Baca says deputy who struck woman in video may need retraining

[Liberal_in_LA]

he struck her hard!

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca says the sheriff's deputy who was captured on video striking a woman on a Metro bus will be held accountable for his actions, but stopped short of saying he should be disciplined.

"If the individual deputy who swung an elbow at the lady is looking at that as a sensible solution, we need to retrain that individual," he told Ed Mertz of KNX-AM (1070) in an interview Wednesday.

In the video, a female deputy holds the woman from behind while her partner appears to deliver a sweeping blow to the left side of her face. It's unclear whether he strikes her with his fist or right forearm.

The man who recorded the video told NBC-TV Channel 4 that the woman was polite and friendly toward the other passengers as she boarded the bus. He said she started cursing at the deputies when they asked her to get off.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/01/baca-said-deputy-who-struck-woman-in-the-video-should-be-retrained.html

[AnOhioan]

1. Elbow my ass....he decked her full on with his fist

[justiceischeap]

3. I'm actually trying to imagine what would hurt worse

elbow or fist to the face. I'd think elbow.

[obamanut2012]

8. In MMA, elbows are often worse

because of the force behind them, and because they are sharp -- they split your skin right open like a grape.

[justiceischeap]

10. Now my face hurts! :) nt

[obamanut2012]

19. It's horrible!

[justiceischeap]

20. Hey, don't be so judgmental of my face

you've never even seen it.

[obamanut2012]

21. hahaha

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Slow-motion reveals: Elbow...

[obamanut2012]

7. Someone needs to quit watching UFC

And thinking he is Cain.

[FreakinDJ]

9. "Appropriate Action" are you kidding me ??

Do you realise all the Existing Laws protecting the Mentally Handicapped from abuse by caregivers and the general public ??

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. Laws protecting the mentally handicapped from abuse? That would be nice:

L. A. County jailers more likely to use force on mentally ill inmates

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sheriff-jails-20120111,0,2284536.story

[FreakinDJ]

27. My wife teaches Autistic kids - the regulations are numerous

penalties are harsh and quick

But yes I saw that thread too. Makes me wonder if they wrote some sort of loophole into the laws to exempt law enforcement

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. The 1% mouthpiece LA Times wrote: It's unclear whether he strikes her with his fist or right forearm

My simple screenshot above shows the truth.

I am a better reporter than the LA Times! OR...they know and just won't say anything deleterious to the THUGS LA county sheriffs department.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. Thanks for the screen shot. Yep, it's an elbow. And Female deputy seems ok with it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

33. Good point. That's where you see the depth of the problem: when fellow 'officers'

show no horror, much less speak out.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Baca-san, please tell us again of your plan to eliminate sheriff brutality...

1. baka

Japanese word "Baka" means idiot, fool and stupid, everything along those lines. every other definition people are using the sentences with english.

Anata wa baka desu
(You are an idiot/fool)

L. A. County jailers more likely to use force on mentally ill inmates

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sheriff-jails-20120111,0,2284536.story

[bottom line]

15. Honestly

Fire Walk With Me
As in baca-scientologist, (isof), As in, the deputy just removing those cooties. We pay boocho bucks attached to our scientologists' machine that removes all of our COOTIES...
I'm old, knew some old SciFi guys who knew Hubbard before his SCAM. Used to say "Hollywood, the place where the bigger & stupider the con, the bigger the $"

[hobbit709]

5. Retraining my ass! How about a new career, maybe as an outhouse attendant.

[obamanut2012]

6. He needs to be arrested on assault charges

And I don;t understand why he wasn't.

The woman was verbally abusive and resistant to leaving, but she wasn't violent or causing any threat, and that cop didn't just pop her one, which would have been bad enough. He UFC KOed her. I was shocked when I saw how he hit her, a right cross, all of his weight behind it.

She also is mentally challenged.

[Ecumenist]

11. MAY NEED RETRAINING??!! I think he MAY NEED FIRING...

How long will it be before he shoots someone while "overreacting"?

[KansDem]

29. Relax. He might be docked 10 days of vacation...

...just like Tony Baloney!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/anthony-bologna-nypd-offi_n_1033382.html

[yardwork]

12. I watched the whole video. A calm eyewitness got the whole thing on his camera video

and he was intimidated by the officer. The man who filmed it just returned from six years in the service. The cop tried to get him to give up the video, and when the witness refused, the cop tried to intimidate him. Asked him if he had any warrants.

The cop needs to lose his job and be charged with assault.

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. glad the guy held unto to his video

[arely staircase]

14. yeah, whatever kind of retraining they offer in prison nt

[LadyHawkAZ]

16. ...or firing...

n/t

[Demonaut]

17. that fuck needs to be fired!!!

no call for that sort of violence

[Politicalboi]

22. I like how the cop

Threatened the vet with warrants and told him he could arrest him if he didn't give him the video. Good thing the pig didn't get that evidence. Don't buses have camera's in them too. There may be more video somewhere else.

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. LA buses have tons of cameras.

[Booster]

23. Man, Baca is quick, ain't he?

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. LA sheriffs are already under investigation for other violence charges in jails.

He needs the damage control to be quick and lasting.

[Cleita]

24. He might need restraining might be more accurate. n/t

[provis99]

28. thank god for widespread existence of phones with cameras.

They are proving more and more that cops do this shit all the time; previously, they were never held accountable because no one was able to film them.