Man Sucker Punches Police Officer-Released Without Bail
Steven Haynes was sitting on the sidewalk and blocking traffic. He had also been drinking. A couple of police officers tried to get him to move. The video shows Steven being hostile, then he punched one of the cops. A struggle begins and Steven ends up pinning the cop to the ground.
The other police officer called for backup and tried to get Steven to quit. Steven kept going. Other police officers arrived and Steven was eventually taken into custody. He was arraigned and then released without bail.
From the New York Post:
The Sergeant’s Benevolent Association expressed their outrage on Twitter Saturday at the prolonged assault.
“Another ATTACK on NYPD Cops! Was this officer working alone?” the union fumed. ‘Who was saying “Mr. Get off of him?’ All street cops BE CAREFUL, the city is falling and YOU are the first target.”
Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch slammed city politicians in a statement to the Post responding to the footage.
“When will our elected leaders admit that the streets are out of control? The perps know they can sucker punch a cop and escape with no consequences,” he said. “And cops know that City Hall will not back them up. The situation is getting more dangerous by the day.”
Haynes has a long rap sheet of at least 24 prior arrests, most of them for theft of service, the NYPD said.
The video and article could be seen here.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Police
Thanks, DeBlasio!
And yeah, ROR is the new rage, thanks to the lefties and their “bail reform” laws; aka catch and release.
Commie Bill, making NYC a third world shithole once again.
Memo to NYC voters – when you vote (D/Commie) you get this!
Criminals aren’t held responsible for their actions and the libtards running the big cities wonder why crime rates are constantly going up? Further proof that liberalism is a mental disorder!
If the crooks are unafraid of the Cops, civilization falls.
You can bitch about that, choosing to ignore reality. You cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring that reality.
Yes, this means the Cops have to be able to inflict disabling pain on combative arrestees, as situationally required and as a known deterrent.
Yes, this means we need to keep tight control of who gets to be a Cop, and how they function. But make it too dysfunctional, and the “civilization falls” mode is activated.
Leftist policies, the desire for political correctness, and other factors that you guys have pointed out here on other threads contributed to the above.
The left is driven by emotion, “feelings” dictate what is “reality” and what is “fact”. Emotion-based rule and decision-making, at the expense of fact, logic, reason, etc., constitute a recipe for the fall of civilization and descent into barbarism.
FTA…”…an internal review is underway.” Yeah, I’ll bet. FIRST thing the back up popo shoulda done was crack that drunk sob upside the head with the baton instead of tap tap on his back asking him to stop stop stop stop. 24 prior arrests and this dirtbag is back on the street again, after felony assault on a police officer? Guess the corrupt left wing pols figure their private taxpayer funded security guards will protect them and to hell with the safety of the citizen.
My last trip to NYC was for business in about ’94/’95(?). It was bad enough then, I’m sure it is so much worse now. Guess y’all saw where the NYPD arrested a coupla 13 & 14 yo for the stabbing murder/robbery of the 18 yo student? They’ll prolly be back on the street when they turn 18, more educated in criminology than before.
Thanks Obama.
Meanwhile, Obama chills in the safety of Martha’s Vineyard.
This has literally nothing to do with Obama. Entirely based on state and local jurisdictional decisions and on state and local legislative actions.
More like Bolshevik Bill’s gross mishandling of NYC mayoral duties- rot starts at the head of the fish. Even the little dictator Bloomberg did a credible job by comparison.
Coming from the demented “Orange Man Bad” Seagull, that was actually funny.
Why isn’t that baton thing all the way up past
where the small instestine begins?
I wouldn’t wish being “Giulianized” on my worst enemy or even a Democrat. Those 70th precinct cops were sadistic perverts who sexually assaulted Abner Louima in 1997.
I live about 30 miles East of Manhattan and retired from the Nassau County PD (a truly great department). A neighbor was walking by my home last week – he’s currently in his 14th year with NYPD. I asked him how the job was going. He looked at me and grimaced saying that it was terrible. Little support from the higher up bosses – morale amongst the cops is in the toilet and he can’t wait till he can retire.
He finished by saying, “the job sucks!!”
That Female quota hire was useless helping the male officer.
Change my mind.
Less than useless. I had to stop watching because it was raising the blood pressure to unsafe levels.
I’d love to see video of this. I hope the assaulted cops beat partner was wailing on this scumbag. I was a beat cop and if some punk had my partner pinned to the ground, they would be hurting…BAD.
Just saw the video. Lame, very lame backup. That “cop” would be on my shit list FOREVER!!!
Unfortunately if the cop started wailing on the asshole he would be facing an internal investigation. Selective video would be submitted and the public would be yelling ‘No Justice No Peace” days on end. The upper echelon would run and hide and the cop would be left to wolves to fend for himself.
NYC brought this upon themselves so when they call 911 don’t expect the cops to come a running.
