Video Caught On Tape ABC News Reporter & Crew Gets Detained By A Police Officer In El Paso Texas

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Messed up

[mod mom]

1. that officer needs some serious anger management counseling!

[balantz]

2. Do you know what was in the truck that was overturned in the wreck?

Curious video.

[imdjh]

3. I want to know why this officer hasn't been arrested.

EL PASO -- Police Chief Greg Allen on Tuesday said an officer may have overreacted when arresting a Channel 7-KVIA reporter and photographer at the scene of a crash.
After watching a video of the incident, Allen said he believed Sgt. Raul Ramirez "somewhat overreacted" and did not confront all bystanders.

What the officer did wasn't overreaction, it was illegal. Had a citizen done that to a police officer, he would have been arrested.

[tomm2thumbs]

4. several times that guy sounds just like Paunch from Chips - 'I'm giving you an order'

Maybe he was mad that he didn't take his order.

[balantz]

5. Was there possibly something someone didn't want filmed for TV?

Why else go after only the press?

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7. good point

there were many on lookers

[balantz]

11. Granted there are cell phones that can capture the scene

but that could be dealt with if necessary with less immediacy than a TV crew.

[Gator_Matt]

6. Suspend the officer without pay

Let him learn his lesson via his pocketbook, and let it be a lesson for any other hotheaded officers. He's lucky there isn't a lawsuit pending.

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8. how and why

were the military there helping in the first place? maybe thats what they did not want you to see....

[pacalo]

9. People skills should be the most basic requirement for police work.

Everyone gets impatient & stressed at times, but that uniform seems to give some police officers the audacity to act out their frustrations.

Today as I was parking at a downtown garage I was a couple of cars behind an apparently off-duty police officer with an "NOPD" decal on the back of his pick-up truck. Being in the left lane entering the garage, he was in the position to yield to the traffic to the right. However, instead of slowing at the entry, he accelerated to try to be the first one in. The first car to the right proceeded ahead, but the NOPD truck was determined to be next & he nosed ahead of the car very carelessly, too close to the car to the right.

Then, on the third level, he spotted a parking space but wasn't in a position to get into it, considering the cars in back of him couldn't back up, so he accelerated so quickly his tires were screeching.

It's all about power over ordinary citizens & lack of patience.

[GillesDeleuze]

10. this is every cop ive ever met.

typical.

[Grinchie]

12. They should have gotten into the truck, and then break the key off in the ignition

Then they could loiter there forever until the service truck arrrived.

Definately more going on than meets the eye for that Cop to jump the fence, which pissed him off to no end I'm sure, but it was the cops decision to go ballistic and crack a few heads.