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Title: (Dallas) Police Deny Excessive Force In Bloody Arrest (black cop, white girl)
Source: 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: 14394
Comments: 855

Police Deny Excessive Force In Bloody Arrest

Dramatic Pictures, Rumors Circulate Online

POSTED: 5:16 pm CST January 16, 2006
UPDATED: 6:11 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.

NBC5i Video

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.


Poster Comment: Pictures taken by a witness clearly show the cops are LIARS!

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.

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#598. To: BTP Holdings (#588)

You heard about the fire at the circus? It was in tents. LOL

tee hee... whatta brat you are...

Don't force feed me your views... talk to me so I can hear you...

siagiah  posted on  2006-01-22   2:11:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#599. To: siagiah (#597)

How reliable is that?

Keep looking thru the thread. It's very long but there is lots of links to videos and other stories about this. I'll try to find some of them. More statements from witnesses tell more of the story.

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

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-01-22   2:12:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#600. To: siagiah (#598)

tee hee... whatta brat you are...

This has been a long thread and it is mostly the same old shit over and over.

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

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-01-22   2:15:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#601. To: BTP Holdings (#600)

There is no way I'm willing to read 500 comments, especially since so many of them are stupid, personal attacks for one reason or another... My response was based on the initial presentation... I guess it's probably better to just stay away from long threads that I'm unwilling to sift through... LOL...

btw, Stepp is significantly worse today... )-;

Don't force feed me your views... talk to me so I can hear you...

siagiah  posted on  2006-01-22   3:04:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#602. To: All (#601)

Make that 600 comments... oy vey

Don't force feed me your views... talk to me so I can hear you...

siagiah  posted on  2006-01-22   3:05:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#603. To: tom007 (#590)

Tom,

I did not make any false charges. I simply made a supposition. That is what the word "SUPPOSE" should have told you in that statement.

As I said, you are extremely uneducated.

Nicely done.

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   3:18:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#604. To: BTP Holdings (#591)

BTP,

My racist friend, it is clear that you are reading my comments, or you would not go to such lengths to show me that you are not. Sadly, calling you a racist is not an insult, it is simply an appropriate label.

I could care less that you have me on a filter. How cowardly of you to put me on a filter and then take potshots.

But then again, coming from you it is not surprising.

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   3:20:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#605. To: tom007 (#592)

Figure it out Richard, to belay.I am tired with conversation with you. Let the chains fit you well. And spare me your incessent clucking and scratching.

Tom,

In the context of your statement, the word Belay is improperly used. I am not stopped by my comments, they do, however, assist me in stopping you.

Perhaps you are just so ignorant that you don't know what the word means even in the face of the definition. I am prepared to accept that eventuality.

For a guy who claims to be tired of conversing with me, you sure do go out of your way to do so.

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   3:23:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#606. To: tom007 (#595)

So it would seem. I am done with him. unless he has a flat tire.

Tom,

OOOOH... Do you promise?

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   3:25:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#607. To: siagiah (#597)

Contrary to the author's claim, the pictures DON'T tell the story... the pictures don't show HOW she ended up on the ground. They don't show the cop DOING anything to her... For all I can tell, she may have fallen down... in fact, the way she's lying on the ground with her legs all willy nilly, SHE LOOKS DRUNK ENOUGH TO HAVE FALLEN DOWN ALL BY HERSELF... Someone afraid of a bigger foe hitting them doesn't sit on the ground challenging them like it seems that she is doing in one pix. The pix fit the profile of a drunken jerk making her own trouble and then yelling foul...

Does the video show more? Certainly the witness in the pix whose being told to go (pointed finger photo) is wearing an outfit similar enough to the girl to be assumed to be HER PAL... How reliable is that?

Siagiah!

Nice to see a voice of reason amongst the lynch mob.

You are correct, the photos really don't tell us much.

You should be warned, however, that there are many here who will viciously attack you for saying so.

I am not one of them. Glad to see your contribution. Good of you to hold off judgement being as how you were not present at the time.

Nicely done.

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   3:27:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#608. To: Richard (#495)

However, you have skirted the edge with implications that you don't belive I was there on more than one occasion.

