Incident in Cottonwood AZ

[Richard K]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=846207218749517&fref=nf

[ruthabagah]

WTF is happening on this video?

[00tec]

So... What is it? Don't have facebook, and dont really care to click a blind link.


EDIT: Is this the Darwin Award candidates (and 1 winner) picking a fight with the popo?

[ruthabagah]

So... What is it? Don't have facebook, and dont really care to click a blind link.

Bunch of white trash on a Wallmart parking lot, some kind of disturbance, cops arrive, try to get situation under control (not sure of the strategy here...), brawl, cops get beat, tazer, more cops, people get shot.

[KS63]

What the in the Hell is wrong with people? Can't follow simple directions and think physically attacking an Officer is a good option?

[sniper7]

Wtf....

at 320 one officer kicks another right in the face, I felt bad for that guy.
the non lethal weapons pretty well sucked balls. Mace, hand stick, tazers all did damn near nothing.
im very impressed by these cops, I think I would have shot every single one of those stupid fucks that came after me.

[PSS]

am i wrong in wishing the cops would have isolated the family on one side and gave them a choice to lie down or be shot? No patience with dipshits that wont follow lawful orders. Hope they can live with themselves that they were the cause of their own family members death. Probably too busy nursing a hatred of cops. Cannot believe the restraint the cops showed. After the first cop got shot I would of thought all bets would be off. Any more contact should have warranted an armed reaction. God damned hoohaws.

[Dave]

I still have to wonder what part of a cop yelling at you to get on the ground doesn't register in people's brains correctly. For some reason they take it to mean throw punches and yell back.

[Jamnanc]

Were they on amphetamines? The two big boys were slo mo fighting, but seemed to take no damage.

[Snowman78]

I wish a Police K9 was there.

[Snowman78]

The same footage with an Police Chief narrating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib2EyQFr5Yk

[Irving]

Anyone see one officer toss a pistol to another officer just after the 8:00 mark?

What an entertaining video that was.

[DocMedic]

It was actually a taser he thrown to the officer, you can see the wires hanging from it. As for the officer getting kicked in the face, i slowed it down to watch, looks like the other officer kicked the guy on top of the down officer, the kick was pretty quick but it didn't hit the officers face.

[GunsRBadMMMMKay]

I wonder if that is one of the Walmart's they are closing.........

[TheGrey]

The same footage with an Police Chief narrating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib2EyQFr5Yk

Thank you for providing this link. It's a long video, but the narrative and the slowing-down makes this cluster far easier to understand.

When I first watched this, I was irritated that the tactics I thought the police should be using weren't being used, and it was just a sort of lumbering skirmish that went on way too long and ended abruptly.

Watching the second link helped to make much more sense. The tactics and non-lethal methods simply did not work. The trolls went for the cops' eyes, faces and heads, heedless of asps, tasers and sprays. What started as a somewhat irritating video to watch turned into something very different. Do we have any patrol officers (active or retired) that have an opinion? What DO you do with a small mob like this?

[Snowman78]

I felt the same as you after I viewed the 2nd video.

[RblDiver]

"Stop being Nazis!" How about you stop fighting cops?

[Bailey Guns]

Best "People of Walmart" video EVER! I can't get the link with the chief's narration to work. I'm gonna watch that to see if I can make some sense of this.

[kidicarus13]

What a cluster F! Looks like a Battle Royale from the old NWA days. If you look closely you can see Big John Studd, Maddog Buzz Sawyer, Wildfire Tommy Rich, Iron Shiek, and others.

[bryjcom]

Almost looked like a Jerry Springer episode!

Not sure when the guy gets shot, so much damn confusion

[blacklabel]

First off, that youtube video was painful to watch from a production standpoint.

Secondly, holy f. That could have turned into a bloodbath. Those officers showed an amazing amount of restraint once things went sideways.

[CareyH]

Damn, those officers are saints.