Florida cop grabs female officer by the throat.

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"A police sergeant in Florida has been demoted to desk work after he was seen on video grabbing a fellow officer by her throat."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...cer-throat-officer-placed-leave.html#comments

Rosa [Sunrise Police Chief] went on to say in a written statement that, “Once the suspect was inside the patrol vehicle, the sergeant approached and engaged in a verbal altercation with the suspect in a manner that I feel was inappropriate and unprofessional. This supervisor escalated the encounter instead of de-escalating an emotionally charged situation.”

https://www.local10.com/news/local/...ty-after-grabbing-fellow-officer-by-the-neck/

"A veteran Florida police officer is under investigation after he was caught on video grabbing a female cop by the throat when she tried to pull him away from a handcuffed suspect.

Sunrise police Sgt. Christopher Pullease, 46, is accused of attacking the 28-year-old female officer, who hasn’t been named, outside a Shop & Save convenience store."

https://nypost.com/2022/01/17/flori...-the-throat-after-she-pulled-him-off-suspect/

Almost another George Floyd incident. Luckily the officer with only two and a half years tenure exercised professionalism and thereby de-escalated what could have been criminal behavior by her rogue partner who has 21 years experience.

If there are only a few bad apples, then the good ones need to step up like this professional female officer.
 

I still believe there are more good cops than bad. It's the bad ones that get the spotlight by the media.
All in all, unacceptable behavior to say the least. It's no good reason to choke your fellow officer like that. Once you lose your temper with a suspect, you've already lost.
 

The female cop was following the law and intervened when she saw a fellow cop "attempting to engage in excessive use of force." The hotheaded cop was the last to arrive. The three cops already on the scene had the suspect handcuffed and in the backseat of the cruiser.

Statute became effective July 2021

Florida Statutes Section 943.1735

(2) The commission shall establish standards for the instruction of officers in the subject of use of force and each employing agency in the state shall adopt policies in the subject of use of force. The standards and policies must include:
(a) Instruction on the proportional use of force.
(b) Alternatives to use of force, including de-escalation techniques.
(c) Limiting the use of a chokehold, if the employing agency authorizes the use of a chokehold, to circumstances where the officer perceives an immediate threat of serious bodily injury or death to himself, herself, or another person.
(d) The duty to intervene in another officer's excessive use of force, which must require an on-duty officer who observes another officer engaging or attempting to engage in excessive use of force to intervene to end the excessive use of force or attempted excessive use of force when such intervention is reasonable based on the totality of the circumstances and the observing officer may intervene without jeopardizing his or her own health or safety.
 
RFW said:
I still believe there are more good cops than bad. It's the bad ones that get the spotlight by the media.
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Don't put it all on news media... John and Jane Public a bg factor these days. Because i subscribe to a couple of 'Good News' e-newsletters/websites i know there are a good many stories and videos of good Law Enforcement officers circulating but the ones that 'go viral' do so because everyday people on social media choosing which to share.

If we see more of the depressing stories it's because they get 'shared' more--- sometimes long after they first occurred-- by more people.
 
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RFW said:
I still believe there are more good cops than bad. It's the bad ones that get the spotlight by the media.
All in all, unacceptable behavior to say the least. It's no good reason to choke your fellow officer like that. Once you lose your temper with a suspect, you've already lost.
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The bad ones are in the spotlight for the same reason all criminals are in the spotlight. Because they earned it.
And the ones who cover up & protect & lie for the bad ones also earned it.
One example of many:
This officer murdered a woman over a man. She was the only obvious suspect, but the police didn't want to investigate a fellow officer. They put the family through hell for 23 years by refusing to investigate one of their own.