Maybe so that civilians would protest, but when a beat partner is being attacked like this, all bets are off. And it’s justified all day long.
Kooks who would scream and yell about one cop coming to the defense of another cop are marginalized at best and not given credence.
This “cop” wasn’t even trying. I doubt the perp even felt the baton “strikes.”
No doubt the cops are gun shy after Eric “I can’t breath” Garner died in an ambulance after being arrested for a petty crime, and then resisting.
One of the first things taught in training for the Heimlich Maneuver is asking the victim if they can speak. If they can, they can also breath.
Facts don’t fit narratives, though, which is why we have this and the similar “Hands up, don’t shoot” BS.
I was really impressed with how the minority female hire cop didn’t do anything to help her partner but yell at the perp who had the cop down on the ground and the lightly tap the psycho on the back with that extendable metal baton. I also saw a number of bystanders in the background doing nothing. Just heard the perp is now back on the street after release on no bail per New Yawk’s new bail law. Looks like the Big Apple is becoming too dangerous to visit.
Taking it to a new level… a level that would make David Dinkins smile.
They have a video of this on the link. Talk about a serious plumber’s crack. 🙄
Bail reform, set to start on January 1, appears to be having an impact on these cases showing up. People are being set free, even without bail:
https://nypost.com/2019/12/28/suspects-released-without-bail-after-shocking-attacks-on-jews/
Near as I could determine reading the list of offenses eligible for immediate release, and what can get you held in jail, what gets you held is 1st and 2nd Degree Murder, Armed and Unarmed Robbery with injury to the victim, Sexual Assault with injury, Terrorism, Being a Major Drug Dealer, and “Select Offenses Against Children”.
Then again, reading what some of the judges in Nooo Yawk have said, I don’t think anyone is really sure what is what, so they let damn near everyone go.
I met the NYPD retired Detective through one of my neighbors down here in Florida and he told me that he got the job of evaluating Female officers on how they do and if they should be allowed to be patrol officers. He received the reports from the officers which were not favorable and submitted his report to the higher ups but Females were allowed to be patrol officers anyway. These were during the early 1970’s where there were quotas on hiring minorities into the NYPD/FDNY. The height requirement was even dropped. The Detective was a nice guy and even knew some of the PD Officers whom worked for us part time and remembered the NYC Municipal building robbery where two of our Brink’s employees got shot delivering currency to their Municipal Credit Union and Chief of Detectives Albert Seedman was there sending PO’S all over the place and winding up arresting the perp in a Brooklyn Hospital with a gun shot wound after he was shot by Ray F as he was on the elevator floor and the perp was running away. Ray took a load of shot gun pellets to his leg where his pants pocket had a load of change in it and some of the force was absorbed by the change but he still carried some shot inside his leg. So the perp was a cop whom worked at the Police Academy and also worked for us as a part time guard on the trucks. Detective Seedman retired and he lived a couple of miles away from me but in bad health with blindness and diabetis. I think he passed on a few years ago.
“So tell us about your best PARKING TICKET!”
The Mayor is just being stylish.
Good grief! Cops have it rough enough without this kind of thing being allowed. Geez, Louise, is deBlasio nuts? (Don’t answer that.) Feloony assault (yeah, feloony) and he’s let go?
Well, if deBlasio thinks this is okay, it ain’t. These things have a way of backfiring on people like him.
I guess this is all just beneath his notice, right? Yeah, well… actions have consequences.
I think I’d also ask why the NYPD doesn’t have cops carrying Tasers. CPD does have that, because of stuff like this.
Likely because DeBlASSio doesn’t consider them worthy of having additional self defense, but anyone wanna bet that DeBlASSio’s Bodyguards have them to protect his prissy ass with?
Probably entirely a money issue. Tasers are expensive. Body cams are the priority the last few years.
Ah, another non-violent criminal back on the streets. Wish Cuomo wasn’t protected by an armed police detail so he could get sucker punched and be re-victimized by having his attacker get released hours later.
And tell me again how our female soldiers are also just as qualified as males to perform the job.
Jeebers, even with a metal baton it looked like she was playing wiffle ball. I seem to recall that in the olden days there were such things as “come along” holds and sensitive spots like kidneys, groin, etc.
timactual wrote:
“tell me again how our female soldiers are also just as qualified as males to perform the job.”
??????
Don’t understand how your comment about “female soldiers” relates to the article.
🤔
Dementia. He woke up this morning believing it was 2014.
And you woke up believing somebody gives a shit what you think. Must be a lot of that dementia stuff going around.
Commieczar has advanced from dementia to raving lunacy, a long time ago.
It’s either something in the water he drinks down in Bezerkeley/Oaklandistan or genetically meshed in his DNA.
He’s SO wrapped up in his UC Berzerkely propaganda that he doesn’t even know his own ass from a hole in the ground!
