A Florida police sergeant who was seen in body camera video grabbing another officer by her throat last year was charged with battery and assault on a law enforcement officer, officials said Thursday. Christopher Pullease, 47, was also charged with evidence tampering and assaulting a civilian during the Nov. 19 incident, the Broward State Attorney’s office said in a statement. Pullease, who was relieved of his supervisory duties in January, was accused of “intentionally touching or striking” the female officer against her will and assaulting her when he held pepper spray to her face, the statement said. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ng-officer-throat-charged-battery-a-rcna39496 If only she had complied..........
This is what needs to happen when police step out of line — she did the correct thing by intervening. If more cops did this when their “brothers in blue” did something illegal and then there were penalties for that illegal behavior and praise for the officers that intervened you would see the public support of LEO’s reverse to overwhelming support. Good for this officer and good for the system for charging the sergeant. Now let’s keep it up
That has worked very well for police in the past “We have fully investigated ourself and found we did nothing wrong” was a running joke for a while — then they just stopped even pretending to care and were so shocked when public support plummeted.
They should test the sergeant for steroid abuse (which is not currently part of the standard testing).
Judging by his behaviour, probably because he's a known bully & thug. I really admire that female officer and hope the force gets more like her.
Think about all the times any of them did that and their victims didn't have camera footage? This is exactly the reason that BLM exists. It's asinine that the police are tasked with "investigating" their own officers. They are going to lie. My life was threatened by a rogue cop in front of six witnesses (3 other officer and 3 paramedics) and they all lied and said it didn't happen. It happens every single day to non-white, the poor and people with mental illnesses.
He's only going to do that to someone weaker and smaller in nature. He won't pull that bullsh** with someone his own size or bigger.
The problem is the way our society stigmatizes mental illness. There are going to be these kind of problems until that gets resolved.
Yes. This was all over the local news here. Clearly he crossed the line when he choked the female office and he did on camera, so there is excuses. The female officer actually saved him from a bigger issue, because he was about to mistreat the guy in handcuffs and that was on film too. She pulled him away from the handcuffed guy.
That's not how it works for police officers. As teens, my sibling and I ran to a police station after our father beat us up pretty badly. The desk sergeant kicked out of the station and said to come back if he killed one of us. Even as an adult, I never knew when my door would be kicked in and my father, in a rage, just beats me until he's exhausted or I'm unconscious. I've dragged myself bleeding and broken to the hospital several times because cops won't call for paramedics if your assailant is another cop. My uncle, also a Chicago cop, cheated on all his wives. He would start a new relationship when the wife was in the third trimester and then beat her soon after she gave birth to their child, leave her and start the same pattern with the next woman. He put most of them in ICU a few times. Chicago cops just turn a blind eye...unless somebody dies. Again, I think the problem is our society. Cops can't risk it.
I've posted heavily about how Trump let down the Capitol officers and that reverberated for every officer in our country. Think about this. That female officer is in big trouble now. Big trouble.
