“I’m serious as a heart attack,” he tells Gamble when the audio begins to play on the 14-minute body camera video. “I’m not gonna sit here and argue with you.”
He demands to know how she could possibly justify such an obscene display: “I would like to hear how you would explain to my children what you’re supposed to be.”
Talking to a colleague over his two-way radio after the encounter, Babb described what happened. Gamble was dressed “like a freakin’ weiner,” he says on the tape, so he ordered her to remove the costume. She refused, invoking her First Amendment rights.
“Am I being detained?” Gamble repeatedly asks Babb, who ignores the question and continues to scold her. “If I’m not being detained, I’m gonna go ahead and leave.”
When she turns to walk away, Babb steps forward and grabs her costume from behind, throwing her on her back. Angry protesters shout at Babb as he forces her to turn over. Two more cops help him pin Gamble on the grass and handcuff her.
“By the time I got there, the cops were stuffing an inflatable penis in the back of their car,” Rae said.
It was, on one hand, hilarious — a slapstick comedy bit brought to life. In the body camera footage, Babb tries and fails to fit Gamble into his own backseat, then hands her off to another officer, who escorts her to a different vehicle. Police wrestle with the oversized costume, ultimately failing to fit the unwieldy polyester penis into the car.
It was also disturbing. Gamble screams in pain in the video as the cops try to push her into the backseat, the handcuffs digging into her wrists. Babb asks where the zipper is and, as he peels off the penis suit, asks Gamble for her name.
She replies, “Aunt Tifa.”
You’re exactly right. Just like a heart attack is a sign that a person is in distress and dying, people like you are a sign that our government is in distress and dying.
Typical statement from a person who shouldn’t ever be allowed authority over others.
They’re your shitty children. It’s your job to prepare them for the real world, not mine. If you can’t figure out how to explain something like this to them, then you probably shouldn’t have children…
But I’m guessing you haven’t done much to raise them yourself. Someone like you who bludgeons people with authority probably leaves the actual parenting to someone else, and only makes yourself known at home through violence.
Right! What’s more concerning? A giant Weiner or somebody tackling grandma? My family all thinks farts and Weiner’s are hilarious because they are. We immature, sure but who wants to be mature when that means you tackle grandma?
I’m pretty sure his children are already familiar with the notion of an adult being a massive dick.