[Yorlik803]

Freakin amazing. Arresting a man for drinking Ice Tea in public. Throwing him to the ground and handcuffing him for doing nothing wrong.
I hope this man has a team of lawyers and takes them for everything including the Toilet paper in the restrooms.

[ArtDodger]

The problem with the big money suit is, it isn't the officer's money! No sweat off his brow. He might be transferred (more likely promoted). While I am as outraged as you, you are basically saying, I hope the tax payers have to pay him a bunch of money.... It is a race: To disarm the People before they eventually wise up and and rise up against the ever more aggressive police state. Who will win will be determined by how much of our ability to defend ourselves is destroyed before we begin to react.

[The Antiyuppie]

This is definitely a case of EWB (Existing While Black).

Doesn’t it say somewhere in the Constitution something about the right to pursue happiness, like having a refreshing drink, for example? Didn’t the Supreme Court say something about the “right to be left alone”?

Why don’t Sharpton and Jackson go nuts on cases like this? I’d actually SUPPORT them if they did.

As far as I’m concerned, this is not just a crime against just the tea-drinker.

[sport]

I am now at your post, scrolling down reading, but I fully expect some of the cops can do no wrong crowd saying how brave the cop was and the perp deserved what he got. I, myself, am still dazed that the cop did not shoot him. And I also know that by now the cop realizes his error and vows not to repeat it.

The next individual he sees drinking iced tea, out comes his gun and bang, bang, bang. "It looked like he/she was holding a gun and I was in fear of my life", will be his/her story.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Law enforcement arrogance again.
I’m surprised the “cop” didn’t shoot him.

[RobinOfKingston]

Freakin amazing. Arresting a man for drinking Ice Tea in public.

In Wonderland, nothing is ever as it seems. He wasn't arrested for drinking iced tea. He was arrested for dissing "the man." The pr!ck wearing his authority like an overcoat wasn't about to back down, once the contact had been initiated.

[Revelation 911]

a more appropriate term is to shove it up their asses so hard and far they cough up paper clips