Police Chief Assaults Officers (video)

[lionheart45]

5-28-07 Texas..


http://video.aol.com/video/police-ch...ficers/1918234


Sorry if this is a repost.

[Irishluck31]

What a great guy, I would love to work for him.

[pf217]

There's obviously far more background to the story that we don't know. Crazy, though.

[Irishluck31]

Ya, but does it really matter? He took a cheap shot at one of his own cops. Major deduction or cool points and automatic man card revokation for the term of imprisonment.

[lionheart45]

I'm with you Irishluck, Even if there is something else to the story I really can't come up with anything that would justify that.

[Redders]

I.........um.........hmmmmm.......r........u...... ...WTH.

[Kieth M.]

Authority mixed with alcohol.....hmmmmm.....what could possibly go wrong?

[DOAcop38]

this stuff happens in Depts where mgm't thinks it is "god"-this happened during our "9/11" deployment when several officers were setting up a roadblock to search vehicles from entering the airport- a so- called "commander" of ours got stuck in the traffic of the roadblock and felt that one of the officers wasn't working hard enough ,so he( the commander) bailed from his plain wrap unit,grabbed the officer by the back of his shirt collar ,yelled at him ,then shoved him,causing that officer to fall down-the outcome? same officer "punked" out on filing the Battery viol, rpt as well as the IA complaint,but got "paid off" with a specialized assignement.As for the Commander? that POS is finally -under some pressure- retired recently- good riddance to trash...........

[LeanG]

He didn't hit him intentionally. If you look closely, there was a fly buzzing by the Chief's ear and he got tired of the buzzzzing sound and he tried to swat it away. You guys need to stop jumping to conclusions As a matter of fact, the "take down" officer overreacted

[JSD73]

I gotta say that was a bad A S S takedown

[scratched13]

"IF" that is all to the story (I can't think of ANYTHING that would make it permisible, but I am sure someone could), the chief should do time in jail. POS.

[Jethro1984]

Hmmm....that could prove to be an interesting case. With all due credit for previous mention there could be more to this story. In any case, the actions of the chief are probably excessive.

[Redders]

Hmmm....that could prove to be an interesting case. With all due credit for previous mention there could be more to this story. In any case, the actions of the chief are probably excessive.

I vote that understatement of the year.

[C.I.HOG]

That's more like battery leo down here. He just nipped his face. I imagine a good strike would have knocked him down. Down with the chief...............

[Depco164]

There is obviously something else going on here.

While I am not advocating letting drunk drivers get off without any punishment I will be honest enough to admit that, if finding the chief intoxicated and driving home it is unlikely that most officers would put their chief through the SFST's let alone arrest him; unless, of course, the chief was unliked by his subordinates and they were looking to get rid of him. If that were the case then I am guessing there is already stress and unrest amongst the rank and file. The chief probably feels betrayed and the officers feel a chance to pounce and took it.

Interesting video. Nice takedown.