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He fought the law and the law won
By adamg on Tue, 08/11/2015 - 1:55pm
Booking photo via Suffolk County DA.
A man who allegedly attacked seven Revere police officers - sending two to the hospital - had bail set at $25,000 today, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Joseph Parker, 34, who listed addresses in two different towns, first went after two cops on a traffic detail at Revere Beach Parkway near Mill Street around 12:40 a.m., the DA's office says.
One of them, a lieutenant, stopped traffic as construction workers removed traffic cones from the roadway.
Parker allegedly stopped short in front of the lieutenant, rolled down his window, and said, “I know why you stopped me.” He then allegedly exited the vehicle, began shouting expletives, and struck the officer, knocking the lieutenant to the ground and causing him to hit his head. He then allegedly began to move toward the second officer.
Parker's two passengers, ages 32 and 33, exited the vehicle and restrained him while the second officer called for assistance and checked on the fallen lieutenant. The lieutenant was briefly unresponsive but regained consciousness a short time later and was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was treated for a concussion and evaluated for head injuries.
Meanwhile, three more officers responded to the scene and attempted to take Parker into custody as he struggled and resisted those efforts. Once he was handcuffed and placed in a cruiser, he allegedly kicked the rear window until it cracked, removed his shoes, and wedged his feet through the grate surrounding the rear compartment in a bid to kick it out entirely.
At this stage, officers removed Parker from the cruiser again. When he calmed down somewhat, they attempted to place him back in the cruiser, at which point he began kicking them. One officer used his department-issued Taser to subdue him, and Parker was eventually secured within the vehicle.
Parker continued his erratic behavior at the station, alternately cooperating with booking officers and shouting expletives at them. When he was read his Miranda rights, he recited them along with the officers. When officers began to escort him to the lockup, however, he became incensed.
“What the [expletive] are you talking about?” he asked, gesturing to the exit. “I’m walking out that door.”Parker allegedly backed into a corner, crouched into a boxer’s stance, and raised his fists, challenging the officers to fight him. As several officers attempted to calm him down, another walked into the room to assist and Parker allegedly rushed him and punched him in the face. This led to another struggle in which one officer suffered leg injuries requiring treatment at MGH and three others suffered cuts and abrasions. The metal detector in the booking room was knocked to the ground and damaged during the incident.
Innocent, etc.
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You're allowed to salute in
You're allowed to salute in your mugshot?
After all that, you want to tell him not to?
He stood still long enough for a photo, let's take what we can get. The man's a walking mosh pit.
well
at that point, saluting in the booking photo can just be considered further evidence that he was all sorts of crazy....
Do tell
From the story on the WBZ website:
"Parker appeared to be under the influence of drugs, a police report stated."
Perhaps...
But that's a fantastic mug shot.
Epic!
N/T
So this asshat was obviously
So this asshat was obviously on something, yet his two passengers still let him drive?
Did you miss the part
about Revere? I'lll bet he was the most sober. The question is: PCP or Meth?
um...
After reading that entire account, you sat back and thought, "why couldn't his friends reason with him and get him to not drive?"
Intoxication may not be immediate
It may also not be immediately obvious. PCP has a time lag of up to an hour before intoxication sets in.
Source: http://www.lpac.ca/main/main/Drugmanual_chapter4.aspx
hmm
Does PCP make you "lust" addresses, as per OP?
Interesting
So, maybe the saluting thing is because he is Major Douchebag reporting for Booty?
"His lawyer Daniel Fitzgerald
"His lawyer Daniel Fitzgerald told WCVB Parker was on a medication during the mass melee and may have had a bad reaction. He recently served a prison sentence for dealing drugs but had no violent offenses on his record, the attorney told the station." -- another article on the guy.
So he may have been on one of those wonderful prescription meds that cause "suicidal/homicidal ideation" like so many of the mass-shooting events over the past few decades have involved. If so, good thing he went berserk before he got his hands on any actual weaponry.
I read
no mention of the passengers being hostages.
None of us knows what preceded this event, though. Maybe his break/episode/high came after he was behind the wheel.
Both (adult) passengers in the back seat is odd. Anyone sane riding shotgun would have been smart to bail.
i just wonder
what kind of oh fuck moment it was for his two friends when they saw him punch a cop....
Do you want to try to stop
Do you want to try to stop him from driving?
He seems
He seems nice. /s
Beating Elmer to to it...
Adorable!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
in many jurisdictions in other parts of the country, this man would be dead from a bullet fired by a police officer. Even around here, this kind of crazy and repeated efforts to attack the police probably would have resulted in the public at large giving the cops the benefit of any doubt if he had been shot.
In any event, it is another piece of evidence supporting my contention that the reason that we have fewer excessive force scenarios than other parts of the country is because we insist on better training (and pay) for our police in general, and in particular, reinforce the notion that the gun is the absolute last resort (which either is not the case elsewhere or is said with a wink and a nod).
Again, I don't want to jinx us as there are bad apples in every bunch, but I just don't think that it's a coincidence that this nutcase is alive here, whereas people who seem to have acted in much less threatening manners (e.g., retreating/running away from the police) elsewhere ended up dead at the hands of the police.
Perhaps. One might also note
Perhaps. One might also note the shade of his skin. It seems light skinned people can get away with things that dark skinned people can't. I'd like to believe it's that our police are better trained, and/or less racist, but this is a poor example to cite in support of that, given the difference in suspect profile.
Yeah, we just had a rather
Yeah, we just had a rather high-profile police shooting in the area that has a lot of open and suspicious questions as to whether they overreacted. And the victim of the shooting was a young black man.
