Cop chokes marijuana suspect

Nice. They didn't want him to have "some kind of overdose" of what again? Priceless.

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the cops are pot-bullies. neo-nazi pot bullies.

Attempted murder hands down. People die from that all the time. From brain aneurysms and collapse tracheas, to plain out death from oxygen deprivation to the brain.

The officer should be tried in court.

Dirty Fucking PIGS. Not all but most. Hope they get festering infections from the wallowing in thier own shit. Fucking SWINE.

Fuck the police.

Choke us because we smoke weed and applaud your vice president who has indirectly murdered thousands....when did America get so screwed up?

I believe with redneck law enforment your f*@#$ anyway, but I found if you know theyre gonna find it, just hand it to them for a ticket. at least in florida. Power gives these assholes a real "above the law" complex. i feel for the shitty job they have to do, but come on man...its fuckin weed. The worst pot overdose will cause you to eat a green plastic oversized bowl of pasta salad at 4 am.

Right, let me get this right...in the US it's ok to be cuffed behind your back and in the pitch dark in the middle of nowhere, have a maglight shone in your eyes 'til you're nearly blinded...then have a cop put both his hands round your neck and throttle you to the point where you pass out??

Well, hell... it was the South so I suppose the guy was lucky that the red neck Cosby didn't just shot him in the head and dump him in a lonely ditch somewhere. Vascular restraint indeed!!
One thing springs to mind though...
...This was filmed on a police video - so THEY'VE released this video...one can only presume because they are ahem... *proud* with their war on drugs.

Yay Cosby - way to go!!

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Sheeeeeeeeet...

If he smokes good chronic, he should be used to choking...

cops cant search u because they smell something . fucking pigs

Ignorance, makes me so angry, I am so sick of this shit.

Cops are crooked and they are World class liars, what else do you need to know. I suggest drug testing them on a random basis at least 4 times per year. Looking for HGH, steroids, and Meth!

I can think of another type of "vascular restraint" it's called a heart attack.

fuck the police. why do they think that they can do anything they want, its bullshit. people have rights that cops need to respect by law and for morality sake

Man that poor guy (the "suspect"). He must've already had cotton mouth from smoking and being nervous, and then to be choked. Fuck, his throat was probably torn to shit from all the coughing.

I think the cop should be pepper sprayed and then choked, just to make him appreciate the level of force he uses on "suspects".

ive heard of such cases of drug sellers or w.e. that had coke..crack..pcp..of some sort and having in their mouth later swallowing and oding...so i understand the situation........but.......and i say but again........but.......if the police officer smelled marijuana was he thinking that he could overdoes from eating to what it seems like to be a small amount of marijuana? im sure the suspect was just trying to get rid of his joint....protecting and serving.....i see

mccain08 you are an ignorant retard. if you are worried you are gonna get pulled over by the cops always have some water with you so you can swallow the weed with ease haha

Should've just tasered 'im!

Things like this never make sense to me. A nonviolent crime like smoking a joint leads to a guy getting choked to the point of unconsciousness. Why do we continue to waste countless lives, man hours, and billions of dollars on this pointless war on drugs.

"Your Going To Choke Me"?
That was so funny

I would like to introduce everyone to our policed nation and the beginnings of martial law, anyone see what happened in Katrina, no not the hurricane? FTP!

The messed up part..is this happens alot. Thanks to the camera some cases cant be looked over...but imagine the cases where the civilian doesnt have the evidence of the camera to back them up. This is the system we live in...

Maybe the officer could get a side job as a dentist. He's got the spit part right....now he just has to practice the rinse.

Guys... what's the big deal? They won't do this to you if you spit the stuff out. He could have just gone down on possession, but he got other charges cause he wouldn't spit the stuff out.

they're trained for that sort of thing. possession arrests are an easy way to meet your quota..

LEGALIZE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOOD ONE Ricky84.

i know a way to stop this. legalize it!!!

When I transferred to a school in rural southwestern, PA, I lost a lot of respect not only for police officers, but teachers.

My school had a lot of students majoring in criminal justice and elementary/secondary education.

Interacting with them made me realize that the people patroling the streets and educating today's youth can be just as lazy, rude, self-involved, and inconsistent as anyone else.

It shocked me to realize that people who aspire to be police officers or school teachers are not neccessarily more noble than anyone else, nor are they all humanitarians.

They are people who want to influence lives, and make a difference in their world. But everyone wants that. And I think that their world is so limited culturally and socioeconomically, that the only way they can see making a difference is by becoming a teacher or cop.

Hopefully we get the chance to vote on this soon enough. This guy should have received a ticket, not brain damage from lack of oxygen.

Am I the only one who thinks it would have been easier to check the car first?

Accornding to WKRN, Ander's didn't have anything in his mouth.

"Cosby didn't find any marijuana in Anders' mouth but did find a small bag of the drug inside his car."
http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=8580865&nav=menu5_2

Always best to check the facts before an opinion is formed. Trouble is, in this day and age, how do we know what facts are real and what are made up?

y'all seen this? http://current.com/items/89065198_habeas_corpses

Ok, some of you are saying things like "fuck police" and talking about how corrupt all cops are. They aren't ALL corrupt, if they all did this, then this wouldn't be news. What this officer did was completely wrong, police brutality is bad. But if you look at any profession, there will, guaranteed, be some who are "corrupt."

I hope this guy sues the crap out of the cop.

Has anyone noticed that the officer's name is William (Bill) Cosby?

anyone see how short the cop was? i smell a napoleon complex.

Fuck the police !!

Honestly I feel bad for the kid being choked out by a crooked ass cop. But you know damn well if he were black he would have been charged, booked, and tried right there on the street. Never to have anything dismissed but his rights and maybe his life.

