Officer seen striking mentally disabled man on video is placed on desk duty
liz | 11:50 AM | SCHIZOPHRENIA, criminal justice system
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
why are these people still even EMPLOYED!??!?! if i were to beat a person at my office (and believe me, sometimes i wish i could), i not only would be fired, but arrested!
Its weird that no one walking by objected to this behavior on the officer’s part. We are too afraid of the police. Putting guys in jail for that will help much more than desk duty!
The cop will come up with some BS excuse of why he felt threatened and go back to business as usual. Happens all the time.
Did I blink and miss it? At what time on the video does the hit take place?
Well, let’s hope they throw the cop in PMITA prison for a few years and salt the earth where he once stood. We have no need for creeps like that walking the streets in uniform.
As for the victim- another example of Reagan’s legacy.
The cop was clearly pummeling the man for no reason that could be discerned from the videotape. If a family member of mine was out on the street, vulnerable and in need of assistance, I pray she would not seek help from someone like that.
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