Police brawls in EverBank Stadium?

Just how do you know that the old man “could not have never been a threat”? You aren’t even bothering to ask what he did to empty the seats around him and require the police to get up there. That is a pretty important piece of information wouldn’t you say?

I would like to see you go up 20-30 rows into the stands and get a large, drunk, obnoxious, and potentially violent or already violent man to leave so that the people who paid $150-$200 to sit in those empty seats around said asshole could get back into their seats quickly, while worrying about not hurting him and not getting injured yourself.

 

I am not liberal. On some things I am and othere I’m not. I’m one of those crazy free thinkers.

 

No matter what they did, they were well beyond the point of submission and furthermore cops MUST say “you are detained, do not resist” and then do what’s necessary to detain. That point was well beyond. That they blew proper protocol twice in the same game says a lot to me. Neither one of those were properly handled but you don’t have to believe me, keep following the story. Frankly, I don’t care about them in any major way, just don’t want rogue cops beating the hell out of people.

 

Wow you just equated hitting a baseball, the hardest thing to do in sports to not understanding at all what to do on your job. MLB players do things that boggle the mind. A bad cop is not a bad day, especially twice. Ugh this was such a normal and better conversation with normal people.

 

Ugh you righties make everything about race. Racism doesn’t exist!

 

Jax news conference now going through all body cams.
Drunk assholes causing problems and refusing to leave vs JSO

 

Kirby’s brother was still trying to fight. He had not yet submitted. The video appears to support your claim on submission on the other two guys but I would want witness statements to support that.

I’m no big supporter of police. There are enough bad ones out there that they have earned some mistrust. Police unions should be banned. But I also witnessed what I witnessed on Saturday in Jax, first hand. In both cases I witnessed everything from about 15 minutes prior to the police walking down the steps. They should have been called and gave both guys plenty of warning to behave or they would be removed. If they called me as a witness I would easily and honestly say that the three cops handling our section were very professional and used necessary force when they had to. Those assholes distracted an entire section, and made people evacuate their seats for quite a while.

 

Apparently the policy is that the stadium security asks you to leave. If you refuse to leave they then get the police involved. So I guess by the time the police get there it's already an escalated situation.

 

Guy threatened to kill the officer and reached for his gun, after calling him the N word multiple times.

Man tased at Georgia-Florida game shouted death threat, racial slurs at arresting officer, body-camera footage shows

 

Yep, Jacksonville should just fire the cops and get over it already...

 

Yeah, that is about the one Georgia fan; their explanation about the stuff that happened down in the SW corner doesn't cut it. Jacksonville stadium staff is *by far* the worst stadium staff of all the stadiums I've been to (I've been to a few, and many times). The second worst staff is the staff in the SWAMP (which may be the same company as who does the games in Jax). They are friendly on the west side of the stadium, but they are AHs on the east side (@ BHG). That's not to say that they are *all* like that, they are not; there are always some nice ones mixed in, but however they are trained, they are simply not well equipped to deal with people who are intoxicated. I used to chalk it up to my perspective as a student, but now I watch the games differently, and I've seen it from both sides.

You don't try to manage a drunk fan by violence first and foremost, that's stupid and it needs to be called to task. It's one thing to grab and subdue somebody, but the repeated blows to somebody's head is completely unacceptable. Shame on JSO for their explanation on that 2nd issue. It's really a disgrace. Have they released the police camera footage for that second issue yet? I haven't seen it.

In my experience, LSU has the most laid back approach, but I can't speak to what all issues people may complain about there. I saw a police officer watching a student pour a drink right in front of her; and she just said, "really, you're going to do that right in front of me?" The student said "my bad" and that was it...lol. She made him empty it out, but that is as far as it went. Nobody was kicked out...nobody needed to be. Just implement a little common sense and quit hating on people who don't handle themselves well. There's a proper way to manage these folks without the heavy hand. Think about it, we've all likely had to deal with managing a drunk friend at some point in time; was beating the crap out of them ever a proper solution?

To @AgingGator who I think was asking about safety for the officers above, you have to remember that everybody entering the stadium goes through an intensive security check. There is no threat from folks in the stadium. De-escalation needs to be made a higher priority. I appreciate the tradition of the WLOCP, but I wouldn't shed a tear if we rip that treasure of a game from that city. It will shine wherever it is played. It is *not* about Jacksonville, it's about FLORIDA and that other team.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

If you are asked to leave the premises and refuse, at that point it becomes criminal trespass (on top of whatever charges relate to the public drunkenness and disturbance).

Of course even if is criminal trespass, it isn’t an either/or. It can ALSO be excessive force on the part of police.

 

Sounds like he wanted to get his ass beat by police