Greensboro Police Department records show that former Officer Travis B. Cole — who quit last month during investigations into his handling of an incident with Dejuan Yourse — was actually promoted while an internal investigation was ongoing.
According to employment history provided by the department, Cole was promoted to the rank of Police Officer III on Aug. 1, well after the June 17 incident with Yourse. It is not immediately clear why Cole was promoted or how this could have occurred during the investigation.
“A person is presumed innocent unless/until an investigation reveals otherwise,” police spokesperson Susan Danielsen said Tuesday, responding to an inquiry via email. “In this instance, the promotion occurred before the investigation was complete.”
The police department later opened a second investigation into Cole pertaining to the incident and placed him on paid administrative leave on Aug. 10, but Cole resigned on Aug. 19 before the dual investigations could be completed, records show. The department later found that Cole violated its directives on use of force, courtesy towards the public, compliance to laws and regulations and arrest, search and seizure. Officer CN Jackson is currently under investigation for the incident with Yourse as well, Chief Wayne Scott said in a press conference yesterday.
Greensboro City Council released the footage of the incident yesterday, in which Yourse can be heard saying that Cole punched him in the eye and lip. Cole threatened to hit him again during the arrest — all charges were later dropped against Yourse, who was sitting on his mother’s front porch.
Read more here. You can watch the video here beginning at 38:11.
Update (Sept. 28, 10 a.m.): In a press release this morning the city of Greensboro said, “Effective immediately, City Manager Jim Westmoreland is placing a 30 day hold on the promotion of any officers directly involved in the incident and events involving former police officer Travis Cole or in the investigative process.”
The announcement did not acknowledge the promotion of Cole in the middle of the internal investigation last month, which Triad City Beat uncovered and reported the day before.
Additionally, here are two more details from our longer article on the matter:
“Cole and all of his other academy graduates were promoted on the same day,” police spokesperson Susan Danielsen said via email. Cole’s salary went up from $46,592 to $48,067 with the promotion, she said.
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Wow, you are pathetic. So somebody needs to find his entire family, huh? This is why nobody takes you menaces seriously or listens to your “concerns”. You have a simple case of an uncooperative being apprehended with force and your suggestion is to find him and all his family. Quit falling for the liberal white media narratives. These white people are just trying to keep you angry and stuck in your childish ways. Do what they don’t want you to do: Grow up!
How was he uncooperative you’re out of your fucking mind
Don’t get me wrong, he was extremely cooperative at the beginning. At worst, he was feigning cooperation. But it was clear as time went on that the dude wasn’t being up front about something. I don’t know what or if he just has a lack of interpersonal skills, but when he called somebody up to come over there because “the police is harassing me” then I would be fearful for my safety, too. I’m not saying it’s fair, but in today’s climate a cop can never be too careful. Hearing somebody you’re trying to question call somebody to come up there is enough to at least apprehend until they finish whatever investigation they were conducting. Saying “back up off me” and physically resisting is what led to the escalation. I don’t care how many times he says “I didn’t do nuttin” or “I don’t like people questioning me when I ain’t did sh*t”, it was a simple situation to keep calm and this guy did everything he could to make sure it escalated. I think he also used his black privilege to ensure it looked like it was all about race.
Wasn’t up front? The guy was cleared of all charges, the mayor apologized to him, & the officer was suspended, because Yourse was being 100% truthful
& as far as “today’s climate”, deaths of police are at a 40 year low; yes, even after the tragedy in Dallas
Yes, I know he was cleared, which is why it’s confusing that he decided to milk the situation by starting up some “police are harassing me” nonsense. The officers had been more than respectful to him and were trying to get as much information as possible. He decided to turn it into a power struggle. I don’t even think the cop would have tried to apprehend him if he had said something like “y’all are harassing me”. It was the fact that he tried to call up one of his buddies in a commandeer-the-troops manner that sparked the struggle.
As for police deaths in the line of duty, the type of action taken by this cop is part of the reason why. No, he wasn’t going to be killed in this situation, but in many situations like it the cops are killed for being overly patient. The de-policing aspect of it has contributed, in part, to the decline. Although the decline is not as statistically significant as you think because the numbers never were astronomical enough for the statistics to really tell the picture. BTW, ambush style deaths of cops are actually up. There’s little doubt that “today’s climate” contributes to that.
There is no doubt that the gestapo style tactics of this and so many other cops have created this “today’s climate”. The thug cop was anything but patient. The guy was sitting on his mother’s porch waiting for her. He wasn’t trying to get away. They could have just gone back to their cars and waited for her to come home. That would have been patient.
