Showing posts with label Confrontation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confrontation. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

A Texas Freddy Gray?

July 22, 2015 Confrontation , Found Dead 0 Comments

Video Shows How Traffic Stop Escalated Into Confrontation

By Michael Graczyk, July 22, 2015 Yahoo

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A police dashboard video released Tuesday shows that a Texas state trooper tried to pull a black motorist out of her car, then drew his stun gun and threatened her after she refused to follow his orders during a traffic stop.

The roadside encounter swiftly escalated into a shouting confrontation as the officer attempted to drag 28-year-old Sandra Bland from her vehicle, with the officer at one point saying, "I will light you up," as he held the stun gun.

Days later, Bland was found dead in a jail cell in a case that has caused her family and supporters to dispute that she hanged herself with a plastic garbage bag, as authorities have said.

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Mayor "Downplayed The Confrontation"

July 16, 2015 56-year-Old Man , Confrontation 0 Comments

Philly Mayor Has Confrontation With Homeless Man

By Todd Quinones, July 14, 2015 
CBS Local

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Mayor speaks out about a tense encounter caught on camera.

The video shot by an eyewitness and first aired on CBS 3 shows a homeless man cursing at and getting into a tussle with a member of the Mayor’s security detail and Mayor Michael Nutter himself gets involved.

Tuesday night CBS 3 Eyewitness News showed the video to the 56-year-old man.

(Reporter:) “Did you have any intention on harming him?”

“No, no not at all,” he said.

“You know things turned pretty quickly,” said Mayor Nutter.

Nutter downplayed the confrontation Tuesday night outside his City Hall office where just across the street the man has been spending a lot of nights often sleeping under the stairwell in the concourse next to the Municipal Services Building.

In the video, Nutter can be seen pulling him off the police officer and helping subdue him.

“In my main role here, quite frankly, was really just try to calm him down,” said Nutter.

The man says the homeless in the city are running out of places to stay.

(Reporter:) “Do you fear you are going to be forced out of here for when the Pope comes?”

“Yeah, we’re going to be forced out of here when the Pope comes,” he said.

(Reporter:) “What about a shelter?”

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