And police removed evidence that implicated the officer:
"Some of the police files suggest that evidence that could have implicated Lazarus earlier in the investigation was later removed, perhaps by others in the LAPD. Rasmussen's parents unsuccessfully sued the department over this and other aspects of the investigation.[6] Jennifer Francis, the criminalist who found key evidence from the bite mark, unsuccessfully sued the City of Los Angeles, claiming she was pressured by police to favor certain suspects in this and other high-profile cases and was retaliated against when she brought this to the LAPD's attention.[7]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sherri_Rasmussen
 
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Why rush in to proclaim there are more good cops than bad? Of course there are! When a cop is in the news for behaving badly (or criminally), it means that HE is behaving badly. This is true even if there are many incidents of police vs. citizens (especially citizens of a particular race); it does not mean that all cops are guilty of that behavior.

It's interesting that this defensiveness seems to exist only with cops. If a person in any other profession goes berserk, commits atrocities of mass murder or terrorism, brutality, torture, kidnapping, robbing banks, or even white collar crimes such as business fraud, nobody seems to feel the need to say, "Well, all car mechanics aren't bad," or "Well, all business accountants aren't crooked." Only the police seem to need this kind of defensiveness, or at least some people seem to believe they do.
 
Sunny said:
Why rush in to proclaim there are more good cops than bad? Of course there are! When a cop is in the news for behaving badly (or criminally), it means that HE is behaving badly. This is true even if there are many incidents of police vs. citizens (especially citizens of a particular race); it does not mean that all cops are guilty of that behavior.

It's interesting that this defensiveness seems to exist only with cops. If a person in any other profession goes berserk, commits atrocities of mass murder or terrorism, brutality, torture, kidnapping, robbing banks, or even white collar crimes such as business fraud, nobody seems to feel the need to say, "Well, all car mechanics aren't bad," or "Well, all business accountants aren't crooked." Only the police seem to need this kind of defensiveness, or at least some people seem to believe they do.
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The ones who feel the need for defensiveness are usually cops, retired cops, & people with cops in their families.
We see the same defensiveness for doctors who maim & kill - from people with doctors in their families.
 
Sunny said:
Why rush in to proclaim there are more good cops than bad? Of course there are! When a cop is in the news for behaving badly (or criminally), it means that HE is behaving badly. This is true even if there are many incidents of police vs. citizens (especially citizens of a particular race); it does not mean that all cops are guilty of that behavior.

It's interesting that this defensiveness seems to exist only with cops. If a person in any other profession goes berserk, commits atrocities of mass murder or terrorism, brutality, torture, kidnapping, robbing banks, or even white collar crimes such as business fraud, nobody seems to feel the need to say, "Well, all car mechanics aren't bad," or "Well, all business accountants aren't crooked." Only the police seem to need this kind of defensiveness, or at least some people seem to believe they do.
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Your analogy is way off. Police officers face life threatening situations and having to make split second life or death decisions every single day, not to mention being responsible for not only people's safety but also your own. We are highly trained but we are also only human, capable of making mistakes. Some within reason, some not. For that reason, I do understand the criticism and scrutiny. The most business accountants and car mechanics get from working is a papercut or a sore wrist.
I call bad cops bad, no exceptions. I had more colorful words for that sorry excuse of a cop but I tried to keep it civil. My criticism was aimed toward the media for not focusing on both the good and the bad because, of course, negativity gets views, especially when it supports their agenda and good people are boring. So sorry if I get a little defensive for giving the other side a bit of a voice. Then again I was one of them so I'm technically biased.

It looks like you've already made up your mind and I'm not here to change anyone's so let's agree to disagree and be on our merry way.
Have a good day.
 
Yet another example of someone who should not be on the force. Who knows what he's done in the past and got away with because no one would call him on it. A former police officer friend of mine told me the psych tests they give are a joke. We hear about so many cops who physically abused their spouses, get needlessly aggressive with suspects and of course there are the "Killer Kops". I don't know if the female officer will press charges but how much you wanna bet that if she did..she'd be the one ostracized!!

Yes there are good cops, cops that care about the neighborhoods they patrol, cops that have done charitable things for underprivileged children (like become mentors or big brothers), there are certainly hero cops. May God bless them and keep them safe.
 

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