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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/national/groveland-officers-accused-using-excessive-force-1/nj2Jx/The girl's family told WFTV Channel 9 the officers went in through the garage door and let themselves inside the house, reportedly with guns drawn, responding to a burglary alarm.
Groveland Police Department photo
Groveland Police Department
The young girl was on her bed watching television when she said she was forced to the ground at gunpoint.
"One of the officers was pushing me down and when he was pushing me down, (he) put his knee on me and the other officer had his gun pointed at me," she told Channel 9.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)She might have gone for the remote.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Possibly could have pulled a concealed Barbie doll.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)before they can walk.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)tblue37
(65,403 posts)SNIP
Channel 9 found Officers James Festa and John Rigdon have been with the department for three years, and both have been disciplined several times, according to their personnel files.
Festa was reprimanded in December for botching a child abuse investigation. He was also suspended in 2013 for sleeping on the job.
Rigdon was suspended in May and demoted in 2013 from corporal. He was also reprimanded in 2011. Each punishment was the result of allegedly filing false police reports.
Guirund wants Internal Affairs investigators to scrutinize Sunday's police report, which contains nothing about his daughter's account.
SNIP
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Because they made C's and D's in high school.
sakabatou
(42,155 posts)tblue37
(65,403 posts)sakabatou
(42,155 posts)TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)This is who they want perform violence on behalf of the state.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)A few good ole boys gather behind a locked door. Drink coffee for a while. Come up with the most plausible story that the media will fall for. In the meantime, the other two good ole boys get free vacation time. Everybody goes home with a grin on their face.
valerief
(53,235 posts)sakabatou
(42,155 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)FIRE both cops, put them in the slammer for assault (7 years both with no time off for good behavior) and IMMEDIATELY INVESTIGATE the rest of the cops to see if they are ass holes.
atreides1
(16,079 posts)More cops "in fear of their lives", it's a good thing she didn't make any sudden moves...or else she'd be a corpse in the morgue...and those tow cowards would be celebrating taking out another thug!!!
And these two are real gems...it's police unions that need to be eradicated, not the other unions. Maybe it's me but filing a false report should bring automatic termination, not arbitration!
I also believe that the police union should pay the costs of any lawsuits brought against its members...not the tax paying citizens!
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Orrex
(63,215 posts)Clearly she's a threat to society.
AwakeAtLast
(14,130 posts)Because 11-year-olds are straight up gangsta ya know?
Orrex
(63,215 posts)A few years ago I chaperoned my son's pre-kindergarten field trip to a local pumpkin patch.
At one point I had to rein in a few kids who were being wild and, frankly, unsafe.
The three of them gave me a five-year-old's equivalent of a hard stare, as if to say "who do you think you're messing with?" in their squeaky little voices.
Somehow I managed to keep from throwing them to the ground or shooting them.
Sad that cops can't seem to exercise similar restraint in similar situations.
AwakeAtLast
(14,130 posts)It's as if they don't see people as people, only enemy combatants. Symptoms of our military induced society, I'm afraid.
Orrex
(63,215 posts)Everyone is an enemy to be taken down, rather than a citizen to be aided, taken into custody, etc.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Cop's Solution: Ban media access to those files.
lark
(23,105 posts)Bet they wouldn't do that if they were responding to a burglar alarm at a rich person's house. Just another part of the American dream that is well and truly broken beyond belief. Most Cops don't protect anymore, they kill and hurt and that seems to be about it.
Having said that, my daughter's best friend in HS married a guy who became a cop and Adam's a good guy. My son was in trouble and Adam saw the order and asked the other cop to let him respond. Adam was kind and courteous in a very difficult situation and kept my son out of jail. Too bad so many aren't like him. I'm afraid what will happen to him over time, if the bad guys will change his attitude. He does have a really cool wife and 3 gorgeous children, so maybe there's hope?
hughee99
(16,113 posts)They DIDNT shoot her. The other day, another cop shot not only the guy who CALLED 911, but also his 3 legged dog.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)at it again. She's lucky she's still alive.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)wingzeroday
(189 posts)Hopefully putting a stop to this kind of unacceptable behavior will be a big issue on our side during the 2016 elections.
I think it would really resonate with the American people.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)when he was pushing her to the floor with his knee? Some of these cops must weigh a lot with all the muscle and fat they carry around.
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)The girl is black?