Stephan: Today, I saw more than two dozen stories in the media about police violence and general thuggery. Go to news.google.com search on "police violence today" and see for yourself what comes up. The one that particularly caught my attention was this account about a 61-year-old grandmother who went into a police station in New York to file a police report on a theft, as required by her insurance carrier, and ended up with a broken arm when the cops threw her to the floor and handcuffed her. I think every applicant for police or sheriff employment should be subjected to an intensive independent psychiatric evaluation with a lie detector.
Patricia Rodney went to an NYPD precinct in Brooklyn to get a police report for a lost glucometer. She ended up with a broken arm when she attempted to film the rude police behavior. Credit: NYPD body camera footage
New York Police Department officers threw a screaming, 61-year-old grandmother to the ground, breaking her arm in the process of an arrest captured on video inside a police station in Brooklyn. Her alleged crime: filming the police.
The body camera video, first reported on by the local news blog Hell Gate, shows Patricia Rodney surrounded by cops before one of them grabs her, takes her to the ground, and handcuffs her.
Rodney, a diabetic, was visiting the police station on Dec. 2, 2020, to pick up a copy of a police report she’d filed about a missing glucometer, as required by her insurance provider. But instead of helping Rodney, NYPD officers turned her away. When she became frustrated and pointed her phone camera toward them, cops grabbed her as she shrieked for help.
