Does your opinion about the deputy accused of assaulting a 15 year old girl change knowing his history?

I personally can't think of a reason why an armed officer would be forced to beat a girl like that. If she was being agressive and he felt that he needed to assert force to protect himself, then it would be justified in my mind. Public perception is a powerful thing and we don't really know anything about the circumstances of this event.It's a good thing that Internal Affairs will carefully review his actions.

They will base their investigation on real facts and not the perception that the public will.

Yup, opinion is the same. He needs to be canned, as he's unable to control his anger. Police officers are meant to protect us, even if from ourselves.

My opinion: He should have been fired after he shot that guy 11 times. Talk about excessive! And yes, my opinion about the case still stands: the way he treated that girl was absolutely unacceptable, and he should be fired now instead.

Better late than never, hand over the badge and sign up for an anger management class.

This only reinforces what I thought of it. It seemed like a disgustingly excessive use of force, but at the same time, I wondered if there was perhaps more context. Now, I'm certain that this man has issues and should not be allowed to continue his duties.

Maybe I'm just a heartless bastard who's incapable of empathy, but am I the only one who watched that video and immediately thought, "Well... I'll bet that smart mouthed %&#$ didn't give him any more sass. " Of course, cops do frequently rub me the wrong way (in spite of nearly everyone in my family being a cop) but I have to say, in all fairness, unless you put on a bullet proof vest for a living every day, don't be so hasty to judge, lest you prove to be as devoid of empathy as I am. Yeah, what this guy did was excessive.

There's no way to justify the behavior. But I don't think that makes him an unstable person. I just think he's doing a piss poor job managing the stress inherent to his position in law enforcement.

All this extra information shows is that this deputy is only more unstable than was previously thought. The idea that he could beat a harmless girl and be acting out of self-defense or in some other protective way is ridiculous. With the background that he has, it is nigh on impossible to believe that his assaulting of a 15 year old girl was on accident.

Additional background simply further proves his guilt in this case. "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

As I said yesterday, this is why police who abuse their power should be thrown out of the force after their first offense! If you don't kick him out after him beating this girl, there WILL be another victim. Yes it changes my opinion.It shows that this wasn't a misunderstanding or he wasn't a victim of circumstances...the problem is Paul, and he needs to spend time behind bars (your information shows he should have already).

No my opinion has not changed and I am going to post my comment from the other thread here so people know my position. -- Excessive force by a law enforcement officers is a violation of a person's rights. Excessive force is not subject to a precise definition, but it is generally beyond the force a reasonable and prudent law enforcement officer would use under the circumstances.In this case a cell with a support officer in close proximity.

Force should be used in only the minimum amount needed to achieve a legitimate purpose. From what was seen there was no attempt to verbally direct the prisoner and no visual cues to indicate a directive given by the officer. He reacted (Provoked or not) to the situation with a violent assault using force well in excess of what was required for the situation he was presented with to be resolved.

In this case the officer used excessive force.

Looks to me like he hit her in the head, or maybe the neck. This doesn't change my opinion at all. He could have killed her...she could have a slow brain bleed from those hits, and she could die even months later from that.

He needs to be gone. No matter how "lippy" she got, no matter if she had pitched a shoe at him instead of merely kicking it off (without much force), she didn't deserve that much force. She obviously uses a lot of attention-seeking behavior, so locking her up and ignoring her would have been a lot more effective than what he did.

I think it's telling that his own spokesman wouldn't vouch for him. I'm also surprised that they didn't get her more medical care. They should watch her carefully, and she really should have her head checked for fractures, bleeds etc.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.