Dear Sgt. Raul Ramirez of the El Paso PD,
In reviewing the tape of the incident involving yourself and news reporter Darren Hunt we have concluded that you’re at a 10 and we need you at about a 3. In other words, you’re a power crazed meat-headed, jackbooted, rage-fueled fuck who should never be allowed near children or animals.
We have sad news for you Sarg, spraying saliva in the face of a news anchor while screaming orders at him to leave yet wrenching his arm behind his back so he can’t move and ignoring his questions and pleas to leave peaceably make you a perfect example of why everyone hates cops.
Let’s take a look at where you went wrong.
First mistake. Generally acting like a Gestapo maniac in front of a news camera is a bad idea. People often watch those tapes and it’s only going to make it worse in the long run by stomping around like a berserk gorilla.
Second strike; when you require a member of the press to maintain a safe distance or vacate the scene of a highway accident it’s usually enough to state your request in a calm and measured manner. Most people will respond amicably and an incident can easily be avoided. What you’ve done here, however, is bounce around screaming orders like the newsman had a knife to a baby’s throat or was threatening a bus full of nuns with a flame thrower. It’s called overkill and your mastery of it is astounding. Fucking. Calm. Down.
Third boo-boo. You cops have a tendency to switch off the reasoning portion of your brain when you get in that “GETDOWNONTHEGROUND” mood, which makes it very difficult for an innocent person to present an argument against you physically brutalizing, tasering, cuffing, gassing them or putting your knee in their back. As is shown in the video Mr. Hunt immediately recognizes your request to leave and heads toward his truck. Instead of thanking him and going about moving the DOZENS OF OTHER PEOPLE RIGHT NEXT TO YOU, you run at Mr. Hunt, grab his belt like you want his body, and menacingly threaten him with arrest if he doesn’t leave, which he can’t, because you’re holding on to his belt and pinning him to the very truck you’re ordering him to get into. Can you see how this is counter productive?
The encounter ends when you decide that Mr. Hunt has committed a crime of some sort by “talking back” or “being there” and you cuff him and throw him up against a fence, then you do the same to the camera man, who it appears you were unaware of the entire time as he filmed you being the world’s smelliest asshole.
So the message to you is this, Sgt. Ramirez; next time you’ve had a long day, or your dog refuses to lick peanut butter off your balls, don’t take it out on news anchors. They have cameras. Take your childish rage out on the homeless and dangerous minorities like you’re supposed to.
Signed,
Reality
