Police Punch Joshua Ortiz in Fort Lauderdale Elevator: December 5, 2008

**chris** · #1 ● 03-04-2009, 11:21 PM

Fort Lauderdale police officers punched 22-year-old Joshua Ortiz inside a downtown office building's elevator on December 5, 2008, after breaking up a fight in the lobby. Ortiz had been shouting at officers but was not involved in the fight. He suffered a broken nose.

Officer Derek Lade wrote in his report that Ortiz pressed his nose against Lade's and assumed a fighting stance. Ortiz was charged with felony battery on a law enforcement officer. The charge was later reduced to a misdemeanor, and Broward prosecutors dropped the case after viewing the elevator surveillance video. The dismissal became public in March 2009.

An internal affairs investigation cleared the officers, and the department said it would not discipline them. A department spokesman disputed that the encounter was a beating and said the video showed Ortiz moving toward an officer.

GODREKR · #2 ● 03-04-2009, 11:26 PM

It looks like a couple of young men, both the cops and the civilians, trying to prove who is the most macho.

Maneater · #3 ● 03-04-2009, 11:32 PM

Or he just fucked the cops wife? Who knows? You don't really without audio.

I have no opinion until I see the whole video and have audio. The audio is impossible im sure but the whole video is somewhere. There is a reason the video starts where it does. It makes the cops look worse.

Gay!

huskie · #4 ● 03-04-2009, 11:33 PM

looks like he was giving them lip. Probably shouldn't have been such a smart mouth.

Pappyo13 · #5 ● 03-04-2009, 11:47 PM

Then we have to debate how much retaliation is too much. A shove? A beating? A gunshot wound?
Personally a say go for the latter but that's probably why I'm not wanted in Law Enforcement.
*sniffle*

**chris** · #6 ● 03-05-2009, 12:13 AM

You see I have a different opinion, police get paid to act in a professional manner across a wide spectrum of situations. Any idiot can walk into an elevator and smack some kids around, espically when your wearing a gun and a badge. That takes no special skills or ability.

In police work you should expect every call to have some twat mouthing off, this is the norm, either deal with it professionally or go look for another line of work.

chady · #7 ● 03-05-2009, 12:25 AM

Personally I want to know the whole story, simply for the fact that it has to be ridiculous

GODREKR · #8 ● 03-05-2009, 12:28 AM

Originally Posted by chris ↗

You see I have a different opinion, police get paid to act in a professional manner across a wide spectrum of situations. Any idiot can walk into an elevator and smack some kids around, espically when your wearing a gun and a badge. That takes no special skills or ability.

In police work you should expect every call to have some twat mouthing off, this is the norm, either deal with it professionally or go look for another line of work.

This is why I said they look like they were trying to prove something to each other. The cop are supposed to keep their cool and arrest him if they're going to. But not get into a brawl.

güttsfükk · #9 ● 03-05-2009, 02:58 AM

Originally Posted by chris ↗

You see I have a different opinion, police get paid to act in a professional manner across a wide spectrum of situations. Any idiot can walk into an elevator and smack some kids around, espically when your wearing a gun and a badge. That takes no special skills or ability.

In police work you should expect every call to have some twat mouthing off, this is the norm, either deal with it professionally or go look for another line of work.

In the uk they have adverts for the police and they used to go something along the line of someone sitting there saying something like

"a 6 year old boy was raped and beaten a\nd had this and that done to him.... I dont know if i could keep my cool"

then it says "could you? if so a job in the police force might be for you"

and so forth I tried to find some of them on the youtube before but couldn't find it. and that just says it all,

regardless of how people act, police are supposed to do their job, and this video isnt showing their job

montanamicky · #10 ● 11-03-2009, 06:59 PM

I have been beat and knocked around my hole life by cops and i probably deserved some of what i got but the rest was just a cop having a bad night. Maybe his wife sucked some guys dick and the cop was pissed and layed into me something hard.And times they'd knock my teeth out.Id say thats abusing there power

Police Punch Joshua Ortiz in Fort Lauderdale Elevator: December 5, 2008

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