Cop Punches Student

I think the police need to behave appropriately, and that they need to realize that they are above the law. The traffic stop is a perfect example. Nowhere do I consent to the video taping of a traffic stop - not even on my license, like I do in terms of sobriety testing. So until the law changes, either they can record me without my permission thus allowing me to record them without permission, or we both need to follow the same law and they cannot record me without permission also.
There have been too many documented abuses through cell phones to think that we would be a better society by banning their use.

What a fail by that cop. Punches one woman in the face, then after more than two minutes when the video ends he still has yet to restrain that woman who's significatly smaller than him. Wus.

thats the part im stuck on as well. a cop with proper training should have been able to control her and get her hands behind her back fairly easily.

i just dont understand why he was grabbing her wrists for a minute. give her clear commands, if she doesnt oblige, use your training to restrain her.

his technic was odd and i assume not within his training. these guys get training for a reason.

PS - if you get pulled over in baltimore city, the police officer gives you a piece of paper stating your pullover was not based on racial pretenses and profiling and that you were not physically or unconstitutionally abused. im pretty sure i had to sign the paper while the cop was there. it was odd, it was like i was giving the police officer a report card.

either way, it was strange to sign off that i did not believe my pull over was racially motivated.

thats the part im stuck on as well. a cop with proper training should have been able to control her and get her hands behind her back fairly easily.

i just dont understand why he was grabbing her wrists for a minute. give her clear commands, if she doesnt oblige, use your training to restrain her.

his technic was odd and i assume not within his training. these guys get training for a reason.

PS - if you get pulled over in baltimore city, the police officer gives you a piece of paper stating your pullover was not based on racial pretenses and profiling and that you were not physically or unconstitutionally abused. im pretty sure i had to sign the paper while the cop was there. it was odd, it was like i was giving the police officer a report card.

either way, it was strange to sign off that i did not believe my pull over was racially motivated.


I have been pulled over in B-more never got that...out of curiosity are you black? I am white for the record. Iam just wondering if they only give that to minorities.

this was august last year. the only time i have been puled over in the city. so i can only go by my own one time experience. i asked the PO what it was and he explained it.

im white. this was right around the inner harbor so its city police, aug '09. standard pre-printed form. the PO made it seem like it was protocall.

it was odd but it makes sense. i should probably still have it in my car. i think there was a blank space for him to write what the pull over was for, etc. as a criminal atty, the PC for why someone was pulled over is the gate to whether evidence found subsequently is admissible. but i dont think the goal of this form was to help establish PC but to deter people from claiming harrasment or racism later on after they are pulled over.

edit - did some googleing, it appears baltimore city was taking part in a racial profiling study to collect data for traffic stops for racial profiling analysis.