Comments on: Caught on Tape: Police Beating Teen Girl

By: ScottA

ScottA — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:22 +0000

Deputy Dan,

WE are not talking about some useless openly roaming thug with a guns in public that shot officers (I did see this on the national news and I am sorry) raped children and God know what else. This is a little girl flipping her Keds which then hit the officers in the shin.

By: Scott A

Scott A — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:24:14 +0000

Take his career into considerations when handing out a punishment?!?!? What the heck for?!?!?!? Do judges take other people careers into consideration when they hand down their punishment? NO!! On second thought yeah you should take his career into consideration. Given his career he should be held to a higher standard than the rest of the civilians. He should and is trained to deal with these kind of people. So therefore his punishment should be more severe, just as a professional boxer’s punishment is more sever for punching someone on the street. He has definitely made the job more difficult for the rest of us. Does he think that he is the only cop that has to deal with a smart azz teen? Happens often and I have never did anything like that to one especially a little girl. Oooo he is such a big man for beating up a little girl!!

By: Philtex

Philtex — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:33:01 +0000

You protest too much on behalf of the officer. The girl was in a car “stolen” from her parents. Otherwise in my experience known as typical teenage misadventure…not the hardened car thief the word stolen implicates. You say the office made a choice, then you say he let his emotions make a choice for him. Isn’t the essence of grace under fire denying one’s animal instincts and setting them aside. Yes, everyone is fallable, but I can’t imagine a situation where my fallabilty would lead me to attack a confined 15 year old girl, no matter how smart her mouth was, and I know how infuriating a 15 year old girl’s tongue can be, their words can cut like an emotional knife. I like you and your blog, you just twisted yourself up a little to give a cop some cover on this one, despite your clear and honest assertion that he deserves what’s coming to him, and I too hope his entire career is taken into account. Sorry, run-on sentences are my specialty.

By: brian

brian — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:08:37 +0000

the officer overreacted. he is trained know when to use force. i dont belive that a 15 yearold girl kicking off her shoes warrented the assualt. now if i wqent after that officer for what i belived was a threat the way he went affter that girl i’d be doing time in the state pin. so in dont see why the officer sholuld be treated any diffrent. i think he should be held to a higher standerd.

By: Misplaced Texan

Misplaced Texan — Sun, 24 May 2009 01:10:25 +0000

This is a 15 year old girl child.There is no excuse for his actions, period.Who is next? An 80 yr old woman? As a 50+ female I know longer have any respect or trust for law enforcement.

By: Deputy Dan

Deputy Dan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:56:26 +0000

Jack Dunphy,

Been awfully busy at the dang old job and haven’t checked for your column lately.

Since you’ve written this column, we’ve seen four Oakland Police officers shot to death by a misguided youth who has been linked to an earlier murder, confirmed to have raped a 12-year-old girl, served time in prison, and was pining about not having a job because of “society” whilst rolling through the hood on a new set of 22s.

The majority of people ragging you here should have been in that small mob praising killer Mixon and excoriating police the other day in Oakland.

I understand from brother officers around the country that incidents of resisting police, including aggravated assault and murder are on the rise thanks to the change in Washington and the universal anti-cop mode major media are in.

It is clear we have come a long way in the 7.5 years since 9/11. Cops are once again the crap on society’s collective heel.

The only thing keeping cops from staging a nationwide strike is the fact we KNOW what will happen if these s!@#bags have free rein.

And we can’t let that happen.

In Hoc,

Deputy Dan

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:33:05 +0000

I’ll just say this. Had that been my child, this motherless son would already be on a very permanent vacation.

Make excuses for him all you want, he wouldn’t be back.

By: Shay

Shay — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:29:04 +0000

This behavior is understandable, jack? Beating on people you don’t like is okay now? If you believe that then you must think it was okay for Al Kieda to bomb us on 9/11 because they don’t like us. Since you think this is okay, go across the street and beat your neighbors kid to a pulp. You know, the one who plays his music too loud. Or next time your standing in line and the person in front of you is talking into their cell phone go ahead and kick their legs out from under them because they are annoying you. Go ahead since you think it’s understandable to let people provoke you into hurting them, even when they are no threat to you whatsoever. Good job Jack. Let everyone know that you think it’s okay for police to do whatever they want, and the rest of us have to abide by the laws.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:55:33 +0000

So someone calls you a name a throws a shoe at you, that makes it okay to beat her becuase she “provoked” you? Really. Well in that case….

Does that mean if a girl wearing skimpy shorts bends over in front of me and I catch a look at her undies I get to rape her because she “provoked” me?

And I guess that means that mext time my neighbors are having a party late at night and I’m trying to sleep I get to go light their house on fire because they “provoked” me.

Maybe next time someone cuts me off in traffic I get to smash my car into theirs on purpose because they “provoked” me.

Stop making excuses. It’s not okay.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:44:24 +0000

I have been a school teacher for 12 years. I put up with snotty nasty foul mouth badly behaved children all day, and I have had a few shoes thrown at me in my time (and worse) but I have never assaulted one of them. If I did my career would be over and I would be facing jail time. As the adult I am expected to act like one. It is not okay, for anyone anywhere, to hit someone just because they insulted you. That’s how children behave, so this officer needs to grow up. Any adult who sees a hand cuffed 15 year old half their size as a threat needs help.