Cops bashing girl - on TV2 20/20

[justsomeguy]

Just saw the doco bout the girl getting bashed - unbelievable looking at the police PR person - couldn't have looked more guilty if they even tried.

Insiders who know more about this story what's the other side?? If there is one.

[Sensei]

What I know Cops tend to bash people that really need it . Not that I agree to this . But some need to be put in their place . . She was given 20+K & doesn't have a fridge ??????????? P smoker ?? wheres that 20+K gone . Now she won'ts more . Ya gotta try I suppose !

[justsomeguy]

Yup, poor little "maori" girl beaten by these barbaric rednecks.....

Awesome media stuff...... but there's no smoke without fire.... so want to know the other side of the story.

[scumdog]

She went mad on P and started headbutting the cops fists......

[Lou Girardin]

Didn't see it. Was it really a beating or was she being subdued?

[bear]

Well the documentary did say at the start that the "victim" was drunk and couldn't remember exactly what happened. She did end up with a broken arm, but the evidence was inconclusive as to whether this happened before or at the time of the cops confronting her.
Anyway, a condition of receiving the apology and $20k is that she doesn't seek any further results.

[spudchucka]

Just saw the doco bout the girl getting bashed - unbelievable looking at the police PR person - couldn't have looked more guilty if they even tried.

Insiders who know more about this story what's the other side?? If there is one.

The doco was the first I'd heard of it so I know no more than was portrayed on the box. However I believe if she had been bashed in the face with a baton, as she claimed, the facial injury would have been a lot worse than what it was.

The pathologist said her broken arm was probably caused by a strike from a baton or flash light. Depending on the circumstances that action may have been totally justified or alternatively may have been deemed unlawful and therefore an assault. Considering police charged a person it is logical to assume that they considered it to be the later. However the case against the cop was chucked out at court because of conflicting evidence.

[Lou Girardin]

I would have thought that breaking bones would be considered excessive force. Especially with cop v woman.

[placidfemme]

Yeah I watched this last night... I don't think her injuries looked as bad as they should have been given the supposed beating she recieved... And in the meantime she was having the supposed shit beaten out of her... and her wonderful boyfriend stayed inside and watched the alleged assult.

I honestly wouldn't put it past the cops to do such a thing... But then again... she did get the pay out... so she shouldn't be making any more accusations as it has been settled...

And if she failed to even buy a fridge with her $20K then maybe she needs another beating to knock some sense back into her...

[spudchucka]

I would have thought that breaking bones would be considered excessive force. Especially with cop v woman.

Like any use of force it is subjective, depending upon the circumstances. If it was justified and necessary to use a baton and the arm was broken as a result of that then the injury is irrelevant. It is also irrelevant that she is a woman if that level of force was necessary in the circumstances.

And before you get on your high horse again, I'm not saying this is the case in this incident because I know nothing about it. I am speaking hypothetically.

[Lou Girardin]

Like any use of force it is subjective, depending upon the circumstances. If it was justified and necessary to use a baton and the arm was broken as a result of that then the injury is irrelevant. It is also irrelevant that she is a woman if that level of force was necessary in the circumstances.

And before you get on your high horse again, I'm not saying this is the case in this incident because I know nothing about it. I am speaking hypothetically.

So am I, and unless she was some 18 stone hefferlump I would have thought a big strong Policeman could subdue her without too much trouble.
She may not have a fridge, but has she got a widescreen TV and Sky digital?
Priorities ya know!

[750Y]

It is also irrelevant that she is a woman if that level of force was necessary in the circumstances.

people who get violent while on P are an absolute handful. the best known cure is to wave another pipe at them & they snap straight out of it. maybe the cops should carry plastic replica pipes for such occasions.

[spudchucka]

So am I, and unless she was some 18 stone hefferlump I would have thought a big strong Policeman could subdue her without too much trouble.

Like I said, I'm not talking about that case because I don't know the facts. You carry on making assumptions and draw your own conclusions.

[spudchucka]

people who get violent while on P are an absolute handful.

They can easily have broken bones and just carry on as if nothing was wrong with them.

[SixPackBack]

Police are represented from a cross section of society, as such some of them are likely to be undesirable. However your attitude towards them is one of the single biggest factors to how they treat you, remember folks they usually have they following. Guns and weapons and a whole lotta mates they can call on. Best not to fuck with them, you cannot win.
One more thing, don't bitch if you get caught, you know the rules.
Spud let it be known i will rally when the dregs start cop bashing threads, without them we'd be totally fucked