If you’re a cop it doesn’t pay to get pissed off when someone cusses you out
“No quality is more indispensable to a policeman than a perfect command of temper.” – Sir Robert Peel, 1829
On August 21, 2012, LAPD officers Christopher Hajduk and Christopher Carr pulled Michelle Jordan, 34, into a parking lot after they had spotted her driving while talking on her cellphone. Although she was told to remain inside, Jordan got out of her car. She was told to get back in the car, and when she refused, Hajduk told her she was resisting arrest and threw Jordan to the ground. She was handcuffed, picked up, and leaned against the car. When she called one of the cops a motherfucker, she was body-slammed to the ground once again.
Unfortunately for the cops – and the City of Los Aneles – it was all caught on tape by the parking lot surveillance cameras. Charges against Jordan were dismissed. Hajduk, a 22-year LAPD veteran, was fired and Carr received a suspension. And it has just been revealed that in September, the City of Los Angeles settled an excessive force lawsuit Jordan had filed with a $550,000 payout.
It just doesn’t pay to get pissed off when someone calls you a motherfucker. It’s too bad Hajduk and Carr failed to heed the words of Sir Robert Peel, the ‘Father of Modern Law Enforcement.’ I suspect they were taught those words when they were going through their recruit training at the LAPD academy.
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