Ain’t that a kick in the pants.
A protester, seen on video kicking a can of tear gas away from himself after being hit in the groin with the projectile launched by the Phoenix Police Department, has been arrested on criminal charges, according toĀ CBS 5.
Joshua Stuart Cobin, a Scottsdale, Az., native, was booking into jail on Thursday on three counts of felony aggravated assault on police and a misdemeanor count of unlawful assembly.
The incident took place on Tuesday, during a protest in response to Donald Trump’s arrival in Phoenix, where he was expected to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Cobin stood by his actions in an interview with CBS 5 the day after the protest.
“I don’t equate kicking or putting back tear gas canisters as attacking police. I never attacked a police officer,” he said.
Hot and spicy tube steaks to be served in jail.
His expression seems to indicate he’s still in pain from the bean sack to the ball sack
But, but, but…he’s a peaceful protester, isn’t that why he was wearing a gas mask?
I wonder who the other perp-walker is, is he covering his face so mommy won’t ground him?
His crime- after calculating the total numbers of man work hours spent viewing and re-viewing this Proglodyte taking a pepper ball straight to the yarvels it has been determined the cure to at least 3 forms of cancer could have been found.
Next to be charged this guy for costing the world the cure to the common cold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umtKrDjSv0M
š§ UNFORTUNATELY: I AGREE WITH HIM š§
Kicking a tear gas or smoke canister away from you is not worthy of three counts of felony aggravated assault. Flat-out ridiculous.
People have the right to assemble w/o a permit.
People have the right to protect themselves from teargas.
There is no equal protection under the law. A Presidential candidate ignores orders from the FBI and Congress, deletes evidence, smashes cellphones, and nothing happens. A guy kicks a precious teargas canister away from him, and he faces:
ā¾Removal of his voting rights
ā¾Removal of his 2nd Amendment rights
ā¾Removal of passport/traveling abroad
ā¾Removal of his ability to ever work again
ā¾Removal of his ability to receive a loan
ā¾Removal of his freedom: jail/probation
ā¾Removal of his income: at LEAST $20,000 just in legal fees
š¢ RIDICULOUS POLICE-STATE OVER-KILL
Just when you think a story can’t get any better.
Now that he can sing like Robin Gibb maybe he should work on a few songs:
Stayin Alive
How Deep is Your Love
More Than Woman
Jive Talkin
Lonely Days
The huge guy named Mongo won’t equate pounding your rear end as being rape, either.
Super Patriot has a point but, I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny right there!
Easy arrest. Check hospital emergency rooms for girly man with high squeaky voice and swollen balls, who presents his Mommy’s insurance card.
A rioter getting busted on charges that’ll probably stick. Not much different than what Rob’t Mueller is trying to do with the Russia investigation. When he catches someone in a lie, they’ll get charged with perjury, or something.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Moron!
Liberal left jerk comes from Scottsdale? Send the turd to Venezuela. I want to see his sorry ass experience true socialism.
@Pelopidas
Mr Go Daddy rep is gonna get nailed.
@Superpat, I suspect that’s not all he did and they may have witnesses but no vid. Maybe he’s on other vids (civilian? Police surveillance?) doing stuff, I don’t know. I do know folks have had just about enough and he may be the head-on-a-pike case as an example to others. I guess the moral for him is don’t be that guy. The sad reality is I suspect those charges will be pled down to a couple misdemeanors and he does small time and/or his mom writes a check for the fine. He’ll be back none the wiser when he sees the next ad on Craigslist maybe with his nards adequately protected this time. Maybe Ma Cobin will (and should) close her check book and say no mas. They need to make sure any fine well exceeds what Soros is paying and maybe we won’t see his little mug show up on the evening news so much any more.
The shot to his nuts must have been effective, because in his hospital bed video he said he was “waiting to see the OB GYN.” Really!
Yup. He had all those rights. He just did not have the mental ability to avoid the consequences. Could have stepped to the left, to the right, in front. But. No. He chose to increase tensions and endanger the police. Now he’ll have plenty of time to think about what he did wrong. Sucks to be so stupid.
