It’s bad enough that Republican governments now believe you shouldn’t have access to contraceptives and other reproductive health care benefits (see, e.g., Virginia, Arizona and Georgia to name but a few). However, I must warn you, if you fail to come to a complete stop at a stop sign while “driving as a woman” something like getting the crap beat out of you by your friendly neighborhood police officer may occur.
CINCINNATI – Video of an arrest made during a traffic stop in Addyston has been called into question on whether the force used to make the arrest was necessary.
The video from an Addyston police cruiser shows Addyston Police Officer Jeremie Keene pulling Tiffany Becker from her vehicle, taking her to the ground and cuffing her.
If course the official police report says she cursed the officer and spit at him, and pushed him when he tried to remove her forcibly form her van, thus she was resiting arrest and had to be taken to the ground and hand=cuffed in the presence of her screaming daughter.
But the video of the arrest obtained by 9 News appears to conflict with parts of the report.
The Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office asked that the charges against Becker, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, be dropped, which they were on Friday, March 8.
All charges against Ms. Becker for this incident have now been dropped. Nonetheless, I bet next time she’ll be just a little bit more cautious about obeying the traffic laws while driving, even at slow speeds, and isn’t that special? Because we all know what they (i.e., mostly men) say about the dangers posed by women drivers to our safety. So here’s to you officer Jeremie Keene. You sure taught that mouthy b**ch a lesson. God knows what she might have done if you hadn’t been on the scene to take her down.
Pssst. Hey officer, know where I can score some performance enhancing drugs (if you get my drift). I too want to be strong enough to deal with all the dangerous women that might cross my path.
Excessive force for the circumstance, for sure. But she also did not help herself with her mouth and her attitude from the minute the officer walked up to her van. In no way am I saying she deserved the treatment she received. But she certainly could have handled herself much better than she did, especially knowing that this was all happening in front of her 4 year old daughter.
They both showed very bad judgment in what should have been a routine situation.
And yes, despite her protests, she did “blow the stop sign”.
This cop had no idea whatsoever that this was happening “in front of her 4 year old daughter.” He watches the media news just like almost everyone else in this benighted country plus he is exposed to the lowest forms of human behavior on a daily basis.
The child could just as easily have been abducted.
The woman immediately going off could be panicking because of a crime of that sort or other criminal acts…possession of drugs or firearms.
The van could be stolen. He has about 5 seconds to decide the possible threat level before he takes defensive action regarding his own mortal ass. Maybe he has a 4 year-old at home too.
I personally stop at every stop sign. Why? Because I want absolutely no truck with the system. When I blow it…or even if a cop blows it…I am cool, calm and collected. I have friends and relatives who are police officers and baby…they are justifiably paranoid about traffic stops. A vehicle is a perfect hiding place for all kinds of weapons. Every nook and cranny is a possible threat, and every cop knows a few fellow officers who have been seriously injured or killed while standing next to a routinely stopped vehicle.
Simple answer to the problem?
Stop at the damned stop sign.
Next answer?
Be cool.
Don’t like the ticket? Fight it. In court, not by spitting at a 200+ pound armed man. Spit at me while I am walking down the street and you will have a problem, and I am neither armed nor a sworn officer of what we laughingly refer to as “the law” in this country.
She fucked up.
Fuck with the bull and you get the horns.
Bet on it.
Almost every time.
AG
They are throwing this cop under the bus. He started out very politely. Then the woman immediately mouthed off at him. BY the time he said “Do not do that!!!” to her, I’m betting that spitting was just part of the act. She resists his orders…betcha she was trying to close the window and/or lock the door around that same time. Betcha. So here’s this cop, doing what he is paid to do…making traffic stops when people break traffic laws…and here is a hostile female with quite possibly an equally hostile male in the car. No cop wants to have to deal w/two hostiles simultaneously, so he does what he must do to protect his own ass. And then politics takes over.
I am sorry to see this. Another cop ges down in some fashion, and the whole department gets even more suspicious of the political system that is supposed to:
A-Keep them in line.
and
B-Support them when they do their job properly.
I am also sick of seeing women being given an automatic media and justice system break when they do not deserve it. Sorry, but there it is. The system is automatically loaded against males in most cases. Imagine if the driver had been a male. Especially a young male. No uproar. Bet on it.
I am all for female equality. In every way. I have always been so. I was raised that way.
Equality means the possibility of equal blame as well as equal opportunity.
Is this the case in family courts? In domestic violence situations? Hell no! The male is always assumed to be guilty unless extraordinary evidence is presented on his behalf. The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction in many ways.
So it goes here in Omertica.
AG
P.S. This statement of Ron Paul’s?
It applies equally well to sexist actions and mindsets.
Take the word “sexist.” What is its current assumed meaning in this country today?
Please.
It means “One who believes that males are superior to the other several sexes.”
“Racist?”
It means “One who is a white supremacist.”
Ask yourselves…why are these words so narrowly constricted here?
They are just other examples of “an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.”
Apply the FAT theory to this situation.
Please.
A kneejerk in any direction is still a kneejerk.
Bet on that as well.