A tangle with a cop and an achy heart (True American arrested @ Obama rally - 'Pop' is 78)

News & Record ^ | 4/01/08 | Jeri Rowe

[ozaukeemom]

Bingo. Or a Code Pinko either.
I am waiting for the folks who always defend LEO actions to start posting.

[wardaddy]

nah, that’s how they do it here in Tennessee...land of dog shooting coppers

[taxesareforever]

Bet the cop was an Obama fan or a demorat.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

yeah, slamming a 78 year onto the ground is always necessary for a young, healthy cop.

That's just the way cops are these days. There aren't many kindly sheriffs that serve the community and help their neighbors like Andy Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show any more.

These days, cops view all members of the community as potential criminals. They will issue a citation or rough you up and arrest you at a moment's notice. For ANYTHING. Or nothing. It's their "discretion."

I think the fact that police face stinging criticism on a conservative forum like Free Republic is a testament of the state of American police these days.

Just from my personal experience of course.

[Prole]

Let the scumbag in charge of that POS department know how you feel about this outrage:

http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/Police/ContactUs.htm

PS.... The Greensboro PD is under a criminal investigation for mishanding of evidence on 4 separate cases:

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080401/NRSTAFF/781742734

I hope that Federal Authorities get involved, and the Greensboro PD get their @sses handed to them.

Think that POS outfit is even accredited?

[VeniVidiVici]

Who was the arresting officer?

[freekitty]

I believe Pop. I also believe that idiot, Obama just like the Clintons did had something to do with the arrest. My God, the man was there for over an hour.

[publana]

I left a message. Thanks for the link.

[onguard]

Our government has become more and more Orwellian, with political leaders feeling that it has become their right to remove those who protest against them from the sight of the accompanying media. Unfortunately, it’s not just the libs who are doing this. People who try to attend events where Bush is making an appearance are escorted away to so-called “free speech zones”, or arrested if they won’t go, for carrying a protest sign or wearing a t-shirt criticizing his policies.

I don’t remember who it was, but someone in Congress reminded the Secret Service that the entire USA is a “free speech zone.” But, so far at least, to no avail.

[rrrod]

Greensboro makes Berkeley look normal. Sky high crime rate and extreme left wing city guv. A police dept that would make the any dictator proud.

[Rebelbase]

Greensboro Police Corruption:

Yesterday this article was titled differently: “Criminal investigation of Police Evidence Handling”
http://tinyurl.com/35o95h

Suspended Greensboro police officer arrested on fraud charges: http://tinyurl.com/38fz2h

Greensboro officer charged with DWI after crash
http://tinyurl.com/3c2pba

Ex-Wife Of Officer Involved In Greensboro “Police Scandal” Arrested http://tinyurl.com/2ueglc

Revolving Doors, Crime and Murder in Greensboro
http://tinyurl.com/2veat9

Non-Prosecution of Alleged GPD Sexual Assault
http://tinyurl.com/3y5jq9

Sex, Drugs And Motel Meetings(Greensboro cop)
http://tinyurl.com/2nm3jq

Hinson Can’t Recall Car Sex - Part 44(cop)
http://tinyurl.com/327874

Promoting Incompetence - Part 36
http://tinyurl.com/34xw3l

Officer Molests Local Hooker, Part 32
http://tinyurl.com/35xqbz

Breakdown In Internal Affairs - Part 31
http://tinyurl.com/3x3gav

Sex, Coke & Pot, Oh My - Part 27
http://tinyurl.com/2wltte

New Sketchy Cop Surfaces - Part 26
http://tinyurl.com/32ho89

Police Info Up For Sale - Part 22
http://tinyurl.com/3dzz56

The list goes on and on.

Jerry Bledsoe has written over 52 articles in the past year dealing with the Greensboro Police Dept. corruption and has had his life threatened by drug thugs under Federal investigation and had his personal data accessed from someone in a police cruiser—he doesn’t even live in Greensboro.

Cops in Black and White By Jerry Bledsoe: http://tinyurl.com/3dgjqq

Other local Bloggers documenting the corruption within the Greensboro Police Dept:

The Troublemaker: http://tinyurl.com/35pdpo

Guarino: http://tinyurl.com/3ckz37

[Trailerpark Badass]

Flynt sees the arrest as appropriate without unnecessary force. You put your hands on an officer, you're going to get arrested. That's the bottom line.

If the officer and his "captain" lack sufficient judgment to distinguish between a touch on the shoulder from an old man and an aggressive action, I don't know what to say.

The way many cops behave nowadays, it's awful hard to support them.

[chatham]

Great Bumper Sticker !!!!!!!

[AppyPappy]

I wouldn’t trust the N&R if they told me today was Wednesday.

The GPD needs yet another black eye. Whoops...purple eye. Not black.

[MinuteGal]

Guilty as hell!

Leni

[Jabba the Nutt]

Why wasn’t the reporter arrested? He was at the same place at the same time. The cop has zero common sense, I’d like to see his record of citizen complaints.

[PotatoHeadMick]

*the bottom line is, if you do put your hands on a cop, something is bound to happen, like it or not, especially at events like these....*

I’m not sure that I agree with that, cops are paid public servants, they’re not hot house flowers.

I have never received any training in handling the public, I am not a servant of the public paid by the taxes levied on free citizens yet even I can differentiate in a nano-second between someone laying hands on me in a hostile, insulting, aggressive or offensive manner and an old man leaning forward to hear better what a younger man is saying and in the course of that lightly placing a hand on the younger man’s shoulder.

It ain’t rocket science.

If the cop couldn’t work out what the old man was doing then he has no business in a job where he has to interact with the public.

I am especially wary of senior public officials abrogating on to themselves the right to clobber citizens for having the audacity to touch one of their staff in a completely harmless and non-threatening way.

If a lost little girl takes the hand of a police officer can we expect her to be arraigned for assault?

[weegee]

Fearless Leader denies there are any gulags in the USSR. “Uncle” Joe Stalin is like one of the family. Those who disagree merely needed to go to re-education centers.

[weegee]

The 5 officer on one reporter attack at Waco (when they tried to seize the raid-gone-wrong videotape from the news crew that they’d INVITED to the scene as a publicity stunt) was suppressed for years.

[weegee]

Steroid rage is a real concern among police departments but you’ll never hear any congressional investigations into THAT steroid abuse.

Same with the amped up caffine addiction of cops.

A ticking timebomb waiting to release on someone.