An Alabama police officer is on leave while authorities investigate a weekend arrest captured on video in Reform showing a handcuffed man being hit with a stun gun.
The video begins with a white female officer from the Reform Police Department in Pickens County ordering the Black man to “stand up” after he was handcuffed in the roadway in Pickens County.
She then tells him to lay down on the front of a vehicle, which he does face down.
The officer then holds a stun gun to the man’s back while she goes through his pockets. She tells him to “stay still” at which point he says, “I ain’t doing shit, bro. I got a gun right there.”
The officer laughs as she retrieves the gun and says, “Oh yea.”
She then deploys the stun gun directly into the man’s back, telling him to “shut the (expletive) up” as he screams.
The man then begins to cry, repeatedly saying, “Oh my God.”
The officer then says, “Do you want it again?” as the man continues to cry. “Shut your removed ass up,’’ the officer says
ER nurses deal with far more criminals, mentally ill people and homeless people than any single cop because all the cops drop those people off at the ER when they don’t want to deal with them.
And nurses still don’t act like power-hungry monsters whenever they face those people.
Maybe the problem isn’t the job, maybe the problem is the sort of people who would be willing to take the job.
Oh not to mention the fact that the cops have a safer job then nurses, get paid more, get issued weapons and a car. In fact I would say the average retail worker has to deal with more criminals per shift (going on number of people interacted vs the % of criminals in the population) and have little to no tools other then de-escalation. I guess since cops hang out with each other they do deal with more assholes though…