No I did not. And I should know because... I was there.... I mean here. I know what I implied and you should believe it because I said so and I was there.

Seriously. I did not imply that I didn't believe you. I said you "claimed" to be there, which you did, which you somehow took as an insult, I guess because I didn't accept your claim as gospel.

Or perhaps that was your continuing to call me a liar and a fruitcake your way of saying "Hey, Richard, I believe you were there and I believe that what you are saying is indeed what you saw."

I called you a fruitcake because you talk like you are the be-all-end-all in witness reporting and expect us to trust you when to us you're nothing but type on a webpage.

BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser

Neil McIver  posted on  2006-01-22   3:58:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#609. To: Richard (#503)

Note that she has YET to file a complaint of ANY sort. Much lest has she tried to press a civil suit.

They probably want to wait for the results of the internal investigation before filing any complaint, and interview as many witnesses as possible. I place no significance on the lack of prompt action.

BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser

Neil McIver  posted on  2006-01-22   4:02:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#610. To: BTP Holdings (#505)

Holy shit, Neil, did he really say that? I've got him on BOZO and can't read what he posts.

'fraid so....

It is also the main reason we suffer a police state tyranny at present. And Richard is a sad representative of that whole scene.

Yes. Mindless lack of respect for other people.

BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser

Neil McIver  posted on  2006-01-22   4:05:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#611. To: Richard (#514)

You were not there.

I was.

74.

BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser

Neil McIver  posted on  2006-01-22   4:14:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#612. To: Dakmar (#524)

tom007 broke this thread :)

I fixed it.

BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser

Neil McIver  posted on  2006-01-22   4:16:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#613. To: BTP Holdings (#561)

And I think I'm right about him being a lawyer.

That's what I'm guessing at this point.

BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser

Neil McIver  posted on  2006-01-22   4:24:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#614. To: Neil McIver (#608)

Neil,

I never claimed to be the "be-all-end-all" witness.

I do happen to be the ONLY person on this thread who was actually present at the scene.

And yet YOU call me a liar and somehow say that it does not mean that you don't believe me.

How odd...

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   4:30:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#615. To: Neil McIver (#609)

Neil,

It is not the lack of prompt action that should surprise you.

It is the lack of ANY action that should surprise you.

It is clear that you have not done much work in this arena. If they were going to press a civil case they would be sowing the seeds NOW using the initial wave of PR that was generated to stir public interest. Instead this story has slipped off the headlines and disappeared into the ether. Other than on a few websites, it is now a non-story.

If her attorney thought they had a chance in hell of making the civil case, they would not have sat back, they would have taken the offensive and handled the story.

Being as how they did not, and are not, doing that... it is easy to see that they will not be pressing the civil suit very seriously, if at all.

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   4:34:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#616. To: Neil McIver (#613)

Neil,

My only involvement with this case is that I was a witness to what happened. I do not stand to profit in any way regardless of what verdicts may be handed down in this matter. Being as how that I am, other than being a witness, in no way affiliated with any of the parties involved in this matter, why does what I do for a living concern you so much?

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   4:38:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#617. To: siagiah (#597)

There are indeed limits to what information can be gleaned from the photos. But the photos do give a fair amount of information. Some of that information reasonable people can agree on.

I feel like I've just stated something extremely obvious, but it seems there's one here that seems to make it his goal in life to be as disagreeable as possible with anyone who doesn't trust him.

BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser

Neil McIver  posted on  2006-01-22   4:42:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#618. To: Richard (#614)

And yet YOU call me a liar and somehow say that it does not mean that you don't believe me.

Link?

I suppose in your binary way of fruitcake thinking, anyone who doesn't trust what you say completely is calling you a liar. If, in your mind, it isn't possible for someone to simply *not know* whether you're telling the truth or not, and all people must be in one extreme or the other, then fine. Put me down as one who calls you a liar. Because until you've earned my trust I'm sure as hell not going to take your word as gospel.

BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser

Neil McIver  posted on  2006-01-22   4:54:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#619. To: Neil McIver (#275)

In insisting you are a fair witness here you've proven to me you are a liar, and THAT does taint your testimony more than your bias alone does. Bias + liar = totally discredited testimony.

