After A Cop Pushed A Kneeling Woman, Black Female Police Officer Stands Up For Her
In the midst of the protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, footage of a male cop pushing a kneeling black woman to the ground emerged. But the incident, which happened in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, didn’t stay unnoticed.
One black female officer stepped up to confront the cop over his actions. The video shows her yelling and what appears to be scolding as the male cop is running away. The brave officer is now being praised online and one protester behind the camera can be heard shouting “yes, thank you.” Let’s take a close look at the disturbing incident down below.
The female police officer on the right is seen scolding her male colleague for brutally pushing a kneeling woman
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This footage captured a white male officer shoving the black protester woman
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And here is more footage of the same scene recorded by the protesters
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After the Fort Lauderdale police identified Steven Pohorence as the violent officer on video, tensions rose even further Sunday night. Local10 reports that Pohorence was suspended with pay while the investigation is taking place. He has been a member of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department since October 2016. Chief of Police Rick Maglione commented: “that officer has been removed from any contact with the public.”
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People are praising this female officer for confronting her colleague
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The “heroic” police officer confronting Pohorence in the video was identified as Krystle Smith. Maglione said that “she did what she was supposed to do”: “When you see either adrenaline or emotion or some kind of interaction going south … that is our job to do, is intervene.” When Maglione was asked if he believes Poherence’s actions could have escalated the situation, the chief replied: “It could have added to what was already going on.”
It’s been speculated that the victim of the police’s force may have filed a lawsuit
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Fort Lauderdale police suspended the male officer for his actions
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And this is what people said about the incident
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She is amazing - he's a cowardly, power-mad bully.
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Officer Smith is a credit to the badge. She shows what real cops do, protect and serve.
I don't understand why people like him are in the police force in the first place. It doesn't make sense to me
That's why they join the police, to obtain power over others and be able to assault people without being arrested.
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Suspended with pay?!? This m**********r should be fired and charged with inciting riots!!! Shout to Officer smith for showing leadership and outrage over this b******t cop!
He pushes someone who is kneeling. Not confronting him, not being violent, but kneeling. Just like the typical coward trying to cover his cowardice. You know, like (his idol, I bet) drumpf. I am willing to wager that, in truly violent situations, he runs or takes his time arriving on the scene to back up fellow officers, then picks on the weakest person he can find to get rough with. Conversely, I am confident the female officer is the first to step up and take care of business and is an excellent backup for her fellow officers.
This woman is amazing. She was straight in there making it clear to everyone watching that this guy had crossed a line. She could have stayed quiet and told him off in private but instead she showed everyone watching that not all police officers will tolerate violence and thuggery from their own colleagues.
Now let's hope other cops don't take it out on her.
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They need to ferret out and get rid of police officers like him. I was a security guard when I was young and some of my colleagues let the 'power' go to their heads, walking around like pseudo-cops, doing all sorts of inappropriate things. You do not need power-mad, aggressive individuals on the front line when dealing with the public and 'maintaining order'. (I do know that a certain type of personality is required for more serious incidents, e.g. drug busts where a SWAT team is called in.)
Then you WONDER why police are hated, vilified and sometimes end up with a bullet to their heads.
a******s like that need to do it early and often
Load More Replies... Madame you are a Super Woman. May God bless you and keep you safe. It's time to end hiring unpredictable bigots, racist, white supremacist and clean up the police force through out the States. I will never ever understand why whites like this can't just be normal humans instead of being monsters. Lucky I was brought up in a family who didn't juge people on their ethical backgrounds, brought us up to embrace all communities. In my family we have married people from many continents, have been blessed to love and learn so much from each other. Our non Swiss husbands or wives come from Japan, Africa, China, Irak, Vietnam and Australian Aborigine. Of course many have also married Europeans. We have the most beautiful children thanks to God.
She's black and she's a woman, bottom of the pile for racist misogynists, but she took no s**t from white git. Cheering her here!
that officer is the type to shoot you cuz you looked in his general direction and there aren't any cameras around. c**t.
He had the same reaction as a certain other fat white male bully when challenged by women. Especially a woman of color.
This is so disgusting. It is actions like this officer's that instigates the violence. Up until then the people were exercising their right to protest peacefully. The violence was a direct result of the officers attitude and actions. He should be fired and obviously became a cop to fulfill his desire for power and control. He is an angry and destructive man. This gives all police a bad reputation.
