January 10th, 2015, 11:29 PM | #1 |
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Female rider wants apology after trooper mistakenly arrests her
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/ne...ng-arre/njh6T/ A woman says she was mistaken for the suspect in a police chase and is now seeking an apology from the state trooper who apprehended her. Erika Strickland says that instead of pulling over the right motorcyclist, the trooper stopped her, slammed her to the ground and pointed a gun at her face. Strickland, a jail supervisor in the metro Atlanta area, wants the Georgia State Patrol to apologize for how it treated her. Strickland became emotional when she told Channel 2’s Tom Jones how she was humiliated and thought she was going to lose her life. ”Words cannot explain the way I felt of having a gun in my face and then being slammed to the ground for something that I didn't do,” Strickland said. “I had to be on the ground like that. That is just really embarrassing to me.” Her nightmare began when troopers chased a motorcycle for 21 miles on Highway 185, then lost sight of it. That's when trooper W.E Tatum pulled over Strickland, who was on a similar motorcycle. Tatum admits pushing Strickland to the ground and pointing his weapon at her because he says she didn't put her hands up. She said her bike would have jerked if she had. ”I knew if I would have let go and the bike did that jerking movement, I would have gotten shot,” Strickland said. Another officer arrived and told Tatum that Strickland wasn't the one they were chasing. Jones filed an open records request to get the video of Tatum taking her to the ground. The department told Jones that it couldn't be retrieved from a hard drive. They sent video from a second trooper that doesn't show the takedown. The video shows that the person they were chasing was wearing a reflective vest. Strickland was not wearing such a vest. The person being chased didn't appear to have on a pink Mohawk helmet, as Strickland was wearing at the time. Strickland, a breast cancer survivor, became emotional when she heard herself crying on the video, asking the troopers why they treated her this way. ”I mean, that's bad when you haven't done anything. That's bad,” Strickland said.
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January 11th, 2015, 12:02 AM | #2 |
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I didn't know you could be a state trooper if you were ****ing blind.
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January 11th, 2015, 06:13 AM | #3 |
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Damn. He was power trippin' on adrenaline as folks often do when they have power.
That sucks ass. Hope the chick gets some $$ or something out of it at least.
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January 11th, 2015, 06:35 AM | #4 |
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That sucks. I hopes she gets that apology. Only a person with real integrity and class will ever admit and apologize for making a mistake which did more harm than good. If that trooper did not do it then, chances are he/she never will unless forced to.
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January 11th, 2015, 07:19 AM | #5 |
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I think all officers should have to ride a motorcycle during training. I think they would then understand the machine and how different it is when they are pulled over. She stopped that was the first clue it wasn't her.
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January 11th, 2015, 08:34 AM | #6 |
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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local...ng-arre/njh5x/
That isn't a vest that the criminal is wearing, it's a reflective belt. Very common for military riders. 185 is immediately outside of Ft. Benning. Trooper crosstalk on the radio should have differentiated between a vest and a belt. Especially in a military community, where the belts are common. I guess all bikes/riders are the same Interesting how they could come up with one video, but not the relevant one She is also local law enforcement
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January 11th, 2015, 08:50 AM | #7 |
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Man, police stations really should work on getting more reliable computers. Seems like they keep losing videos and are unable to show them when they would be really helpful! All this money on cameras and they're unable to be useful for anything because of computer problems.
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January 11th, 2015, 12:27 PM | #8 |
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an apology wont do anything. having the state (us tax payers) pay her wont do anything. punishing the person who made a terrible mistake will do something. you abuse power being reckless, you should have that power taken away. he should be put on unpaid suspension for 3 months. if this was the punishment that was readily given out for abuse of power, guess how much less abuse of power there would be?
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January 11th, 2015, 01:16 PM | #9 |
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I agree with Alex.
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January 11th, 2015, 07:34 PM | #10 |
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Alex.s is spot on! Even a 2 week suspension without pay is going to hit hard. When you have bills, a mortgage, rent, vehicle payments, health insurance, etc. Losing out on 2 week's worth of a paycheck while sitting at home twirling your thumb is hard to swallow. It'll definitely give them plenty of free time to think about what they did to be in this situation. I guess this is a "time out" for adults?
