Officer Regina Tasca Crossed The Thin Blue Line

[Obsolete]

not really, besides we've seen how videos can be made negative or positive by only showing parts favorable to you
@dakota explained it better than I can

I'm only talking about the time between the moment the first officer tackled the kid and the moment the second officer jumped in. You asked why she didn't do anything during that time. From what I can tell there wasn't any time for her to do anything. Isn't that what the video shows?

I'm not defending her allegations, to be honest I have a hard time believing everything went down as she's claiming it did. Like I said in my initial post, there has got to be more to this story.

[biteme]

I'm only talking about the time between the moment the first officer tackled the kid and the moment the second officer jumped in. You asked why she didn't do anything during that time. From what I can tell there wasn't any time for her to do anything. Isn't that what the video shows?

I'm not defending her allegations, to be honest I have a hard time believing everything went down as she's claiming it did. Like I said in my initial post, there has got to be more to this story.

But all you see is them trying to restrain him, nothing out the ordinary, except we don't know why
could've been a reason, maybe why her version doesn't show the beginning and it doesn't show any reason for her to intervene
They are just struggling to hold him down in the video, maybe she should have been helping them
By grabbing on to one officer she could've placed the other in danger

[Obsolete]

But all you see is them trying to restrain him, nothing out the ordinary, except we don't know why
could've been a reason, maybe why her version doesn't show the beginning and it doesn't show any reason for her to intervene

Thats true, I'm not disputing that.

I was just pointing out the reason why she didn't intervene between the first and second cop....obviously there wasn't time.Why are you so insistent on making it sound like I'm trying to assume what happened prior to the video?

You said...
officer arrives and according to her tackles this guy, she does nothing second guy arrives and jumps in, eventually she gets involved, what took her so long

and that is the only part I'm addressing. She didn't have time to do anything between the time the first cop and second cop got involved.

Earlier I mentioned that when she arrived the kid wasn't doing anything wrong and you're right, I was assuming that based on her comments but in reality we don't know what happened prior to the video.

[VXIII]

Yeh if she started recording she has on record from the time she left the car until she gets back in the car so the full video is out there for someone to view.

[VAS1326]

From the information Ive seen it sounds like she was doing her job the way it should be done.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...sEnabled=false

Video and Interview at Link : http://www.wpix.com/videogallery/694...w-Cops-Actions

The first article didn't say she was a lesbian but now it makes even more reason to have something against her. Not only is not one of the boys in the old boys club she also happens to be gay which "gasp" is so horrible. Geesh.

Then again she has been there 11 years. So how did she become so unfit as they claim? No issues before the two in April? I wonder what happened before that for her to need a pysch exam (the first one she passed)?

I find it funny she passed her first pysch exam (the one in which the officer in the first incident told everyone about and he felt she didn't help him to retaliate) but after the 2nd incident she failed. Sounds kind of fishy to me. Maybe she is bitter. Maybe they are out to get her. Who knows. This whole story makes no sense.

[VAS1326]

I want to see video too. If you read one story, you kind of side with her. Then there is the other article that raises questions on what did she really do to merit the charges. I think the video is far more telling.

I want to see the video as well. Though I'm not sure she arrived on scene first. I mean she must have been there to see the tackle happen though. Usually the call comes in and if she knows she is the only officer on the street she can call for back up while still in transit so until we get more solid info it's hard to say who was where first. I think the video in it's entirety will tell all.

[biteme]

I want to see the video as well. Though I'm not sure she arrived on scene first. I mean she must have been there to see the tackle happen though. Usually the call comes in and if she knows she is the only officer on the street she can call for back up while still in transit so until we get more solid info it's hard to say who was where first. I think the video in it's entirety will tell all.

If she wasn't there first she should be fired, because she wouldn't have known why the officer thought the dude needed to be subdued, she not only didn't help, but went against the officer placing him in danger by restraining the other officer

[Valasca]

Why do you resent that? What's wrong with being a bulldyke?

Nothing whatsoever. What I resent is that Malq assumed just by her looks. In this case it was TRUE, but still...

[Obsolete]

Nothing whatsoever. What I resent is that Malq assumed just by her looks. In this case it was TRUE, but still...

Bulldykes have a very distinct look, which is what makes it easy to spot one, there isn't anything offensive about that. I understand what you're trying to say...we shouldn't judge people on their looks... but sometimes the shoe just fits.


BTW, I've seen your picture and I don't think you look like a bulldyke.

[Valasca]

Sometimes I think the only difference between me and a bluudyke is my lack of a mullet.

ETA: The fuck is a bluudyke? Meh, I'm gonna leave that.

[TheMorningStar]

Who gives a fuck to whom she gives fuck?

[VAS1326]

If she wasn't there first she should be fired, because she wouldn't have known why the officer thought the dude needed to be subdued, she not only didn't help, but went against the officer placing him in danger by restraining the other officer

I'm not saying she was or was not there first but we cannot tell by the video. The only thing that makes me think she was there first is when you watch the portion of video posted here the attack happens and we do not see her run from her car towards the scene which makes me think she was one of the people already there (it looks like a few people are standing around but it's hard to see what exactly is going on) I'm just saying we really don't know since the video was obviously not shown to us from the beginning (since we never see her go to the scene from the car I assume it's only a small clip of the whole video)

But you are right. If she was not there first she was in the wrong.