She is the hero we need. She is a very strong, brave, and courageous woman. His behaviors are incorrigible and paid time off is laughable cause it's caught on camera. The environment is too volitile right now to be acting with such blatant disregard for black people. He knew exactly what he was doing, that's why he waited until he was on the edge of the crowd and not the beginning or middle. His behaviors suggest that he wants to instill fear. He's nothing more than a bully, using his brothers in blue to protect him while he abuses people and hides behind his badge. The protests in Louisville KY have been heartbreaking. Breonna Taylor, a 26 yr old young black woman was killed in her home about a week before George was killed so emotions were tense before the protests really kicked off and now we've had another unarmed black man killed Sunday night in Louisville KY after a incident involving Louisville police and the National Guard. David McAtee AKA The BBQ Man. 1 of 2
2 of 2 David was a pillar of the community. Often using his BBQ business to feed homeless shelters, the neighborhood, and police officers on a regular basis. The chief of police has been fired over this one because none of the officers involved were using their body cams and it's being investigated by KY State Police as the video of the scene shows what sounds like a gunshot and a pause, then the police and National Guard look around, then fire live rounds into a crowd. Reports stated that the National Guard shouldn't have been on that street. The police said they were there for a dusk till dawn curfew violation. David was at his place of business, but they were outside eating and drinking per statements. Too much sadness surrounding these unnecessary deaths.
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You officer are a piece of c**p that makes other good cops look bad. I hope they fire you,you piece of sh-t. Thank god there was there was another officer to take you to task. feel sooo bad for the woman that was hit and pushed to the ground.
She is awesome, just like a momma bear, furious and fearless. I just hope that the "blue code" will not bite her. And yes, the blue code should change (you don't rat on your fellow police bla bla), I know a lot of precincts are working on that, but it's been part of the system so long, it's hard to change.
Sadly, this was rather minor and an emotional reaction compared to concerted and agreed-upon abusive effort by some police like the cops who dragged the college students out of the car, tazed them, broke the kid's arm, for no reason, while saying "He's got a gun" when in fact he didn't. They weren't even part of the protest.
Kudos to our Baltic brethren on Bored Panda who monitor our crumbling democracy via cyberspace, and remind us that there still are humans alive, who care about others. -Rev Dr M, embarrassed by his fellow Americans
This woman is a hero. That officer had no right to push that girl. Then he just ran out.
Im sorry but get ready to down vote me right now.. Do you have any idea how many Policeman dies in the lineoff duty?? How many hits they get in they s****y work?? Its not the police playm that you are where you are.. You are all the plame.. Your laws, what you all are reabonseable, make griminals quit desperate.. So the Policeman are on the highalert all the time.. Do you even know how many friend his lost?? I bet few.. Now this lady, saw quit well that police was trying to get going on.. And there was peopole everywehere.. So the lady things its very good idea to sneak behind him.. And get down just where his guns are.. Realy??! And Policeman is playm becourse he Bush her way.. All of you shout police to help when there is dangers.. And becourse there is a few bad Apple.. You are dangers polices life, future.. I Wonder how must every polices Family's must thing.. Reamember when you family or friend next time get shooted down, not to call bad police.. I know that there is racism but..
What if there was someone in need of help?? And you just stop them?? I thing that is murder by you own laws.. Look at the mirror and thing what you can do.. And dont be child and playm everyone others.. There is racism and a lot everywehere.. But this is not to way.. How you thing pay all the damages what is Come all of this mayham?? Its all you.. Tax rise up.. Food rise up and so on.. Ritch stay ritch.. Poor peopole even more difficulties.. Hope you understood something.. And start geting rasim off everywehere.. Jaill are full cases...
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Because of the pandemic, people are bored and looking for purpose. No one is handling this situation well.
Officer Steven Pohorence needs to be fired and subject to criminal and civil lawsuits!
But would have she under different circumstances? Easy to stand up now with a massive crowd behind her.. or yell at him for putting all them officers at risk due to them being outnumbered, but if that wasn’t done where it was done, infront of all those people - would’ve she still called him out..?
She looks like she doesn't take any b******t no matter what. He was pretty intimidated by her and presumably he knows her. That doesn't really matter though, what does matter is that she did stand up to him and it was the right thing to do. She nailed it.
