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 Officer Bob Episode #8 - Coup at the Zoo [1:58m]: Download (13)

Down in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the water coming outta de ground ain’t the only thing too hot to handle. There’s also a chronic crime problem captured on this video. I forget which terror alert color it is when kids ride skateboards down a street, but this video’s got one of Hot Springs’ finest right on top of the problem, grabbin’ it by the throat in fact. Back off and let the hero do his work.

DENVER, CO: Well, it ain’t rocket science. When a guy savagely attacks an officer’s flashlight, shattering it with his back, then he gets what he’s got comin’. Lawsuit, yeah, whatever, I mean, good luck suing the department. What I wanna know is - how are you supposed to replace your favorite flashlight? It’ll never be just like it was.

The lawsuit gave the following account:

One officer threatened to shoot Vasquez in the back after Vasquez fled the scene. That officer then threw a police-issue flashlight that struck Vasquez with such force it shattered.

The youth tripped when confronted by another officer, and the first officer jumped on his back, shouting: “You (expletive) little (expletive), you made me break my flashlight.”

That officer then jumped on the teen’s back, punching him on the side of the head repeatedly despite protestations from the youth that his hands were behind his back.

Three other officers and Porter converged, repeatedly striking Vasquez and kicking him.

“Plaintiff begged the defendants to stop hurting him because he could not breathe and he was throwing up,” the lawsuit states.

It states that Porter then grasped the top of a fence with both hands and jumped up and down as Vasquez continued to vomit and begged for his life.

After handcuffing Vasquez, the police asked if he fell and how many times he fell.

The lawsuit states the incident stemmed from inadequate training of officers and a pattern of failing to discipline officers adequately.

This item comes to us from beautiful Waukegan, Illinois, famous for fishing, boating and now also for snot-nosed little bastards with video cameras that think they can tape cops whenever they want. Whaddo they think, that we work for da public or something?

Banks had his own personal story to tell of police abuse. His daughter and stepbrother were taken down with force and arrested recently as they sat in front of his home in the 400 block of Oak Street, enjoying the first day of spring weather.

The action that provoked the police response was videorecording a passing squad car, family members told the council.

Lateenya Blanks, 20, said the patrol officers stopped, got out, and challenged them, asking why they were doing it. Shortly afterward, other officers arrived in an unmarked SUV, Blanks said. The subjects were playing music too loud, so they reported placing the subjects in custody. In this incident, placing in custody involved two officers throwing the young female on the hood of a vehicle to handcuff her and punching Michael Harris, her stepbrother, while cuffing him.

Remember: we can put cameras wherever we want. Not you.

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