Trying to take the mans phone and physically attacking him was WAY over the line. He was telling them that they could check with certain neighbors who knew him for proof but they didn’t want any proof of who he was, they just wanted to harass him, so he made a call for someone to come because he was being harassed. They had no right to do what they did and that is why charges were dropped against him and cole had his law enforcement credentials PERMANENTLY taken away and the other cops involved are being investigated. You can bet that the man will file a lawsuit against the cop and the department and or city and I hope he gets a lot of money from them. cole needs to in jail for assault.
You live in a pure fantasy land from the perspective of law enforcement process and procedures. The cops were doing nothing more than information gathering to expedite the process. They certainly could have “gone back to their cars and waited for her to come home”, but that could have been an unnecessarily tedious process. Everything they did was done to complete incident investigation and get it done as fast as possible. If you consider the manner in which they conducted themselves at that point to be “gestapo styles tactics” then you’re just a kook who has no idea what that even means.
The whole situation was at the mercy of Mr. Yourse. I understand some frustration on his part for what was certainly temporary inconvenience. But come on, it was just that, temporary inconvenience. He had no reason calling up his buddy and, in an agitated manner, ask them to come there because the cops were harassing them. I can’t imagine, under any circumstances, do anything similar. I would do every damn thing I could to ensure everything the cops needed me to do was done. But that’s the problem nowadays. We believe the cops are their to cater to our every need and that any inconvenience should be met with an obtuse attitude and uncooperative attitude. But I guess you can’t blame them. With as easy as it is to get a big payday for making cops do something that used to be perfectly reasonable. With irrational menaces like you giving apologies for the temporarily inconvenienced, things are going to continue to devolve to mob citizen rule.
Thanks for showing us your idiocy about law enforcement process & procedures. I guess thats why he has lost his law enforcement credentials. They had all the information they needed but just had to keep harassing the guy–yes gestapo style. “unnecessarily tedious process”, as opposed to what they actually did which resulted in him losing his job and his certification and the other cop’s being under investigation and a future lawsuit. Yeah right. You are really an irrational kook who is a menace to everyone. Nobody ever said that the man was doing anything ILLEGAL to begin with.
“Nobody ever said that the man was doing anything ILLEGAL to begin with”
Wow, and you want to talk about me showing idiocy regarding law enforcement process & procedures. Here, let me help you out: NOBODY said the man was doing anything illegal. But a call was made regarding a suspected burglary and that call was regarding Mr. Yourse. The cops have a duty to investigate that suspicion. They were trying to obtain as much information as possible so that they could put the issue to rest. Mr. Yourse could have helped that process but instead decided to go the route he hoped would get him a nice payday. A sad testament to the state of our affairs today. The officer is under investigation due to general ignorance today and the subsequent public pressure brought on the police department.
You are a real idiot. They never even tried to see if the house had been broken into and the man had already given them all the information they needed as they found him sitting passively on the front porch waiting for his mother, not sneaking around the house. It seems you are calling the police chief ignorant and BTW, it was the city council who decided to release the video, it was they who rightfully brought pressure on the police department. That thug cop is the one who decided to “go the route” that got him in trouble. You are a truly disgusting person and not worthy of wasting anymore time on.
supposedly you sure they didn’t just see him and thought he shouldn’t be doing that and let me say someone called to increase our case with the man? you don’t have to tell them what you were doing or why it is their responsibility. after they had id they should have turned around and left and apologized profusely.
the officer is under suspicion today because he broke the law and assaulted an unarmed citizen as the house that his id was to without prior cause.
There is no other way to put it. You’re a scum Daniel. I can’t believe you’re trying to find ways to justify what this cop did. He is simply in the wrong but racists like yourself will always find ways to justify the actions of crooked cops like Cole.
There is no other way to put it. You’re a scum Daniel. I can’t believe you’re trying to find ways to justify what this cop did. He is simply in the wrong but racists like yourself will always find ways to justify the actions of crooked cops like Cole
I’m scum, but the original poster who says that the officer and his family need to be put down is not, right?
“You can’t escalate a situation and then claim someone is ‘resisting arrest.’ That’s ridiculous.”If the cop doesn’t know what you’re doing, it must be illegal in some way, according to cop logic. If this view is prevalent, then it can be demonstrated that cops think everyone is a potential criminal worthy of investigation. Unfortunately, the law does not back them up on this strategy.
