NY policeman charged after woman body-slammed

[sasquatch]

Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK - A police officer who body-slammed an unarmed woman and broke her jaw during a medical call to a suburban restaurant last year was arrested Friday and charged with civil rights violations.

Federal prosecutors said Yonkers officer Wayne Simoes used excessive force when he grabbed the woman by the waist, hoisted her in the air and slammed her, face first, into a tile floor.

The takedown, recorded March 3, 2007, by security cameras, knocked Irma Marquez unconscious and put her in the hospital for four days. At the time, authorities said the officer was trying to keep her from interfering with emergency medical technicians summoned to the restaurant to assist her niece, who had been hit in the head with a bottle.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_re_us/officer_body_slam;_ylt=Au6U4C_lqxclu2tWiujPYOdvzwcF

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I can't believe the asshole mayor of that town stuck up for the ultra-corrupt police department.

[whathappened]

1. wtf

man ya read about this stuff and it makes your blood boil , what happened to protect and serve

[LostinVA]

3. It's NEVER been about "protect and serve" for most cops

I've known too many personally. Very few believe that -- it's just what they say in the interview.

[Ferretherder]

4. What happened to ' protect and serve'?

Oh, it's still in full force......

'Protect - your own ass'

'Serve - self interests'

[Old Codger]

6. the courts

Have always held that the police have no legal duty or obligation to protect or defend private citizens..... They are in fact historians as they can or will usually do nothing until after the fact , then they go to the scene of the crime and write a report as to what happened....in my experience a good percentage of them are macho, power hungry assholes..

[pattmarty]

7. I've always called it "the John Wayne complex".

[fasttense]

44. Ok so the police according to black robed politicians are not to

protect and defend private citizens. How about just not severely injuring and hospitalizing them?

[Liberal_in_LA]

36. this video works

http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2008/06/ny-officer-accu.html

[raystorm7]

2. Picture says it all =/

[janetblond]

5. I remember when cops used to be nice guys.

They SUCK now. The other day I asked a cop to help me. He told me he was busy and I should call 911.
When the 911 cops arrived, the two "boys" were young enough to be my sons. There was an "alpha" cop and a "beta".
The "alpha" cop gave me a lecture about what I "SHOULD'VE" done to avoid the situation.
He was so arrogant, I just said, "okay, so you're not going to help me".
I got back in my car and went home.
F*K them, and F*K their tasers too!

[pattmarty]

8. I'm 61 now, and I can count on one hand all the "decent" cops I encountered.

[izquierdista]

18. "Decent" cops are to be found....

...but not in the United States.

[pattmarty]

21. touche'...........

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

35. Hmmm!! And where are all of the decent cops? Zimbabwe?

What a ridiculous statement you made/

[Stump]

46. Thats a bullshit statement...

I do know some good ones personally...

[Vidar]

50. I won't go that far, but the decent ones are definitely in the minority.

[tuckessee]

26. Cops have never been nice.

Especially if one is black, gay, homeless or not connected to the power structure.

[anitar1]

48. I can see the police doing this where I am living. In fact we had an

"incident" 2 weeks ago downtown, but fortunately a bystander videoed the whole thing. Cops are vicious liars for the most part, imo. Too many bad things happening to ordinary people. We have had other disgraceful happenings here, performed by our local police force.

[Bandit]

9. While I am a very firm believer in Police and Law and Order

There is something to be said about a person's mentality that wants to spend their life actually "looking for trouble". IMO most that want to spend their life that way are covert bullies that actually enjoy causing people pain.

[pattmarty]

30. You're talking about the police, right??? If not, I can tell..........

......A: You aren't poor. B: You have never had to deal with the police in an adversary manner. AND C: You are in fact a "peace" officer or related to one.

AND NO THIS IS NOT SATIRE.

[Dogtown]

33. I think that's a misread, pattmarty

I had to reread the post several times, but I believe Bandit was making the point that becoming a cop means signing on for a job where you are looking for trouble. Bandit's making the point that it requires a specific mind-set to want that.

He concludes by saying that folks with that mind set are by nature bullies and take the job because they like to cause pain.

[Dogtown]

34. Self delete

Double post.

[razors edge]

10. The cops better start policing their own

before the citizens start doing it for them.

I don't advocate violence in any fashion, but I might look the other way if I saw one of these assholes getting a good stomping, along with his decent but all too loyal partners.

[1620rock]

11. They were burly thugs back in the 60's, and nothing has changed since.

[razors edge]

27. We have to change the whole

cops can do no wrong and should not be held to same standards bullshit mentality.

It is never pretty when a cop gets thrown into the general population of a large penitentiary, but until enough end up there for the crimes they are getting away with now, nothing will change.

