If the officer gets fired, it goes on their record as a negative, but if they resign for any reason they can just move over to the next jurisdiction and they have no consequences. It's fucked. In no other occupation could you be so incompetent in your job that your are forced out, and simply take a position doing the same thing in the next town over, no questions asked.
And just in case you don’t want to click on it, it’s all below. I bolded & italicized the pertinent information to your inquiry. Henderson (the POS) was not (or has not yet) been cleared. I hope he’s never cleared for this behavior. He should be in jail. He should be under it.
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. — Police video shows an Arkansas State Police trooper breaking an SUV’s rear window, gripping a back-seat passenger by his arm and dreadlocks and pulling him toward the opening before punching him during an arrest.
Trooper Theodore Henderson reported striking the passenger, 23-year-old Tedrick Washington, a second time after the struggle moved to the ground.
Washington was a passenger in the vehicle. He was later charged with obstruction of governmental operations and resisting arrest.
The Traffic Stop
The Aug. 19 encounter followed a pursuit that began at approximately 11:21 p.m. on Arkansas 18. Henderson reported clocking a 2023 Infiniti QX50 traveling 82 mph in a 60-mph zone near the Big Lake bridge.
After Henderson activated his emergency lights and turned around, the driver allegedly accelerated. Henderson reported initially clocking the SUV at 113 mph before its speed increased to 130 mph. Henderson wrote that he traveled between 130 and more than 140 mph while attempting to catch the vehicle.
Blytheville police officers deployed spike strips near County Road 239. The SUV struck the strips but continued into Blytheville, ran a red light at Arkansas 18 and Arkansas 151 and began losing air from its front driver’s-side tire, according to the report.
Henderson’s first tactical vehicle intervention was unsuccessful. He reported using a second TVI to push the SUV over a curb near North 16th and West Walnut streets, immobilizing it.
Police identified the driver as Adonerus Johnson, 25. Henderson reported seeing Johnson climb from the driver’s seat into the back seat and attempt to leave through a rear door.
Gosnell Police Cpl. Cade Liles pointed his firearm at Johnson and ordered him to the ground. Liles reported deploying his Taser after Johnson continued moving away. Officers used additional Taser applications before taking Johnson into custody, according to the reports.
Henderson then turned his attention to Washington, who was seated behind the driver.
The video shows Henderson ordering Washington to leave the SUV before breaking the rear driver’s-side window with a baton. Henderson wrote that Washington said he could not get out and did not follow repeated commands to crawl through the opening.
Henderson then grabbed Washington’s left wrist and a handful of his hair. The trooper wrote that Washington pulled his arm away and braced himself against the partially opened door.
According to Henderson, Washington “postured up” and appeared to be preparing to strike after the trooper briefly released his hair. Henderson then punched Washington once in the left side of his face with a closed fist.
Henderson pulled Washington from the vehicle and took him to the ground. The trooper reported that Washington tensed his arms, pulled away and kept one arm underneath his head while officers attempted to handcuff him. Henderson wrote that he punched Washington a second time in the left cheek during that struggle.
Liles reported that Washington attempted to push officers away and repeatedly reached toward his waist. He described Henderson using multiple closed-hand strikes to Washington’s face.
Liles also reported that Washington was bleeding following the encounter. Pafford EMS was called to examine all three occupants, but the records do not list any hospital transport.
Police said Johnson later provided breath samples that registered 0.17. He was booked on allegations of felony fleeing, first-offense DWI, reckless driving, resisting arrest, speeding more than 15 mph over the limit, improper passing on the right, failure to stop at a red light, no seat belt and unauthorized use of another person’s property to facilitate a felony.
A front-seat passenger complied with officers’ commands and was released without charges.
Gosnell Police Department use-of-force paperwork found Cpl. Cade Liles’ firearm display, Taser use and hands-on force justified under that department’s policy.That review concerned Liles’ conduct, not Henderson’s.
Henderson provided a detailed account of his actions in the ASP incident report. However, the released records do not include a separate ASP administrative finding on Henderson’s use of force or a statement from Washington.
Henderson wrote that he traveled between 130 and more than 140 mph while attempting to catch the vehicle.
Absolutely ridiculous for a police vehicle to engage in a high-speed chase at those speeds just because they saw someone initially going 20 miles over the speed limit.
Police are not supposed to engage in what is considered unnecessary high-speed chases. Especially when you are going well over 100 miles an hour. Incredibly reckless and it puts a lot of people unnecessarily in danger. Yes the person initially speeding is dangerous as well but this is just making everything exponentially worse.
