Comments on: Overly aggressive Chicago cop caught on citizen video

By: Rusty Carr

Rusty Carr — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:06:51 +0000

Ugly cop in an ugly town.

By: Rail Car Fan

Rail Car Fan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:57:50 +0000

Johnny Public is sounding more like “Johnny Law” with every post, but that couldn’t be a coincidence.. could it!!?

Rail Car Fan

By: Big Ugly

Big Ugly — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:38:07 +0000

The ‘officer’ NEVER asked the guy to get up – he ordered him in an aggressive manner. The ‘drunk’ said that he had paid, the cop said that he had not, the drunk offered to pay again. The cop became very belligerent. Yes, he did hit the drunk and he did bounce the drunk’s head off the window. The ‘officer’ was overly aggressive at all times – up to and including when asked for his badge number (which he is REQUIRED to give when asked).

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:58:12 +0000

The guy was a jerk and resisted the cop. The cop did nothing wrong. Sorry if swearing at drunkin jerks offends people. Actually I thought the cop was quite controlled.

By: jones

jones — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:41:01 +0000

If I had children on the bus I would take the opportunity to explain to my kids that is why you don’t break the law.

By: Arial

Arial — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:53:10 +0000

Well I am starting to question the origins of the messages here. I suspect we have some police officers assigned to this forum.

Here is a message for you. I appreciate and respect policemen who do their jobs in a professional manner. But there are a few of us out here who still have some family and decency values. Surprise! Surprise! If I had been on the bus and my children heard the language of that officer, I´d have been asking for his badge number myself! That behavior did not facilitate the process a bit and it was offensive.

The man was drunk. Therefore not in his right mind. What kind of behavior would you expect from him? Has anyone ever been around a drink? He only needed to be removed. The drunk did what might be expected. But I would expect a bit better behavior from an officer.

If you other people (aside from the officers here) are willing to allow this, then I guarantee it will be used on you. And rightly so! You will richly deserve it.

By: jones

jones — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:48:36 +0000

If I ever have to call the cops because of some low life, drunk thief, I hope this officer, or one like him, shows up.

By: Johnny Public

Johnny Public — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:29:04 +0000

I had to watch this video again.

1) the officer waited ONE minute being nice asking this person to get off the bus. The subject passivly resisted the Officer by refusing to comply.

2) the officer slightly escalated his use of force shaking the man to get his attention and verbally escalating his use of force from verbal commands to soft empty hand control. The Subject than used his body weight to resist the officer.

3) the subject began to hold on to the bars and verbally refused to follow commands. now the subject is defensivly resisting the officer.

4) the subject now grabs the officer which is crossing the line into active agression.
the officer stated “do you want to fight me” numerous times, as the subject is grabbing the officer and pulling the officer. The officer is concerned for his safety.

This is totally justified. The officer showed great restraint.

Obviously people here may have taken some “journalism” courses and know how to move a “pen” but obviously they missed a few legal courses.

By: Johnny Public

Johnny Public — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:19:09 +0000

“The glaring grammatical errors in all these cop-slobbering posts seem eerily similar. Hmm…”

Sorry, I didnt take journalism and writting courses in college.

But dont mistake these post to be from one person with alot of free time, They are from numerous individuals who JUST DONT AGREE with you!

You may have to face it CAM, you may be the “minority” on this one. (no pun intended)