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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: 13061
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.
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?
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
The cops tried to get me to stop breaking into cars once. Thank goodness I could run!
The mother's pulled down the pics!!!!
Probably exceeded bandwidth on the hosting site at tinypic.
Translate, BTP? WIll they be back up?
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.
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#4. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
#9. To: Neil McIver (#4)
The story claims witnesses said she was aggravating the situation by attacking the cop. Were the witnesses impartial?
#13. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
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.
#14. To: Neil McIver, Jethro Tull (#13)
Agreed, but if she attacked the cop, as described, then the rules changed.
#20. To: Dakmar (#14)
Even granting that she may have been drunk and disorderly, the level of force used to subdue her appears to have been disproportionate.
#22. To: Jethro Tull (#20)
#25. To: Dakmar (#22)
#26. To: All (#25)
#28. To: Jethro Tull (#26)
The mother's pulled down the pics!!!!
#29. To: BTP Holdings (#28)
#32. To: Jethro Tull (#29)
Translate, BTP? WIll they be back up?
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