Never bothered to learn how to properly quote/summarize, so deal with it, or fix it for me(for which i'd change tune and show gratitude and humility). Here's a brief rundown. Back in 2011 a cop in what i assume is a shit-stain area of Oklahoma(which doesn't narrow down the setting too much when it comes to Oklahoma, what a cesspool) violently handled some poor bloke who was arrested for the ungodly, shocking crime of public drunkenness, got fired, lawyered up, and now has his job back and possibly more....
http://www.tulsaworld.com/communiti...cle_0bd72bfe-dadb-56a2-a4d3-8f41e12d4ba5.html
"OWASSO — Back pay owed to a police officer who was fired in 2011 and then reinstated remains under negotiation
The City Council will address the issue of Lt. Mike Denton’s back pay via a budget amendment that could go before the City Council at its Dec. 16 meeting, Lehr said.
Denton, who was reinstated by the courts after being fired in November 2011 for violating the Police Department’s use-of-force policy, went back to work Sept. 22, said Michele Dempster, Owasso’s director of human resources.
“He’s put back into the exact same role that he left under, which means that he is a lieutenant over a patrol shift,” Police Chief Scott Chambless said.
In January 2013, Tulsa County Associate District Judge Dana Kuehn had found that an arbitrator-ordered reinstatement of Denton would pose “a special risk of injury, physical and psychological, to citizens and, if he is allowed reinstatement, the department will be faced with explaining why Owasso allows abusive conduct by its officers, which is against the law.”
In the appellate court decision that reversed Kuehn’s ruling, Presiding Judge Larry Joplin wrote the majority opinion.
“We hold the cited criminal statutes establish no public policy impediment to enforcement of the arbitrator’s decision setting aside Denton’s termination and reinstating him to the employment,” Joplin wrote. “The trial court erred in vacating the arbitrator’s decision as contrary to public policy.”"
There's a vid in the link, but this one gives better view of the elbows...
This somehow doesn't, "rise to the level of excessive force within the meaning of existing case law.”" Whatever the fuck that means. Any lawyer types here, please shed some light on it for me/us, but as far as i can make out it means in the beautiful pit of Oklahoma, nearly ripping a cuffed drunks arms out of their sockets, beating him bloody, and elbowing him in the face, isn't excessive ENOUGH to warrant removing a cop from being in a position to do whatever the fuck he chooses to society at large. Fucking scary there's acceptable levels of police brutality. Fucking ridiculous. Wonder what a cop has to do to actually get fired.
Now before anyone starts thinkin i'm a bleeding heart, i'd like to make clear that this suspect no doubt is a rotten degenerate piece of shit himself. Getting wasted, causing a scene(i assume), no doubt disrupting the lives of his friends/family/neighbors/etc. with his drunken or whatever dipshittery, spitting at cops, whatever the fuck else he likely did, all culminates in me not really giving a shit about him in the slightest. That said, him being a lowly scumbag in no way gives police the right to abuse him like this. This type of disgusting, dangerous behavior is shocking and should never go unpunished. It could be me or someone i care about getting this treatment next time. If you're too stupid, too rude, too hot-headed, too easily angered, that you can't deal with your customers, find another line of work. That applies as much to cops as it does your pimply faced dipshit, fuck your order up then give you an attitude when you call him out on it, slime fast food worker(which coincidentally is exactly where this fucktard SHOULD be working now).
And the courts decisions in the case is prob more vile and irresponsible then the actions of the force officer, i mean law enforcement officer, himself. There will always be scumbags and criminals in any and all lines of work, just the nature of things. We need the courts to have our backs when this shit happens, that's the oversight, that's our one and only protection. Even the dept. initially did the right thing it seems and fired the guy, he whined a bit, lawyered up, and now he's right back where he was before. This wasn't some "grand jury refused to indict" or "prosecutor refuses to charge scumbag cop with the one crime he no doubt would be found guilty of" type of deal, this is a court saying "fuck the rights of the public, fuck the rights of the dept itself in handling these matters, this guy used unnecessary force and abused a prisoner and we don't give a shit about it, give him his fucking job back".
