Video shows cop punching woman on L.A. freeway

[Jazzy]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Highway Patrol said Friday it is investigating video of one of its officers straddling a woman and punching her in the head as she lay on the shoulder of a Los Angeles freeway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a54KRz0EGA

The woman had been walking on Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles, endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was trying to restrain her, CHP Assistant Chief Chris O'Quinn said at a news conference.

Passing Driver David Diaz recorded the Tuesday incident and provided it to media outlets including The Associated Press.

The officer is on administrative leave while the patrol investigates. He has not been identified.

O'Quinn said the incident report listed no injuries for the woman, who would not give her name. She is undergoing psychiatric evaluation, he said.

He said the officer was answering a report of a pedestrian on the freeway. When he found the woman, she started walking down an off-ramp and then turned around, walked back onto the freeway and started wandering into lanes, O'Quinn said. That's when the incident occurred.

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The pedestrian disobeyed the officer's order to stop as she crossed a road then resisted arrest, the Highway Patrol said.

Did that give the officer the right to do what he did?

 

[gaze-universe]

Assaulting someone because they're on the ground squirming underneath you? Uh, no matter what your profession is, no, that doesn't make it okay or acceptable to repeatedly hit anyone in the head or anywhere else.

 

[DrLeftover]

Once the suspect being arrested ceases to resist, or is incapable of it, the officer is supposed to stop using force.

This clearly crosses the line into the realm of Police Brutality.

 

[Khalessi]

This video is sickening and disturbing, to say the least.




..and they say that 'bikers are bad'?

Video is a very good example of how one member of a particular 'group' .. can so easily, make all of them look bad aye?