Sheriff T.K. Waters is not surrendering to the Far Left’s anti-police movement. People who support law and order should applaud his stance.
After one of his officers was criticized and threatened with litigation, Waters held a press conference, rolled the tape, and said:
“The takeaway? If you violently resist our officers, you will be arrested. And if you crowd and harass our officers, or any first responder, after a verbal warning, you are committing a crime and we will arrest you.”
The recording from the officer’s bodycam shows the woman refusing to obey commands and resisting arrest.
She was quick to employ the popular George Floyd Defense – yelling “I can’t breathe.”
Clearly she could breathe, because she was screaming at the top of her lungs while fighting like a wildcat.
All this took place at a local school, where the woman allegedly violated traffic laws at a location where children are dropped off and picked up. The suspect, a habitual traffic offender with revoked driving privileges, illegally parked her car leaving it running and unattended, the police said.
But she refused to stop and produce identification when requested by the officer. After he warned her she would go to jail if she resisted, she resisted and punched the officer, the video shows.
During the arrest, a crowd quickly formed, as often happens, and began shouting about police brutality. Two people who crowded the officer also were arrested under a new law requiring bystanders to keep a safe distance from police performing their duties.
It is not one of the duties of a police officer to be a punching bag for violent lawbreakers, male or female. Equal rights, you know.
Hundreds of YouTube videos show people arguing over minor traffic violations and turning them into felony arrests, rather than going to court and arguing in front of a judge the way rational people do.
One amusing aspect of this caper is that liberals led the effort to hang cameras on every police officer, expecting to catch them committing crimes.
In fact, it has had the opposite result, proving in nearly every case that the officer acted properly and documenting the perpetrator’s crime. Ambulance-chasing lawyers must be dismayed at this outcome.
Waters does not react in a knee-jerk manner when cases such as these arise. All complaints are investigated and he is quick to discipline any officer who does not follow law or policy.
But he obviously isn’t going to let the anti-police faction have the upper hand. And that’s a good thing.
Fortunately, there are YouTube channels such as this to help keep the record straight and counter the anti-police propaganda in the liberal media.
