But For Video, Volume 27

Let me say this as clearly as humanly possible:  If there is no video, you lose.  The lesson is that simple.

Last week, former NFL quarterback and current sportscaster Josh Booty was tasered following a DWI arrest.  He deserved it.  How do I know?  Because there was no video.  No outrage.  No cries for justice.  No cop arrested, or at least fired, after Booty ended up tased and sporting a black eye and other injuries following his arrest.  If a former NFL quarterback and current sportscaster can’t be arrested without ending up hurt, do you really think you’re safe?

Compare this woman in Shreveport arrested for DWI. 



She’s not famous.  In all likelihood, she can’t throw a decent spiral.  And yet her ending up lying in a pool of her own blood, with her face showing evidence of a real good “tuning”, unlike Josh Booty, has generated outrage.  Why?  Video. 

This woman was hardly what one would call eminently cooperative.  Drunk people are like that sometimes.  But the point remains that the failure to do as you’re told is not a reason for a cop to beat a woman.  Some of you will watch this video and say she deserved it, she should have just done whatever the cop told her to do and then she wouldn’t have been beaten.  Hopefully, not too many of you will say that, and none will be foolish enough to post a comment to that effect. 

And to those police officers who come here to gawk at how the other half thinks (and you know who you are), please explain how an officer can beat a hand-cuffed woman like this?  Can you seriously tell me that the officer felt threatened?  Or was his manhood so deeply in doubt that he needed to prove his power and might by leaving her in a pool of blood on the floor.  Does that make him feel good about himself?

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7 thoughts on “But For Video, Volume 27”

  1. Windypundit

    I don’t know, you’re missing the money shot here.

    Sure, some smart lawyer can claim that it’s impossible to blacken both eyes like that from a fall onto a flat floor, but who can really tell what happened while the video was turned off? Maybe she fell into the doornob.

    Twice.

    And a third time to knock out her teeth.

    Besides, he wasn’t charged with a crime, he just got fired. If the Shreveport police union is strong enough, he’ll probably get his job back because he wasn’t convicted of a crime.

  2. SHG

    The money shot comes at the end.  But just in case you missed it, here it is again:

    In the old days, the allegation would be that she beat the officers fist with her face.

  3. Windypundit

    Oh no, I caught that part. But we don’t actually have video of the cop hitting her, which is why the police say they didn’t charge him. After all, no real world prosecutor could possibly win a case with just this video and the woman’s statement. That only happens on Law and Order.

  4. SHG

    I’m sorry, Windy.  I misunderstood.  You are, of course, absolutely right.  As any criminal defendant will tell you, if there’s no video, no crime occurred.  And no prosecutor could ever get a conviction without the video. 

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