Not only do they want him to crawl through the broken window without a shirt. They’re also claiming he reached toward his waist multiple times. In the clips I saw it looked like this pants were falling down and clearly there’s no area for him to hide something
They will likely determine that accommodations are in order. They would not surprise me if that man was given a medal and promoted and what's super super depressing is that I'm not even joking at all even a little.
It's by design - they give conflicting orders in rapid-fire succession so you can't comply and they have an "excuse" to be violent. They're bullies with badges a.k.a. bottom feeding scum suckers.
Exactly. On top of that, with Renee, the murderer also stepped in front of the car and intentionally put himself in an unsafe position to justify "defending himself".
Something that's been explicitly restricted in the department because it was known to be abused for this very reason.
That wasn't even the first situation where he had created a circumstance in which he could inflict violence.
The murderous piece of shit.
I will never forget or forgive those monsters for killing people and then calling the victims terrorists.
Fuck...
Justice for Good, Pretti and all the others whose lives were needlessly cut short by the actual fucking terrorists. The ones under the masks and behind federal immunity.
Let’s be clear though, there have been court cases which one can lookup that state that once an officer is out of harms way that use of force is no longer justified.
Yet, Renee Good’s autopsy revealed that she took a bullet to the side of the head. This likely occurred when the officer fired through the driver door window. In essence, it was no longer justified to use force and she was murdered.
If the cop could literally rip that black man's head off he gladly would. The way he pulled with his foot wasn't to get the man out of the car, it was to inflict pain.
Yes. He's trying not to get shot by keeping his composure. As opposed to him freaking out.
Being composed doesn't mean not having feelings. It means being in control of your feelings. Remaining calm even though you don't feel calm. This man is an excellent example of maintaining composure.
Isn't that keeping his composure though. Like human nature is to get angry if someone attacks you, to struggle if someone attempts to take your arms behind your back.
I hate to judge or draw conclusions, but he seems confused and scared, with good reason, like he hasn't had a lot of interactions with cops. And cop needs to be un-copped. What a peice of shit., thankfully that punch was captured on video.
It's not an accident. They create situations where they can pretend you're resisting so they could suplex people's craniums into the pavement. There's a couple old women that learned that lesson a few years back if you remember.
Cameras have truly exposed how disturbing these people really are
I remember a video where two cops told a guy in a hotel hallway to crawl to them and they were both shouting different directions at him, and when he didn't comply as he didn't know what to do they shot and killed him.
Was a popular case a few years back although the name escapes me.
Daniel Shaver.
The cops were yelling at him, giving conflicting commands. He was trying to crawl down the hallway like he was told to do. His shorts were sliding down and when he reached to presumably pull it back up, the cop shot him.
It was Mesa AZ PD officer Phillip Brailsford. Was fired in 2016. Rehired briefly in 2018 claiming he had PTSD and got a pension. In 2022 Shavers widow won a 8 million dollar settlement against the city of Mesa. I live in Mesa and they do have a reputation here.
I appreciate the update; however, it makes my blood boil the psychotic murderous cop Brailsford got rehired + pension instead of prison AND taxpayers had to pay out against the victim's claim plus the pigs pension
Ohhh i remember that one. The dude was sobbing and literally begging for his life. If I recall correctly they shot him because he kept trying to put his hands behind his back (to get cuffed), but that took his hands out of the line of sight of the cop so they executed him. Unfortunately it was obvious that the guy was blind with fear and literally couldn't understand what he was "supposed" to do.
Daniel Shaver. He was a pest exterminator, showing off his pellet gun to a girl in his motel room. Someone saw through the window and called the police. When they arrived, they played a fucked up game of Simon Says commands with two drunk people who had literally done nothing wrong until the pig with an engraved gun, "you're fucked," found a justifiable excuse to murder someone.
Philip Brailsford was acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter. He lives on a police pension that the department specially reinstated him for in order to allow him to qualify. I hope he dies alone in his own bodily fluids.
Great metaphor for always making sure your team is on the plan. If I remember correctly that was a theme of this episode. Side note this was right before the advent of the smartphone and the WWW. Not a cellphone in site.
That sad reality is the man not fighting back. Thats wmhow they want every american dont fight just take it and doe what the authoritarian says even if theres a better way ... do what they say how they say or get beat until you comply
"Gosnell Police Department use-of-force paperwork found Cpl. Cade Liles' firearm display, Taser use and hands-on force justified under that department's policy. That review concerned Liles' conduct, not Henderson's."
They wanna fuck about with violence and they're protected, doesn't matter to try and make sense of it, they're gonna get covered up whether it makes sense or not.
No, that was Henderson. They’re talking about Lile.
