Talk about having a bad day… A reader tipped me off to this youtube video, which shows a woman taking it out on the liquor aisle at Delano’s Market at 6333 Geary last week.
I contacted the store to confirm that it did indeed take place, but the manager then referred me onto the corporate office which was closed for the weekend. The videographer, ManicVulva, describes the scene:
I shot this after she had been going at it for a while and she’s starting to slow down. She was throwing bottles at other customers before. She was yelling [in Russian] at the poor store clerk and the security guard who tried to stop her.
MV goes on to say that six cops arrived on the scene, one of which pulled their gun and yelled at the woman, “”Raise your arms or I’ll put a bullet in your [expletive] head!”
Spill the wine and take that pearl…
Sarah B.
Sarah B., if a cop did show up and did, in fact, say he would put a bullet in the head of the woman in the video, I would suspend him without pay and put him through counseling. Is it me or are there just too many officer-involved shootings recently? Are they really trigger happy? Are they troubled with the things they deal with on a day to day basis?
The scene is a woman throwing glass alcohol bottles on the ground. How is that justification for even threatening to shoot her to death? I can use the shirt on my back as a weapon, so the too often used excuse of a police being in danger seems a bit absurd.
There goes another case of abuse of power and calling themselves peace officers.
what I wanna know is, why?
Perhaps the Captain can comment. Don’t think that was taught at the Academy.
Throwing bottles at other customers = threat of serious injury to others, including the cops. IMHO pulling out a gun was justified.
SFBear, I understand that the police maintains a certain amount of power through fear, but I still don’t believe pulling a gun and shouting death threats are warranted. Most of us can cause bodily harm without “weapons,” so the threat of serious injury is too overused as an excuse.
The police department has power in numbers and could have clearly subdued the woman with the 6 claimed officers on the scene. Instead, a gun was pulled in a neighborhood grocery store.
@passerby- I agree, seems like gun pulling would be dangerous- lots of people standing around a narrow aisle, with batons and mace available long before the guns needed to be waived. Shouting I’ll put a bullet in your head to someone who is speaking in Russian and is busy smashing bottles does not seem too effective and regaining control of the situation. I have seen people in some type of mental crisis interact with Police, often times the police confuse controlling the situation with controlling the person, they are not always the same.