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January 11th, 2015, 08:48 PM | #11 | |
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January 11th, 2015, 09:31 PM | #14 |
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I might have busted some of her relatives. The thieves we caught stealing from my employer were from Troop County with the last name "Strickland" too.
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No that one is somehow still alive, just saw him the other day.
He didn't stick his head in the mower, he tried to look under the deck an the blade bolt came apart slinging the blade out.
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January 12th, 2015, 10:56 AM | #21 |
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Years ago a friend was riding his VFR750 to work when he came across a bunch of parked State PD cars on the side of the highway. As he approached they blocked the road, stopped him, yelled at him. He had no idea what was going on. As he removed his helmet another one of them pulled up and recognized him and asked him what was going on. At that moment another VFR750 came blasting by well over the speed limit - the one they had gotten a heads up about. My friend got to go as they realized they had the wrong VFR. Nothing became of it on either end as it didn't go beyond him being yelled and screamed at.
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Years ago, officers weren't trained to stick a gun in your back and throw you to the ground quite as readily. Don't get me wrong, I think the police get way too much bad PR and way too much hate from the public to the point that their job is stupid hard and stupid dangerous. But they really shouldn't be so aggressive, so quickly.
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It does sound like the trooper was too aggressive. However, contrary to the original post, it doesn't appear she was arrested, which would usually involve handcuffs and time in the back seat of a police car, but instead detained.
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In security I was always trained that even touching someone could get us sued for "false arrest" and, therefore, we had to have all our ducks in a row before even simply touching someone ("using force" LOL). I guess they could claim that it impeded their ability to move freely.
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Rude. Grow up.
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2. not entirely so. it can be a difficult job at times. but making bad decisions definitely makes any job harder. 3. i doubt it will make it into the top 10 any time soon in america. we are becoming more and more peaceful, even if our reporting of violence increases.
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In any of these situations, often all it takes is stepping back and really looking at the incident from both sides. It's hard to do, but more often than not things are not as cut and dry as they seem at first.
I like this story that popped up a little bit ago.
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result of 65 innocent houses being burnt down by police after dropping 2 bombs on the house of a group that was having a standoff with police. why did a standoff need to happen as opposed to trying to reign in individuals? (it didn't) why did the police need to drop bombs instead of following procedure when faced with an armed standoff situation? (they didn't -> this is totally illegal. the FBI was behind supplying the bomb material) so please- don't believe for one second that people are always innocent if they have good intentions. hitler had good intentions. does anyone believe hitler was right in murdering millions of people because... he had good intentions for a small group of people? no.
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All I was saying is that its not always immediately obvious who's right or wrong. Some times it is. Some times it is not.
Some times what we think or hear happened turns out to be flat out wrong and the truth was something completely different. That's all.
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If the cops are scared to be cops maybe they should be behind a desk somewhere instead of being out in the field.
Cops Wear body armor Are trained shooters Have self defense training Criminals Wear there pants hanging low Have guns Sing momma said knock you out, bump chests, talk loud, and smell each other Although guns shoot very fast, most people aren't good shots so they will aim center mass and hit your armor. Yes you can die quickly from a gun shot pre emotive strikes just because are not SOP except under high alert situations (these are not high risk cases = kids with fake guns, nor fluffy guys that can't breath, nor a large young black male, or a kid toting tea and skittles ) if ya can't handle the heat stay out of the kitchen! They have sent lots of good soldiers to prison in war zones for less than what they let these ass hats get away with and probly give them a ****in promotion as well. /Rant
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I'd love to see a cop get what he deserves and lose his job for this bs. Ridiculous, there is NO reason to stick a GUN into someone's back when they were not resisting arrest or posed a threat. She couldn't put her hands up because she had to properly stop the bike... He's probably so dumb he doesn't even know how to drive a manual vehicle never mind know how one works..
And we pay this man's salary? Yeah, I can definitely sympathize with anarchists when I read this crap.
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And the policeshould be held to higher standard with regard to following and obeying (and knowing) the law. That's their job!!! The system is corrupt, and seriously needs civilian oversight. And I'm pretty sure it's gotten way past the point of a few bad apples. It may not be that the majority of cops are bad, but the percentage is high enough that they usually are able to intimidate the few good ones left, and the system is set up to promote and protect the worst of them (much like our political system has gotten). |
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Mondays Power trippin' cops (or any power abuser...I just have to deal with cops more than others) Coconuts In that order.
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