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Well, I don't think I need to tell you all how I feel about the incident involving the Fort Pierce Police Department Officer that punched and pepper sprayed a 15 year-old girl for violating curfew. My reasoning is very simple. You have a 6' 3", 255 lb police officer working on the force for a while who should know better. He decides to handcuff some 5'9" (100lbs at most) kid for violating curfew and then pussyfoots around, pushing her against the car and not getting serious about getting her free hand behind her body to attach the cuffs. Whatever his reasoning for handcuffing her he should have just DONE it. Instead, he gets bitten by a girl who is clearly freaked out...and rightfully so.
I just have a hard time believing that an officer of his size was having so much trouble detaining her AND the punch (however unnecessary) should have been enough to get her to submit and detain her.
I didn't realize that there were so many chowder heads with the ability to work a computer keyboard out there when I made my last post. There have been a lot of great responses but I can tell you that I've never approved at least 13 comments made by people who are fucking twisted. The truth is I'm very open to almost all comments made by readers EXCEPT for the ones that involve violent acts against children AND negative comments about anyone's race. So, lets save the hate for your KKK and Aryan Brotherhood meetings...I just want to keep it a least a little bit civil here.
Full post as published by Of a Public Defender's Life on October 08, 2007 (boomark / email).