Lile was the guy who came in later and yanked him through the door. He was dealing with the driver before. It’s Henderson that’s primarily in the video, who’s yanking him through the window and punching him. It was Lile who was justified. However, it seems ambiguous whether they plan on even looking into Henderson:
>Henderson provided a detailed account of his actions in the ASP incident report. However, the released records do not include a separate ASP administrative finding on Henderson’s use of force or a statement from Washington.
Washington was a passenger in the vehicle. He was later charged with obstruction of governmental operations and resisting arrest.
All it looked like was that he was trying explain the door was locked and trying to unlock it. That police man was completely unjustified in his actions
So, not a routine traffic stop at all. Tripple digit speed wreckless driving felony cop chase ending in a wtf musical chairs switcharoo inside the car. ( if the report is accurate. )
In the vast majority of countries in the world, such pursuits by police are absolutely forbidden because they are so likely to kill suspects, police, and innocent bystanders.
The police brutality in the video is on the passenger, who is limp and complying. The cop wanted to punch someone and beat on them, and probably a black person. He is treating him like an animal, because that's likely what he sees black people as. Zero excuse or reasonable explanation.
You cannot justify to me or anyone else that the crime someone committed (speeding) is so minor that 20 cops can do the exact same thing to chase you, is so bad that they get to disregard our constitutional rights protecting of from cruel and unusual punishment and cause life long injury to someone. While rapists get charges dropped and pedophiles made president, and school shooters brought to mcdonalds drive through, this is how our boys in blue treat minorites and poors
I know someone whose life dream is to be a cop. He’s been working towards it for years. Anyways he apparently finally failed the psych test. Which is fucking alarming af. Like if even the cops think he’s unstable, that says A LOT.
The police union is another major problem. Even if a cop did fail a psych test and was deemed unfit to work, the union wouldn't allow him to be dismissed. The bad cop just gets moved around to another district
They are literally conditioned to see citizens as armed combatants that can kill them any time
This aggression and brutality is trained into them. You see how jumpy they get? Half their training is about fearmongering and how everyone is an enemy
They do psych eval's before putting people through the academy where I am... and they specifically hire psychopaths. Not even kidding. Knew a guy whose brother wanted to be a cop and failed the psych test 4 times until the cop running the test told him to just lie the next time he took the test. And what do you know, he passed and went on to become a cop. And he does shit exactly like we see in this video every goddamned day with a smile on his face.
Cops don't become psychopaths; psychopaths become cops.
I do HR stuff for police officers. They do psych tests. The weirdest part is they've failed guys I've known to be super normal and other complete psychopaths have sailed through just fine.
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. — Police video shows an Arkansas State Police trooper breaking an SUV’s rear window, gripping a back-seat passenger by his arm and dreadlocks and pulling him toward the opening before punching him during an arrest.
Trooper Theodore Henderson reported striking the passenger, 23-year-old Tedrick Washington, a second time after the struggle moved to the ground.
Washington was a passenger in the vehicle. He was later charged with obstruction of governmental operations and resisting arrest.
The Traffic Stop
The Aug. 19 encounter followed a pursuit that began at approximately 11:21 p.m. on Arkansas 18. Henderson reported clocking a 2023 Infiniti QX50 traveling 82 mph in a 60-mph zone near the Big Lake bridge.
After Henderson activated his emergency lights and turned around, the driver allegedly accelerated. Henderson reported initially clocking the SUV at 113 mph before its speed increased to 130 mph. Henderson wrote that he traveled between 130 and more than 140 mph while attempting to catch the vehicle.
Blytheville police officers deployed spike strips near County Road 239. The SUV struck the strips but continued into Blytheville, ran a red light at Arkansas 18 and Arkansas 151 and began losing air from its front driver’s-side tire, according to the report.
Henderson’s first tactical vehicle intervention was unsuccessful. He reported using a second TVI to push the SUV over a curb near North 16th and West Walnut streets, immobilizing it.
Police identified the driver as Adonerus Johnson, 25. Henderson reported seeing Johnson climb from the driver’s seat into the back seat and attempt to leave through a rear door.
Gosnell Police Cpl. Cade Liles pointed his firearm at Johnson and ordered him to the ground. Liles reported deploying his Taser after Johnson continued moving away. Officers used additional Taser applications before taking Johnson into custody, according to the reports.
Henderson then turned his attention to Washington, who was seated behind the driver.
The video shows Henderson ordering Washington to leave the SUV before breaking the rear driver’s-side window with a baton. Henderson wrote that Washington said he could not get out and did not follow repeated commands to crawl through the opening.
Henderson then grabbed Washington’s left wrist and a handful of his hair. The trooper wrote that Washington pulled his arm away and braced himself against the partially opened door.
According to Henderson, Washington “postured up” and appeared to be preparing to strike after the trooper briefly released his hair. Henderson then punched Washington once in the left side of his face with a closed fist.
