-Be patient. Your police beating will be coming your way soon enough, and hopefully there's still some money left in the city's coffers to pay your surviving relatives.
No cops beat up this old grifter.
He started a shoving match with a cop writing him a ticket, and scraped his cheek when he fell to the ground.
Five cops restrained him, so that he could be subdued without further injury. Then they took him to saint Luke’s hospital.
Had they used a taser, you would have been all over them for that. Had the cop who was writing him a ticket duked it out with him solo, he would have been hurt and you would be outraged. Had the cop let him go, you would be whining about corrupt cops refusing to do their job when the person in question doesn’t (or pretends not to) speak english.
So we can count you among the so called enlightened who thinks this old con artist should get millions for initiating a fight with the cops?
Where do I go to get you to demand the courts shower me with money too?
I am sure I could shove a cop somewhere. I’ll even do something to get a ticket.
Bottom Line: If you can’t physically control an 84 year old man without bloodying him, you have *no* business wearing a badge and a gun. Period.
I don’t care what his citizenship status is or if he came in through Cuba or if he has been scamming Social Security. Those are wholly unrelated issues that can be investigated and prosecuted seperately. They have no bearing on *multiple* NYPD cops failing to physically control an apparent (from the looks of the photos) physically inferior 84 year old man. They should have been able to control him *AND* if need be, keep him from injuring himself while they detained him. Period. The end. No if’s, And’s or But’s about it. From the instant they detained him, they were responsible for his safety. After all, before knocking him out and bloodying him, the reasoning for detaining him in the first place was purportedly for his own safety? (no humorous intent there)
It is high time individual City, County, State and Federal cops are assigned personal responsibility for the consequnces of their malfeasance/misfeasance. AS more and more of these incidents crop up, it should be *painfully* obvious that we need to weed out the knee-jerk, badge-heavy “Barney Fife’s” and recruit & retain more level-headed, common-sense minded “Andy Griffith’s”.
“No cops beat up this old grifter.”
Except that they did.
-Be patient. Your police beating will be coming your way soon enough, and hopefully there's still some money left in the city's coffers to pay your surviving relatives.