Notice the first several sentences in the article. It says he kick the can of gas at police after he was shot in the groin. WRONG. He kicked the can initially at the officers and then he was pepper balled in the balls. Such sweet justice.
Gojira – So well put.
he’ll think twice before playing Kick The Can Down The Road again
Have to disagree Super Patriot.
Here’s the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teRqxd5nBzs
The reason the police dispense tear gas is to get people to retreat backwards.
It’s not assault when the police dispense tear gas at an advancing line to get that line to retreat.
What is felony assault is to run forward and kick the tear gas back into the line of policemen.
He didn’t kick it away from himself… he ran up to it and kicked it back into the police.
Gotta agree with BFH on this one, kicking the tear gas back into the police line counts as assault in my book. You have a right to protest…PEACEFULLY!!…but when the police tell you it’s time to disperse, you disperse, or you man up and accept the consequences for you disobedience.
BTW: BFH, what happened to AWD’s site? It’s been down all week.
Oh yeah he practically danced over to the tear gas and kicked it at the cops. He wasn’t skeert. And then he hung around starting at them giving himself an inner high 5. Until… LOL.
Ditto, fur….you nailed it.
I understand Super Patriot’s point, that it will be a steep price to pay if all the charges stick.
BUT, it is assault on a police officer, and the part about protecting yourself from tear gas, that might be true if the guy wasn’t able to retreat backwards and was choking on the gas.
He ran a good distance from the fresh air TO the tear gas to use it as a weapon against the police.
He might pay a steep price for that felony.
I was just having this discussion with my husband. He says that Peppy Balls didn’t deserve the criminal charges. I disagree with him. PB had no reason to go back and kick the canister into the police officers. It’s not like he was defending himself, he was attacking LE. Anyway, we laughed a lot with the many versions of the video. The best one was with “I’ll Always Love You” on the background!
Val,
did he see the rarer vid that I posted that shows he was in no danger of the tear gas and ran towards it to kick it back into the police?
Because there isn’t a defense lawyer on the planet that might not recommend he plea to a lesser crime, or say he was high on sugar from Twinkies, because that right there is assault upon a police officer.
Hard to tell if that photo was before or after the nut shot.
It’s a nut shot every day with people like this…
The cop should get an award for that great shot.
@JMV August 25, 2017 at 2:22 pm
Um, um! Loyal citizens loves them some tasty boot.
There is no right to riot. That’s why it’s called that.
It can;t be said that even in stressful situations that cops don’t have a sense of humor.
BFH, we hadn’t seen it from that wide angle. Thank you! Now he agrees with us.
That was really some marksman to be able to hit such small marbles on a moving target.
Hey asshole,if your nuts still hurt add a pinch of salt too.
I’d be interested in knowing whether he was paid to attend the demonstration and if so, whether his “employer” can be held in some way responsible for his behaviour. That would be a good bargaining chip for him to use to get the charges reduced. Maybe the cops can follow that up the ratline to the wallet behind a lot of these riots that seem to always happen.
That Video Was One of The Funniest Things Iv’e Ever Seen , I Still Laugh Almost Uncontrollably When It Nails Him In The Nutters !
The Video Will Be On a Loop In Jail !!!
@sup pat @BFH. Where I am at the mayor can declare an unlawful assembly followed by Rio proclamation. Even then the police don’t get to treat it as a riot immediately. They get 30 min to disperse. After that you are subjecting yourself to criminal charges if you remain an the police can use necessary force to remove or arrest you. You had your chance to demonstrate, now git.
Completely OT:
Love the new LIKE button!
Thanks for the fix, Sir Fur!!!
@judgeroybean August 25, 2017 at 1:47 pm
“Now heāll have plenty of time to think about what he did wrong. Sucks to be so stupid.”
If you’re gonna’ do the time, you might as well do the crime.
I was in Phoenix/Tempe for a National Football Championship. Those cops there will PHUCK you up.
If you’ve never walked down the street at 2200 and heard a Po-po patrol storming down the streets of brick on steel shod horses, you ain’t felt fear.
What a gerbil face. I can almost smell his bad breath from those yellow teeth.