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Officer Daniel Harless’ Greatest Hits
Sunday, July 31st, 2011Harless is the Canton, Ohio cop who went nuts on a conceal carry permit owner during a traffic stop in June. There’s now a second video of a 2010 stop in which Harless again repeatedly threatens to kill the people he has just pulled over. Watch below. It’s well and good that he’s now under investigation. But why did it take these videos going public for that to happen?
This guy is in the wrong job. He is scared to death…I just wonder whose death it will be. When he finally kills someone, will there be an investigation?
I wonder how he can go to work every day being so deeply frightened.
He’s scared to death. You don’t need cowards to be cops.
He particularly likes the “I’ll kill you and go to sleep tonight” line. He used it in both videos. I agree, this guy is too scared to be able to be a good cop. I’ve seen other police deal with guns and weapons. They don’t like them, but they aren’t pissing their pants either. He needs a career change. Hopefully he’ll get one from the results of the investigation. I think he’d make a good school bus driver.
He could just be a total loony-thug. Or, as the above folks said, he’s scared.
I’m always reminded of one cop at G-20 who was screaming “get back! get back!” fairly hysterically, while pointing his rubber bullet gun at me and several other retreating students who had their hands up.
Give that guy a real weapon, fewer witnesses and someone else with a gun and you’d have a body.
I agree, he sounds scared. And with the spewage coming from his mouth, sounds like he was raised by wolves. Lots of esteem issues..
he want to kill somebody, all he wants is for somebody to give him an excuse.
and he’s not alone. see this —> http://www.blog2.tshirt-doctor.com/?cat=20
It’s just me, watching the watchers.
But why did it take these videos going public for that to happen?
I presume this is rhetorical, but I’ll answer anyway. Because the people above him and who work with him don’t care unless there’s enough of a public outrage that they are forced to care.
I wonder what the psych filter for too-scared is in the hiring (or academy) process.
Who will lift a hand or shed a tear when the economy collapses and these psychopathic “public servants” are eating dog food?
I’d agree that he should be in another line of work, but he couldn’t even hold down a job at McDonald’s using that foul language while dealing with the public.
He has threatened to kill people multiple times. What would happen to a non-pig who did that?
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I think a 2 week suspension is in order for this.
Radley, you honestly have to ask, “But why did it take these videos going public for that to happen?”
Come on man, you know why…
I agree with the others, this guy is reacting to the situation, one in which he is truly terrified almost to the point of paralysis. His reactions are the last step before he either snaps or shuts down completely.
Sadly this man wouldn’t do any better if he was working at McDonalds. This anger/fear would manifest itself in some way, in that job too.
I question the validity of any psychological testing me may have done to get the job.
Shit can this asshole!
9 threats of violence(incl. multiple death threats)
25 expletives
11 insults(stupid, idiot, etc.)
No doubt there would be more if we could see the video from the beginning of the stop. Notice how he cleans up his act some when the backup arrives. I’d like to see some vids of him on some non-gun stops. I bet he loves to lecture proles he has detained.
I’m pretty sure Chris Farley did this routine on SNL long before this joker went to the academy.
Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker (Farley starts about 1:45 in).
Can some enterprising journalist please file a public records requests for more dashcam footage from this asshole?
Why has this guy not been charged with a crime? I can think of a few, but felony threats to kill comes to mind. In my state, Washington, the law of self defense is rather clear. If one threatens to kill you, and the threat is credible, as here, you are allowed to believe him and act accordingly. Would a jury convict a citizen who shot this fool if the citizen asked on tape “are you seriously threatening to kill me? and who gets the “yes and I will sleep tonight” answer. I wouldn’t.
It’s amazing the people on the tape are not questioning this cop until you consider they are in fear of their lives.
This guy does not need to lose his badge and begin an exciting new job at McDonalds. He needs to be prosecuted and sent away for a long time. He is an embarassment to his job, his supervisors and his jurisdiction. The only reason he is not already in custody and pending trial is that he belongs to the most powerful gang in America: Law Enforcement. I suspect he will get some type of non-job threatening discipline. His bosses will keep him off the road for a couple of months and he will lateraly transfer to another department. If any of us were caught on tape acting this way, is there any question we would be charged with a crime?
Oh, one more thing, I bet all the video monitors in all the police cars in Canton have developed some type of malfuntion.
“I could shoot you in the face and go to sleep tonight”.
The feeling is mutual, buddy.
c. All of the above.
This underscores that, in a police confrontation, especially if you are armed, you need to remain calm and professional. If there is only one adult at the confrontation, it probably should be you. Come to think about it, this could be a valuable area to train in; role playing at a back corner of the range, with everyone’s guns yellow-stringed.
His name is out there. Every detail of his life will be Open Source within days (remember Malamute Man from the last over-zealous encounter?).
From there the market will test what punishment it metes: it has finally got to the stage where everybody who is not suffering from head trauma knows that his ‘superiors’ (what a word for those scum) will try to wait until the outrage cools, then paper it over.
Getting a dickhead like this put into hospital for a month: $900.
Making sure he doesn’t ever hold a position of authoritaaah again: priceless.
Mannie@16: What, you want that range to be reclassified as a terrorist training camp? ;)
I’m struck by what a shitty job he does of controlling the situation.
When you stop a guy for (whatever) and see he has a gun on the floor of the car, you (1) get him out of the car, (2) determine if he’s carrying the gun legally*, and (3) if not, place him under arrest and have the car towed; otherwise continue with the traffic stop. Standing there arguing with him just undermines your authority. It’s dangerous if you haven’t arrested him yet and pointless if you have.
* Which he’s probably not, since it’s illegal in Ohio to carry a handgun unsecured in a vehicle.