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Stupid white men in uniforms! They always do sh.t like this. Thank God there are brave and smart women to prevent some of disasters
But it's okay for the same cops being pelted by god-knows-what. Looks to me like he was trying to escape an angry mob?
I don't think you can blame the Army. You can blame the current president for pouring oil on the fire with his "looting shooting" tweet and his totally clueless handling of the very explosive situation. I think you can blame the entire system for ignoring all previous protests and outrages that occured. They were obviously not powerful enough to tackle issues like the very poor training of policeofficers, their racism and the blue wall of silence. And now perhaps the Army has to restore peace and law and order because a failing police force is incapable of doing that. And that's simply because they are the evil that people are protesting against.
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Stop watching mainline media, look for thousands of other videos out there showing the actual protesters stopping the looters!
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She is amazing - he's a cowardly, power-mad bully.
Load More Replies... Officer Smith is a credit to the badge. She shows what real cops do, protect and serve.
I don't understand why people like him are in the police force in the first place. It doesn't make sense to me
That's why they join the police, to obtain power over others and be able to assault people without being arrested.
Load More Replies... Suspended with pay?!? This m**********r should be fired and charged with inciting riots!!! Shout to Officer smith for showing leadership and outrage over this b******t cop!
He pushes someone who is kneeling. Not confronting him, not being violent, but kneeling. Just like the typical coward trying to cover his cowardice. You know, like (his idol, I bet) drumpf. I am willing to wager that, in truly violent situations, he runs or takes his time arriving on the scene to back up fellow officers, then picks on the weakest person he can find to get rough with. Conversely, I am confident the female officer is the first to step up and take care of business and is an excellent backup for her fellow officers.
This woman is amazing. She was straight in there making it clear to everyone watching that this guy had crossed a line. She could have stayed quiet and told him off in private but instead she showed everyone watching that not all police officers will tolerate violence and thuggery from their own colleagues.
Now let's hope other cops don't take it out on her.
Load More Replies... They need to ferret out and get rid of police officers like him. I was a security guard when I was young and some of my colleagues let the 'power' go to their heads, walking around like pseudo-cops, doing all sorts of inappropriate things. You do not need power-mad, aggressive individuals on the front line when dealing with the public and 'maintaining order'. (I do know that a certain type of personality is required for more serious incidents, e.g. drug busts where a SWAT team is called in.)
Then you WONDER why police are hated, vilified and sometimes end up with a bullet to their heads.
a******s like that need to do it early and often
Load More Replies... Madame you are a Super Woman. May God bless you and keep you safe. It's time to end hiring unpredictable bigots, racist, white supremacist and clean up the police force through out the States. I will never ever understand why whites like this can't just be normal humans instead of being monsters. Lucky I was brought up in a family who didn't juge people on their ethical backgrounds, brought us up to embrace all communities. In my family we have married people from many continents, have been blessed to love and learn so much from each other. Our non Swiss husbands or wives come from Japan, Africa, China, Irak, Vietnam and Australian Aborigine. Of course many have also married Europeans. We have the most beautiful children thanks to God.
She's black and she's a woman, bottom of the pile for racist misogynists, but she took no s**t from white git. Cheering her here!
that officer is the type to shoot you cuz you looked in his general direction and there aren't any cameras around. c**t.
He had the same reaction as a certain other fat white male bully when challenged by women. Especially a woman of color.
This is so disgusting. It is actions like this officer's that instigates the violence. Up until then the people were exercising their right to protest peacefully. The violence was a direct result of the officers attitude and actions. He should be fired and obviously became a cop to fulfill his desire for power and control. He is an angry and destructive man. This gives all police a bad reputation.
She is the hero we need. She is a very strong, brave, and courageous woman. His behaviors are incorrigible and paid time off is laughable cause it's caught on camera. The environment is too volitile right now to be acting with such blatant disregard for black people. He knew exactly what he was doing, that's why he waited until he was on the edge of the crowd and not the beginning or middle. His behaviors suggest that he wants to instill fear. He's nothing more than a bully, using his brothers in blue to protect him while he abuses people and hides behind his badge. The protests in Louisville KY have been heartbreaking. Breonna Taylor, a 26 yr old young black woman was killed in her home about a week before George was killed so emotions were tense before the protests really kicked off and now we've had another unarmed black man killed Sunday night in Louisville KY after a incident involving Louisville police and the National Guard. David McAtee AKA The BBQ Man. 1 of 2
2 of 2 David was a pillar of the community. Often using his BBQ business to feed homeless shelters, the neighborhood, and police officers on a regular basis. The chief of police has been fired over this one because none of the officers involved were using their body cams and it's being investigated by KY State Police as the video of the scene shows what sounds like a gunshot and a pause, then the police and National Guard look around, then fire live rounds into a crowd. Reports stated that the National Guard shouldn't have been on that street. The police said they were there for a dusk till dawn curfew violation. David was at his place of business, but they were outside eating and drinking per statements. Too much sadness surrounding these unnecessary deaths.