Neil,

Here is one example of you calling me a liar... see, I have a far better memory than you do.

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   5:19:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#620. To: Neil McIver (#284)

I consider you a liar and therefore don't care what you say. I'll believe you only when an honest witness says the same thing.

Neil,

Here is ANOTHER example of you calling me a liar.

Are you starting to remember yet, dumbass?

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   5:21:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#621. To: BTP Holdings (#542)

BTP, Well, well, my racist friend.

Low.....

Don't call me that, I'm not your friend.

And if you think you have insulted me, try again, you missed.

And besides, I've seen more hooter shots working those concerts than you've ever imagined, even if you have been lucky enough to have a wet dream. ROTFLMAO!

BTP,

I can, and will, call you whatever I please.

You are a racist, and make no attempt to deny it. I am not trying to insult you by calling you my racist friend, because you are a racist and you are my friend. No insult implied.

I can call you "friend" if I please because I am the one who decides who I call friend.

SO, you are indeed my racist friend.

OOOH, BTP has seen boobies! WOW, that certainly qualifies him to give expert testimony about the behavior of a police officer in a situation that he did not see, and investigative and medical reports that he has not read.

Oh, and I thought you were not reading my posts... ROFLMAO!!!

Ooopsies... my racist friend BTP screwed up again....

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   5:30:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#622. To: Neil McIver (#618)

Link?

I suppose in your binary way of fruitcake thinking, anyone who doesn't trust what you say completely is calling you a liar. If, in your mind, it isn't possible for someone to simply *not know* whether you're telling the truth or not, and all people must be in one extreme or the other, then fine. Put me down as one who calls you a liar. Because until you've earned my trust I'm sure as hell not going to take your word as gospel.

Neil,

I posted two links where you were explicitly calling me a liar.

I suppose, according to your incoherent way of thinking, calling someone a liar does not mean that you are actually calling them a liar. In your addled brain, calling someone a liar must somehow equate to meaning "someone who simply does *not know* whether or not that person is telling the truth."

I don't care if you take my word as gospel, I never said it was. I simply said what I saw at the scene.

I have no intention of "earning" your trust, as trust is an emotion and can not be "earned" in any way, it can only be given.

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   5:33:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#623. To: Neil McIver (#617)

There are indeed limits to what information can be gleaned from the photos. But the photos do give a fair amount of information. Some of that information reasonable people can agree on.

Neil,

Please state for us information about the night in question that YOU believe that Reasonable People can agree on based SOLELY upon the photos.

This should be quite humorous...

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   5:35:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#624. To: Richard (#620)

Are you starting to remember yet

I stand corrected. Thank you. For the record, here are my statements in context:

There's nothing wrong with being biased. It's just when you lie and claim you are not, as you are, THAT'S where there's a problem. When I first asked if you considered yourself a neutral witness, I already knew the answer. My reason for asking was only to find out how honest you are. Turns out you are not honest at all. In insisting you are a fair witness here you've proven to me you are a liar, and THAT does taint your testimony more than your bias alone does. Bias + liar = totally discredited testimony.

....

If you care, go and read my first comments on this thread. I try to be fair and my first comments should give evidence of that, if not prove it outright. I never claimed to be there or know all the facts. What irritates me is when a fruitcake comes on board who is bias as all get out and yet claims not to be. You ARE biased here and until you admit it, I consider you a liar and therefore don't care what you say. I'll believe you only when an honest witness says the same thing. Because you'd lied here on this thread about your neutrality, your testimony isn't worth crap, and it doesn't even matter if it's 100% accurate.

My reasoning, however, was impeccable. (You do still consider yourself neutral witness, right, in seeing a girl you are sick of have a rough run-in with a cop?)

I guess I was considering my statements more argumentive than conclusive. I'll now consider them conclusive, if there is no argument. You are a liar.

BTW: I have a better name for the software .... Microsoft Internet Exploder.
-- George Bonser

Neil McIver  posted on  2006-01-22   5:44:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#625. To: Richard, Jethro Tull (#498)

If she tried to take this case to civil court she knows she would lose. We are not talking about a nun fresh from the convent here, she is a rollerderby chick, she makes her money fighting on skates. No jury will believe that she was just a passive victim who got 'da bomb' dropped on her for no reason whatsoever. Especially when they are looking at her convictions for public intoxication and resisting arrest at the scene.