Bring that punk ass coward of not even 1% of a man to Texas.
Too bad people with badges and government issued costumes can’t be called terrorists.
Is the IDF giving lessons to our local yokels?
I doubt he started off this way or that he is a psychopath or whatever.
He just bought too much of the “Us vs them” bullshit. He seems to honestly think that every citizen is dead set on “making sure he doesn’t go home tonight”
Roid Rage.
Anthony “He just bought too much of the “Us vs them” bullshit. He seems to honestly think that every citizen is dead set on “making sure he doesn’t go home tonight””
Of course. What else is there to think when you’re part of an occupying army deep inside enemy territory?
He just made TV news (and we all know what a lousy job the 11pm news does of covering what is happening) so this guy is going to get nationwide coverage. I expect he will be looking for new opportunities soon.
What other customer-facing jobs could he get with that vocabulary?
DO YOU WANT F**KING FRIES WITH THAT M*****F**KER?
I think, same: That dude does just need a career change, and it doesn’t involve mcDonald’s but some community service work, peeling potatoes, behind bars!!!!
Wow: My comment went online that fast? We need a major change in the law enforcement biz of America. They have turned into thugs/paramilitary forces. This also applies to the Caylee/Caseee Anthony case, strangely enough. The police weren’t man enough to stop that murder before it happened…Oh, well… They should have, I mean, given that Caysee had done so many other bad things before she was actually caught for the big one.
I think all of you are too hard on this guy. He deserves a medal of valor and a promotion of this performance. I feel safe knowing he’s out there, threatening to kill people and go to sleep at night.
I wonder how Harless can be so certain he could kill someone and go to sleep at night.
His superiors should just early retire this guy, and pay him to stay home off the streets. There is just no way that this officer should ever deal with the public again.
And guaranteed, if he lays low and gets a job with another jurisdiction, he is the ultimate Brady lister. Say he arrests someone on any charge, even jaywalking. All a defense attorney has to do is play any of his greatest hits videos, and then just sit down.
They can shine his badge as much as they want, but no jury will ever believe him.
I have watched both of Officer Harless’s videos. I am sure that his superiors have as well. Since nothing has been done to remove this man from the police force, I must assume that his superiors approve of his conduct. The real fault lies with his management in allowing him to continue on active duty. Of course, if in the line of duty he murders someone, he’ll probably only get a hand slap at best. Allowing this type of law enforcement behavior to exist or continue in America – and it does, all over the country, and daily – proves that this is a nation-wide top-down problem and failure of management.
AI V (#30 above) asks, “What other customer-facing jobs could he get with that vocabulary”?
How about, “WOULD THAT BE F**KING PAPER OR F**KING PLASTIC FOR YOUR GROCERIES, MOTHERF**KER?”
Or, “WELCOME TO WALMART, MOTHERF**KER!”
Wanna bet?
I believe that evidence would be inadmissible, unless it was a civil case or Harless was a criminal defendant and the prosecutor wanted to show his hairtrigger temper.
DJ #37, It wouldn’t be the first time it’s happened at Walmart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxFc1RMbko4
Harless is more the rule than he is the exception.
This is why so many people hate all cops.
Since most department’s cars have cameras that start recording as soon as the lights go on, I have to wonder just how many other videos there are of Officer RoidRage going nutz on some poor slob…
Not just Harless needs to be charged, but all the other “officers” who were with him that night and didn’t intervene. The explicit death threats by a man with a gun are illegal in any jurisdiction in the US and may legally be met with lethal force (put simply, it would be fully legal to kill him). That the other officers didn’t intervene makes them as much a part of the problem.
“Tackleberry, we need to talk…”
This git makes Eugene look like Mr. Spock.
Business as usual.
Nothing new here in the slightest.
Its happening right this moment in every city,town, and state in the nation.
But as long as these incidents are seen as isolated incidents, and not for what they are, which is, systemic, then nothing will change.
This is the behavior of anyone given authority, and immunity.
This combination, brings out the behavior on display in this video and countless others just like it, in all but the most angelic amongst us.
It always has, and it always will.
This is human history, and cops are just human.
How long do steroids stay in the body?
Cops came on to my property back in Aug. 2009 after a complaint me waving a gun. Cops show up ask where the weapon was and they arrested me. The weapon was sitting on the bike safety on chip loaded(what good is a weapon unloaded) The arresting cop told me I wasn’t allowed to have a weapon in my own yard, and I told him I had the right to bear arms then he said Oh you’re one of them and said what he hesaid a constutitionalist and I replied that he took an oath to uphold the United States of America.
I was charged with aggravated menacing with a firearm. They took my weapon and wanted all the weapons I had in the house and I told him he don’t have the right. Being disabled and on SSD I ask for a supervisor from the shift(National Football Hall of Fame was going on at the time) When she and 2 -4 more cops showed one which haappen to know the law about what guns he could and said I was right. But because I also know the law I agreed to let them take all my weapons. all I had to do was wait 30 and I’d get them back. And I did just that. They had to let me stop by the cop shop, park in the street and 3-5 cops carried my weapons and handed to me as I place the the truck as because I never wanted to damaged. At the first court date the prosecutor tried to deal with me and told me I could have my weapons but the judge wanted to destroy the semi-auto 45 caliber hand gun and of course no deal. The prosecutor never new I had all my weapons back. I could have and should have sued but in the end all I got was 45 minutes at County bails and had charges dropped to menacing. From a felony to a mendemor, this was all done “pro se”.)not being represented. If it was for the internet I would.ve been able to do it. Cops don’t have the power, it is and always will be :we the people” which equals the laws that we pass and the United States of America Contutition.
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