We have been assured by our some that both female police officers and female soldiers are just as qualified as males and can be relied on to have their “battle buddy’s” back. In this case it seems that the poor guy on the ground can only rely on his partner to give the perp a back massage in an attempt to calm him down and call for other male police officers for help. I don’t see why anyone should think that female soldiers are any more capable in a physical confrontation than female police officers.
Really? REALLY??? Why is this guy still walking?
Well over 40 years ago, I was attacked in the back of my ambulance by some doper with a knife who was completely dusted on PCP. My partner disappeared while I was trying to get this scum off me. I had defensive cuts all over my hands and neck. I kept hitting this guy with my MagLite. I actually broke his collar bone, but I couldn’t knock him out. I really thought I was going to die when all of the sudden the doors flew open and a wave of blue crashed down on this asshole. Hellfire and damnation rained down on his head. I didn’t think you could fit that many cops in the back of a Suburban. There were all sorts of them, city, county, state, there might even have been a game warden. This was when cops still carried real nightsticks. My “partner” had run down the block to a pay phone and called it in. She waited there until the cavalry arrived. I went to the ER in a patrol car while she tended to the asshole who cut me up. I understand he never walked right again. Anyway, long winded sea story…but it’s how this current story should have ended.
Now that’s a scary story. And some people wonder why several others prefer to carry guns rather than pepper spray or tasers, but I digress. Still a very frightening story, good thing you escaped with your life. Couldn’t your partner have used the ambulance’s radio instead? She could have at least tried to help subdue the guy.
It would have been nice…nobody wanted to work with her again and she ended up leaving. I decided to do something safer and jo8ned the Navy.
After that incident, I certainly would not want her as my partner. I’m guessing that everyone else heard about it and that it probably was not the first time.
Not someone you wanted watching your six..
Indeed.
This will probably get me banned by the members of this board, or at the very least called all sorts of names, but it seems like there are two parts to this story that need to be examined. First, the “bail reform” provision is a disaster. In addition to this case, the Post carries a story of women who were walking around punching Jewish women and screaming “F*** THE JEWS!” In what has to be considered a hate crime, the women were all released on their own recognizance. One woman had charges pending for failure to appear after being ROR’ed on another case and yet the judge released her. If bail is supposed to ensure people show up for trial, this new law is a massive failure. In this particular case, there is no way a 1:17 second video shows the entire encounter. The people quoted in the story and other places are all cops or the spokesperson from the PBA. (I did find one source that contacted Haynes who admitted striking the officer but did not go into the reason.) A few years ago an investigation into police corruption in New York showed that officers were told by the PBA to call them before calling supervisors to the scene. The PBA would rush out a spokesperson to speak to the media before any interviews had taken place. As for being “sucker punched,” when Haynes swings at the officer, the officer has his hand on Haynes coat. If an officer has physical contact with someone, they should expect a reaction of some sort. I am not saying that the reaction was right, but a sucker punch is one that is not seen coming or could not be predicted and this punch was not a “sucker punch.” While the vast majority of cops are good, decent men and women, there are problems. For example: “Secret files obtained by BuzzFeed News reveal that from 2011 to 2015 at least 319 New York Police Department employees who committed offenses serious enough to merit firing were allowed to keep their jobs. Many of the… Read more »
GC,
I agree that all of the instances you mention above are unacceptable, and especially among those tasked to “protect and serve” such betrayals of the public trust must be dealt with swiftly and severely (After a FULL and FAIR investigation, not just political show BS).
That being said, as atrocious as the numbers you mention above are, perspective is needed. There are over 36,000 uniformed officers of the NYPD, so the 319 number that you cite is less than 1%.. Still entirely unacceptable, but not an epidemic.
Fyrfighter,
I agree that it may not be an epidemic, but if you are the subject of the abuse by a police officer, it seems like an epidemic to you.
That being said, I agree that full and fair investigations are needed when dealing with alleged police misconduct.
I also believe that full and fair investigations are needed when something like the incident being discussed is brought to light. (Not some statement to the papers BS.)
It would be wrong of me to assume that cops were dirty and all that just as it seems wrong to assume that Haynes was in the wrong. (I still want to know where the rest of the body came footage is of the incident.)
For all parties, it is best to go with “innocent until proven guilty.” Instead, we live in a world where quick judgements and pronouncements rule the day.
Can’t disagree with any of that GC (though given his history, it seems likely that Haynes was in the wrong, I would not want to judge that until the rest of the footage is made available).
To address one point made by AW1Ed above makes, the BS narratives of “hands up don’t shoot”, and in custody deaths made out to be criminal conduct by police, but eventually proven to be drug related (but never corrected by most of the MSM)has definitely had a chilling effect on police dong their jobs, and emboldened criminals, just as the no bail law will.
Yes, they are two different issues that both need to be addressed, but they are related.