This story is from the Onion, right?
Posted on 03/05/2005 8:57:33 AM PST by Arrowhead1952
Even residents [blacks] in the area were "happy" as one witness put it, that this club burned. It was a breeding area for crime.
Another thing, Witnesses at Midtown Live saw the "burn baby burn" message on the computer screen inside an officer's patrol car during the fire. is incorrect. A TV crew saw it on the monitor and broadcast the screen shot on the 10 PM news. That is what blew this out of proportion.
Austin PD ping.....
This story is from the Onion, right?
Well. its not like they parked their cruisers in front of the fire dept doors and went on a donut break.
Nope.... True story about the APD here....
One of those "You can't make this $#i+ up" stories....
Funny how that piece of information, which explains the law enforcement attitude toward the place, ended up near the bottom of the article, huh?
Just your basic unbiased reporting, no attempt to hype the race aspect at all...
Don't laugh, that's probably who she was named after.
When I lived in Austin, the paper was referred to as the "UnAmerican Statesman". I see its bias continues.
If it wasn't for that damned liberal media......
Karaoke Hip-Hop?
Now that's a scary thought!
"Everybody goes there, (Midtown)" said Louie White, a former Austin police officer who has visited the club numerous times. "It's like what the Broken Spoke is to white people."
I'd like to see a comparison of the number of police calls per year to each of the clubs.
>>Statistics show that police responded to 129 calls last year for reports that included a stabbing, gunshots and public intoxication.<<
I'm surprised the City didn't yank their operating permit. Once every 3 days the cops had to respond there! Wow!
BTTT
Austin isn't that big a city, and 129 police calls in 365 days only makes it #5??
Here is another headline from today's paper.
3 officers, 3 wrecks in 32 minutes
Another thing, Witnesses at Midtown Live saw the "burn baby burn" message on the computer screen inside an officer's patrol car during the fire. is incorrect. A TV crew saw it on the monitor and broadcast the screen shot on the 10 PM news. That is what blew this out of proportion.
That answers my question as to how the heck this is even a story. It figures.
Had the police officers and dispatchers NOT responded appropriately to the call, then THAT might have been a story. This is just another example of how the media work to discredit law enforcement officials in any way they think they can inflict damage.
I don't see anything here that indicates these folks didn't do their jobs. What they are guilty of is being human and seeing the humor of a nasty trouble-spot getting the "what goes around, comes around" style of justice. The police are called out there to respond every 2.8 days (129 times last year) for stabbings, gunshots, public intoxications, etc. What a law enforcement nightmare the place is.
Thanks for the post and ping.
That is one question several locals are asking.
Don't send anything over your computer that you wouldn't mind seeing on the front page of your local newspaper.
Be it the internet or a police messaging system, all messages are essentially in the public domain.
How many careers have been wrecked by failure to follow this basic rule of professional conduct?
Of course, the news media would not have publicized this and blown the events out of proportion, nor would anyone have been suspended or reprimanded, had the comments been made about a local GOP headquarters or a conservative business establishment.
That summer, "the Watts area of Los Angeles erupted after the arrest of a Negro charged with reckless driving. Cries of 'burn baby burn' were heard at the height of the violence which had claimed 34 lives and millions of dollars worth of property damage."
-In urban centers, riots became common starting in Harlem in 1964 (then Watts, Detroit and many other large cities). Congress passed a law making it a federal offense to cross state lines advocating violence (known as the H "Rap" Brown law as Brown frequently crossed state lines using the Phrase "burn baby, burn" in his speeches).
....some in Watts felt free to start looting, and the smashing of windows and invasions of businesses began. Alongside the urge to possess was the urge to destroy, and they repeated the slogan of a local disc jockey: "burn baby burn!" Fires spread. Arriving firemen were shot at.
Seems like the cops thought that's what they were suppose to say when there's a fire?
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