emotions' SOLE controller

Jul 5 2015, 07:08 PM

Again for your sake, Doc Saul, I will just hope that they use the fact that this perp is darkskinned, to let this cop off.

Or, you should hope that they do not view the video here. Since violent savage criminals don't usually stop to take out their wallet and give police their identification as it establishes the mindset of this suspect as non-violent and peaceful. The cops escalated this situation once he had a reason to arrest but refused to do so.

No matter what, cops who desire to arrest someone do not then walk a city block challenging them to an MMA fight.

we see the proper way to subdue and arrest a citizen, everyday, so it will be interesting to see if an actual law enforcement agency will pretend as though it was a-okay for this cop to go temporarily insane juuuust long enough to forget how to arrest a suspect...instead of challenge him to an MMA fight

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Fight Between Officer, Suspect Caught On Video In Harlem

July 2, 2015 11:03 PM

UPDATED 07/03/15 9:07 p.m.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — NYPD Internal Affairs was investigating Thursday night, after a video surfaced of a street confrontation in Harlem that turned into a fight between an officer and a suspect.

Police said Saykou George, 30, was stopped around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday at 131st Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, after being seen in a public space with a knife.

He allegedly became disorderly and pushed the officer who stopped him.

A bystander’s video allegedly showed George handing his ID to the plainclothes officer. He grows agitated when the officer does not return the ID to him.

Police alleged George pushed the officer and made a boxing stance.

The confrontation then escalated into a shoving match, as seen in the video. The officer allegedly punched George as he shoved back.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton weighed in on the incident.

“You have no right, no right under New York law to resist arrest, which was going on based on what I’m seeing on that video,” Bratton said. “He didn’t surrender. He now has additional charges against him. We will process this through the courts.”

Bratton said he saw nothing inappropriate with the officer’s behavior.

Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch also said the suspect was resisting and the officers did the right thing.

“This is a text book example of an individual who was spotted with a weapon resisting arrest, attempting to walk away and the two police officers involved doing exactly what they must do to take the man into custody,” Lynch said in part in a statement. “Given the current atmosphere on the streets today, people mistakenly think that they have the right to resist arrest and that inevitably leads to confrontation and potential injury. The use of force in making an arrest is always ugly but is absolutely necessary and appropriate when the suspect resists.”

Eventually, other officers arrived at the scene to help arrest the man identified as George.

George was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest, and being disorderly, police said.

Doctor Saul Santiago

Jul 6 2015, 10:41 AM

Nothing you can do will alter my interpretation of the video.

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A video that shows how tough the NYPD has it

By Post Editorial Board
July 4, 2015 | 11:39pm



Sometimes your video doesn’t show what you think it does.

Two plainclothes NYPD officers on Wednesday spotted a civilian carrying a knife in Harlem, and moved in to discuss it with him. His companion pulled out a cellphone to record what happened next.

The videographer’s comments throughout are almost comical — repeated shouts of “This is bulls–t” and “I got everything on camera,” as if he were filming blatant police abuse, rather than two cops dealing with a man plainly resisting arrest.

The knife-wielder, Saykou George — who later turned out to have two outstanding warrants and a record of assault — shows his ID, but then insists he has to go off and take his medicine and begins resisting arrest. He flails his arms at the cop, then storms off — pushing the male officer off as the cop stands in his way.

Eventually, the cop is obliged to fight back, trading blows with George. The female officer is heard radioing for backup, then tries to cuff George.

Several uniformed officers show up, wrestle George to the ground and complete the arrest. (He wound up charged with resisting arrest, assaulting an officer, and criminal weapons possession.)
The narrator keeps the video going for several more minutes, shouting, “He stopped us for no reason,” and, “I saw everything.” He tells other cops of the arresting officer, “You know he wrong,” and asks, “For a f–king knife? . . . You can’t be serious.”

It’s bizarre that Police Commissioner Bill Bratton was even asked about it at his Thursday press conference, but he was. His answer was spot-on:

“You have no right, no right under New York law, to resist arrest, which was going on, based on what I’m seeing in that video,” the commissioner said.

“The Internal Affairs group will now be reviewing the video, as we always do. But in my preliminary review of that, I saw nothing inappropriate with the officers’ behavior.”

Resisting arrest isn’t just a crime, it’s foolish — leaving cops no choice but to use force, with all the risks that entails.

It’s a sign of how tough city cops have it that some New Yorkers think a video of officers performing lawfully — and with considerable restraint — is somehow proof of misconduct.