Makes me want to fucking vomit.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/communiti...cle_0bd72bfe-dadb-56a2-a4d3-8f41e12d4ba5.html
"OWASSO — Back pay owed to a police officer who was fired in 2011 and then reinstated remains under negotiation
The City Council will address the issue of Lt. Mike Denton’s back pay via a budget amendment that could go before the City Council at its Dec. 16 meeting, Lehr said.
Denton, who was reinstated by the courts after being fired in November 2011 for violating the Police Department’s use-of-force policy, went back to work Sept. 22, said Michele Dempster, Owasso’s director of human resources.
“He’s put back into the exact same role that he left under, which means that he is a lieutenant over a patrol shift,” Police Chief Scott Chambless said.
In January 2013, Tulsa County Associate District Judge Dana Kuehn had found that an arbitrator-ordered reinstatement of Denton would pose “a special risk of injury, physical and psychological, to citizens and, if he is allowed reinstatement, the department will be faced with explaining why Owasso allows abusive conduct by its officers, which is against the law.”
In the appellate court decision that reversed Kuehn’s ruling, Presiding Judge Larry Joplin wrote the majority opinion.
“We hold the cited criminal statutes establish no public policy impediment to enforcement of the arbitrator’s decision setting aside Denton’s termination and reinstating him to the employment,” Joplin wrote. “The trial court erred in vacating the arbitrator’s decision as contrary to public policy.”"
There's a vid in the link, but this one gives better view of the elbows...
This somehow doesn't, "rise to the level of excessive force within the meaning of existing case law.”" Whatever the fuck that means. Any lawyer types here, please shed some light on it for me/us, but as far as i can make out it means in the beautiful pit of Oklahoma, nearly ripping a cuffed drunks arms out of their sockets, beating him bloody, and elbowing him in the face, isn't excessive ENOUGH to warrant removing a cop from being in a position to do whatever the fuck he chooses to society at large. Fucking scary there's acceptable levels of police brutality. Fucking ridiculous. Wonder what a cop has to do to actually get fired.
Now before anyone starts thinkin i'm a bleeding heart, i'd like to make clear that this suspect no doubt is a rotten degenerate piece of shit himself. Getting wasted, causing a scene(i assume), no doubt disrupting the lives of his friends/family/neighbors/etc. with his drunken or whatever dipshittery, spitting at cops, whatever the fuck else he likely did, all culminates in me not really giving a shit about him in the slightest. That said, him being a lowly scumbag in no way gives police the right to abuse him like this. This type of disgusting, dangerous behavior is shocking and should never go unpunished. It could be me or someone i care about getting this treatment next time. If you're too stupid, too rude, too hot-headed, too easily angered, that you can't deal with your customers, find another line of work. That applies as much to cops as it does your pimply faced dipshit, fuck your order up then give you an attitude when you call him out on it, slime fast food worker(which coincidentally is exactly where this fucktard SHOULD be working now).
And the courts decisions in the case is prob more vile and irresponsible then the actions of the force officer, i mean law enforcement officer, himself. There will always be scumbags and criminals in any and all lines of work, just the nature of things. We need the courts to have our backs when this shit happens, that's the oversight, that's our one and only protection. Even the dept. initially did the right thing it seems and fired the guy, he whined a bit, lawyered up, and now he's right back where he was before. This wasn't some "grand jury refused to indict" or "prosecutor refuses to charge scumbag cop with the one crime he no doubt would be found guilty of" type of deal, this is a court saying "fuck the rights of the public, fuck the rights of the dept itself in handling these matters, this guy used unnecessary force and abused a prisoner and we don't give a shit about it, give him his fucking job back".
Makes me want to fucking vomit.