Courts have ruled ,calls about suspicious activity constitute hearsay, and it does not constitute probable cause. Being called for suspicions activity does not meet the requirements to ID! Being under investigation is not and never will be a crime!!!!
The Supreme Court has ruled that if a police officer doesn’t force you to do something, then you’re doing it “voluntarily.” This means if the police officer starts being a bully, intimidating you and you do what the cop “ask” because you’re “afraid,” the court says you still have done it voluntarily. (Florida v. Bostick, 1991) If you do what the police officer “ask you to do” such as allowing him to search your car or answer any questions, you’re voluntarily complying with his “requests.” So don’t comply just keep your mouth shut unless you say “AM I FREE TO GO?” or “I don’t consent to a search.”
Be as nice as possible to the police officer, but stand your ground on your rights! Where do some of your rights come from? Read the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
I can’t believe you made that post. You’re like those people who keep telling victims that if they had cooperated, everything would’ve turned out fine. You can’t tell me the gentleman in the video wasn’t respectful and patient until the officer put his hands on him.
I believe there’s a word for people like you, closet racist.
If he called his buddy to come kill the cop, as a police officer why would you spend your time trying to subdue the man? If someone was coming from an unknown location that was potentially armed, I would leave the area or better position myself.
When a group of people are told that there is a war against them, they rarely check the facts before ramping up their ‘defenses’. Police are being fed a false narrative about increasing dangers that is not borne out by facts. Yet it is likely that the climate of fear being created by this narrative is driving officers into paranoid fear that will eventually manifest in more tragedies, as their instincts and emotions take over for rational response. If a police officer cannot get a grip of his/her fear then they have no business being in law enforcement. It is ok to be afraid as that is what keeps us alive it is not ok to let that fear take control. Policing is an inherently risky job. If you cannot perform that job correctly while assuming those risks then get out of the field.
No, black people are being “fed a false narrative” by the white liberal media. Police don’t need narratives to inform their thinking. They are on the front lines. They see it every day.
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where is that illegal in the criminal code? it was about race! why would he still being harassed after he proved he lived there? you aren’t very bright.. yourse doesn’t have to prove innocence, the cop has to prove guilt. where did he do that? also you don’t have to cooperate with any investigation. what was he being charged with to resist arrest? when did they read him his Miranda rights?
Did we watch the same video?? Smh of course you didn’t see anything wrong with what the cop did. The cop was on a power trip from the beginning asking about his name pronunciation and telling him to give him his phone. Yourse was cooperating and the officer physically assaulted him. If he were white that officer would have left immediately after realizing it was his mother’s house! Even white people could see this as a problem! Come on now! Lift that veil from your damn eyes!!
No, you’re wrong. That’s why this cop can never police again, even the cops, who almost never do them right thing in these situations of there is a shred of gray-area, even they saw this. So you’re alone on your racist delusions. How do I know you’re racist? Your need to phoneticize and capture all the Ebonics as if it somehow makes him less deserving of freedom or justice. You’re rotten as a human being, that’s my opinion anyhow.
Hysterical. You know I’m racist because I accurately quoted the guy? Wow!
It’s not my job to revise what he actually said. I was trying to be fair to him by quoting him directly. It’s called giving context. The way he said things is irrelevant. It’s not the way he spoke that “makes him less deserving of freedom and justice”. That was never the point but you just keep patting yourself on the back for calling out the “racist bigot” that I supposedly am. Maybe you shouldn’t be so obsessed with minutiae like that. Then you might actually be able to reasonably discuss issues. Instead, you just want to find some subconscious layering of thought that suggests racial animosity.
Fair?! you couldn’t be fair to your momma. Subconscious layering and you know he was pretending? go beat your meat you subvert…
Both officers resigned. They both were going to be fired anyway. Police chief apologized to the victim.
Thank you, captain obvious. I’m very well aware of that fact.
So, you are a mind reader huh? The day you are accosted I would like to see how you handle it. you are such a hate baiter and your children are ashamed of you… you are not an American for sure…
Yes, I am a mind reader. Thank you for pointing that out. Not sure what it has to do with anything, but thank you for noticing.
See my story above. I have been accosted in an unwarranted and unnecessary manner before, including one that sticks out big time 10 years ago in downtown Charlotte. You can see exactly how I handled it and how I wouldn’t dream of doing anything that you think you would possibly be justified in doing/saying. But thanks again for contributing. I didn’t know you knew that I had kids, but I guess you’re a mind reader.
This guy did nothing WRONG!!! You can defend the officer all you want but BY LAW you are allowed to resist unlawful arrest. And as far as I can see that was an unlawful arrest!!
