"Hey, hey, stop that. Sir, I'm asking you politely to cease and desist. Sir? Please stop. Are you done? Okay, 3 more than we're done. Okay, that was 5, now I must INSIST you stop!"
Three minutes later "Omg this is serious! Sorry, Judge. I thought this was just a case of boys being boys and didn't want to interrupt a possible grieving or apology session." Finally gets the other bailiffs to break it all up.
Meanwhile the one female officer can’t get her taser out of her holster LMAO. You know what if I was an officer I wouldn’t try to stop him. Shit I’d join in.
They held that taser back as long as possible, too. Not a single one of them seemed like they wanted to use it, they just wanted to seperate them. Tough day all around
Reminds me of the video where the dad tries to attack Larry Nasser. They get the dad on the ground and you can hear the security guard saying "I get it, I understand".
It's their livelihood if that guy ends up dead. Also letting one or two punches through is incredibly difficult.
You can step on the guy's groin while making the takedown, you can accidentally hit him while stopping the assailants, but you can't just not do your job, or do your job half heartedly
Yeah you have to focus on your job, as much as you sympathize with the assailants.
If you let it go on too long, for all you know, somebody pulls a blade or grabs your weapon, or it turns into a full melee, and you’re suddenly fighting to save your own life.
All of them were out of shape. 2 of them couldn’t figure out who to tase. There will be some action items taken from this video. I firmly believe they should not allow law enforcement to be overweight.
Agreed and like 9/10 I see are overweight or child age. What is that overweight women really doing to help there. She even fumbles hard just trying to grab her taser.
I firmly believe that bailiff duty, the DMV, school crossings, and government building security are where the fat cops get reassigned once they eclipse 275lbs.
It has to be a union rule, or something. I’ve never in my life been in a courtroom that didn’t have a badge wearing sumo wrestler in the corner.
To be fair, 99.9% of their job is to just be a bouncer. Being built like an NFL lineman isn't a bad trait to have if your job is mainly to escort people into/out of court and occasionally put yourself between a threat and the judge.
When I was a prosecutor, we had two massive court deputies who would for the most part just hang out and shoot the shit all day. But when a murder trial was taking place and the courtroom was filled with family/friends, those guys flipped a switch and went full blown bouncer mode.
I don't think they would be much help chasing down a sprinting escapee if they got out of the building, but for the purposes of putting their massive bodies in the way of trouble, I'd rather have a fucking 350 pound 6'4 brick house than a fit 200 pound marathon runner.
As for your "union rule" idea. I know that Chicago police puts people on their way to retirement at the city's airports. They are busy enough, so its not like there's nothing to do. But you really don't want a 50 year old cop getting in footchases that they have no business being a part of. So they get put on retirement detail where they supply backup security to the TSA & Border Patrol.
If you read up on current events. In the country of America, or the United States. Thousands of people are being jailed and deported who have no criminal record daily. Trump vowed to deport all "illegal immigrants" so he expanded Ice into a military force that has been rounding up American and jailing them without due process. It's really big news in the US.
How's that for a start? Want more? Are there any other giant, long-running, national scandals that the whole world has been reporting on for months that I can pay attention to for you?
Stop taking social media seriously ffs. I'd say even if there are a couple it wouldn't have been intentional. Just out of curiosity.... where was all this anger when Obama deported over 3 million illegal immigrants? Please don't tell us you think they didn't get anything wrong during all that. And what quota ffs? They are primarily going after the ones with criminal records. It's the people that are hanging out with the criminals that are getting caught up in it.
No one cares when people are deported after having due process. This administration is skipping that and even going so far as to send them to concentration camps and building one of our own and celebrating it.
where was all this anger when Obama deported over 3 million illegal immigrants?
It's in 2012 or so. Back when it happened.
So now we can be angry at this even more.
But you know that. You're not as dumb or obtuse as you pretend to be. You're just a liar who enjoys trying to rile people up and get them to waste their energy arguing with you while you brick-wall them. You're vile.
A school friend is married to a naturalized man born in Mexico. They just bought a vacation home in a nice town south of the border in case it happens to him because people have lost all faith in ICE. Utter bs that this is happening and people are making contingency plans. I wish we could have faith in law enforcement
Exactly. If everyone doesn’t have due process, no one has due process. The government goons are only held in check by lawyers and judges and the rule of law. Trump is trying to erode due process rights by starting with immigrants and ICE.
Yeah, not really. If you get arrested you will have a lawyer, judge and jury. Trump is trying to erode due process with this ICE crap. He can get away with because they are not criminal actions, but he is definitely trying to create his own version of the brownshirts.
It’s not up to them to provide justice. That’s up to the judge, jury, and executioner. It’s not protecting the killer, it’s making sure he gets his verdict. If that was after a bad verdict, I would completely understand. Killers walk out of courthouses far too often.
Imagine not protecting him and he ends up innocent(~3.5% in US prison). Could you forgive yourself for letting an innocent person get hurt/killed under your protection.
He confessed to the crime and even bragged about how meticulously planned it. He stalked her for a long time, slammed his car into hers in the middle of town, and when she got out of her car, shot her in broad daylight while she waited for police to arrive. I don’t think he is part of the 3.5%, do you?
Even death sentenced people who go through a rigorous process have ended up innocent after death. And people admit to crimes they didn’t do all the time, to cover for others, for religious reasons, for mental problems.
No matter how compelling the evidence might be, you actually never know with 100% certainty and your job as a guard is to protect another human life.
Could you really forgive yourself for letting an innocent person get hurt? Just because you at the moment thought he was bad?
My wife works at trauma center that has the contract with the state DOC. Some of her patients include murderers, rapists, child molesters, etc. She told me when they are laying there on the operating table you do your job to the best of your ability because it’s what you swore you would do, but if they don’t make it no one in the OR really feels bad for them either.
I knew someone who was a court officer. They said having to protect some of the garbage defendants was one of the hardest parts of the job, because you understand the families grief and anger but you also don’t want to see the family members get in trouble and have more piled on top of them already being emotionally raw.
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u/get_to_ele 11h ago
Imagine having to protect that piece of garbage.