Let's see... Jesse Ventura and some black dope addict from California come to mind. I will concede that wrestlers don't wear skates and Michelle isn't black, at least not in the first picture.

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few…No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” – James Madison, Political Observations, 1795

Hmmmmm  posted on  2006-01-22   6:52:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#626. To: All (#625)

Let's see... Jesse Ventura and some black dope addict from California come to mind.

PC correction follows:

Let's see... Jesse Ventura and some black dope addict motorist (Rodney King) from California come to mind.

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few…No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” – James Madison, Political Observations, 1795

Hmmmmm  posted on  2006-01-22   7:15:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#627. To: Hmmmmm (#625)

I have neve never seen a witness to what amounts to a summons take such interest in a case. But then the City of Dallas has millions to lose when this goes civil. There is more to our friend Richard than he has allowed us to see. While Richard is out scoring more amphetamine for another long posting day, I'll kick around some possibilities.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-01-22   7:23:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#628. To: Neil McIver (#624)

I stand corrected. Thank you. For the record, here are my statements in context:

I really don't think it is fair to Richard to put your statments in context as it blows his Whole argument out the window.

I believe Richard

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. Sorry, where was I? I believe Richard should let his Gerbil out for a while.

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few…No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” – James Madison, Political Observations, 1795

Hmmmmm  posted on  2006-01-22   7:32:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#629. To: Richard, Neil McIver, Jethro Tull, Tom007, Dakmar, Christine, markm0722 (#614)

I never claimed to be the "be-all-end-all" witness.

True you didn't.

In fact a few times on this thread when asked for details of what you saw, eliciting those details from you was like pulling teeth. One presumes however you were a fount of volunteered information when you gave your statement to the police (which statement you could have reiterated for us), but here you have to be asked repeatedly and you are not forthcoming with details or clarification of whatever you saw or not.

Having compared all the news reports and background with what you have reported here, you haven't added anything substantive, and in a few notable instances your eyewitness reporting here even conflicts with what is alleged to be the police departments' version of events.

Does that make you a liar? No.

But it does make you uninformative and questionable as an eyewitness. Your claims of having been there hold out the possibility to learn from you what has yet to be discovered. But since you refuse to volunteer all the details, insisting instead on telling us what to decide (you are spinning) about the officer, the girl, the town, etc (ie she deserved it, he's a good cop, the town has too much PI), you leave an inquisitive person no choice but to ask you, repeatedly. At which point you take offense for being asked to reveal that which you claim to be the only source on this thread.

And yet you equivocate that as an eyewitness, you can't tell whose blood was on the pavement even though the girl's bloody face was pressed into the pavement and she received stitches for facial lacerations (plural) which you concede can bleed profusely while the officer only had scratches; that you can't tell the difference between the officer 'simply taking her down' versus the 'officer losing his balance and falling'; that the girl herself smeared the blood on her face and yet she was handcuffed from behind; That inspite of her refusing treatment at the scene as reported by the police you insist she was 'triaged'; but you have yet to say what sequences of movements you saw to explain how the girl went from standing to being face-down under the officers knee (for example, other testimony adds that the officer grabbed her hair and yanked her down - did you see that?).

Well, you don't get to have it both ways.

You proclaim ad-nauseum to be the only eyewitness on this thread, but not the best eyewitness, while witholding details of what your eyes witnessed, yet taking offense when being asked for corroborating details (you are ostensibly the only eyewitness here that we can ask, right? - did you not expect to be asked?) but expecting strangers on the internet to believe your conclusions about the girl deserving what she got and the officer's force being measured. Read that again. You expect us to believe your conclusions , suspending our own judgement. We'd rather form our own conclusions from as many facts as can be gathered, and not simply endorse your conclusions in lieu of corroborating facts.

I do happen to be the ONLY person on this thread who was actually present at the scene.

