Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Superior, Wisconsin – After nearly a year, Officer George Gothner will finally see consequences for the violent assault of Natasha Lancour. Unfortunately, he will only be getting a ten hour suspension from officials at the Superior Police Department.
Disturbingly, the suspension that the officer received was not for pulling the woman by the hair, punching her in the face, or slamming her face-down onto the hood of the police car, but instead, the officer was reprimanded for how he spoke to her.
“The system of how we judge officers, has to change. We will not see anything come out situations like this as long as the cops are giving attaboys to the abusive cops. We need to have an outside agency look at the use of force incidents and make a finding,” said Rick Gondik, Lancour’s Defense Attorney.
On January 5th of this year, Gothner confronted Natasha Lancour and a number of other people at the Keyport Lounge parking lot. When Lancour was not immediately submissive with Gothner, he became enraged and grabbed her, pulled her across the parking lot by her hair, slammed her onto the hood of the police car and punched her in the face several times.
Gothner then arrested her for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, although she was clearly not assaulting him on the video footage.
After the video footage surfaced, Lancour’s charges were downgraded to disorderly conduct, and after fighting for months in court, she was finally able to get all of her charges dropped.
The police department maintained that Gothner’s use of force was justified, but this week they ruled that his language was not suitable, so they gave him a one day suspension.
Superior Police Chief Charles LaGesse said in a statement that, “Superior police department places great value on our relationship with the community. This trust has been eroded by the public perception of this incident and we will strive to win that back by living through the tenets of our mission statement.”
Lancour is now planning a lawsuit against the city.
See the dash-camera footage of the incident below:
John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he is also the owner of a successful music promotion company. In 2013, he became one of the organizers of the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled “Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance” at bookpatch.com.
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What’s it going to take? If a pig treated any of the women & girls in my family like that, I’m afraid it would be a life changing moment. For me & him.
This is classic, and it will probably become part of police academy training across the nation. “Be polite whenever you’re beating the crap out of a woman, or the public might see police as unprofessional”.
” ‘We need to have an outside agency look at the use of force incidents and make a finding’, said Rick Gondik, Lancour’s Defense Attorney.”
We had one. It was called the “Civilian Complaint Review Board”, which forced police misconduct to be assessed by civilians rather than other cops, but it was dismantled just so cops could go brutal on us and have no one to answer to. I’m also sure this lying attorney is well aware of that fact.