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Locals witness New Orleans police beating
http://www.bradenton.com ^ | 10 11 05 | ERICA RODRIGUEZ

Posted on 10/13/2005 3:00:39 PM PDT by freepatriot32

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To: 30 something american
If you walked up to someone on the street and asked a question and they started beating on you would your first reaction be to just stand there and let them? Sometimes cops do get that deserved ass whippin and like any other gang they call in their buddies to bail them out.
61 posted on 10/13/2005 7:20:08 PM PDT by PositiveCogins
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To: Cap'n Crunch
The guy is clearly resisting arrest.

Why did the cop on horseback deliberately block the view of the videographer? It seems to me that these JBT's didn't want the public to see their shameful actions of beating an innocent elderly man into the ground.

Why did the cop shove the journalist against the car while spewing an obscenity-filled tirade if they (the cops) were doing nothing wrong?

I'm getting tired of the way cops like you with the "us versus them, if your not cop, you're little people" attitude come here and defend every single incident of police abuse and brutality no matter how disgusting.

You are indeed part of the problem, pal.

62 posted on 10/13/2005 7:20:50 PM PDT by ActionNewsBill ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act")
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To: SaveTheChief
What I meant was that the only thing they make in New Orleans is meals.

So it should be pretty easy to boycott New Orleans-made products.

63 posted on 10/13/2005 7:22:56 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Cap'n Crunch

"Which I wouldn't do because you hurt your hand, but if this cop wants to do that, it's his choice."

Bull cra, cops love war wounds. It makes them feel macho. "ow heck, busted my hand on some perps jaw cus he threw up in my cruiser".


64 posted on 10/13/2005 7:25:33 PM PDT by PositiveCogins
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To: TheBattman
The fact there's an FBI and Customs agent involved, with the proximate cause the behavior of a 64 year old local property owner suggests to me that:

1. The 64 year old had managed to walk into a situation he wasn't supposed to see (and having familiarity with the area he certainly saw it),

2. Everything worth stealing has not yet been stolen in New Orleans.

After watching the "long version" of the news video taken at the scene, things only look worse for the cops in this one.

65 posted on 10/13/2005 7:26:00 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: usurper

What happens when you give a goody two shoes boy a microphone?


66 posted on 10/13/2005 7:34:59 PM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: Cap'n Crunch
Musta seen a different tape than you. It starts off with a cop banging the old guy's head up against the wall while he tries to cuff him.

We had a very stupid Fairfax County cop once stop a neighbor for having rolled through a stop sign and on into our cull-de-sac.

Happened immediately in front of my house. Cop got the guy to step out of his car and lay on the ground. Then he cuffed him. Then he pulled out his wallet.

I didn't say a word ~ just stood on my porch ~ and the cop turned to me and said "Whatcha' lookin' out" and touched his pistol.

Took about two days to get that idiot fired! But this isn't New Orleans. Still, there are places in this country where I would have been justified drawing down on the officer, or even shooting him dead in the street.

I suspect the way this particular case ends up is that a whole bunch of cops will need to find new employment, preferably not with Fairfax County, and no, I don't want the FBI guy, or the Customs agent moving in around here to work at their new "staff jobs". You can keep 'em. Send the DOJ your address and tell them that these guys are welcome next door!

67 posted on 10/13/2005 7:37:46 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: Cap'n Crunch

IN NEW ORLEANS? Maybe wherever you worked was just as crooked - fill us poor stupid citizens in.

I'll let the rest of your posts present your position on police responsibility.

Please remind us all - exactly what CRIMES were ANY of these people resisting arrest for?

And anyone who uses his badge to beat up and intimidate innocents should get what's coming to him.

Did you answer my question? Have you ever been there? Or do you think your badge will get you out of having a discussion of criminal police behaviour?

Are you actually describing those police thugs as men?


68 posted on 10/13/2005 7:48:17 PM PDT by Mr. Rational (God gave me a brain and expects me to use it)
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To: freepatriot32

Did anyone see the sleezy defense lawyer watching the tape of the incident on CNN tonight? (Greta was on her rancid Natalee Holoway story again, so Fox doesn't interest me when she's on.) The lawyer had the biggest grin on his face while watching the jackbooted thugs beat up on the old man...really an odd reaction. I've been to NO once. I would never go back with people like this walking around with guns.


