We Are The Police –
– trust us, we’re here to help.
I arrived at the corner of Bank and MacLaren this afternoon as three police offers were trying to put an unconscious, handcuffed woman into the back of a van. She looked like a rag doll.
Then they changed their minds and laid her out on the sidewalk and sent for an ambulance. The female officer slid a piece of cardboard under her, so at least she wasn’t lying in the puddle.
I asked some other bystanders if they knew what had happened. Two men, who said they had witnessed the whole thing, told me that she had been walking down the street smoking a cigarette. A cruiser drove past, stopped, and an officer got out and approached her. She ran. The police caught her. She resisted. She was a tiny little thing, they said, but she put up a helluva fight. It took three officers to bring her down.
“And the big cop, he slammed her face-down into the sidewalk just like she was a huge man,” said one of the men.
Then, he said, they cuffed her and went to put her in the van. She was part-way in when suddenly she just collapsed. Unconscious. She was bleeding from the head. That’s roughly when I came along.
My bet is that he was lying about being an undercover cop – it’s a convenient story to try to make people feel guilty enough to destroy the images.
It’s didn’t work at Knitnut.net, and it ain’t washing here either. If you see these people on the street guide yourself accordingly, they can’t be trusted.
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Undercover…riiiiiiight. That’s why you drive around in broad daylight, with multiple other cops.
If I ever see this guy I’m gonna give him an earful.
TH: “Undercover…riiiiiiight. That’s why you drive around in broad daylight, with multiple other cops.”
I’m with you. Any u/c cops I’ve known didn’t wear uniforms or badges and didn’t broadcast their role. He was absolutely full of it (which kinda goes without saying, I guess).
SL, the Pollyanna in me waits with bated breath to find out that the woman treated so – damn, can’t find an appropriate word – “less than spectacularly” shall we say? – is actually wanted by INTERPOL and any number of countries for extreme crimes against society.
Sadly, I’m getting cynical in my old age and will not hold my breath at risk of expiring in (wasted) anticipation.
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What bothers me the most is that I firmly believe most police officers are genuinely good people who want to dedicate themselves to the public good. However, this means that they tolerate and stand by while people like this get away with brutality and intimidation.
Whooee! I just posted up a boog story on this. I reckon there’ll be some brown stuff hittin’ the fan at Ottawa Police headquarters. If that numbnuts is a real undercover copper, howcum he’s out in public wearin’ a uniform? I figger he ain’t only a bully-boy-in-blue; he’s a lyin’ snake. He’d fit in well in Bob Mugabe’s police force.
We been gettin’ dressed down on accounta Canajuns is so dang ignorant about how our gummint works. It’d be a good start if our cops knew how the law works.
JB
It just occurred to me that the officers should be sent the bill for the paramedic services, too. After all, those paramedics are in awfully high demand, and they had to come give medical attention to that poor woman for police-inflicted injuries when someone, somewhere else in the City of Ottawa may have been having a heart attack & needing an ambulance…