Wait a second. All I hear all the time is how cops are supposedly shooting dead a bunch of people who aren’t resisting or provoking. Now all of a sudden it’s a good idea to resist if you believe you’re being unlawfully detained? Help me make sense of that. Which is it? Either people are being shot for no reason or it’s a good idea to give the cops a reason to? Makes no sense. It also makes no sense to to allow citizens to determine whether their apprehension is lawful or not. Not saying that all are, but that’s a slippery slope when you allow people to lawfully resist what may or may not be a lawful arrest. That’s a lot of power to put in the hands of dumb criminals. I prefer silence and full compliance, but call me crazy.
Yes his entire family. Even the cousins that live in other cities. It’s time to take our streets back from the police.
Your a racist idiot. The officer was clearly in the wrong. He deserved to lose his job.
Yes, Riot50000 is wrong to make the threat he made, but you’re an idiot…did you watch the video. The guy was extremely cooperative, and showed an ID with that address on it. Beyond that, he was under no legal obligation to do anything else. From that moment on, the police officer was the “uncooperative.”
I said below that he was extremely cooperative at the beginning. My point was with regards to him making it more contentious afterwards. Regardless, all of that is just arguing technicalities. My main issue was the notion that this officer and his family should be assassinated for this. You say that poster is wrong, yet you didn’t respond to him and admonish for it. Instead, you responded to me, someone who merely has a difference of opinion regarding how the situation went down.
I made it clear that Riot50000 went too far. No, no one deserves to be killed (let alone their family) for being an ignorant racists jerk with or without a badge, but there is no different of opinion on what went on. There is a video. Did you watch it? It clearly shows the victim complying, and showing an ID that clearly showed this was his address. That is all North Carolina requires him to do unless the officer intends to detain him, and must have probable cause to do that. Your “opinion” that he was acting “sketchy,” does not meet the standard of probable cause.
Everything the officer did after seeing his identification was in direct violation of North Carolina law, and no one can be compelled to follow an illegal order. The cop was wrong…whatever his motivation…but from the point of identification on, the police officer was wrong, and the other officer was wrong for not stepping and arresting or at least stopping the other office. She needs to fired too.
There’s only one way to deal with thugs like that cop!
LOL
Doesn’t it scare you that somebody like “Daniel Boome” could being sitting on a jury deciding someone else’s’ fate?
If you saw the comment he was responding to, you might understand why he was raging a bit. But, I agree…he seems to think that any black man who stands up for his rights is somehow being contentious and uncooperative. He seems to think blacks should “know their place,” or not be “uppity.” Those were the phrases 50 years ago when I was growing up.
I’d hate to see him on a jury, but it scares me even more that people like him get to vote.
Thank you, sir, for understanding. My point was never to say the officer didn’t do anything wrong or to say that Mr. Yourse was guilty of doing something wrong. I do think he could have more maturely handled the situation, despite his frustration, but I’m not putting responsibility for the officer’s actions on him. My contention is that he could have put more emphasis on doing a “help him help you” scenario that could have cleared things up more quickly instead of bowing up. It has absolutely nothing to do with blacks or anybody else “knowing their place”, it has to do with everybody regardless of who they are doing everything in their power to make the cops job easier. We all know cops are held to a higher standard, but we pretend that everything they do is easy and that they shouldn’t always be on alert for any contingencies. If I was in the exact same circumstances as Mr. Yourse in this incident, I would have certainly been frustrated, but I can’t even conceive of doing anything that might show any contention whatsoever. I would even say I’ve been in a more precarious position with a cop about 8 years in downtown Charlotte, wherein I was approached aggressively by a cop for doing something I hadn’t done at all. I was pissed on the inside, but in the moment I did damn near everything I could to show I was going to be cooperative and not contentious in any way. I would have been justified, to a certain extent, in showing visible annoyance for being accosted without any warrant whatsoever, but there was no way I was going to make the situation worse by bowing up. That’s been my only point, especially for these people who think the cop and his family should have been assassinated. It’s not that the cop here was right or that Mr. Yourse was necessarily wrong. It’s that people are taking advantage of cop’s vulnerability to accusations of brutality to find ways to justify some sort of organized resistance.
What the hell did he do wrong?? How can he de-escalate a situation that was bound to go wrong based on the cops criminality?
