This is sickening

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DKSuddeth wrote:

Decoligny wrote:

DKSuddeth wrote:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20090720_Store_video_catches_cop_bullying_woman.html?viewAll=y

WHEN AGNES LAWLESS and three friends were inside a Lukoil convenience store in the Northeast at 3 a.m. last August, they'd all but forgotten the fender-bender in which they'd been involved moments earlier. There was little damage, and the other driver had left the scene, near Northeast Philadelphia Airport. What they didn't know was that they'd been rear-ended by the son of a police officer who was on duty, and dad was about to get involved. Lawless was standing at the counter of the store, at Comly Road and Roosevelt Boulevard, smiling and chatting with the clerk, when she was grabbed from behind and violently pushed back with a police officer's gun in her face. "He hit me with his left hand, and he had his gun in his right hand," Lawless said. "He pushed his gun into the left side of my neck. It caused a scrape-type bruise on my neck." After a chaotic struggle, Lawless was arrested and charged with assaulting the officer. Lawless and her three friends, all in their early 20s, filed complaints with the Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau. But in cases in which it's a defendant's word against a police officer's, the benefit of doubt often falls to the cop. Except when there's video.

There is zero excuse for this violent and deadly assault. Whats worse is that OTHER police officers would try to get this store clerk to erase the evidence of their criminal conduct. What takes the cake is that the judge, DA, and PD have taken almost no punitive action, even allowing this violent bully back on the streets with a weapon.

can any of you LEOs find any reason for this dismissal?

Who died in this assualt?

I said 'deadly' for a reason, not fatal. by having that gun jammed in to her neck, she was at risk of losing her life by a totally deranged bully with a badge.

"Who died in this assault"? You're a cop, right?