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Still from a video which was taken down from YouTube after page views rapidly escalated [via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
A video shows the officers in riot gear surrounding the suspect while one officer directs him to kneel down - spread eagle. After the photo is taken there's some celebratory back slapping and the officers seem to quickly disperse. The suspect, Kyle Kramer, a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, told the story to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette,"Things were happening so fast, and I didn't know how I was going to be treated." He said of the arresting officer, "he was kind of up and down, angry and then friendly." Kramer said he initially started "a little bit of an argument" but then told the officer he would be in the picture not knowing what might happen to him if he had said "no". He was charged with failure to disperse and disorderly conduct.
The officers used their vacation time for this special detail at the G-20 Summit, and according to Chicago Breaking News, all expenses were paid by the City of Pittsburgh. Police Supt. Jody Weis made no comment other than the incident is under investigation.
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Thankfully Second City Cop makes no effort to defend these idiots and gives them a healthy berating. Go check out their foul-mouthed entry on the subject...
I try to give cops the benefit of the doubt as often as I can, they're put in tough situations each and every day and have to make quick decisions. This was clearly not a tough situation. Way to go, jags.
"Pigs" applies, no? Glad to hear that they are getting called out by their peers on this.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but by the information given these cops basically headed to Pittsburgh for kicks? You've got to wonder about the type of individual who would do something like that. To use their vacation time, away their families, just for the chance to act out their riot cop fantasies.
I'm guessing it wasn't their deep sense of national service.
So the sons and daughters of the 1968ers finally get their day in the limelight.
Way to go men. Putting all uppity college students on notice. "Don't fuck wid us, or we'll abu ghrab your ass! Dat'll show em. Say cheese muddrfckr."
"Say cheese muddrfckr"
You stole my post! lol.
I remember reading about this weeks back and laughing at Pittsburgh PD's pulling a CPD type jagbag move.....should have known.
These guys likely went because they got paid time and a half for 12 hour days. From what one poster said on the SCC blog these guys could come home with about $2000 from working on their days off.
I thought the SCC blog handled it well. This is stupidity and they deserve to be punished.
What a bunch of simpletons. All should be suspended.
Sometimes people do things that are so unbelievably, indefensibly stupid that I have to wonder what precise brain defect led to it.
And some Chicagoans had the unmitigated gall to dare question the swift wise judgement of International Olympic Committee! Heck I'm sure they looked at it as a safty issue, their safety!
which is why they're goin to Rio. Its easier to pose a dead guy than a live one. and boyrape is almost legal.
Dumbasses, ya gotta pop da guy after the shot, or else he's gonna talk. Jeez. Maybe dey tought you could do dat in Pittsburgh, but dey got da internet too. Damn. muddrfckn computers..... hey, comeer assshole ... yeah you muddrfckr!!