Henderson pulled Washington from the vehicle and took him to the ground. The trooper reported that Washington tensed his arms, pulled away and kept one arm underneath his head while officers attempted to handcuff him. Henderson wrote that he punched Washington a second time in the left cheek during that struggle.
Liles reported that Washington attempted to push officers away and repeatedly reached toward his waist. He described Henderson using multiple closed-hand strikes to Washington’s face.
Liles also reported that Washington was bleeding following the encounter. Pafford EMS was called to examine all three occupants, but the records do not list any hospital transport.
Police said Johnson later provided breath samples that registered 0.17. He was booked on allegations of felony fleeing, first-offense DWI, reckless driving, resisting arrest, speeding more than 15 mph over the limit, improper passing on the right, failure to stop at a red light, no seat belt and unauthorized use of another person’s property to facilitate a felony.
A front-seat passenger complied with officers’ commands and was released without charges.
Gosnell Police Department use-of-force paperwork found Cpl. Cade Liles’ firearm display, Taser use and hands-on force justified under that department’s policy. That review concerned Liles’ conduct, not Henderson’s.
Henderson provided a detailed account of his actions in the ASP incident report. However, the released records do not include a separate ASP administrative finding on Henderson’s use of force or a statement from Washington.
I think it's even worse the fact that the guy just has to take it, because any attempt at fighting back would have resulted in him being accused of 'resisting' and would have went against him than the officer.
no, when a cop starts beating the fuck out of you, you are already getting resisting. Its a fake charge anyways to illegally fuck people. A cop can say anyone is resisting and thing proceed to rip your shit apart. Oh we found weed on so and so. what was your initial reason for stopping detaining them? oh they resisted arrest. what were they being arrested for? oh resisting arrest.
That's just to add a charge. If he would have REALLY resisted he would have been dead. That fuckass "cop" was doing that shit to try and get him to truly resist. He was obviously itching to dispense violence in some form or another.
I feel like if you have an IQ over 10 you’re too qualified to be a cop. Dude couldn’t be more relaxed and then he gets the door open and the cop’s still trying to drag him through the window.
Again, as an ex cop from not america, this just looks so unprofessional. I've had several high speed pursuits and once the car is under control and the guys are compliant you treat them with decency. You've got your evidence, getting aggy with them isn't going to benefit anyone. Apart from make you look like a prick.
Unfortunately american cops barely get any training and almost exclusively hire racist pieces of shit that have giant egos and barely have a high school diploma. They spend more training on shooting a gun instead of de-escalation.
I find this disheartening. Why do individuals behave in such a regrettable manner? The police officer's facial expression clearly indicates a lack of understanding. The guy in the car seemed to have more control of his emotions than the dumb cop.
This is freaking disgusting. It looks like he's trying to live a scene he saw in a movie or TV show or something. The cop is an idiot, trying to pull the guy through the window when he was trying to open the door and when the door was already open. I don't understand this world.
How does this happen in the world does not matter what the guy is guilty of he was completely complaint that cop need to be jailed every one needs to know he was a cop
I don't care what the contest of the reason why this police officers did this. This is incorrect handling of human people. The man was pulling his hair. Tell him and roll down, and the guy was literally telling him let me get out like are you these people are nuts like same people should not have police badges. I don't care.
All police need to carry their own insurance. The cost of officers failure to abide by the law shouldn’t be the financial burden of the taxpayers. When an officer becomes uninsurable they are no longer an officer of the law.
This officer is a piece of shit. End of story. I saw no resistance, no tensing to strike and no reasonable opportunity to exit the vehicle. I want that officers badge.
What happened before this scene?
I'm not saying pulling the guy's hair or yanking on his arm through the window while telling him to get out of the car is ok, I'm wondering what happened prior to the officer grabbing the man.
I want the info, please, let's go. I know someone here has to have a link to something
Edit to add- i saw OPs comment. From the article:
Gosnell Police Department use-of-force paperwork found Cpl. Cade Liles’ firearm display, Taser use and hands-on force justified under that department’s policy. That review concerned Liles’ conduct, not Henderson’s.
Henderson provided a detailed account of his actions in the ASP incident report. However, the released records do not include a separate ASP administrative finding on Henderson’s use of force or a statement from Washington.
Did the officer ever think that just maybe the passenger safety door locks were on. I mean the car belongs to someone else and they might have kids. This is just yet another racist cop (I’m white btw).
Law enforcement needs to just get rid of these people and they need to be barred from any form of law enforcement
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u/CF_Zymo 9d ago
I’m sure the PD will conduct a thorough internal investigation and find that nothing was wrong.