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Cops are thugs with a badge. Even if they're off duty their superiority complex is not only vitrolic, it's also creeping out women when they want to go out on the town. Like they can be human beings being programmed that way.
My first visual witness of bike rage was looking from a skyscraper at Seattle by Capital Hill and some ass on a bmw threw a cup of coffee on a bike messenger at Denny Way to beat a red light. Humanity :(
This is when you wish you were David Carradine or Jackie Chan (1970's Drunken Master version) and you can kick someone's ass just by stepping out of the way.
$5000 bail - better off than Franz.
Who thinks he actually lost the tooth from the fight?
Well, the first two seconds of the video after the cop guy kicks his rear wheel. The cyclist tries to throw the bike at the car. The cop goes of hitting really hard in the chin 2 times and continues to pummel after. I can see that first punch dislodging the tooth. If somebody seems belligerent and kicks your tire, picking up your bike to throw isn't going to help you in the long run - Even if the guy deserves it.
I thought the original video was more intense, as they interviewed the school children who caught it on video, using their cell phones. I also love how no one did anything.
From the video it shows the motorist, (dickhead cop), taking the first physical shot. Looks like the cyclist was getting ready to toss his bike on the hood of the car. The dickhead takes a swing at the cyclist, that has his hands full and is defenseless. As far as I know, it's not illegal to raise your bike above your head. Regardless of what the intent was.
I hope the cyclist takes this douche bag for all the money he can!
I'm probably going to get dumped into the pier for this, but I'll add my two cents.
It was already stated by the reporter that the officer was on "personal-leave" since 2004.
It wasn't explicitly stated why he was on leave, but I'm willing to bet it could've also been a request to do so by the Toronto PD as well.
Perhaps one of the officers family members was sick/dying, the officer was in one too many undercover stings and got burnt out, and now here he was wandering the streets with nothing better to do.
I'm not taking sides, but it seems like the cyclist was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
As much as I hate therapists myself, this officer should be permanently disbarred by the respective, Peace Officer Standards and Training commission up in this area.
After that, he should be given a one-way ticket to go and hunt some moose up in the far, Far North.
Then when his head is cleared, or begging to resume contact with other human beings, he should be cleared to return to work as a mere, meter-maid.
Now as far as the psychiatric-testing of peace-officers goes, it's a mixed bag.
There are some areas that use different methods ranging from simple, written tests, to putting applicants through oral-interviews with an actual shrink.
The only problem I see with this hiring-process is the fact that the shrink doesn't seem to follow any sort of guidelines set by the HR-department.
In the worst case scenario, the applicant seems to only advance towards the academy if the shrink tends to like the applicant.
In that case, the said applicant would probably end up leading to a situation like the one stated in this thread.
-Probably also the reason why I never got into the Air Force Academy, or even the Air NG for that matter.
That and I never took my SATs or ACT's, but that's a completely different episode right there.
But, I've proven to everyone that I could still RickRoll a bigrig, and not lose my CDL-A!!!!!!
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I knew you were aboot to say that. eh?
This just in: cops are douchebags. More, tonight at 11.