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Title: (Dallas) Police Deny Excessive Force In Bloody Arrest (black cop, white girl)
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NBC5i.com
URL Source: http://www.nbc5i.com/news/6158812/detail.html
Published: Jan 16, 2006
Author: NBC5
Post Date: 2006-01-16 20:18:09 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: Excessive, (Dallas), Police
Views: 13056
Comments: 855
POSTED: 5:16 pm CST January 16, 2006
DALLAS -- E-mails and pictures circulating the Internet tell the tale of a Dallas woman's bloody run-in with police after a roller-skating outing escalated into an arrest with excessive force, but officers and some witnesses Monday told a different story.
The incident happened early Saturday morning in Deep Ellum after police attempted to speak with Michelle Metzinger, 25, who, according to a police report, was intoxicated and weaving through traffic on roller skates.
Images: The Arrest & Other Slideshows
The pictures that stemmed from the events that followed are dramatic. They show an officer arresting Metzinger. Her face is covered in blood and there is a puddle of blood on the sidewalk.
"Very excessive. Uncalled for, you know. We're talking about a 250-pound guy and a 100-pound girl. It was just over the top," witness "D.C." said. "All I saw were her feet in the air and disappearing behind a cop car."
However, Dallas police and other witnesses tell a totally different story.
They said Metzinger was drunk and that she not only ignored officers who asked her to stop skating in the street, but also shouted profanities.
According to reports, an officer then tried to arrest Metzinger for public intoxication.
She resisted and attacked the officer, Lt. Rick Watson said.
"The officer attempted to turn her around, at which time the suspect then reached up and grabbed the officer's -- right part of his face -- trying to gouge the officer's eye," Watson said.
Despite the interest that the story has generated online and in the media, Metzinger said she would not comment on the incident until she had consulted with a lawyer.
Metzinger also had not filed a complaint report, so Dallas police were not conducting an internal investigation.
When I worked concert security and someone got bloodied, it was always proper for us to "get our stories straight." Or, as Eddie Murphy said in that movie, "You were lying your asses off." That LT is a lying piece of shit and so is the black cop who LIED in his report.
I'll tell you one thing for certain, this bastard needs to be caught and given a damn hard ball-batting. And then a WHITE magic marker taken to his forehead and the words BAD COP inscribed thereon. What was done was brutal, inexcusable and unjustified.
Police Deny Excessive Force In Bloody Arrest
Dramatic Pictures, Rumors Circulate Online
UPDATED: 6:11 pm CST January 16, 2006
Poster Comment:
Pictures taken by a witness clearly show the cops are LIARS!
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#1. To: All (#0)
Pig mother effers. IMVHO, a .45 cal should be mandatory when roller-skating in Dallas.
man, these freaks are so out of control, it's not even funny. i hope this girl gets herself a bulldog attorney.
My stepfather was a cop, and I learned a lot about cops while I still associated with my family. I learned that happy, well adjusted people who like themselves and like life don't become cops.
#2. To: All (#0)
#3. To: christine (#2)
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#4. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
We should be sure of all the facts. The story claims witnesses said she was aggravating the situation by attacking the cop. Were the witnesses impartial?
BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser
#5. To: ALl (#2)
And never let these freaks administer a field sobriety test. You'll fail - they'll make sure of it. What are they going to do to this girl, suspend her driver’s license? She was on fucking skates.
#6. To: Elliott Jackalope (#3)
i think that's probably truer today than it was 10-20 yrs ago. there was a time when cops were there to protect and serve. that's no longer the training they get. they're enforcers of policy (militarized) and revenue generators for the state.
#7. To: Neil McIver (#4)
She looks ok in the first picture standing next to police car. At that point she seems to be in custody, and police are responsible for her.
"We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud." - Meir Kahane
#8. To: Neil McIver (#4)
"The officer attempted to turn her around, at which time the suspect then reached up and grabbed the officer's -- right part of his face -- trying to gouge the officer's eye," Watson said. standard CYA. did anyone else who wasn't a fellow officer state the same?
She resisted and attacked the officer, Lt. Rick Watson said.
#9. To: Neil McIver (#4)
Neil , this girl has every constitutional right to "aggravating the situation." She has the right to tell the officer to fuck off and go find a real criminal. Nothing criminal in that statement. If I were an investigative journalist, I'd look thru the police criminal reports during that time frame and see what was happening around Dallas while this oaf was beating up this "criminal."
The story claims witnesses said she was aggravating the situation by attacking the cop. Were the witnesses impartial?
