Seattle Police Department: Looking For a Few More Dumbfucks
If you weigh 270 pounds, have an IQ lower than your shoe size and a red hot temper: the Seattle Police Department wants YOU. If you slam somebody’s head into a wall so hard that this person will never move or talk again — hey, no biggie. We won’t prosecute you or anything. You can just keep on enjoying life as if nothing happened.
The family of the victim — Christopher Harris — has received a $10 million dollar settlement from King County, WA. The offending thug, Deputy Matthew Paul, wasn’t prosecuted or disciplined in any way. Sounds like some nice cushy working conditions — you can inflict life-ruining injuries on a suspect (who turned out to be the wrong person) and not be held accountable.
I always figured that if I did something to cost my employer $10 million, I’d be out of a job (at the very least).
In May 2009, Christopher Harris was shopping in a convenience store in downtown Seattle. Police had been called because of a fight nearby — which Harris was NOT involved in. Several blood-spattered men ran into the convenience store around the same time that the deputies arrived. A witness mistakenly told them that Harris was the person they were looking for. Harris panicked and ran.
After running a block or two, he stopped and stood there with his arms outstretched, saying “I don’t have anything. I didn’t steal anything.” The giant inbred, Matthew Paul, pushed Christopher Harris — who was half his size — hard enough to send him flying eight feet and into a wall head first.
Now with all due respect to our newfound civility and dialed-down rhetoric after the Tucson Massacre — why is Deputy Matthew Paul still walking?
Labels: Christopher Harris, King County, Matthew Paul, Seattle Police Department
posted by Tom Harper @ 5:55 PM
9 Comments:
Sounds like the perfect Klanbagger to me. I'm sure he has a future in right wing politics.
That was way, way out of line.
The philosophy when apprehending someone used to be "the minimum amount of force necessary to compel compliance."
If I was that guy's family, I'd hunt that cop down and beat him until he pissed himself.
It is troubling. I see a pattern emerging across the land that reminds me of the cops of my youth. I really thought we were on the right track for a few years there back in the 1990s.
At the very least, I agree his job should have ended.
Gosh, didn’t you learn anything from Rodney King? If you don’t IMMEDIATELY comply with a directive from law enforcement, they have the right to beat you to death, shoot you, or ram a toilet plunger up your ass. Doesn’t matter if you’re a partially deaf inebriated Indian wood carver in Seattle, or a drunk redneck involved in a domestic violence beef in Port Angeles, or in this case, a wrong place at the wrong time chump at the 7-11. To paraphrase Johnnie Cochran, “You must COMPLY, or YOU MUST DIE.
Where do you all keep the pork rinds?
JR: Unfortunately, that type always has a bright future.
Carlos: Exactly. I can't believe nobody has retaliated against that scumbag. If I had caused somebody to become 100% disabled, even if it was an accident, I'd be watching my back every second.
MRM: That's true, it did seem like we were making progress for awhile; now we're going backwards again. There've been some really outrageous incidents over the last few years.
WTF?: Between that Indian wood carver getting shot and this other incident (which I hadn't heard about until it was on the news 2 nights ago), "liberal" Seattle has a pretty shitty police record. I'm sure it's no better anywhere else.
Randal: Sorry, we're all out.
Do you feel and act little different when you put on a Tuxedo? I do.
I wonder if changing from a uniform that says policeman (protect and serve) to all black Para-military GI Joe outfit (kill em all let god sort em out) has something to do with this change in attitude...
Another change in our society is the willingness of citizens to fight, shoot, and kill cops. This might be making otherwise decent police personnel a little quick to use undue force.
I lived in Seattle for thirty years, raised two boys there, and had the usual amount of police contact. This level of violence is relatively new. (And roughly coincides with the increased violence against cops as well as their adoption of Halloween costumes instead of police uniforms.) Just sayin’ is all.
WTF?: That's true, there've been some brutal attacks and murders against police officers. I wouldn't take that job for anything. But police officers still need to be held accountable when they make mistakes and/or abuse their authority. That Brooklyn cop who rammed a broken plunger handle up somebody's ass -- I assume that's who you were talking about in your earlier comment -- got a 30-year prison sentence.
I'm not from Seattle so don't know all of the laws there but come on, you're going on a witness report, they could possibly be wrong. The dude is a suspect, that doesn't mean he did it. Cases of mistaken identities happen all the time, give an honest citizen the benefit of the doubt instead of taking his life away, what a douche bag! And I'm willing to make a bet that Deputy Matthew Paul never apologized simply due to the fact that he didn't break the law, just some innocent man's neck. Oh well then that's ok, I hope gets his neck broken "within" the law of course :-)
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