However true that may be, none of that is a guarantee that you have been accurate. None of that is a guarantee that you have been complete. None of that is a guarantee that you have been unbiased or impartial. And none of that is a guarantee that you have been honest. You are an anonymous, unsworn stranger and an insulting one at times (as are the rest of us). You have no rational reason whatsoever to presume what you post on the internet will be accepted as impartial factual truth. Any sane person would anticipate questions. Any honest person would understand the desire of others to have more facts and less spin.

And yet YOU call me a liar and somehow say that it does not mean that you don't believe me.

One can be mistaken and honest in their testimony and not be a liar. To ascertain if there are any mistakes, questions are asked, details solicited, differences (if any) reconciled, and credibility assessed. In the process, when the eyewitness (ostensibly you) rather than relating those details instead conveys conclusions and judgements that are at odds with other facts in evidence (police reports, photos, testimony of other eyewitnesses and proclaims prior to any finding of fact or ajudication that the girl will be convicted, the officer and department exhonerated, that "eyewitness" has impeached their own impartiality and credibility; that eyewitness has demonstrated an agenda.

Someone whose testimony differs from other factual accounts and who seems to have an agenda might reasonably be suspected of lying. Read that again. Reasonably suspected . When, acting upon those suspicions, in an effort to uncover the truth one is met with insults instead of clarifying facts, the appearance of lying is reinforced.

In the end, the bulk of your argument has been not a disclosure of evidence but a disingenuous effort to constrain the discussion to a hypothetical formed by only the pictures posted. As if there weren't other news stories and other eyewitness accounts and a video or post-treatment photos of the girl we may yet get to see, and maybe even forensic DNA testing of the blood on the street to satisfy you who provided it.

If you weren't spinning, you'd understand the questions and discomfort the rest of us have.

(The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only true good news)

Starwind  posted on  2006-01-22   11:55:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#630. To: Starwind (#629)

Well said Starwind. Michelle has hired one Kevin Clancy, esq to represent her. If Richard is indeed an eyewitness, this thread should be of value, IMHO.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-01-22   12:24:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#631. To: all (#630)

Yikes... what a complicated pie I have tasted a slice of...

For the record, I perceived the ORIGINAL story as a "non-story" that used photos that show only a bloodied girl being arrested. I work in a hospital ER where I see belligerent folks coming in looking just like she does. She FITS THE PROFILE of someone trying to blame the cops for her own idiocy. They usually arrive screamin' obscenities at all who approach and taking swings at folks trying to help her... Again, she APPEARS to be doing that in photos. Folks who have been beaten down are usually cowering and pulling themselves into a fetal position... She does none of those things IN THE PHOTOS. Now a reasonable person could assume that the author of the story, who must believe the charges, would present photos that FIT HIS ACCUSATIONS rather than ones that fit the police claims... wouldn't you think?

Now, admittedly, I've not seen the videos but I *believe* that they are taken from a poor vantage point that doesn't show the incident at all until AFTER she's on the ground? Otherwise, all would be forced to agree about what REALLY happened.

That's the end of this story as far as I'm concerned... I'm not willing to spend another ounce of energy on sorting it out.

PEACE...

Don't force feed me your views... talk to me so I can hear you...

siagiah  posted on  2006-01-22   12:48:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#632. To: siagiah (#631)

I work in a hospital ER where I see belligerent folks coming in looking just like she does.

A point of background (about which you may be knowledgeable) if you would indulge me?

When a patient has (as reported) "refused treatment" at the scene, what is EMS protocol regarding triage of facial lacerations of said patient? Assuming the patient's refusal was "informed" (admittedly we don't have all those facts yet, but assuming so) does EMS protocol provide for triaging bleeding facial lacerations, anyway, over the patient's refusal?

(The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only true good news)

Starwind  posted on  2006-01-22   12:57:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#633. To: Starwind (#632)

It may be different in Texas, but here the police can tell you you're either going to the hospital or going to jail if you are publically intoxicated and injured. Most people choose the hospital.

Great post earlier.

We've been challenged, and we've risen to those challenges. We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace. - W

Dakmar  posted on  2006-01-22   13:05:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#634. To: Neil McIver (#624)

You are a liar.