I hope he sues the cop and the state. He certainly has a good case here.

I hear that cop practices his choke on local chickens that smell like pot.

Weed people : Just be smart about where you keep it. Otherwise cops get a boner for trying to find it.

I know it should be legal, but it's not yet. Till then, keep it secret, keep it safe.

A cop with short man syndrome and a thugneck in a town like Mt. Juliet should make for a fun video. Cops there have nothing to do and jackasses like that kid are the reason Nice little towns have something to talk about.

Last time I was pulled over in MJ the cop stopped me for a headlight being out and asked me for any info about "Marijuna" for atleast 15 min.. I told the guy that I bought from kids in highschool and happened to have nothing on me (whilst a sack sat in a milkshake in my cupholder)

They aren't very smart and get a Hard On with news of a potential bust.

Let them be they're bored with Providence and that kid'll get caught soon if he hasn't been stopped already.

I'm sure there are better videos from Lebanon, Tn but those are probably buried somewhere.

If you can't follow you're not from the area and shouldnt worry.

Here's a quote from drug-overdose.com:

The Drug Awareness Warning Network Annual Report, published by the US federal government contains a statistical compilation of all drug deaths which occur in the United States. According to this report, there has never been a death recorded from the use of marijuana by natural causes. Unlike opiates, barbiturates or amphetamines, there seems to be little risk from the use of large amounts of marijuana.

So the cops full of crap, as usual, and I am not surprised at all. Power crazy and probably high on steroids himself!

This cop is choking someone so they don't over dose on pot. What If it were your kid over dosing on pot? You would be thanking that cop for saving your junkie kid's life!!!!!!!!! !!!

That's another small victory for the little guy.

Whatever , being a cop is hard. Granted this scene shows the lesser side of police and it is only mary jane however it is illegal. Cops have a tough job. They are entrusted by the people to uphold the law. Most people resent them for holding people to that law. Everyone has a good reason as to why they should be the exception. However if you take the chance of breaking the law in public you should be ready to face the boys in blue. If not leave your weed at home and not in the car. I am not defending the cop's behavior but If he wasn't ridin dirty this never would have happened

I love the part where the cop is choking him because the kid might possibly be swallowing a small amount of marijuana, because he 'Might OD'.

Overdose? On what? Oxygen?

"Cosby didn’t find any marijuana in Anders’ mouth but did find a small bag of the drug inside his car.”

I think that says it.

Yeah, don't resist, but if I had a cop trying to use the "choking restraint" on me telling me to open my mouth, bet on it: I wouldn't.

and after he is done choking him might as well pull his pants down i saw him clenching his butt cheeks......

I believe (I am very fuzzy on the specifics) that, while one may be arrested for possession of Marijuana, if one were to ingest it, they are no longer breaking the law; it is legal to smell like Marijuana but not to possess it. That would explain why the suspect refused to give up the pot and why the officer worked so vehemently to get him to spit it out--he didn't want to lose his suspect.
It's not fair to claim "fuck the police" because there are straight cops out there--however, as the saying goes, "good cops make good people, bad cops make the nightly news "

F*#k the police!!! 90% of the times i've dealt with them it's been unjust, and i was innocent. My uncle ( retired police officer ) has always told me how corrupt some police are and that they always overstep their boundaries. He always agreed that weed should not be criminal when alcohol is legal and kills thousands of people a year. As a joke he always said the motto should be "suspect and serve" instead of "protect and serve"! It seems more accurate!

He should have just stuck his tongue out. Do as your told. Resisting is stupid in this situation.

But the cop is an idiot.
The boy was an idiot.

This entire video was just full of idiots

The cop smelt burning marijuana...he must have a keen sense of smell from that distance.

i'm sorry to say that cops, indeed suck. there's no way around it. fuck cops.

I was hassled a few weeks ago for "turning into a business with no outlet." Yeah, it was early in the morning but I was being stopped for turning my car around. WTF??? I respect the police but there still isn't any excuse for incedents like these.

Well did he have drugs in his mouth? If he did, it seems to me like the cop just did the "vascular restraint" procedure, which is apparently standard, improperly. He even said "I'm gunna choke you." It wasn't an *attack*. He was just poorly trained at the maneuver, not a fascist. If the cop says spit what you have in your mouth out - you do it.

Now if there was nothing in his mouth, that's a different story.

i've lived in Tn. - actually , i was stopped one night in Nashville for doing 70 in a 30 zone , and my tag was expired , i hadn't switched my license over , i had one headlight out , was inebriated , and had my Glock in a sock , loaded , in my glovebox - the 2 cops who stopped me stripped my Glock and informed me that i couldn't keep ammo in it , and had to keep the ammo separate from the gun ( 2 steps from firing , as i recall ) - after 10 minutes they handed me my Glock , in one hand , and my ammunition in the other , and one guy said " keep these separated , and do you normally use hollow points for target practice ? " ( i had told them that i carried my Glock around just in case the odd impromptu practice session should arise ) - we laughed , and i went home without any kind of ticket . it seems they had better things to do - like respond to a call about some hippy resisting arrest . i love Tn. cops .

Genius. Choke a guy out because he is taking a drug that some people say is harmful to ONESELF! Spit that stuff out! It's bad for your health!
In other breaking news: Being choked unconscious is not beneficial to one's health.

ya know... i really hate police. we pay them to harrass us. i hope someone catches them off gaurd and helps out the gene-pool. my feelings are best expressed in a song by NWA. :)

Yea my dad was dragged out of our house for beating up our neighbor and the cop used excessive force... well the charges got dropped and my dad found the cop two weeks later at the bar. it was beautiful =)