Brickbat: Pinned Down
Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer Shawn Guetschow has resigned from an off-duty security job at Lincoln Middle School after video showed him kneeling on a 12-year-old girl's neck. Guetschow was restraining her while trying to break up a lunchroom fight. He remains employed by the Kenosha police department, which says it is investigating the incident.
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He remains employed by the Kenosha police department…
When they empathize, it’s not with the 12-year-old or her parents.
They’ve got to keep him on so they can fire him, in case they find him guilty of misconduct.
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I mean, who *can* empathize with a 12 year old girl. They’re all horrible people.
That’s why I’m baffled when guys get busted for having sex with middle school girls. I don’t want to be in same room with pubescent girls, let alone in the sack.
He should have stood back and shouted “WORLD STAR!” while recording the incident on his phone. Trial by combat is the best way for young adults to resolve their disputes, in my opinion.
Perez added that his 6-year-old son has since told him that he doesn’t want to be a police officer anymore. “And that hurts me,” he said.
But the daughter now wants to be a lawyer, right?
Why on earth would any parent be proud of their kid becoming a cop? I’d be disgusted.
Get a grip.
Shut up and dance.
Once upon a time it was okay. My old boss’s son became a cop and he was so proud. Then first day he ran smack into Good Old Boy network. I’ve told the story before. Coming from a good family, he quit. Found a job as a cop outside the city in a sleepy little burg. Much happier.
Back in college I worked in a bookstore owned by an ex-cop. Running the bookstore was his retirement. Some bad cop would make the headlines and he would just laugh out loud that he was free of that shit.
There are still plenty of people out there who trust and respect the cops. Though I’ll bet not a single one of them ever asked the police for help. If they did then they would no longer hold them in high regard.
Get a grip.
On whom? No, that was buttplug.
Eat the rich.
Amazing
Whenever Kenosha is involved I think of Gus Polinski and the Kenosha Kickers. This story could trigger an offshoot called the Kenosha Kneelers. https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/17467367-kenosha-kickers-the-polka-king-of-the-midwest
You’d have thought he’d have known better, being in Kenosha.
Well at least any kid hungry enough to enter that lunchroom Guetschow on demand if kneed be…
Everyone knows that kneeling on the neck is a control move that all cops are taught right? I hate the cops for numerous reasons but Goerge Floyd died of a drug overdose. Like kill a horse overdose.
No he didn’t he died because cops wouldn’t restrain him properly, they choked him out for 20 minutes. Stop trying to change the facts. I’m sure that it didn’t help that he was loaded up on drugs but they could have restrained him and threw him in the back of car and let him calm down. Instead they held him down until he died.
lol I’m sure she was a major threat. When did Barnie Fife become a jujitsu warrior whenever 12 year old girls attack? lol