Meanwhile, a bunch of Nazi concentration camp guards in Hell all said admiringly, "What Chutzpah!" Or they would, if "chutzpah" weren't a Yiddish word used by the filthy Jüden. ;-)

He's just trying to game the system. He was fired for doing it so he might as well try to use it.

"...claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the 2011 confrontation."

I think its a pre-existing condition.

He did his job, was scapegoated by the department when the publicity went bad, and probably cannot find another job in law enforcement because of it. He probably lost his pension because of it as well. Now, he wants something out of it.

He and his fellow officers gave the folks blocking the walkway ample opportunity to disburse and warned them what the consequences of remaining would be. No one in the surrounding detail moved to stop him from pepper spraying the protestors. Yet, he was the only one to take the fall (the chief also resigned, but probably with a nice parachute).

Because California allows "stress" as a worker's comp claim, he'll probably get his claim.

Conan,

Very good analysis.

I stand by what I said back here. They were useful idiots that are lucky they weren't shot.

The right to peaceably assemble, now with extra-strength pepper spray to the eyes.

Get yours today!*

*Only offered to sitting, unarmed targets offering no resistance. Armed criminal activity will be ignored for the safety of responding officers.

Peaceably assemble yes, block ingress and egress from private property no

I doubt he has any psychological damage from this. However, if he's been fired for doing his job because the department decided to paint him as a bad cop rather than accept their responsibility, I wish him the best in convincing a court of his psychological trauma.

So the dirtbag cop who pulled the trigger on the pepper spray got fired for his dirtbag maneuver and now is claiming mental trauma for the original act? Unless he was following orders, I got no sympathy for him. Hope he looses.

Actually the dirtbag cop who pulled the trigger on the pepper spray who got fired was following orders.

Had he not he would have been just as fired.

Not that that is any excuse mind, but you cant just fire the drudge for doing his job.

Had they fired everyone involved in his chain of command it'd be one thing

Assholio: Hope he looses.

As stickler as this might make me seem, this surprisingly common error annoys the crap out of me.

It's "loses," not "looses." "Looses" is the third person singular present tense of "loose." Meaning to let something go.

You hope he "loses," not "looses." Unless you think he's holding a pigeon or something and you want him to release it.

If you don't win, you "lose," not "loose." And if you're an unaccomplished low-life nonentity, you're a "loser," not a "looser."

Ditto, Patrick, and now I must also invoke Godwin's Law:

"Actually the dirtbag cop who pulled the trigger on the pepper spray who got fired was following orders."

Otherwise known as the Nuremberg defense.

A person who can perpetrate the phrase, "As stickler as this might make me seem" is correcting someone else? That mote in Assholio's eye is nowhere near the size of the beam in Patrick's.

I'll stand by it, JD. The shortcoming is in your limited capacity, not in my sentence. There is nothing wrong with that phrase.

Otherwise known as the Nuremberg defense. -- Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 27, 2013 7:22 PM

Please invoke Godwin's Law. But also read the rest of the post:

Not that that is any excuse mind, but you cant just fire the drudge for doing his job.

Had they fired everyone involved in his chain of command it'd be one thing -- lujlp at July 27, 2013 5:12 PM

I still see no reason that he should have been fired. They had over four minutes warning, had all the warning that they could have been given and still refused to comply.

And to this day no one has told me what the OWS message was?

"And to this day no one has told me what the OWS message was?"

"Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants."

http://occupywallst.org/

"We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%." -- Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 27, 2013 9:53 PM

When the someone that owns a business in the 99% offers me a job, I might consider it a valid position.

>>this surprisingly common error annoys the crap out of me.

Learn to live with it.

I hope Patrick looses his cool. If he had any to begin with.

from http://news.yahoo.com/california-cop-pepper-sprayed-students-claims-psychiatric-damage-010013967.html

>>Pike was suspended and ultimately left the force in July 2012, but UC officials did not disclose the circumstances of his departure.

>>A scathing 190-page report on the incident found that university officials and UC Davis campus police showed poor judgment and used excessive force in the confrontation, which was widely replayed on television and the Internet.

>>Last month, Pike himself filed a worker's compensation claim with UC Davis over the incident, saying he suffered unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage.

Yeah, he can go fuck himself.

Assholio: "I hope Patrick looses [sic] his cool."

Why? Are you looking for company? Seeing as how you're on the wrong end of the debate, and you felt the need to write two posts complaining about being corrected.

Assholio: "I hope Patrick looses [sic] his cool."

You hope Patrick turns his cool loose?

Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

That self-righteous little manifesto doesn't say a damned thing about what OWS wants to actually achieve. What is the goal?

The Tea Party (another loose and leaderless coalition) is clearly about reducing taxes and the size of government.

OWS seems to be about protesting - kinda like the old cartoon in which the protester tells the cop he's there to protest. The cop asks "Protest what?" And the protester says, "Whadda ya got?"

OWS seems to be about protesting - kinda like the old cartoon in which the protester tells the cop he's there to protest. The cop asks "Protest what?" And the protester says, "Whadda ya got?"

Posted by: Conan the Grammarian at July 28, 2013 10:33 AM
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What cartoon was that?

It sounds very much as though it were based on the well-known scene in Marlon Brando's "The Wild One."

Lenona, you could be right. I was thinking it was from an old Doonesbury panel, but it may have been that scene from The Wild One that I was remembering (sort of).

Still applies, though.

I didn't say they were right, Conan.

Jim P. seemed to be having difficulty using Google to find OWS' supposed mission statement and I gave an assist.

But in fairness to Jim P. it's not like he gave an order to a robotic Nazi sadist to slaughter unarmed civilians or anything. He just asked a question.

It's my understanding that injury as a result of misconduct isn't eligible for Workman's Comp. I suppose he might qualify if the injury wasn't from the confrontation, but the shock of being thrown under the bus.

Otherwise known as the Nuremberg defense. -- Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 27, 2013 7:22 PM

Please invoke Godwin's Law. But also read the rest of the post:

Not that that is any excuse mind, but you cant just fire the drudge for doing his job.

Had they fired everyone involved in his chain of command it'd be one thing -- lujlp at July 27, 2013 5:12 PM

Now saying the Nuremberg defense should not apply because the lowly sergeant was just following orders, then they should be prosecuting all the way up the chain. If you aren't insisting that they prosecute the rest of the chain you are saying that shit rolls downhill and only the lowly should be prosecuted. But his command sergeant, the precinct/unit lieutenant and the rest are exempt is not laying the responsibility as it should.

I'll split the rest of the commentary into a separate post, just to make you happy.