#10. To: christine (#6)
Yep, and amen. And if they can get off by beating to death someone, so much the better, for them. Resisting arrest, dontchaknow?
there was a time when cops were there to protect and serve. that's no longer the training they get. they're enforcers of policy and revenue generators for the state.
#11. To: Dakmar (#7)
She looks like she had her face scraped across the pavement. Don't know what else would likely cause that kind of redness. That does suggest the cop had control of her at the time it happened.
BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser
#12. To: christine (#8)
That's the question. Are the witnesses cops or impartial passers-by?
standard CYA. did anyone else who wasn't a fellow officer state the same?
BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser
#13. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
Agreed, but if she attacked the cop, as described, then the rules changed. Maybe she didn't, but it's an important fact to know.
Neil , this girl has every constitutional right to "aggravating the situation." She has the right to tell the officer to fuck off and go find a real criminal. Nothing criminal in that statement.
BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser
#14. To: Neil McIver, Jethro Tull (#13)
Even granting that she may have been drunk and disorderly, the level of force used to subdue her appears to have been disproportionate. It's not like she was waving an AK47 or something, the primary reason for arrest was to prevent her from hurting herself.
Agreed, but if she attacked the cop, as described, then the rules changed.
"We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud." - Meir Kahane
#15. To: Neil McIver (#11)
looks to me like a head laceration that bled down her face. look at the amount of blood on the pavement.
#16. To: christine (#15)
Yep, those are more than scrapes. The bloody papers in the last photograph are also visible in next-to-last, looks like quite a bit of blood.
looks to me like a head laceration that bled down her face. look at the amount of blood on the pavement.
"We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud." - Meir Kahane
#17. To: Dakmar (#7)
Just like the discredited US army is responsible for the detainees at Abu Graib
t that point she seems to be in custody, and police are responsible for her.
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially-induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#18. To: christine (#8)
YEP. Cops just want to have fun.
standard CYA.
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially-induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#19. To: lodwick (#10)
Not to sound too harsh, but if that fat prick winds up with one in the head, I won't shed a tear.
#20. To: Dakmar (#14)
If she was drunk, she'd be even easier to control. There looks to be a 200 pound difference bet her and the doughnut muncher.
Even granting that she may have been drunk and disorderly, the level of force used to subdue her appears to have been disproportionate.
#21. To: Jethro Tull (#19)
The white cop in pix #4 would not look the lady in the face -' he is (or should be) ashamed of what he is a part of. I'll say it - the black cop needs hanging. There it is, it's obvious. Yes and on MLK day - I dare say he would agree with me and any other thinking person as well. She may have weighed in at 130 lbs?? Him 220 if an ounce. DISGUSTING- hang him and the chief of police as well. That will help the criminals think about the consequences of their actions.
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially-induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#22. To: Jethro Tull (#20)
And she's on skates. Common sense would dictate either the skates be removed or she be put in back seat of patrol car. Cops made us stop stop racing ten-speed bikes in empty (abandoned) parking lot one time, and we were only a little bit drunk.
"We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud." - Meir Kahane
#23. To: Jethro Tull (#20)
Yeh a chick in a miniskirt on rolling skates - a real threat to the public safety.
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially-induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#24. To: tom007 (#21)
If the colors of these two were reversed, Sharpton, Jackson and the other racial scumbags would light the town up. Yes, hang the porker.
I'll say it - the black cop needs hanging. There it is, it's obvious.
#25. To: Dakmar (#22)
The cops tried to get me to stop breaking into cars once. Thank goodness I could run!
#26. To: All (#25)
The mother's pulled down the pics!!!!
#27. To: Neil McIver, Jethro Tull, christine (#4)
The guy who took the pics says someone on the sidewalk made a wisecrack at the girl. She kinda turned halfway to respond to them and that is when the cop flipped out on her. Clearly off the wall and over reaction. Notice that the cop is kneeling on her neck and also has his knee on her spine. I can tell you from experience that is how to really put some serious hurt on someone. And this guy had to weigh in at 250. Some kinda tough guy, NOT. I would have kicked him in the head if I was there and saw the whole thing. Imagine if it was a white cop and a black girl. Half of Dallas and maybe Ft. Worth would be in flames. Here is what the guy said on another forum, We should be sure of all the facts. The story claims witnesses said she was aggravating the situation by attacking the cop. Were the witnesses impartial?
