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Same old shit… just different cops. But, let’s see Johnny Law defend these cops.
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Well they had to beat him because otherwise everybody in the neighborhood would have rioted.

I hope we do get to see this report, because along with your bet, I’ll bet that the beating is not even mentioned.

We deserve respect. Why won’t you respect us… garbage. They are just as bad as the criminals.

He was probably a New York Jets Fan.

No bet – Everybody knows that NYPD is nothing but a gang of low brow steroid junkies
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Meps,

I watched the video and I have to say there isn’t any way to defend the actions of the officers. I can understand the emotions of having to chase some piece of crap criminal and then have to come down off the adrenaline dump while the bad guy is still talking trash. It’s hard but you have to control your anger at the bad guys.

If the bad guy wants to fight, then fight him at 100%. However once the suspect stops resisting the fight is over. This young officer let the emotions of a foot chase, a dog attack, and a shit-talking piece of garbage overcome his professionalism and he is going to pay a price for it.

One thing we normally do in my department after there is a chase or an intense fight is to hand the suspect off to another officer who was not as involved in the arrest. This gets the officers who are still amped up away from the situation and prevents things like this from happening.

I noticed the Sgt look at the punches being thrown and then quickly turning away. This supervisor failed the young officer. He should have gotten the officer away from the suspect as soon as he saw there was a problem.

Don’t worry though. You will get your pound of flesh from these cops. NYPD has a very aggressive Internal Affairs and I am sure they will dig very deep into this incident. I hate to see it but I can’t say they don’t deserve it.
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Sounds like a firearms training problem as well. A taser would have stopped the dog without creating the risks that bullets hitting hard floors at angles can cause.

And why did the dog attack the policeman and not the man he was chasing? If the man was fleeing into his own house, then that’s pretty low to get your dog mixed up in a fight like that. Or does NYPD shoot all dogs (or something in the same general direction as the dog) on site as a “precaution”.

Johnny even hates to see cops he thinks are dirty get punished. What the hell, Johnny. What the hell.

They probably had guns drawn for the chase and the dog wouldn’t exactly respect an order while they drew tasers. I don’t see how a police could be faulted for shooting a pit bull that jumps out at them while they’re in pursuit, most likely with guns already drawn. There’s plenty to fault these officers with without looking for reasons to condemn them further.

That NY Post embedded video player is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. All “controls” are completely disabled in Firefox: no pause, stop, volume, etc.
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Every time I see one of these bastard cops beating someone on film I go nuts. I must rather watch this video with funny monkeys:

http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/01/alcoholic-vervet-monkeys-weird-natur...

Look at some of the things “Johnny Law” said in part.

“..chase some piece of CRAP criminal.”

I guess that tells you where he’s coming from.

“..a shit-talking piece of garbage.”

“JL’s” really on a roll now.

“Don’t worry though. You will get your pound of flesh from these cops.”

Read the underlying tone of the above. You can just see that “Johnny L” feels there was NO wrong.. especially when he ends up saying in his last sentence, ie:

“I hate to see it but I can’t say they don’t deserve it.”

Get it? “..they DON’T deserve it!”

If he really thought that the LEO’s involved were wrong, he would have said something to the effect of..

“Because of their actions, the LEO’s DO deserve whatever punishment that’s given out to them.”

But what’s been shown by “Johnny Law’s” attitude in the past.. “The Police can do NO wrong!”

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Rail Car Fan,
Not sure how far I can back you on this one. While I may not agree with a lot of what Johnny Law has to say, on this one I would have to give him at least an 85 out of 100. Sure, he chose to prejudge the kid (occupational hazard), but instead of making excuses for the officers involved, he accepted that “there isn’t any way to defend the actions of the officers” and that the “supervisor failed the young officer”.

He even made the point that, where he works, his department has recognized this issue and has taken specific steps to try and mitigate it. Not to excuse it, but to try and ensure that it does not happen.

I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and though I did not think I would ever be saying it, I think that Johnny’s response goes a lot further than meeting the regular readers here half way…

I would expect a taser shot to actually stop a dog, not the threat of a taser. And if the shooting injured TWO policemen, then it’s certainly to be faulted.

Wow… I can’t recall a time that I’ve seen JL not defend a bad cop. My impression of you, JL, is changing… not much, but still changing.

Kudos for not defending this obvious derelict of duty.

If I had a pitbull charging at me, I would not want to play around with any sort of less-than-lethal device.

While the viciousness of pitbulls as a breed is greatly overstated, they are breed for something called “gameness” which is basically how much pain the dog is willing to endure to complete a task (like pull a dog sled or taking a bite out of some poor bastard’s nads).

Giving that pitbulls have an extremely high level of gameness, I can not honestly fault the decision of the officer who shot to use their firearm instead of a taser (assuming he even had one).