No, but it does scare that someone like you, who has apparently already pre-determined guilt on the part of the officer for nothing more than overstepping his bounds on normal police policies & procedures, it does scare that someone like you could sit on a jury. You rely on media evidence to convict people. That’s why the Baltimore cops had to choose bench trials because they knew that the jury pool would be contaminated with people like you who have been swayed up front by the media narrative.
Everyone here thinks you are off your meds.
You saw what you wanted to see, and it is people like you that cause world’s problems.
I applaud the Chief for doing what others have refused to do, and it is a shame this Police pretender has not been charged and jailed.
I have worked with Cops, patrolled with them, and those were the days when Cops had RESPECT for their profession.
They had discussions about ” do not bring me schitt when you come back from work. You are professionals, and so, act like you are one”
Quotes from a Police Captain.
Nowadays, their brains have been replaced with their trigger fingers.
It looks like Violating and killing innocent people has become a bragging right among today’s Cops.
This Man in this video is an example of what you could see everyday if there were video cameras everywhere.
For someone like Daniel Boom trying to blame this poor man for any reason is the same angle from which racists have endured over time.
And you need to be on meds for your menacing threats. I see you think you have been harassed. So have I. See my story below. White people get harassed, too. We just don’t have “racist cop” excuse to fall back on. Regardless, you need to quit with your hyperbole. Your assertion that “violating and killing innocent people has become a bragging right” is just plain stupid. There is absolutely no culture of that within police department’s. You are just making stuff up so that you can use big talk.
Explain this to me. If the cop “n this video is an example of what you could see everyday if there were video cameras everywhere”, how do you explain the fact that this happened on the cop’s own body cam? If, as you say, this really happens everyday but we just don’t see it then why do we see this? It makes no sense. In fact, I would argue we have found more examples of so-called “police brutality” being shown to be false claims after dash cam and/or body cam is reviewed. That’s a fact. We have more hoaxes taking place than we do actual wrongdoing on the part of officers. Not to say we don’t have any wrongdoing on the part of officers, but there are far more false claims than anything else. It shows that many people are actually taking advantage of our hyper-race conscious society to blame racism when none exists to the extent they claim it does.
To think that professional idiots like you actually exist is frightening.
But then, this is the exact reason why people must desist from going out there thinking they are safe, just because they are normal, law abiding and free thinking good humans, not thinking about the FACT that there are deranged psychopaths like you out there lurking to defile them at will.
Your twisted mental route is scary.
I cannot imagine you as a Juror in any case where anything Black is involved.
SCARY INDEED.
Tell me again, why did Micah Johnson strike?
If you keep looking at what happened instead of what led to it, your problems will never be resolved.
Dude, why are you even responding? Nothing you just said has anything to do with what I just said, nor does it make a lick of sense. It’s like your barfing out idealistic stream of consciousness thoughts from your psylocibin mushroom high.
I don’t give an elephant’s behind why any murderer does what they do. Instead of theorizing why all the murderers in Chicago, Baltimore, and Detroit do what they do, how about you do something about it. The cops are the least of your worries. That’s a fact. Spare me your juvenile put downs.
“DUDE”!
I should have known I was talking to a fucking Imbecile, most likely a Punk, too retarded to reason constructively.
Inbreeding is bad for evolution, and you are a poster boy for my argument.
As long as you’re still impaired, you’ll continue to not make sense. You do realize you just determined I was an imbecile based on the fact that I called you “dude”? Wow! Do yourself a favor and go watch some football with a bottle of water. Then, once you’ve sobered up, come back and actually respond to my points. Also, proofread before posting. For example, “All the people on this Board have opinions different and contradictory to your’s BUT STILL” makes no sense to a sober person like me. So sober up and find a way to stay on topic if you’re going to respond again. Thank you.
It just amazes me the excuses people will make up to try to excuse this kind of behavior from the police! How was he not acting like an adult? Because he was standing up for himself? They were the ones not acting like adults! You could hear in her voice she knew this was wrong, even when she said act like an adult! She just didn’t have the guts to stand against her racist partner! You are not required by law to just bow down to what every cop says when you are doing nothing wrong, but these days in time you better and hope you escape with your life!
Riot made a STATEMENT and never a threat as you implied.
Please do not put words in Riot’s Mouth.
NOBODY should be executed in cold Blood by some Psychopath just because he felt like it and will get free paid vacation and a promotion for doing it.
The people who run these departments are the problem.
Their Employees conduct is representative of their leadership.
Until they are held accountable for their killers, the killing and violation will continue.
I feel threatened walking out the Door, and anytime I see that Uniform.
