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LET’S HEAR THEIR SIDE
Posted on February 5th, 2010 7 commentsA LIFE CHANGING DAY
Lt. Todd Umstead said the detective, who was on duty at the time of the incident, was not uniformed and was driving an unmarked police vehicle but “clearly identified himself as a police officer” when he approached the youths.
From this morning’s article, “City police: Teen struck detective with skateboard,” (click here).
The detective was investigating “a possible trespassing” according to the official police press release (click here).
Were the four juveniles the ones who were trespassing? The press release says they were on private property so whose property was it? Were they doing something wrong? Did he show them his badge? Why was he going to arrest one? And where the heck is this detective’s name?
This is one of those stories that has Talkbackers outraged and talking about a breakdown in society. But I think this story definitely has two sides – and I want to hear what the four boys have to say. Where is this detective’s name?
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7 responses to “LET’S HEAR THEIR SIDE”
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Some punk hits a cop with a skateboard. What other side do you need to hear?
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I want to hear how and why he stopped them. I want to know how he identified himself. I want to know his attitude towards them. I want to know why he was going to arrest on of them (obscenities?). These two fifteen-year-olds just had their lives changed forever. I want to know what their parents think. I want to know whose property they were skateboarding on. I want to know if they have ever been in trouble before.
Get the idea?
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he didn’t say he was going to arrest them. he “approached” them. if everything was ok, he would have let them go. If not, then he would arrest them. And still, under no condition should anyone ever strike a cop.
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how are cops supposed to investigate a call if they can’t approach something suspicious?
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So in your mind you think the punk who hit the cop with the skateboard may have been justified in doing so? Even if the cop was rude and nasty, and we do not in any way know that, should he have been whacked in the gourd with a skateboard.
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I am not saying anything was justified - especially hitting a cop with a skateboard. I am just saying I would like to hear the four youngsters’ accounts. Police have been known to exaggerate and lie - and as I said before - these are life changing charges for these two 15-year-olds. And because they are minors, we may never get to know any of the details unless family or someone speaks up.
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Concerned February 6th, 2010 at 02:01
From Becky “I am just saying I would like to hear the four youngsters’ accounts.”
_________________________________________I got a transcript from the CCTV in that area. The area they were skateboarding was a parking lot belonging to a nearby apartment complex. The tenants all have dogs and they don’t have grass to walk them in, so they just use the parking lot. There was dog poop in select areas of the parking lot. The skateboarders were playing leap frog with the dog poop when the detective interrupted them:
Detective: HEY!
Skateboarder 1: Dude (mellow stoned voice)
Skateboarder 2: Dude (mellow stoned voice)
Skateboarder 3: Dude? (confused voice)
Skateboarder 4: DUDE! (pointing towards the cop to warn the others)
Detective: (Dressed in a three piece suit, presenting badge of authority) You kids can’t skate here, you have to move along now.
Skateboarder 1: Dude, that’s not cool
Skateboarder 2: Aww Dude
Skateboarder 3: Aw c’mon dude!?
Skateboarder 4: (looking towards the sky) Wow man, that cloud looks like Garfield Dude.
Detective: (Walking towards skateboarders) Will you just go…. (steps in dog poop)SON OF A!!!!!…. (kicks the dog poop off of his shoe. It lands on Skateboarder 1 and 2. It also hits the detective)
Skateboarder 1: DUDE, WHAT THE PHUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM, YOU RUINED MY VANS.. MAN..
Skateboarder 2: Dude, not cool… not cool at all.
Skateboarder 3: BWWHAAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Skateboarder 4: Dude… (pointing to a tree) look man, it’s freaking batman.(flys come in to feast on the poopie and swarms the detective and the two skateboarders)
Detective: (arms flying wilding to swat away the flys) AAAHHHH!!!!! Help me!!!! Bot flies!!!!
Skateboarder 1: DUUUUDDDDEEE!!!!!!! I’ll save you ocifer (swings skateboard to swat at flys BANG!!! hits the detective in the head) Oops dude.
Skateboarder 2: DUDE! The flesh eating flies are eating him alive!!!! We have to save him. (Using his skateboard to swat more flies he hits the officer in the leg) GOT’EM!!! Die flies, Die!!
Skateboarder 3: Dudes…. Dudes….. Dudes…. DUDES….. DDDUUUUUUDES…. He’s out man! We should call an ambulance or something.
Skateboarder 4: Dude… (staring off into space) you ever wonder what it would be like to fly…. like flies, dude? It would be like wow man…. like TOTALLY awesome dudes. Just buzzin around and schit, then like, you get the munchies, and dude…. there’s a pile of poop… let’s munch dude…. Wow… flies, awesome dude.
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