Oh my..here we go again

[The Lizard King]

Unreal, white cops beating the daylights out of a 64 year old black man for being piss drunk? Anybody see the footage with all the blood around his head as he's lying on the sidewalk? This is just so wrong...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/10/taped.beatings.ap/index.html

 

[The Lizard King]

that video was really harsh.

I hear ya. The Rodney King one was bad but in my opinion, this is much worse.

 

[hornydude]

Nothing new

The New Orleans police have been known for 20 years to be the most corrupt and ill-disciplined force in a major US city. The NYPD has had a few bad apples, and the LAPD had huge ssues with racism, but consensus was throughout the US that New Orleans police were the worst.

You may recall that a number of witnesses came forward after Hurricane Katrina to claim that some police JOINED the looting. There was also a questionable "recquisitioning" of some Cadillacs off a dealership lot, the claim being made that the officers needed patrol cars as theirs were destroyed by the hurricane or flooding.

Now, I can see that the decent police officers had a bad time of it during the hurricane, but to beat on a 64 year old man? To beat on a member of the press who isn't interfering in the arrest and who has produced his press credentials? It's just weak.

I hateto say it, but a lot of cops are all about the power trip: they'll take it to someone who is defenseless....this is pretty standard (and it is far worse) in 3rd World countries (not that I condone it there), but to see it in America or Canada is pretty upsetting.

The nice thing about VPD and the RCMP by and large is that they are upstanding if sometimes a bit ineffective

 

[therealrex]

Starting salary for a cop in NO is 20K a year and you work alone in a car. They don't draw a lot of top candidates that way.

 

[hornydude]

Shit...no wonder they looted....even at 20K a year though I wouldn't loot, though, I'd probably shake down drug dealers, (and beat teh living shit outa them if they didn't pay). I'd also take advantage of every free meal or coffee I could get at desperate restaurants in crime plagued areas.

Beating up senior citizens and reporters isn't cool, though...

 

[hitrack]

If I were living in NO with all the disaster and now this I would pack up my shit.....whats left of it. Goto the state line and turn around and flip the shit hole twin birds and get the fukk aways from that dump ASAP.

 

[eljudo]

Unreal, white cops beating the daylights out of a 64 year old black man for being piss drunk? Anybody see the footage with all the blood around his head as he's lying on the sidewalk? This is just so wrong...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/10/taped.beatings.ap/index.html

if they are gonna show some machismo ( white cops ) they should take on a healthy 20 year old mike tyson look alike!! not some poor old chap!


watching the video, it shows a total disgrace in part of the police department. Hell, the old man was handcuff, and even then it took 3 cops to take an old handcuffed man down! shees.

 

[hornydude]

if they are gonna show some machismo ( white cops ) they should take on a healthy 20 year old mike tyson look alike!! not some poor old chap!

But then again, we all know that bullies are cowards....cowards that hide behind uniforms are moderately worse than run of the mill cowards, too, mind you...if he had been a tough 20 y.o., they'd probably have shot him, so perhaps this was for the better that he was old? (I know that's a stretch to find teh "silver lining")

 

[dbrw42]

if they are gonna show some machismo ( white cops ) they should take on a healthy 20 year old mike tyson look alike!! not some poor old chap!


watching the video, it shows a total disgrace in part of the police department. Hell, the old man was handcuff, and even then it took 3 cops to take an old handcuffed man down! shees.

Have you ever tried to take someone down who doesn't want to go down? Grab a couple of friends and have them try to get your hands behind your back(like you were being handcuffed). It's not easy. When I had riot training in the military, trying to riot cuff a passively resisting subject(somebody who is only trying to prevent themselves from being handcuffed, not trying to escape or injure the handcuffers) was goddamn hard without unloading on the handcuffee. Try it sometime.