In the interest of helping this incident go viral, I’m re-posting this video.
It’s Richland County (South Carolina) Deputy Paul Allen Derrick, who – rejected by 23 year old Brittany Ball, described as a Marine – allegedly became enraged, went to his car, got his handcuffs and pistol, and proceeded to play cop with Ms. Ball.
Fortunately, the video was rolling:
I worked in bars for way too long, and this is ugly, depraved stuff even by my standards. Derrick tortures Ball, practically wrenching her arm out of its socket. He gropes her, too.
The good news, as it were? Sober on-duty cops were called, and they were able to put the law above the Thin Blue Line, and they arrested Derrick. He’s charged with assault and battery.
The bad news? It took a week for the sheriff to suspend Derrick.
Also notable: it’s a drunken incident where someone in a Green Bay Packer sweatshirt walked away uninvolved!
Sure did take a long time for the regular police to arrive
Yes, that seemed kind of slow.
When seconds count, the police are minutes away!
Shameful on many levels.
I hope that the charges include more than just assault and battery.
Just goes to prove cops are cops wherever you go.
This was in Columbia, in an area called 5 corners which is kind of like DinkyTown (right near USC). Unfortunately young girls and wealthy college boys have attracted the urban youth of the area, and it’s not uncommon to have a couple of shooting incidents each weekend. The coppers down there are pretty busy.
Depriving someone of their freedom to leave would be charged as kidnapping against you and me.
BTW, that copper got shit canned. And while it’s true a cop is a cop wherever you go, when a cop gets shit canned in South Carolina, he stay shit canned.
Not going to be 21 weeks of paid suspension followed by a union puppet arbitrator sending him back to the street.
That’s the Hawaiian way, Swiftee.
About fifteen years ago a cop claimed he had a fight with his wife, and then accidentally ran her over when she jumped in front of his van. Case closed, said the cops. They punished the cop by sending him to work in Kona.
After several years of prodding by civilians, they reopened the case and brought in a forensic pathologist. He found evidence in the van that resulted cop’s arrest and conviction for manslaughter. The difficult, hard to find evidence? The inside of the van was covered in blood and the dents in the wife’s skull matched bolts inside the van and the seatbelt buckle.
Hawaii County PD ain’t exactly Scotland Yard.