While I hope you are correct
While I hope you are correct in saying that the police here have better training, this is one isolated incident and does not prove or disprove that. Do you know if there are any statistics out there related to the quality and efficacy of police training in Boston/Massachusetts compared with other regions of the country? I'm genuinely curious.
Also, while police killing civilians is a very troubling issue, what's even more troubling is the fact that they are killing black people at a rate more than 3.5 times that of white people. While this man might have been shot if he did this in another part of the country, he also might have been shot if he was black and did this.
I bet you a sixpack of PBR
I bet you a sixpack of PBR that if God had left this guy in the oven a little bit longer, he'd be lying on a cold slab with a tag tied around his toe right about now.
Uhhh....
Not wanting to impede your picturesque expression, but what does that even mean? If he'd been somewhat more intoxicated?
How about
Under the tanning lamps?
Got it
For whatever reason, I read that and thought "baked", hence intoxication. PBR, really? No bet and keep it.
More well done; darker; more melanin
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Nobody knows what it means,
Nobody knows what it means, but it sure does sound Provocative. (Queue in "Lady Hump" for my bedtime earworm.)
Some additional context is need... the "3.5 times" figure...
is misleading.
A study done by Peter Moskos, assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York:
---Adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown of the U.S. population, he said black men are 3.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white men. But also adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown in violent crime, the data actually show that police are less likely to kill black suspects than white ones.
“If one adjusts for the racial disparity in the homicide rate or the rate at which police are feloniously killed, whites are actually more likely to be killed by police than blacks,” said Mr. Moskos, a former Baltimore cop and author of the book “Cop in the Hood.”
“Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks die at the hands of police,” he said. “Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.”---
Don't even try it dude..
Don't even try it dude..
Careful about your facts
I am aware that the 3.5x multiplier has been widely reported, but as far as I know, this claim is based on data compiled by a single website that looks almost exclusively at major urban news sources, killedbypolice.net. While I strongly suspect that it is indeed the case that blacks are killed at a much higher overall rate*, that's not really a great source for comprehensive national data.
The actual number of people killed by police is really unknown, because even though the Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out. And the FBI doesn't collect this data either. Swell.
* - bear in mind that the data from that website also indicates that a) more whites are killed by police (over half again as many), and b) within the context of any specific confrontation, the police are far more likely to kill a white suspect than a black one. Seems counter-intuitive, right? But the number of police confrontations with black suspects is so much higher (far higher than their 12% representation in the US population) that the overall rate is so different (ie, about 1 in 200k whites killed by police/year, about 1 in 60k blacks - again, relying on the accuracy and completeness of that one web site).
While I tend to agree
While I tend to agree that our local LEOs exhibit a bit more self-restraint than those elsewhere (now we are damning them with faint praise, unfortunately), in this particular incident I am nontheless disappointed that this person was not taken straight to a hospital by EMS. Drug-induced or not, it sounds like this man exhibited the classic signs of a psychotic break, and as evidenced by the injuries sustained by the second officer, those who had him in custody were ill-prepared to handle the medical crisis of psychosis. Haldol, anyone? Stat?
Clarification
Lest anyone misunderstands, by suggesting that this man might have been more effectively handled medically, I am not excusing his behavior in any way, shape or form. Just as we hold drunk drivers responsible for hurting others- ideally, anyway- this man is responsible for his actions if his behavior is the result of illicit drug use. My thoughts are actually with that first officer- a concussive blow severe enough to cause loss of consciousness could well have very serious- even life-long- consequences for him. Let's hope he has a speedy recovery.
It's true.
Many departments around here think that pulling a gun out is a sign of failure. I knew a grand old cop in Kittery, Maine (my friend's dad.).
He'd sometimes pull a shift with a hot head idiot cop who shot someone's dog in some panic fit.
When that happened, the old man lectured the idiot, (named 'Chuckie'.)
"Ya know, Chuckie, I've been on this force for nearly 30 years and the thing I'm most proud of is that I only had to draw my gun once and I never had to fire it."
He was a Korean War vet as well.
His Friends might be a factor
The story did mention his friends "exited from the vehicle and restrained him". While the wording of the story did note he started to approach the second officer and thus showing he had enough time to start moving on and show intention, the description still sound the time is short enough that he may just haven't reacted to shooting yet.
In other words, his friends rushing out and grabbing him may have well saved his life. It may well that a second longer with one more step would mean the officer taking out his gun and shooting him. Instead his friends rushed out and took him down and thus relieving the officer to call for backup.
Is that a bite mark of his
Is that a bite mark of his nose?
He should have gotten the Motorola tattoo across the forehead
Those old Motorola "brick" radios came in handy in more ways than one. Cops now terrified with cameras everywhere but I believe the law still allows the use of as much force as necessary to control the suspect. The Police Lieutenant shouldn't have been the only one unconscious. That booking photo shouldn't be allowed either. Right to a phone call within one hour of being "properly booked." Proper booking includes a mugshot taken with eyes forward and hands by the side. I'll never forget the violent prisoner who urinated and defecated through his cell bars on the Friday of a long holiday weekend. Lacking a mop and a janitor, we used his clothing to clean the mess. That's how he appeared at his arraignment Tuesday morning. Sad to see the monkeys are now running the zoo.
Geez, Louise
And you wonder why some people hate cops...
Class act, all the fucking way.
Thug Life
Ah yes, the good old days when former high school bullies could don a badge and form yet another lawless street gang.
$25,000.?
That's low bail for what he did.
Low ball, but ya know...
... chances are he can't raise it.
If I were a relative, I wouldn't put my house on the line to get him out of jail.