do cops need to be tested for steroids?

5/31/2009
(UPDATE 2 - A hulking Chicago police officer who claimed he pummeled a female bartender half his size because he thought he was in danger was found guilty Tuesday of aggravated battery.

Judge John Fleming rejected Anthony Abbate's claim that he acted in self defense when he threw, punched and kicked Karolina Obrycka as she tended bar in February 2007 in an attack caught on a tavern security tape that was played around the world.)

(UPDATE added additional examples below)

i can think of no other rational explanation for the hyper aggressive behavior displayed here. cops stop paramedics with patient in ambulance and then ....





Oklahoma's Tulsa World newspaper reports on a bizarre scuffle this past week after a highway patrol officer pulled over an ambulance that was carrying a patient headed for the hospital, but didn't have its siren on.

The patrolman apparently intended to issue a 'failure to yeild' citation to the ambulance driver, and was angered when he believed one of the paramedics gave him a middle finger.

Despite being told that the woman in the ambulance needed to get to the hospital, the trooper insisted that one of the paramedics be detained in his car. When he tried to handcuff a paramedic, a fight ensued, which was filmed by the husband of the patient.

Eventually the patrolman allowed the ambulance to go to the hospital. An investigation over the incident "has been turned over to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol's Internal Affairs Unit and a county prosecutor," the Tulsa World reports.

Read the full story here, or watch video.


oh orwellian police state - when will we truly tire of you?

in this lovely little nugget we find:

Anthony Abbate, 40, faces one count of aggravated battery and two counts of official misconduct for the February 2007 incident. Prosecutors dropped several other charges before the trial began Monday, including intimidation, conspiracy and communicating with a witness.

Video footage from a tavern security camera shows Abbate punching, kicking and throwing a bartender to the floor.




and these dodo heads were all acquitted:

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