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Jun. 16th, 2010 09:03 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
Yesterday, here is Washington(Seattle) there was an incident involving a police officer and two teenage girls. The girls were caught jaywalking and the officer called them over. The girls were being verbally antagonistic towards the officer and one started to leave the scene. The officer stopped her and escorted her back towards his patrol car. The girl started to pull away and refused to follow the officers instructions. The girls friend grabbed at the officer attempting to break his hold, but was unsuccessful (a young man was half attempting to hold her back) She tried again, this time grabbing the officer and shoving him. He responded by punching her and then attempting to subdue her. The first girl came back and started to try and pull him off her friend. The young man who'd been trying to hold the girl who'd been punched came back and took her away and the officer continued to struggle with the original girl.
The entire situation was ridiculous, as is the fallout. I am 100% on the side of the officer. Those girls were absolutely ridiculous. If they had just quietly accepted their lecture and ticket the entire situation would have been over in a matter of minutes. They verbally assault the officer, interfer with his atempt to make an arrest, physically assault him, and be pains in the ass in general. Now that officer has all these whiny moron calling him racist and sexist and calling for him to be fired. And none of these whiny idiots care that this officer was trying to deal with two unruly woman -who both have records. One for assaulting a police officer- on his own.
This poor officer has black community leaders painting him as a racist jerk (as if he'd never think of using force on a white person) and he's got woman's groups painting him as a sexist ass (cause you know, its okay for woman to hit, shove, fight, etc men but its not okay for men to do the same. Women are equal until they need to be victims to get away with dumb crap.)
-Not everyone has to agree with me. Just thought I'd post this/vent
EDIT: Just clearning something up. The officer did call for backup and it did come, though I am not sure at what point the call was made.