Tim Steller's opinion: Violent incident tests whether Tucson Police Department can police itself

[Ptah]

When a man threw her daughter down in a Tucson parking lot, Michelle Aloisi couldn’t help but act.

It was Nov. 14, a nice Sunday at noon outside the Culinary Dropout restaurant. Aloisi, who is 62 and a registered nurse, had finished enjoying a brunch with her two adult daughters. Shocked by the sudden turn of events, she dove in to help.

“I knew my strength wouldn’t match his, but I thought maybe if I pull his shirt where it gets tight around his neck, maybe he would have to let go of her. But that didn’t work out that way. I’m telling him to leave her alone. Next thing I know he’s got me by the hair.”

The man pulled Aloisi down, too, Aloisi and her daughters said in an interview Tuesday. A video of part of the incident shows the man pinning the two of them to the parking lot together. Aloisi yelled to her other daughter, Nicole Whitted: “Call 911, call the cops!”

The man responded: “I am the f—ing cops!”

https://tucson.com/news/local/tim-stellers-opinion-violent-incident-tests-whether-tucson-police-department-can-police-itself/article_f71a2d66-4806-11ec-8a6d-77c474709576.html

[Solomon]

1. WTF!!!??

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Lacks The Temperament To Be A Good Cop

Note that I did not say he didn't have temperament to be a cop.
I said GOOD cop!

[regnaD kciN]

3. I'm completely shocked...

…that this happened to white people.

[Shellback Squid]

5. yeah, he's not racist

[DFW]

4. I would have responded

"Give me a f***ing break, no cop acts like that, we'll wait for some real cops to get here!"

[brush]

6. Unfortunately the bad cops outnumber the good ones.

The a-hole in that video is one of the former. And that sure seems like aggravated assault to me.

[DFW]

7. Me too

And the process of changing the standards by which cops are trained and hired don't seem to be on their way toward improving any time soon.

[Ptah]

8. It started because the women were walking too slow.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. ACAB.