I met up with Amanda outside of Elm St. Tattoo, and there was a derby girl skating from the bar across the street to the tattoo parlor. No big deal. But a cop stopped her to give her a ticket. Well, she gave some attitude, but went with it. Kept her hands on the car while he wrote her a ticket. I crossed the street to the bar, and another skater went past me, nothing happened to her, even though her friend was getting a ticket for skating in the street.... very weird. I turned back around to look at the girl and the cop, and I see him wrestling her to the ground. She's screaming, this tiny girl, is struggling, while about 50 people gather and start yelling. Turns out someone on the sidewalk yelled something to her, she turned to see the person, took her hands off of the car, and the cop got pissed. She gave attitude, I think he shoved her back on the car, so she struggled back up, and he shoved her around.
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#28. To: Jethro Tull (#26)
Probably exceeded bandwidth on the hosting site at tinypic.
The mother's pulled down the pics!!!!
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#29. To: BTP Holdings (#28)
Translate, BTP? WIll they be back up?
#30. To: BTP Holdings (#27)
The Patroit Act is again protecting us. Go back to watching the regularly programmed TV show or rent a movie about the Holocost.
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially-induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#31. To: Jethro Tull (#26)
Hate us cause we're free.
he mother's pulled down the pics!!!!
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially-induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#32. To: Jethro Tull (#29)
I think so. There is a daily bandwidth limit on many of these hosting sites. The first place he had them only lasted a few hours and he reposted them to the new venue. Now it seems that has run out also. Maybe after midnight or some time tomorrow they will be up again. Best thing is to copy the properties links and try to get them later on by linking to them directly and copying them to your HD. My experience in working crowd control tells me this incident stinks to high heaven. I've seen it happen, it's sort of like a gang situation. And what is worse, these thugs are heavily armed.
Translate, BTP? WIll they be back up?
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#33. To: Dakmar (#22)
Back about 15 years ago when I used to bicycle race two of us got pulled over for speeding in a residential speed zone (clocked 31 in a 25). I about lost my mind. True, the town we were in was pretty quiet, but no place is so quiet to warrant pulling two cyclists over for speeding. Cars in the area commonly go faster than that. The cop told us that we were doing well (but not any longer, standing still with heartbeat still at like 160 beats per minute), but that traffic laws applied to us too.
Cops made us stop stop racing ten-speed bikes in empty (abandoned) parking lot one time
#34. To: Jethro Tull (#24)
Jethro Tull posted on 2006-01-16 21:47:06 ET Can you imagine the uproar if it were a 240 lb white idiot cop and a 120 lb black fox on roller skates ........................ This beast need to be sent back to Brazzeville, Congo and be eaten by his bros. Sorry if I offened anyone. (Not really).
If the colors of these two were reversed, Sharpton, Jackson and the other racial scumbags would light the town up. Yes, hang the porker.
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially-induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#35. To: historian1944, TommyTheMadArtist (#33)
that's one of those *you gotta be shitting me* stories.
#36. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
All I see is some chick with her face bloodied. I'd be the first one to rail on this situation, but after reading the article, and seeing the pictures, it can go either way as far as I can tell. I'm pretty sure she'll be making money off of this with her lawyer, and the cop will likely get a slap on the wrist if anything else happens. People should be less concerned about a black cop and a white idiot getting roughed up, and be more concerned that so many stupid people live in this world and wreck it for the rest of us.
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#37. To: Dakmar (#14)
I agree that does appear to be the case.
the level of force used to subdue her appears to have been disproportionate.
BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser
#38. To: christine (#15)
That much blood doesn't come from mere scrapes.
looks to me like a head laceration that bled down her face. look at the amount of blood on the pavement.
BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser
#39. To: All (#38)
The account given by the police was given by a "Lt. Rick Watson". But I wonder how likely it is that any loftey Lt. was out on patrol doing grunt work. Watson was more likely giving a pro-police version of the event rather than giving any kind of testimony of what HE saw happen, and if he didn't see it but speaks as though he did, then that's pretty incriminating as well. It's likely his version of the events is mere heresay, at best. The girl is smart to consult a lawyer before making any public comments.
BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser
#40. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Maybe he was just getting some practice in on smacking white girls around, as he hasn't had the chance to get some licks in since his white girlfriend told him to get lost. I wonder if this fat pig would have been so brave had the "subject" been a "banger"...
#41. To: Neil McIver (#39)
“I can not comment on his state of mind,” said Lt. Rick Watson, a Dallas PD spokesman. The account given by the police was given by a "Lt. Rick Watson". But I wonder how likely it is that any loftey Lt. was out on patrol doing grunt work. Watson was more likely giving a pro-police version of the event
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