitch that sent 12 year olds to the front line KILLED HIMSELF. JL called and wants you to suck his little blue dick

jn

dont cry now but your homo drug addict wasnt slain. the pussy ass bitch that sent 12 year olds to the front line KILLED HIMSELF. JL called and wants you to suck his little blue dick

hal

@nuforc57:
PC bullshit? you dont know shit, you got shit for brains!!! nothing to say to your kind, crawl back under the rock you live under. your a white power MOFO and thats all youll ever be! now do the following, take a loaded gun, put into your mouth, then pull trigger.

you mommy should have had an abortion!

Quote Cop:Are you kidding me you gonna shoot me? If they were gonna shoot him, he would be dead! What are you gonna tell my wife when you shoot me with it??? NOBODY SHOT ANYONE YOU MORON!!! This maggot should be fired!!!

Terrorism is generally defined as the use of violence and threats of violence, to induce fear as a means to control or alter another person’s behavior. So this cop is a terrorist by definition.

darius: yes, he sure as hell is not a freedom fighter, so it would indeed make him a terrorist by definition! and what do we do with terrorists? oh i cannot say here, this place is being censored!

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