Cop pushes downhill skateboarder into car, police claim they just collided

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Video here.

Story here.

San Francisco Chronicle said:
An informal skateboarding competition turned disruptive and confrontational Tuesday night at Dolores Park in San Francisco when police rushed in to break up the show and a crowd of nearly 400 faced off with them.
The tension lasted for more than an hour as skaters shouted and threw objects at the cops, one officer was injured and two police cruisers were damaged. The standoff shut down Dolores Street between 18th and 20th streets until around 9 p.m., when officers felt they had the situation under control.

No arrests were reported.

The trouble flared around 7 p.m., when first one, then two skateboarders wiped out so badly during the downhill street-riding competition on Dolores Street that ambulances were called to take the victims to a hospital. Some skaters said the first wipeout occurred when a police officer tried to stop one of the competitors as he rolled down the hill.

However, Police Officer Robert Rueca said the cop and the skater actually just collided. The officer was taken to a hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries, Rueca said. The skateboarder in the collision, a man, and a female skateboarder who wiped out later, were also taken to a hospital, Rueca said.
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Holy shit that guy went flying. And yes, it was definitely a push.

If someone could make a gif I would appreciate it.

EDIT:To be clear, I thought a gif would be easier since it's a 5 second video. I wasn't asking for a gif because I thought it was funny. My apologies.
 
What exactly was he even trying to do? Sticking your arm out in an attempt to stiff-arm someone moving that fast is how you break your damn arm.

And lol, only in America can a cop do this shit (intentional or not) in front of a crowd and then attempt to lie about it after the fact. This shit is the Onion article we wake up into every day.
 
Any other job heads would roll from top to bottom, procedures would be forced to change, personal lawsuits would fly.

Instead its going to be deny deny deny, at most a suspension, and the city is gonna write a check to have it go away.

But they wonder why so many people hate them and use the excuse at how its all just intentionally chosen bad optics by police reform groups and the media, lol
 
Pankratous said:
Watching on my phone so pretty small screen but looks to me like he crashed into the cops shoulder
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Yeah. I'm not sure why it's called a push but I do think the cop may have reached his arm out or elbowed the skateboarder. The way the cop reacts after makes me think it was deliberate. If you collide with someone like that and see them flop over your car you should be running to their aid.
 
I can't tell shit from that video.

And if the cop hadn't touched him would he have been able to even stop in time? He smashed the car hard and fast....

Edit

Watched a few more times.

Looks like he was going to attempt to go in front of the cop car. Skater did himself no favors attempting to bomb through that gap with people there.
 
Wouldn't say it's a push, at most it looks like he may have extended his arm to try to grab the skater - not a smart idea when something is moving that fast, though.
 
Proteus said:
Yeah. I'm not sure why it's called a push but I do think the cop may have reached his arm out or elbowed the skateboarder. The way the cop reacts after makes me think it was deliberate. If you collide with someone like that and see them flop over your car you should be running to their aid.
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LQX said:
Looks like the kid hit is shoulder? Does not appear he extended his hand.
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A push doesn't have to involve an extended hand. Find the alternate angle and watch it. You can see the officer shift his shoulder to the left to clip the dude. Not to mention he was clearly looking at him coming down and could have easily avoided hitting him.
 
Cop did that. Seems pretty clear. And I'm not defending the cop. The cop caused the crash. On purpose.

But the skater was skating directly at him. At high speed. On purpose.

I don't think the push was self defense, but I do think the skater was trolling the cop.
 
Stinkles said:
Cop did that. Seems pretty clear. And I'm not defending the cop. The cop caused the crash. On purpose.

But the skater was skating directly at him. At high speed. On purpose.

I don't think the push was self defense, but I do think the skater was trolling the cop.
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Pretty much this. What was the kid trying to do? He was going right towards the cop, with the police car directly behind him.
 
Stinkles said:
Cop did that. Seems pretty clear. And I'm not defending the cop. The cop caused the crash. On purpose.

But the skater was skating directly at him. At high speed. On purpose.

I don't think the push was self defense, but I do think the skater was trolling the cop.
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Precisely what I was getting ready to type and just decided against it, figuring it'd lead to all kinds of useless argument.
 
So some skaters closed off a street wrongly, people complained, police intervened, things got heated where cops got shit thrown at them and someone barrels towards a road block and gets clothes lined?
I don't feel that bad about this, skater probably tried to act big and thought he was untouchable and got shot down. Too harshly of course.

Edit: Honestly in another reality I'd do the same to idiots who skate on the road or bike on the road purposely slow and zig-zag on the road to hold up traffic knowing in our society nobody can touch them because it's wrong.
I've only seen it when I'm a pedestrian though.
 
I'm trying to figure out even if the cop didn't touch him, how he was going to stop or turn in time before hitting the cop car.
 
Nowise10 said:
I'm trying to figure out even if the cop didn't touch him, how he was going to stop or turn in time before hitting the cop car.
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The skaters were already trolling/protesting, I think his intent was to swerve around using the cop as a chicane and bank in front of the cop car. I've actually skated in this spot. It's steep but you could make that turn/slalom.

Seems like a really bad idea though. (as is knocking a speeding skateboarder over)

Neither person involved made good decisions.

And btw when I lived up the street on 21st and Church, there was "no skateboarding" at that park. Not sure about now.
 
Looks almost like a clothesline to me and intentional. Maybe the cop didn't expect the skater would go flying but was trying to stop him and hurt him, due to the speed.
 
mike6467 said:
From that video on IG it looks like the cop leaned in and put his shoulder into him. I can't see this being an accident based on the way the cop was facing, and the timing. Seriously, what the fuck.
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It's definitely not an accident because the cop clearly braced himself against the skater. Had it been unintentional, the cop would've been knocked off his feet as well.
 
I don't think he pushed him put he purposely seemed like he stood there to create some collision. he had more than enough time to get out of the way.
 
Haly said:
It's definitely not an accident because the cop clearly braced himself against the skater. Had it been unintentional, the cop would've been knocked off his feet as well.
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If it was accidental the cop would have gone to check on the boarder. This guy just walks away proud as fuck.
 
CSJ said:
So some skaters closed off a street wrongly, people complained, police intervened, things got heated where cops got shit thrown at them and someone barrels towards a road block and gets clothes lined?
I don't feel that bad about this, skater probably tried to act big and thought he was untouchable and got shot down. Too harshly of course.

Edit: Honestly in another reality I'd do the same to idiots who skate on the road or bike on the road purposely slow and zig-zag on the road to hold up traffic knowing in our society nobody can touch them because it's wrong.
I've only seen it when I'm a pedestrian though.
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Order of events were:

Cops show up to stop impromptu skateboarder event (something they have been doing on this date for like 10 years), park a patrol car in the middle of the road. Skateboarder tries to go between parked car sidewalk, but cop shoulders him into the parked car causing the skateboarder to flip over.

Then chaos ensues... people get mad at the cops for knocking the kid over his hood.
 
Front angle looks like a shoulder check. The rear angle doesn't look like he moves at all. I think the reality is that the cop knew there was going to be a collision so he planted himself in the path to fuck this guy up.
 
DrBo42 said:
Front angle looks like a shoulder check. The rear angle doesn't look like he moves at all.
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He moves all right. From being out of the path of the first skater who cleared the gap to directly into the path of the next skater with unmistakable intentions to disrupt the next one.
 
Gentleman Jack said:
He moves all right. From being out of the path of the first skater who cleared the gap to directly into the path of the next skater with unmistakable intentions to disrupt the next one.
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For sure. Mostly talking about no clear shoulder or arm move to hit the guy.
 
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