No charges for WA cop who punched woman, broke eye socket

[IIOY]

From Boing Boing.  Some video at link:

In Washington state, a King County prosecutor says his office will not seek state felony charges against a 9-year department veteran for punching Miyekko Durden-Bosley in the face so hard he broke her eye socket.



At the time, she was handcuffed in the back of his police cruiser. Durden-Bosley, 23, was intoxicated, and arrested outside the home of a Seattle man whose mom had called the police. The police officer suffered no injuries, according to court documents.



From the Seattle Times:



Federal prosecutors say they will review an incident in which a Seattle police officer punched and seriously injured a handcuffed, intoxicated woman, after King County prosecutors said Friday they won’t charge the officer.



Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for acting U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes, said her office will look at the June 22 incident involving Officer Adley Shepherd for a possible federal criminal civil-rights violation.

 “You punched me in my face for no reason,” she says on the in-car police video. “You punched me in my eye.”



Officer Shepherd has been on paid administrative leave since the incident. [Seattle Times]



Earlier this year, a State Patrol use of force investigation stated the officer used force that caused “unnecessary and foreseeable injury” to Durden-Bosley. [SeattlePI.com]

[snarkymalarky]

WTMF. This shit has got to stop.

[tef]

I know not all cops are like this, but jhc, this is hard to put any trust in them or that they aren't racist and/or power hungry public servants.

[sunny]

Paid vacation and no repercussions...

[StrawberryBlondie]

I read an article a few days ago that at least a few officers on the Seattle PD sued because the new guidelines don't let them use force as much.

[mx27]

same shit, different day.

[aurora]

Dec 7, 2014 9:36:00 GMT -5 nuggetbrain said:

But when the story about Darren Wilson supoosedly getting punched in the eye and breaking his socket was going around, people were all "SEE HE FEARED FOR HIS LYFE."

The difference is that police officers only use force when necessary to subdue, and not to actually kill. You never know how far some angry citizen will go.

Oh, wait...

[Deleted]

She was handcuffed in the back of their cruiser. So what was she doing that necessitated a violent punch to the face? Did she throw out a "your mom is so fat" joke?

I'd REALLY like to hear how this doesn't cross the line into police brutality when it sure sounds like she was secured in their vehicle.

[NewOrleans]

Dec 7, 2014 9:36:00 GMT -5 nuggetbrain said:

But when the story about Darren Wilson supoosedly getting punched in the eye and breaking his socket was going around, people were all "SEE HE FEARED FOR HIS LYFE."

In fact, they invented a picture of him in the hospital with his vewy sewious eye injury

[sam19]

Dec 7, 2014 9:36:00 GMT -5 nuggetbrain said:

But when the story about Darren Wilson supoosedly getting punched in the eye and breaking his socket was going around, people were all "SEE HE FEARED FOR HIS LYFE."

This tweet cane up in my news feed.

A picture of Darren Wilson's "injuries" compared to this woman's injuries

[WOT?*]

I just had a friend block me (or she said she is going to) because her husband is a cop and it hurts her to see the anti-cop stuff I post. I don't know how tough the cops have it, despite me being a military wife, military mother, raised with friends whose parents were cops and being friends with cops myself.

I post just as many pro-cop as "there is white privilege and we must review our underlying bias in thinking all AA are thugs who warrant disparate treatment" (which is what my anti-cop posts apparently are.

Oh, and thank you for the sigpic, whichever one of you ladies is friends with one of my FB friends from here.  :Y: :Y:

[IIOY]

Dec 7, 2014 10:54:59 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

I just had a friend block me (or she said she is going to) because her husband is a cop and it hurts her to see the anti-cop stuff I post. I don't know how tough the cops have it, despite me being a military wife, military mother, raised with friends whose parents were cops and being friends with cops myself.

I post just as many pro-cop as "there is white privilege and we must review our underlying bias in thinking all AA are thugs who warrant disparate treatment" (which is what my anti-cop posts apparently are.

Oh, and thank you for the sigpic, whichever one of you ladies is friends with one of my FB friends from here. 

What's stopping her from posting positive LEO stories? Then again, you can't reason with someone who thinks that facts have a bias.

Also, "my husband is a cop" is the new internet Hitler.

[WOT?*]

Dec 7, 2014 11:18:17 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Dec 7, 2014 10:54:59 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

I just had a friend block me (or she said she is going to) because her husband is a cop and it hurts her to see the anti-cop stuff I post. I don't know how tough the cops have it, despite me being a military wife, military mother, raised with friends whose parents were cops and being friends with cops myself.

I post just as many pro-cop as "there is white privilege and we must review our underlying bias in thinking all AA are thugs who warrant disparate treatment" (which is what my anti-cop posts apparently are.

Oh, and thank you for the sigpic, whichever one of you ladies is friends with one of my FB friends from here. 

What's stopping her from posting positive LEO stories? Then again, you can't reason with someone who thinks that facts have a bias.

Also, "I am a cop's wife" is the new internet Hitler.

Absolutely nothing.  And for the record, I also share pro-cop links and comments from the Brimfield Police Department FB page as well.  I'm not anti-cop, I'm anti-BAD-cop and anti-Broken-System and pro-Check-Your-Privilege (I've been kicked about checking mine more than once, including on here, when it was absolutely needed) and pro-Police-Shootings-Should-Be-Independently-Investigated.  I just recently posted a "support our police" post...she probably thinks it's in response to her post but it was simply something that a friend posted that showed up on my page so I clicked Share.

[blink]

Fuck is wrong with people?