69 posted on 10/13/2005 7:56:22 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: 30 something american
With witnesses present, if the yeacher was completely innocent he would/should have just laid down peacefully imo...

"just laid down"??? What a country you would have us. If you see a cop coming up acting like Billy Bad @ss, just prostrate yourself upon the ground before him.

Puhlease. I think they need to be sent to a basic common courtesy and decency class... in jail. Maybe after they've lain down peacefully a few times in the state pen before others that are mighter and have more power, they might have a little more respect for others than themselves.
70 posted on 10/13/2005 8:34:42 PM PDT by publana (yes, I checked the preview box without previewing)
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To: Cap'n Crunch

You are obviously a fine example of America's finest.


71 posted on 10/13/2005 8:40:50 PM PDT by publana (yes, I checked the preview box without previewing)
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To: Cap'n Crunch

Cap'n for police and crunch because you like to crunch heads and fingers? You should be very proud of yourself.


72 posted on 10/13/2005 8:45:40 PM PDT by publana (yes, I checked the preview box without previewing)
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To: kittymyrib

he was on hannity and colmes saying that the police never punched this guy in the face WHILE the tape was playing showing the cops punching the guy in the face.Then after he said that colmes told him that the video they were watching and showing to the viewers shows the cop punching the guy. So he changed tactics and said the one cops delivered ONE glancing blow to the side of his head.He said that WHILE the vidoe was being played showing the cop punching him in the face 4 times then later another cop punching him twice while he was on the ground with 4 cops on top of him.


73 posted on 10/13/2005 9:19:08 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: freepatriot32

I'm glad I missed H&C tonight. It would have put me in a worse mood than reading this thread has done. :/


74 posted on 10/13/2005 9:37:10 PM PDT by publana (yes, I checked the preview box without previewing)
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To: TheBattman
"Now - did these two guys do more than they admit - dunno. But I do wonder about the other officers involved, as I don't recall alcohol consumption being a federal crime (at least since prohibition...), and simply stating that you need to tell somebody about what you have witnessed..."

It's not the horse dung that reeks, it's the dung from the mouths of the New Orleans 'law enforcement' officers involved in this disgraceful incident. Police brutality against Blacks in the South isn't exactly a new phenomenon, but then again, police brutality is becoming fashionable everywhere these days.

The Feds were around because FEMA is there and it's been declard a national (federal) disaster area; and I'm supposing that anyone they deem to be 'interfering' with their work is subject to federal arrest. But what truly mystifies me is that even though there are numerous incidents of police brutality captured on videotape over the past few years, there are many who continue to insist they are 'isolated incidences', and it's 'only a few bad apples', or that 'the videotape doesn't show the whole story', etc.

Maybe some of these people just happen to like what they see on videotape, and others don't want to believe it, so they deny even what they see with their own eyes.

75 posted on 10/13/2005 10:07:58 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" -Pope Urban II, 1097AD)
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To: Cap'n Crunch
"The guy is clearly resisting arrest."

So trying to keep your body from being beat to a bloody pulp equals 'resisting arrest'?

They claim the guy was 'drunk', but didn't bother to give him any breathalizer or blood tests. There is no police videotape that's been reported showing the guy acting drunk. Not that being drunk in public warrents this kind of beating anyway, but these New Orleans cops are about as believable as their 500 compatriots who fled like dogs from Hurricane Katrina and never returned.

76 posted on 10/13/2005 10:14:30 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" -Pope Urban II, 1097AD)
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To: freepatriot32

H&C replays in about 35 minutes. Which segment is it on? What did Hannity say about it?


77 posted on 10/13/2005 10:23:28 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

i think it is after the talk with bill bennet he got two segments tonight then it switches to the lawyer and the police video


78 posted on 10/13/2005 10:32:22 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: Ken H

hannitty said it makes the cops look bad and hes areal big defender of the police in almost all circumstances


79 posted on 10/13/2005 10:33:09 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: freepatriot32

Thanks.


80 posted on 10/13/2005 10:33:35 PM PDT by Ken H
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