I have been harassed for no reason, and the Idiot after realizing I pulled into a Gas station so that people would see what’s going to go down, he decided to steal my Drivers license and ran.
WHAT A DISGRACE!
These are the Psychopaths out there patrolling, looking for some black kid to kill, after which they go and high five each other over Beer.
SICKENING!
I pose no threat to anyone but the first law of nature is self preservation. No one not committing any crime or doing anything wrong deserves to be executed by some trigger happy psychopaths just because he will get rewarded for it.
can someone tell me why this officer was not charged? And another thing, a good officer would have stopped this from escalating.
Policed charged? LOL
Where do you think you are, Canada?
Exactly…they keep “unnaming” the female officer. She had an obligation to stop this, even if it required restraining this other officer, clearly out of control. Of course, she couldn’t, else she would have been the one drummed out of the department, or killed in “crossfire” at some incident. If police departments don’t change that culture, they are never going to regain the support and respect of the public. They act like their own gang.
It’s called the thin blue line. There are no good cops out there. They should remember they are the servants of the people and not a paramilitary force to protect their own.
Its called sexism too. Being a woman will get you know where. its been only in 1920 that women were GIVEN the right to vote. So if she had said something different or did something different just as in Tulsa, she would be black balled and her livelihood destroyed.. He does what the same thing at home if he is married….. Silent abuse is rampant in that setting..
She’s not completely innocent. She helped falsify the police report, saying the man pinned her wrist against the screen door…We can tell from the video that it never happened.
Hellooooo?!!??!…. this is standard procedure, you’re a cop, you harass a black guy, getting him killed or arrested, then you get 3 months paid leave and a promotion.
Move along nothing to see here.
How could anyone be as idiotic as you are. Quit beating yourself with a stupid stick and maybe you can calm your deranged self down.
BTW, Micah Johnson is dead. Dont’ know how he is going to help you out in this situation. But you menaces are all talk. You always want somebody to do your “job” for you. You just want to sit on the sidelines and talk.
I hope Dominique Heaggan-Brown, Brentley Vinson, or Darren wilson find you and put savages like you down.
We will not allow anyone to make threats, implied or otherwise on this website. I thought I had removed the offending comments, but apparently not, so I apologize for the oversight. I encourage all readers to act like adults.
So neither officer has been charged?
Cole was forced to resign and can no longer be a poilie office in North Carolina. His “promotion” (if there actually was one) was an oversight. The point of this blurb is misguided and moot considering the outcome. Justice was served. Case closed.
Justice will be served when you and your kind go to jail for your crimes. Have a good evening. Case closed.
LMAO! Oh, so you’re implying that I’m somehow a cop, now? Man, you’re dumb. Nice job parroting my words though. I’m just stating the facts, cupcake. In the meantime, get over yourself.
At the end of the day… seems that every online discussion winds up in people attacking each other, name calling, etc.. just goes off the rails.. I’ve read several comments by people who seem reasonable but eventually they call each other idiots and it spirals down. An hour from now someone will be attacking me for complaining about it and asking why am I here if I don’t like reading it.. blah blah blah.
I will say one thing about the incident. It’s infuriating to me that a handful of people aren’t able to understand the frustration of being handcuffed when that person feels they haven’t done anything wrong. Sure some people would make the decision to remain calm and just let the whole thing play out.. I probably would have been calm out of fear of being shot. But, I think it’s reasonable to expect that there are times when the citizen who feels harassed is going to be a little upset. It’s just human nature. Why the lack of empathy or compassion? Innocent people aren’t able to be upset or make the mistake of standing up for themselves?
As a african american man i have been pulled over in my own driveway. I was calm… when the officer checked out my license I think she was a bit embarrassed. I was inconvenienced for a extra 15 minutes.. but at the end of the day I didn’t get shot and killed so I suppose I am glad for that. It’s sad that I have to look at it that way.
The officer should have been charged. This whole incident was un-called for. Any monday morning quarterbacking by pro PD needs to be shut down. The officer plain and simple did not need to escalate this situation, but did. Serious training needs to be done with law enforcement. The heavy hand is no longer acceptable.
KKK traded the White Robe /Sheets for the Blue Uniform and a Badge.
This guys salary is shockingly low.
For a criminal it is shockingly high.
Damn cops, have the Xerxes(300 movie) complex.
Acknowledge me, as your ”KING”, and as your ”GOD” !
Where do you get this shit from, Travis Cole was never promoted nor did he resign, he was stripped of all his medals and his badge and fires from the police department
From the police department directly. What the hell are you talking about? And what medals?