http://www.norml.org/audio/wkrn_cop_marijuana_choke_080701a.flvRaw Replay – Revisiting History
WKRN News 2 reports that “the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating after video shot from inside a Mount Joliet patrol car shows an officer choking a suspect.”In the video, the officer has both hands around the neck of the suspect and is telling him to “stick your tongue out.” The suspect, James Anders, then passes out.
According to WKRN, “The incident began with a traffic stop. Officer Cosby said he smelled burning marijuana, ordered Anders out of the car and told him to spit out something he had in his mouth. … Cosby didn’t find any marijuana in Anders’ mouth but did find a small bag of the drug inside his car.”
Anders was arrested on charges of possessing marijuana, resisting arrest, and tampering with evidence. The charges were later dismissed because of the police officer’s behavior. Cosby was reprimanded and the tape was handed over to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
This video is from WKRN News 2, broadcast July 1, 2008.
In the video you can hear the officer say, “It’s for your own good to prevent you from having an overdose.” Well, thank goodness we have cops choking people to the point of unconsciousness to protect them from the non-existent danger of overdosing on a mouthful of marijuana! The cop knew that the man had weed on him from the smell of the marijuana and he had no reason to suspect the man was trying to swallow any other drugs. The cop just wanted an easier arrest and more charges, but ended up finding nothing in his mouth and then loses the whole case for misconduct.
Your tax dollars hard at work.
That’s beyond belief – talk about the cure being worse than the disease.
How can this be tolerated – choking a guy until he passes out to “for his own good” to save him from a benign plant,
Thanks for posting this
How disgusting, Russ. These racist white-trash pigs just don’t get it.
Not all cops are bad, but this is the kind of thing that makes me think of the old punk bumper stickers and t shirts that read:
Vandalism – As Beautiful as a Brick in a Cop’s Face.
Now, I don’t agree with the vandalism part in any way, but I cant help but watch this and be reminded of the slogan…
I really am optimistic towards marijuana law reform, but we are going to have to fight and suffer.
And some of us unfortunate ones will also have to be choked by the racist hands of men like Officer Bill Cosby.
HOW COULD THEY LET HIM KEEP HIS JOB?
I hope he has a family that gets kicked out on the street for what he did.
OVERDOSE FROM SWALLOWING MARIJUANA?
What kind of three-toothed idiots are we paying to run around with guns and badges and abuse us?
This is too much.
They aren’t going to just give it to us.
We need to take our country back.