David Hartung <david@hotmai*
l.com> wrote on Fri 18 Nov 2011 02:01:02a
> On 11/17/2011 05:34 PM, Winston Smith, American Patriot wrote:
>> David Hartung<david@hotmai*
l.com> wrote on Fri 18 Nov 2011 01:22:12a
>>
>>> On 11/17/2011 04:47 PM, Winston Smith, American Patriot wrote:
>>>> Steve<
steven...@yahooooo.com> wrote on Fri 18 Nov 2011 12:35:55a
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:28:01 +0000 (UTC), "Winston Smith, American
>>>>> Patriot"<Franz...@Oceania.WhiteHouse.GOV.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> David Hartung<david@hotmai*
l.com> wrote on Thu 17 Nov 2011
>>>>>> 11:45:07p
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11/17/2011 03:19 PM, 6313 Dead, 1456 since 1/20/09 wrote:
>>>>>>>> Police Officer Punches Woman In Face After Raid On OWS For
>>>>>>>> Challenging NYPD With Court Order (VIDEO)
>>>>>>>> November 17, 2011
>>>>>>>> By Stephen D. Foster Jr.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A woman, after being punched in the face by an NYPD officer.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After the NYPD evicted the Occupy Wall Street protesters from
>>>>>>>> Zuccotti Park on Tuesday morning, attorneys secured a court order
>>>>>>>> telling police to allow the protesters back into the park.
>>>>>>>> Instead, police ignored the order and sealed the park. Protesters
>>>>>>>> then responded by approaching the park and demanded to be allowed
>>>>>>>> back in. But the NYPD would not have none of it. They refused to
>>>>>>>> comply with the demands of the court and the protesters.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Protesters were yelling at police and waving a copy of the court
>>>>>>>> order in front of them. That’s when it got ugly. One protester
>>>>>>>> jumped inside the park and retrieved an American flag. A woman
>>>>>>>> then appeared at the barricade and with a copy of the court
>>>>>>>> order, began demanding that police do their job and allow the
>>>>>>>> protesters back into the park. Unprovoked, an officer struck the
>>>>>>>> woman in the face knocking her back onto the ground. She sat
>>>>>>>> stunned and she appeared to be bleeding. Courageously, she got up
>>>>>>>> and resumed protesting. The officer didn’t appear to be
>>>>>>>> remorseful over punching an unarmed non-threatening woman.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here’s the video:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Simply put, this officer just assaulted a woman. He is a coward
>>>>>>>> and a bully. It isn’t right for any man to hit a woman. The
>>>>>>>> police clearly don’t care what they do to protesters. It’s a
>>>>>>>> game to them. I would love to see that officer try to punch
>>>>>>>> Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas. But the NYPD is too cowardly for that.
>>>>>>>> They’d rather attack women instead.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The video actually seems to indicate that the woman was assaulting
>>>>>>> the police office.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your willful right-wing blindness would indicate that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In NO WAY could it ever be interpreted that the woman was
>>>>>> assaulting the officer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The fact is, if that woman was holding a legal court order,
>>>>>> ANYTHING the police did to block or prevent her from entering was
>>>>>> an assault by them
>>>>>
>>>>> A court order does not give a person the right to interfere with a
>>>>> policeman..
>>>>
>>>> If that court order is valid.
>>>
>>> In the context of the posted video, how were the officers in question
>>> to know that the paper being waved in their face was a valid court
>>> order?
>>
>> The same way any citizen on his property must know that when a cop
>> shows up with a piece of paper he calls a "search warrant" that it too
>> is valid and that he must permit entry immediately.
>
> Suppose the "order" was phony? What then?
I know you have reading comprehension problems, but I described the very
case of the order not being valid...and that is of the power of the police
to immediately arrest and book everyone in the park, and then declare
before the judge that they were presented with a falsified order. If the
citizen who presented the order fails to produce it (knowing it to have
been falsified), the police action would be upheld.
> Believe it or not, the officers in question were doing their jobs, or at
> least they were trying to do their jobs.
No, that was NOT what the video showed. They were presented with a
document that was said to be a valid court order, and not one officer
showed any interest in examining the order. Every officer involved in
barring entry was failing in his/her first duty: to uphold the United
States Constitution.
> Had a supervisor been given the
> chance to examine the "order", the entire incident would never have
> happened.
The video showed a white-shirted officer, and he seemed to show no
interest whatsoever in the order. In fact, he was probably giving orders
to his charges to annoy and harass the protesters.
The fact is, a police officer does not have to have supervisor status to
examine and comply with the order. Every police officer is sworn to
uphold the United States Constitution, and their training must include
thinking on their feet especially when it comes to court orders. If an
officer tells me that he has no training or authority to recognize and to
comply with valid court orders, that means everyone up and down the chain
of command, to P.C. Ray Kelly, should lose their jobs with immediate
effect.
If an officer tells me as well that his white-shirted supervisor was
ordering him NOT to examine and/or comply with the document presented at
the park as a valid court order, then the officer is attempting to use the
I-was-just-following-orders defense, an invalid defense in every instance.
If the white-shirted supervisor had ordered his charge to draw his weapon
and shoot a protester, especially the one presenting the valid court
order, would he have done it??? Unlikely, because the lowest ranking cop
there knows what a lawful order from his supervisor is. That
white-shirted cop was in fact undermining his own authority---a la Tony
Bologna---by showing his contempt for the United States Constitution in
front of the officers he commands. This demoralizes the rank and file of
police officers when their commanders behave like Nazis.
Your assertion that the supervisor had no "chance" to examine the order is
obtuse and further evidence of your monumental stupidity.