If you watched that video with an open mind, or at least a fair intention to see what really happened, you, like the 12 jurors who refused to believe the male deputy’s false report of being grabbed around the neck and choked for a long time, you would see that Deputy Armstrong was initially in the middle of that swirling mass of hostile and combative people trying to help the male deputy control the female who had just been slammed against the patrol car by the male deputy. You would also see that it was this female, who was never under control by either deputy, and not the suspect inside the patrol car, who was eventually lynched by the crowd.

If you actually looked at the video and didn’t just believe what someone else told you the video showed, you would see that Deputy Armstrong was on her radio, requesting assistance (and yes, on the patch, Mr. 10-33-go) and not fooling around with a cell phone. Most importantly, you would see that no member of that crowd put their hands around the male deputy’s neck, choked him for minutes, hit, punched, or kicked him.

Deputy Armstrong testified that she never saw anyone choke her partner. The jury that watched that video agreed that the male deputy was not choked. Her partner even told her, before the video went LASD-viral, thanks to the captain’s county-wide email, that he had no problem with how she handled the incident.

Deputy Armstrong has more balls than any of the male deputies who for years called her names, mocked her, shunned her, and still expected her to lock-step lie for them.

My experience with the Intent and Imposition letter is one of the major problems. Whoever writes it is trusting whoever wrote the summary and whoever did the investigation to be giving the facts and just the facts. Trusting, too, that they have turned every stone they could to do an impartial, fair, & unbiased investigation before they recommended this person lose their job, be demoted (oh, excuse me, receive a reduction of rank or removed from bonus position!), days off, slap on the hand etc. That doesn’t happen on this department. You can only hope that the investigator, Sgt, Lt, Capt, Commander, Chief and Sheriff like or think highly of you.

What has happened to us as officers of the law? We are no different than the people who see a portion of an incident or hear a portion of an incident and become judge and jury. No need for court, hang them. I do not know this woman, I was not there, and it is obvious that something more happened, but once again the media plays on our emotions and we follow them right down the yellow brick road.

Calling someone names without all of the information, which in time will come out, is just wrong. (I believe there were some among us who called Sather the same thing [coward, etc] when his story broke, & now the feds are investigating because there is enough evidence to believe he was coerced into writing false statements in his Incident Report. Maybe we should all just take a breath before passing harsh judgments.) Someone who has a chance to work on a detail like that is not a schmuck. If the male deputy wrote a false report and charges are dropped against the suspect is the deputy not basically a liar? What kind of label did he get? Anyone know where he is now ?

There really isn’t enough detail in this article to know much more than a few things: She got fired. She said she shouldn’t have been. She says there’s department corruption. That’s about all.

IF, and I say that with a HUGE IF (this is speculative on all our parts) IF she is the deputy in the Youtube video that 10-33Go and 1035 are discussing, then she had everything she got coming to her and more.

I watched that video over, and over and over with about six other deputies standing in a semicircle around me. I remember watching the female Deputy screwing around with a cell phone, shifting from foot to foot, and all around doing NOTHING while a swirling mass of hostile and combative people tried to assist a woman break out of the backseat of a LASD radio car.

Another deputy, black guy, if I recall, was frantically running from position to position, trying to stave off the people from pulling this woman out of the back of the radio car, AND trying to make sure he wasn’t blasted from behind with a rock, a bottle, etc.,

We don’t know for sure who the woman in that video was (if someone does, please speak up here), BUT if that is Ms. Armstrong, then she’s lucky fired is all she got, because she left her partner hanging in the wind, and a lot of LASD deputies rightly wouldn’t reward that behavior with anything but wrath.

This could be a different woman. This could be the same woman and the video is either another incident or the video is misleading (as videos often are) I don’t know, I’m trying to be open minded here.

If she is that person in the video in question, she deserved to be fired. And if she deserved to be fired and is making a stink, it’s hurting the cases and chances of all the LASD employees who DIDN’T deserve to be fired. That’s my fear here.