SEE MY LAST ENTRY:
MY OTHER FAVORITE SHERIFF
Sheriff Cannon initiated the chase because one Timothy McManus was driving so recklessly as to have almost caused an accident with him.
According to radio transmissions, McManus was driving over sidewalks and medians, very nearly causing several other accidents, all in an effort to flee from police.
During the pursuit, the asshole avoided stop sticks on 2 occasions and he was also fired upon by police at 2 different locations. He was finally cornered at a dead end street when he put the truck in to a ditch because the tires were no longer useful.
Officers at the crash scene had him at gunpoint ordering him to surrender. He reached back in to the truck (this does not bode well with police) as if to grab something from under the seat. The K-9 was released and latched on to his arm. Within seconds, the dog was called back and officers pounced upon him to restrain him. He did not go quietly. In fact, he continued to resist and the necessary physical methods were employed to get him to comply with orders.
During his press conference, Sheriff Cannon freely admits that he slapped McManus with an open hand and said, "What the (unknown expletive) is wrong with you? You could have killed a lot of people." He admitted that he slapped the moron while he was handcuffed and in the back of the patrol car.
(He's lucky that's all he got.)
In his news conference he stated, "In retrospect, it was clearly the wrong thing to do and I certainly wouldn't have expected it from my own folks."
Not one single officer was injured in the pursuit and McManus was treated and stitched up for a dog bite. He's lucky he's still walking. Oh yea, maybe 2 cruisers got a little dented, but they were driveable.
McManus was charged with numerous offenses ranging from Driving Under Suspension to Resisting Arrest. His bond was set at over $100,000.
At his bond hearing, his wife/girlfriend or whatever, stated he wasn't a bad person and that he has 3 kids and needs to drive to work. Magistrate Linda Lombard said he didn't need to be doing what he was doing. He doesn't even have a driver's license and has a lengthy history of traffic offenses. The wife also accused the police of letting the K-9 "chomp on his arm." (Like she was there and saw it all.)
County corrections officers report that McManus is already a "disciplinary problem." Oh yea, "he's really not a bad person" with all those kind of actions.
You have to admire the Sheriff for first providing a truthful statement to state investigators, then calling a press conference to publicly announce his slight indiscretion.
This scumbag probably needed more than just a slap and I'm betting he slaps his girlfriend and kids around.
I have not lost one iota of respect for this man. I learned a long time ago, that if you screw up on the job, either take responsibility for it to your immediate supervisor, or get a lawyer and keep your mouth shut.
Sheriff Al Cannon is also an attorney.
http://www.abcnews4.com/story/16653926/sheriff-admits-to-slapping-high-speed-chase-suspect
5 comments:
Seriously - Cannon is from the old old school. You and I both know that back in the day when police had balls this shitard would have definitely taken a few shots to the gut after they pulled the dog off of him. And back in the day, the maggots expected it. They knew the rules - run, get caught, catch a little street justice. No harm no foul. Nowadays, even the crooks are pussified.
I always thought that a little street justice was a useful deterrence.
Back in the day, any chase, foot chase or car chase, ALWAYS ended badly for the asshole. Now, if you so much as pull that Taser out, you're on trial and the wussies are cryin' for their Momma and their lawyer.
Will Sheriff Cannon pay the price for his actions? More than likely.
Is there any cop out there who isn't secretly praising his actions? Doubtful.
I'm sure you remember the days before dashcams, when the question would be...."what slap?"
I'm curious to know how this is going to affect the outcome of the case against the shithead.
Slap or not, he still has my vote.
I think I have written before about the K9 officer who returned home to find an illegal alien behind the bedroom door waiting to rape the officer's wife when she got home. The dog ate him. Then the poor clumsy bastard fell down the stairs on the way to the car.
It's not like Al broke the idiots jaw and he didn't punch him. The moron WAS spitting. I prefer the trachea pull in that situation, but to each his own. :)
The dog ate him.
Did the dog suffer any food poisoning?
I don't blame Cannon a bit for slapping McManus, who richly deserved it. I'd vote for McManus and be very happy I could do so.
Internets changed the rules.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4
Read the sill active comments on that now old incident. The more people can talk about a matter, the more change to make the matter into an agenda issue. Whatever action went down it now represents something on a larger cultural scale blah blah blah.
I don't see how a slap is that much different. The whole issue of force is one which has to be viewed in the context of what preceded the use of said force and what level of lasting damage came from the usage.
If that had been an ass kicking or a whack with a pistol handle, I think this would actually play out less. A slap a more symbolic in nature.
The headline of 'Dirt bag injured after long police chase" where the injury stemmed from getting beat up for the antics one causes has different emotional pull. The headline of 'Sheriff Slaps Suspect After Arrest is Made' by contrast is sort the frame of the big, bad out of control man in power beating up on the little innocent one.
None of that would matter of there were not lawyers seeking to get paid in the process. Like most so called scandals, it is the business side behind the scenes that drives the action.
Why do you think there are a whole crop of civil liberty lawyers who specialize in the right violations cases of gangbangers who always seem to conveniently and mysteriously either tape their encounter with the cops or have some other party near who tapes the encounter on a camera phone?
As Little Caesar Said:
"You can dish it out, but you got so you can't take it no more."
"You can dish it out, but you can't take it" If that is so... Don't drive in SC!
Little Caesar DOES NOT reference the pizza franchise. Just so you know.
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