Birmingham police officer under investigation after taking down mask-less woman at Walmart By Carol Robinson | crobinsonal.com
An altercation between a Birmingham police officer and a woman over the woman’s apparent failure to wear a mask at a store was captured on video and now has prompted an investigation.
The incident took place Tuesday night at Walmart in Roebuck. Video of the incident has been shared thousands of times on Facebook and shows the officer handcuffing a woman who is not complying. He then picks her up and takes her to the ground.
He ultimately gets her handcuffed and she is seen in later video standing with no apparent injuries. It appears she then spit at another woman while she was in handcuffs.
Little is known about what led up to the incident before the videos were recorded. Efforts to reach supervisors at the store weren’t successful.
Birmingham police spokesman Sgt. Rod Mauldin said the officer was off-duty and working security for Walmart. He said the department is aware of the video and released this statement:
“The same day the interaction occurred immediate actions were taken for the sake of public trust and transparency.
"A preliminary investigation consistent with the Birmingham Police Department reportable use of force protocols were immediately initiated and investigators of the Internal Affairs Division are conducting an investigation. This protocol applies for all use of force incidents that occur within the Birmingham Police Department.
"We understand we are operating in trying times. The Birmingham Police Department has maintained a consistent community oriented educational approach to the surrounding circumstances of Covid-19. As a department we have been successful in our efforts to gain compliance and cooperation from the vast majority of citizens in Birmingham. Our records indicate, we have not issued any citations or made arrests as it relates to the shelter in place ordinance or the face covering ordinance. We have made a valiant effort to gain voluntary compliance and we will continue to work cohesively with the community.”
I feel much safer now. Thank goodness for these brave officers of the law.
Yes indeed, brave and committed.
It's a wonder these officers and protectors of the Constitution make it home safe and sound every night. Thank God he made it home safely, thank God. The Country would be in total anarchy if it were not for these brave soles.
Praise the Lord, for the LEO in today's America.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
As gun owners, we should take pride and be assured that these compassionate and reasonable defenders of our constitutional rights and all that is holy and right in our country will never transgress and attempt to deprive us of our sacred 2nd amendment rights.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
I echo the concerns of those who are aghast at how the LEO attacked this poor, law-abiding African American woman. I've lived in majority black areas for a good part of my life (Brooklyn, before the hipsters, and Oakland CA, also before the hipsters). Ain't NO way that the woman was looking for a fight, creating a nuisance or threatening the officer. That simply is not done in the African American community.
Eliminate qualified immunity and you'll eliminate cops who act like they are above the law.
Cops have no fn business messing with people because they don't have a mask on. Go out and catch dope dealers, purse snatchers and DUI suspects I'm all for beating some bad guy's azz, just leave the law abiding citizens alone.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Face slam on hard concrete floor. That's gonna leave a mark.
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
They just need to start shooting all these non-mask wearing psychos on sight. That'd teach um. They must be thinkin' they live in a free country or sumtin' Let um stuff their rights up their gawd damn azzes for a change. This is a new day. And a new way. Fight it like a commie puzzy or give in like a real man should...
Praise the Lord we have LEO's armed, willing and ready to teach these pukes what I want them to do...
Padded VA Hospital Rooms for $1000 Alex
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My ignoree,s will never be Rock Stars on 24 hr campfire.....Like me!!!!
Has nothing to do with Colorado. Local PD, every place has a few Barney Fifes here and there.
That sheit didn't happen in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, etc. So yes, I think it does have a lot to do with Colorado. Most of the fuqkery you hear about of government over reach comes from Cal, Co, Wa, NY, NJ, etc[
Has nothing to do with Colorado. Local PD, every place has a few Barney Fifes here and there.
That sheit didn't happen in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, etc. So yes, I think it does have a lot to do with Colorado. Most of the fuqkery you hear about of government over reach comes from Cal, Co, Wa, NY, NJ, etc[
Just remember that Birmingham is a world of its own compared to most of the rest of Alabama.
The mayor of Birmingham:
The Birmingham city council:
The Birmingham city police chief:
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