[Jack Hydrazine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPTg8fMHA-Q

[MD Expat in PA]

[The officer] stood him up against the wall and was trying to write him a ticket. The man didn’t seem to understand, and he started walking away.

Perhaps being 84 years old and having lived through a little conflict called WWII, he remembered a time in China and elsewhere (that still continues in many places) when being singled out amongst a group of other people and stood up against a wall meant something a lot worse than getting a jaywalking ticket was about to happen. Just saying.

“The cop tried to pull him back, and that’s when he began to struggle with the cop,” said King, 24. “As soon as he pushed the cop, it was like cops started running in from everywhere.”

Because it takes a whole squad of cops to subdue an 84 year old man.

Oh and: “He was just walking across the street with other people, and they picked him out. How could they do that to an 84-year-old man.’’

So among a group of other people who were also jaywalking at the same time, the cops, like a pack of jackals single out the weakest of the group.

[jaydee770]

Bottom line:

The elderly man, regardless of confusion or ill intent, gave those cops the excuse they were hungering for to beat the tar out of him. For his own safety, I hope his family can get across to him just how “trigger-happy” NYC cops are so he doesn’t make the same mistake again.

As for those cops, if you can’t safely, physically control an 84 year old without beating them bloody, you have no business pinning on a badge and strapping on a gun. You are an embarrassing, pathetic excuse for a human being, much less a cop.

Why anyone would want to voluntarily patronize NYC in any way, shape or form is beyond me.