Tasers = torture without the guilt of being primitive.

[pattmarty]

22. Ain't gonna happen. Does Rodney King ring a bell???

[razors edge]

23. Yep, but I still have hope

that we can change that shit without having to crack some heads.

And yes, I am full aware that the returning vets will end up in the employ of the PDs.

If it still comes to head cracking, this former marine will do his best to do the right thing for the community.

[pattmarty]

25. I can only hope you're right.

[razors edge]

29. Hope is good.

It leads to options.

[lonestarnot]

12. Son of a bitch!

That's all I can say and that I hope she gets lots of money and that he does time, long time!

[MannyGoldstein]

13. I'm Never Sure If Pervasive Cameras Are A Good Or Bad Thing

But in this case, the camera was a blessing.

[rasputin1952]

14. One hell of a law suit coming from that one...

and the officer should be charged under any # of charges ans see how he kies it in prison.

[lib2DaBone]

15. Cops are overpaid jerks.....

"Warren Mich Cop gives 5000 tickets in one year for minor traffic violations"

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080627/NEWS04/80627002/&imw=Y

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When does this guy find time to eat doughnuts?

[Wabbajack_]

16. Send him to gen pop

make sure everyone knows he's a pig.

[L0oniX]

17. Police brutality ...the fun part of law enforcement.

:evilfrown:

[unapatriciated]

19. she appears to be upset but not out of control.

here is the vid (second on list)

http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=police%20body%20slam%20woman&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#


edited to add: the first vid is worth watching, it seems a few have stepped over that thin blue line in favor of human decency and justice.

[JVS]

40. She did strike him.

You don't do that. It never ends well.

[unapatriciated]

41. My two year old grandson hits harder than that...

it looked like she was pushing him away but it's a stretch to say she struck him. Are you saying she got what she deserved? The National Black Police Officer Association sure as hell don't think so, they call it what it is police brutality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIvNIq-aEOM

[pollo poco]

20. Pigs

I think that only sick people want to be cops.
Little Bullies dream of being cops when they grow up.
Little Heroes sign up to be firemen. You ever hear of firemen doing this kind of thing?
I get very tired of hearing the police described as heroes. About 1% of them are. The rest are sick

The first thing they should do is automatically disqualify anyone who applies to be a cop. They should tear up their applications, and send them to a head shrink.
Wanting to be a cop, like torturing animals, is a serious sign of personality disorder.

How can they ever make things right for that poor woman?

It probably gave him a woodie when he did her. He probably shudders with pleasure and drools a little as he remembers it. Getting paid to beat up on women? Best day on the job ever. He probably goes home and mistreats his wife, children and pets.

He probably gets a fat salary while the rest of us lose our homes.

I've known a lot of cops. They are about as normal as criminals.

[izquierdista]

31. Cops should be drafted

Eighteen and nineteen year old high school graduates, who are not in college full-time should make up the selection pool. There should be tests to weed out the illiterate, the unbalanced, and the physically unfit. They should be trained as community helpers first, and as they exhibit more of the good qualities wanted in a police force, they should be advanced in the ranks.

They only problem with implementing such a scheme is that there are very few positive role models and plenty in the ranks who should have been purged a long time ago.

[MadMaddie]

37. You could look at the Israelies program of all 18 year olds

female and male serving for 3 years in the Israeli military as an example.

Honestly, I think the kids should have to choose the military, police work, civil service, farming and then go to college.

[LeftyMom]

47. Young people are in charge of their own lives. The state does not own them.

It's one thing to create an incentive program (ie more financial aid in exchange for some useful service) but quite another to simply demand control of their lives for several years. The very concept is shamelessly authoritarian.

[AllyCat]

24. I'm speechless. Horrified. and speechless n/t

[KG]

28. i'm sure the LE apologist faction will soon arrive to tell us how we

should all just to as the freindly officer says and we won't be tased, body slammed, have our cameras confiscated or other forms of civil rights violations. :eyes:

[minnesota_liberal]

32. Mayor is full of shit

"(Our oficers) do their jobs the right way in full accordance with the law."

[texanwitch]

38. I can't watch the video.

Twice I was almost killed by cops and I was a innocent victim.

I wasn't anti cop until then.

I will never trust a cop, ever.

[JVS]

39. I think this might be the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49OQ5XQwpIg

[sasquatch]

43. Yep, that's the one

[captainmorgan]

42. The worst that could happen is that the cop is suspended

They never go to jail for anything.

[Nevernose]

45. He got PROMOTED to detective!

It's at the tail end of this news story (which I copied from someone else above):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIvNIq-aEOM

[sasquatch]

49. That is a department that REALLY needs to clean house