Load More Replies... You officer are a piece of c**p that makes other good cops look bad. I hope they fire you,you piece of sh-t. Thank god there was there was another officer to take you to task. feel sooo bad for the woman that was hit and pushed to the ground.
She is awesome, just like a momma bear, furious and fearless. I just hope that the "blue code" will not bite her. And yes, the blue code should change (you don't rat on your fellow police bla bla), I know a lot of precincts are working on that, but it's been part of the system so long, it's hard to change.
Sadly, this was rather minor and an emotional reaction compared to concerted and agreed-upon abusive effort by some police like the cops who dragged the college students out of the car, tazed them, broke the kid's arm, for no reason, while saying "He's got a gun" when in fact he didn't. They weren't even part of the protest.
Kudos to our Baltic brethren on Bored Panda who monitor our crumbling democracy via cyberspace, and remind us that there still are humans alive, who care about others. -Rev Dr M, embarrassed by his fellow Americans
This woman is a hero. That officer had no right to push that girl. Then he just ran out.
Im sorry but get ready to down vote me right now.. Do you have any idea how many Policeman dies in the lineoff duty?? How many hits they get in they s****y work?? Its not the police playm that you are where you are.. You are all the plame.. Your laws, what you all are reabonseable, make griminals quit desperate.. So the Policeman are on the highalert all the time.. Do you even know how many friend his lost?? I bet few.. Now this lady, saw quit well that police was trying to get going on.. And there was peopole everywehere.. So the lady things its very good idea to sneak behind him.. And get down just where his guns are.. Realy??! And Policeman is playm becourse he Bush her way.. All of you shout police to help when there is dangers.. And becourse there is a few bad Apple.. You are dangers polices life, future.. I Wonder how must every polices Family's must thing.. Reamember when you family or friend next time get shooted down, not to call bad police.. I know that there is racism but..
What if there was someone in need of help?? And you just stop them?? I thing that is murder by you own laws.. Look at the mirror and thing what you can do.. And dont be child and playm everyone others.. There is racism and a lot everywehere.. But this is not to way.. How you thing pay all the damages what is Come all of this mayham?? Its all you.. Tax rise up.. Food rise up and so on.. Ritch stay ritch.. Poor peopole even more difficulties.. Hope you understood something.. And start geting rasim off everywehere.. Jaill are full cases...
Load More Replies... Because of the pandemic, people are bored and looking for purpose. No one is handling this situation well.
Officer Steven Pohorence needs to be fired and subject to criminal and civil lawsuits!
But would have she under different circumstances? Easy to stand up now with a massive crowd behind her.. or yell at him for putting all them officers at risk due to them being outnumbered, but if that wasn’t done where it was done, infront of all those people - would’ve she still called him out..?
She looks like she doesn't take any b******t no matter what. He was pretty intimidated by her and presumably he knows her. That doesn't really matter though, what does matter is that she did stand up to him and it was the right thing to do. She nailed it.
Load More Replies... Stupid white men in uniforms! They always do sh.t like this. Thank God there are brave and smart women to prevent some of disasters
But it's okay for the same cops being pelted by god-knows-what. Looks to me like he was trying to escape an angry mob?
I don't think you can blame the Army. You can blame the current president for pouring oil on the fire with his "looting shooting" tweet and his totally clueless handling of the very explosive situation. I think you can blame the entire system for ignoring all previous protests and outrages that occured. They were obviously not powerful enough to tackle issues like the very poor training of policeofficers, their racism and the blue wall of silence. And now perhaps the Army has to restore peace and law and order because a failing police force is incapable of doing that. And that's simply because they are the evil that people are protesting against.
Load More Replies... Stop watching mainline media, look for thousands of other videos out there showing the actual protesters stopping the looters!
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