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I didn't get the impression that cop was frightened.
I think he was excited and itching to bust out all of his moves, like a boss.
There was a dorky guy named Brad who lived a block over from us growing up. He had a major crush on my older sister in high school. He and his two friends would sometimes ride over to our house and hang on the front yard. They had a bike gang (bicycles).
I heard them talking one day about their plans to get into the police academy, and how cool it was gonna be to whip out their guns and get people to do whatever they say, pull over hot chicks, and all that jazz. I remember thinking how sad they were wanting to dominate others to compensate for being such straight-up pussies. I don't know if any of them ever fulfilled their dream; hope not. Anyway, I could totally see Brad and company reacting like the officer involved in the pool party caper.
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I live in the part of the state that is commonly referred to as "slower, lower", it's mainly farms. Horse, dairy and ag. I tried to recall what our last major crime was and I've got nothing. There's some vandalism and shoplifting but not much more and certainly no violent crime.
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 A few years ago we were required to have a safety person going around making sure everything was safe, so we picked a guy that seemed OK and there was a safety meeting. He gets everyone together and at the beginning of the meeting before anything else was said try's to get everyone to cheer "safety first!!" He was walking around almost pleading to get everyone to do it. Everyone just looked at each other and rolled their eyes. Nobody cheered "safety first!!"
The title went to his head and nobody cared what he had to say afterwards. We wasted an hour getting 15 shop workers together and later he was labeled a dork.
Nobody saw that coming. He seemed like the right person for the job at the time.
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His name was Brad, wasn't it?
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(06-09-2015, 12:05 PM)Jimbone Wrote: His name was Brad, wasn't it?
No, it was Kyle. Maybe he became a cop. 
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Here's what I got out of it. I watched the whole clip ths morning on the news. Remember when he said "You guys make me chase you down with 30 lbs of godamned gear on in this godamned heat?" Anytime you hear a cop complaining about having to do more than his daily routine for you, you're going to have a bad day. This dude took it to the extreme, but that's how it works. I always do the speed limit when it's raining for that very reason.
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He wasn't busting out a roll for no reason. He tripped over a root on the sidewalk and rolled because he was trying to keep his momentum. At least that was how I saw it.
I think the best part of the video is that the kids gave the other cop back his flashlight. Unsung hero of the story. Kids NOT looting.
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I think Paul Blart is his hero and he is watching Mall Cop on a daily basis as a firm part of his mental and physical training!
I seriously wonder how it is over there in the States and even so I am having missiles falling all around me and a bit of a war going on, I still feel safer here somehow. I have no idea how I would react seeing a maniac like that squatting down on a barely clad girl after dragging her over concrete for good measure. I am actually amazed when I saw all those grown guys simply just walking around him as if he was a Hot Dog stall.
Sad.
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I see how he coulda tripped and then decided to roll, losing his flashlight in the process. It still makes me laugh.
There's no question that he was serious as a heart attack when screaming at the girl with her ass on the ground to get her ass on the ground. Funny stuff.
None of it would have been funny if anyone had been hurt though, and I'm betting it's not funny to Officer Casebolt who's on administrative leave and under investigation.
The barrel roll couldn't get him in any trouble, regardless of why he busted that move. But, waving around a gun at the teenagers might be hard to justify and have serious consequences for him under the circumstances.
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It's funny, I worked with school police officers that must have had the same training as this guy. They would try to do everything by the book, and the book was written "Hold suspect's arm and twist to the ground. Hold face-down and apply handcuffs." And they get that so drilled into them that they have to follow that script every time. I saw a school police officer try to twist a kid down on a stairwell landing, right next to a wall. Like, dude, the kid's holding the wall, he's not gonna fall over... but you already have his hands behind his back! Just put the cuffs on. /SMH
That's why that officer was so insistent about trying to put her face on the ground tho. You're supposed to put the person in question face down so you can get their arms to cuff them. /Shrug.
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What a dipshit.
That's how the cop acted (minus the barrel roll) when he took me to jail for walking across the street with a beer in my hand during bike week. My husband asked him politely if he could just write me a ticket instead and he started yelling at him to shut up or his ass is going to jail next. Jeeeze Louise.
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(06-09-2015, 01:43 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: I see how he coulda tripped and then decided to roll, losing his flashlight in the process. It still makes me laugh.
There's no question that he was serious as a heart attack when screaming at the girl with her ass on the ground to get her ass on the ground. Funny stuff.
None of it would have been funny if anyone had been hurt though, and I'm betting it's not funny to Officer Casebolt who's on administrative leave and under investigation.
The barrel roll couldn't get him in any trouble, regardless of why he busted that move. But, waving around a gun at the teenagers might be hard to justify and have serious consequences for him under the circumstances. Depends on what the ratio of cops to unruly (fighting) crowd was. If they were way outnumbered it could be seen as justified.
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(06-09-2015, 11:19 AM)Jimbone Wrote: Yes, the ground roll was a nice touch.
When I watched it the first time I actually scrubbed back to make sure I had seen what I thought I saw.
After watching that, "Paul Blart" comes to mind!
(just noticed it was mentioned upstream, oh well)
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I think he tripped... but it's no less entertaining.
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At least he wasn't holding his "gun" and it went off all during the roll!
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He fell properly, he didn't sprawl, he rolled.
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Interesting to be sort of local to this... seems to be more to the story here besides the officers over-reaction with the firearm.
Too late though, he's the story... the events that happened prior don't mean anything now.
A damn fine roll either way.
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(06-09-2015, 05:12 PM)Jimbone Wrote: Interesting to be sort of local to this... seems to be more to the story here besides the officers over-reaction with the firearm.
Too late though, he's the story... the events that happened prior don't mean anything now.
A damn fine roll either way. I'm fairly certain this is the case 80-90% of the time. The other 10-20% are events that were exciting enough on their own without the media twist.
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He was put on Admin. Leave. Just heard he resigned. Guess he realized he was a dumbass
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(06-09-2015, 06:59 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: (06-09-2015, 05:12 PM)Jimbone Wrote: Interesting to be sort of local to this... seems to be more to the story here besides the officers over-reaction with the firearm.
Too late though, he's the story... the events that happened prior don't mean anything now.
A damn fine roll either way. I'm fairly certain this is the case 80-90% of the time. The other 10-20% are events that were exciting enough on their own without the media twist.
I think most people can read varying media reports, hear varying witness accounts, watch a video and develop reasonable opinions of their own.
Anyway, the police chief said today that the officer went into the call "out of control" and that he was out of control and in violation of policy and training in handling the situation.
A black pool-goer felt the officers were justified. A white one said everyone around him who was black or hispanic was being detained while he was freely roaming around filming.
I know the officer has previous complaints of racial discrimination, but charges were dropped so I think it's irrelevant.
No matter what motivated his approach to the teens, he used very poor judgment where his fellow officers did not. Casebolt's lack of control is concerning. I'm glad he's off the force.
Resignation story: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/09/us/mckinne...index.html
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