Brickbat: Nose for Trouble

Fort Worth, Texas, officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who had his nose broken by a police officer in 2017. Police had responded to a call that someone was being threatened by someone with a kitchen knife. Bodycam footage shows Jose Vasquez was standing outside the home when police arrived and appeared to toss something aside. He was standing with his hands raised, holding a beer can in one hand, and surrounded by police officers when Officer Justin Landon stepped forward and punched him. Landon took a photo of Vazquez after the punch and showed it to other officers. In his report, Landon said he used an open hand strike, and also said he was too close to use his Taser. The police department has refused to say whether Landon was disciplined. Vazquez, who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, died of COVID-19 last year. The terms of the settlement were not announced.

Comments

[m4019597]

The only brickbat here is wasting taxpayer money to pay off the estate of a criminal who was rendered compliant without the need for a gun, taser, or a chokehold.

The cop deserves a medal.

The city deserves scorn for settling.

[Davy C]

He was compliant without the need for a punch in the face either, though. He had his hands in the air. I don't see anything saying they told him to drop the beer.

[Chumby]

That beer could have been a disguised mini assault fire extinguisher. How could the cops have known without breaking the citizen’s nose?

[SQRLSY One]

Jose Vasquez's domestic companions are at fault here for refusing his request, "Here, hold my beer, and watch this!"

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[mad.casual]

Nobody needs a beer that holds more than 12 oz., they need another beer.

[Chumby]

Mandatory beerkground checks. Sarc hardest hit.

[Don't look at me!]

Oh come on, use your head.

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[MatthewSlyfield]

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[Chumby]

Are you at lagerheads with these puns?

[Joe Brandon]

not stout enough to cope.

[cgr2727]

And we should ban beer that is sold in anything larger than a six pack, you know, so they can’t just keep drinking without stopping to reload, I mean drive to the kwik-e-mart for a beer run.

[Ajsloss]

Common sense beer control.

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With stout enforcement.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Landon wrote that he used an “open hand strike to the face of (Vasquez) in order to distract him so that he could be taken into custody.”

And this is an approved use of force? Violence employed simply to distract a compliant individual?

Bonus points for undisclosed settlements. You taxpayers don't need to know how much of your money is used to pay off victims of the people whose paychecks also come from you.

[Vernon Depner]

Confidential settlements from taxpayers' money should be outlawed.

[Chumby]

The abusiveness of police sometimes nose no boundaries.

[Dillinger]

you'd think Landon would be in serious truffle.

[Chumby]

Landon’s supervisor gave him high marks overall, giving Landon four out of five stars in “customer focus.”

Does the supervisor prefer a broken orbital bone to a broken nose, hence Landon not getting a full 5/5?

[Will Nonya]

the remark turns on who you believe the customer is.
When police use slogans like 'protect and serve' they don't mean the citizens....

[Chumby]

He needs to be Landon those straight rights to the eyes and not the nose.

[sarcasmic]

They serve "The Public" which is everyone else. Any individuals they encounter must serve them.

[Don't look at me!]

Good thing he wasn’t on public property, or they would be justified shooting him in the face. (According to some here)

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

This cop is a hero! Vasquez was clearly a COVID carrier who could have killed millions.

If we complain about anything, the cop should have used deadly force while standing 6 feet away.

[Don't look at me!]

If he had an old tee shirt across his face, he was safe.

[mad.casual]

More seriously, I know this is a brickbat but, c'mon man!

Police had responded to a call that someone was being threatened by someone with a kitchen knife.
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appeared to toss something aside.
...
who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon

Somebody called someone else and something happened where someone appeared to toss something aside and somebody wound up charged with assault with a deadly weapon? WTF? I get that the cops are bad at this whole reporting the facts shindig but reporters being bad at it too doesn't help things any.

The vagueness is grotesquely catering to the anti-police narrative to the point that you almost wonder if you aren't specifically avoiding saying that his wife, girlfriend, or kid called the police. I absolutely believe any story like he tossed the joint he was smoking aside and shouldn't face any charges. At the same time, if he threatened his wife with a knife, she called her brother, and he came over, punched Vasquez in the face and told him not to come back to the house for 6 mos. or a year or whatever, I would consider that to be unjust or cruel and unusual.

[mad.casual]

I mean, admittedly in a low light, getting threatened by your husband, having the cops show up and punch him in the face, him dying (presumably in jail) of COVID, and getting a settlement out of the whole deal is almost how the (social) justice/welfare system is supposed to work.

[mad.casual]

Ultimately, I think the most important question is, "Was Vasquez vaccinated?"

[mad.casual]

I would*n't* consider that to be unjust or cruel and unusual.