[VXIII]

She was there first, according to the news report she called for back-up because it is standard procedure in the city she is in, not because the boy was acting crazy, she states he was very calm. The first backup officer who arrived just tackled the boy, the 2nd officer arrived shortly thereafter and the 2 male cops proceeded to pummel the guy with their fists while he was screaming along with his mother for them to stop, she did not restrain the other officer, just tried to pull him off of the poor guy on the ground.

If I was Regina Taca, I probobly would have done the same thing had I perceived it as she did, unnecessary force being used, but I also would not want to go back to that department, sending her a card addressed to Mr. Tasca sounds like a form of harrasment to me, of course he is going to say it was a mistake and evidently she gave him the benefit of the doubt and pretty much ignored it until now.

Regardless of what a person has done, once they are restrained and handcuffed there is no longer a reason to beat him in the head.

She passed her previous psychological exam, is it possible these exams have been changed, maybe lowered for violent behavior? There seems to be more of this going on than we realize. http://reason.com/topics/police/70

[Gidget]

I realize that I'm late to the party here, but I didn't see where anybody indicated why Mom called for her "emotionally disturbed" son to be taken to the hospital. Was that a 911 call? Have they pulled the call to hear what she said to the dispatcher? Depending on what Mom said to the dispatcher, the cops may have thought they were coming to assist in getting a dangerous, "emotionally disturbed" person in an ambulance.

Just throwing it out there.

[biteme]

She was there first, according to the news report she called for back-up because it is standard procedure in the city she is in, not because the boy was acting crazy, she states he was very calm. The first backup officer who arrived just tackled the boy, the 2nd officer arrived shortly thereafter and the 2 male cops proceeded to pummel the guy with their fists while he was screaming along with his mother for them to stop, she did not restrain the other officer, just tried to pull him off of the poor guy on the ground.

If I was Regina Taca, I probobly would have done the same thing had I perceived it as she did, unnecessary force being used, but I also would not want to go back to that department, sending her a card addressed to Mr. Tasca sounds like a form of harrasment to me, of course he is going to say it was a mistake and evidently she gave him the benefit of the doubt and pretty much ignored it until now.

Regardless of what a person has done, once they are restrained and handcuffed there is no longer a reason to beat him in the head.

She passed her previous psychological exam, is it possible these exams have been changed, maybe lowered for violent behavior? There seems to be more of this going on than we realize. http://reason.com/topics/police/70

You grab me and try to pull me off, you putting me in danger and also the other officer
If a friend is in a fight never jump on him to pull him away
I've seen more girlfriends get their boyfriend pummeled this way than you would believe, they grab the boyfriend to pull him away and the other guy beats the crap out of him, while the girlfriend holds on to the boyfriend letting him get creamed, but she was just trying to help him, as he's laying on the ground and the other guy walks away without a scratch thanks to her

[VXIII]

The guy was handcuffed. dont think he could have thrown too many punches,

[biteme]

The guy was handcuffed. dont think he could have thrown too many punches,

Where you see that? Possibly at the end of it all, certainly not during the struggle, getting the cuffs on is probably what the whole struggle is about

[malq]

Who gives a fuck to whom she gives fuck?

No one unless you use it as a tool. That is more often the case than not. It is an almost impenetrable, totally overused defense for any action.
I'm not saying she has done this, but someone is bringing the gay angle into it. If it had no significance at all why was it even mentioned? Why do I even have to know this?? No one would not have cared if the news didn't make an issue of it.

[Aena]

Anyone find any updates as to what happened to her? I am going to do some searching and see if I can find anything...

[TheMorningStar]

The borough on Wednesday contrasted the account of an April 2011 incident involving an emotionally disturbed man that Police Officer Regina Tasca gave to internal affairs investigators, and video footage of the event from a police cruiser dashboard camera. Raymond Wiss, who is representing the borough in a disciplinary hearing against Tasca, said his intention was to highlight “major discrepancies between the descriptions of events by Officer Tasca and what the videotape actually showed.”
But Tasca’s attorney, Catherine Elston, called the discrepancies “subtle,” focusing instead on what she said were flaws in the investigation by Capt. James Sepp, the internal affairs officer.

Wiss first played the portion of Tasca’s interview relating to the April 29th incident, which occurred outside of the Sharp’s Maplewood Avenue home. He then played it a second time, stopping it so Sepp could respond.
Tasca told Sepp in the interview that Rella jumped out of his car, ran to Sharp and started “punching” him in the head.
The video and testimony from Rella and the other Ridgefield Park officer, Sgt. Chris Thibault, indicate that Sharp was hit only once.
Tasca told Sepp in the interview that Sharp was not resisting the officers. Sepp testified that he could see Sharp struggling with the officers in the video footage.

Elston noted that the interview was conducted on May 25, almost a month after the incident, and that he did not show Tasca the video footage of the incident as he had done with the victim’s parents.
She also said that Sepp did not interview the Ridgefield Park officers as part of his investigation into allegations Sharp’s parents made accusing them of assaulting their son and using excessive force; and that Sepp failed to include his final report that Rella had punched Sharp in the head.
Sepp said under cross examination that the prosecutor’s office had advised him that the officers had not used excessive force. But that was before Sepp interviewed Sharp’s mother, who showed him a photograph of injuries to his head, and before he received the police reports on the incident from Ridgefield Park, he said.
At the end of the day’s testimony, Elston asked the hearing officer, retired Superior Court Judge Richard J. Donahue, to recuse himself, saying he had not treated her with the “same respect” he had shown Wiss.

Donohue listened to Elston’s request and then denied it.

http://www.northjersey.com/bogota/15..._incident.html