Based upon what, Neil?

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   13:19:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#635. To: Hmmmmm (#625)

Let's see... Jesse Ventura and some black dope addict from California come to mind. I will concede that wrestlers don't wear skates and Michelle isn't black, at least not in the first picture.

Hmmmmmmm...

How do the former governor of Minnesota and black dope addict in California enter into this?

What is your point?

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   13:21:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#636. To: Jethro Tull (#627)

Jethro,

I took interest in the situation because it happened right in front of me. From the very start there was a large and hostile crowd, so it held my interest. Then, when she assaulted the officer as he tried to put her in handcuffs,... well, that kind of action is hard to ignore, especially when it is less than 20 feet away from you.

It is human nature to watch someone who has been detained by the police, we are all curious creatures. Add an angry crowd and a suspect who resists arrest and attacks a police officer... well, it is hard NOT to watch that with interest.

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   13:24:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#637. To: Jethro Tull (#627)

While Richard is out scoring more amphetamine for another long posting day, I'll kick around some possibilities.

Yeah, and when he begins to stttuttter at the keyboard we will know he has done one hit too many. ;0)

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

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-01-22   13:26:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#638. To: Starwind (#629)

"a few times on this thread when asked for details of what you saw, eliciting those details from you was like pulling teeth..."

I have answered pretty much every question that I have seen, Starwind. I am sorry that I have left my office to do other things from time to time, but it is the height of paranoia to presume that means I was avoiding the questions.

" compared all the news reports and background with what you have reported here, you haven't added anything substantive..."

I have mentioned plenty of things that were not stated in the "news reports" that would clearly indicate that I was there at the time. That you choose to overlook or disbelieve them is up to you entirely.

"insisting instead on telling us what to decide (you are spinning) about the officer...(that)he's a good cop..."

I have never said that Officer Gordon was a "good cop.' Starwind. I have never implied that he was a "good cop." I feel that he did his job and did not go outside the scope of what was required given the situation, but that does not make him a "good cop" or a "bad cop" in my view. It makes him a "cop who did his job and did it well." There IS a difference. I don't know the guy, other than this incident, I have never seen him before in my life. Once again, you are attributing things to me that I did not say.

"other testimony adds that the officer grabbed her hair and yanked her down - did you see that?"

When he went to put the handcuffs on her she resisted and swung her free arm at the officer. No, I can't say that I saw him grab her by the hair, he may have, but what I recall was seeing the officer grapple with her and they both went to the ground. He was grabbing at her and his arm was about at her shoulder level when they went down, but that was the extent of what I can say clearly. It happend very fast, and I can not say that I saw him specifically grab her hair. If he grabbed her hair to subdue her after she swung her arm at him, so be it. That is not a beating nor is it excessive force being a how she swung her arm at him when he was placing her under arrest.

"the girl herself smeared the blood on her face and yet she was handcuffed from behind; That inspite of her refusing treatment at the scene as reported by the police you insist she was 'triaged'..."

The stuggle to handcuff her did not take 5 seconds, she was flailing about quite a bit. It is a wonder she was not hurt worse than she was given how much of a fight she put up, to be honest. Then again, as a professional rollerderby chick, she is used to fighting and probably knew what she was doing. I know she smeared the blood on her face with her hand because there was blood smeared across the palm of her hand. If you look at the photo, and have done any work with injured people, you can tell that the blood all over her face could not have gotten their naturally from a small cut, or even a series of small cuts, or even from a 9 inch gash across her entire face. The blood on her face is CLEARLY smeared across her face, down to and around her chin, blood does not do that naturally. Star, again... to say that she "refused treatment" at the scene means that she did not get her cut stitched at the scene. You are trying to make a connection here that does not work. When the paramedics arrive to a scene with police involvement, and the suspect is bleeding, she HAS to be assessed to determine whether or not she is healthy enough to be taken to jail. She CAN'T refuse that, as she was under arrest at the time. She was triaged at the scene and was sent to the hospital for "treatment." I am sure you are smart enough to understand the difference, but you are just being argumentative.

I am not "spinning" anything, Star... I am just stating my point of view.

Richard  posted on  2006-01-22   13:54:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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