Posted on 07/20/2009 6:03:46 AM PDT by grjr21
Edited on 07/20/2009 6:29:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
An Internal Affairs investigation found no misconduct among officers who spoke with the clerk about the tape.
Of course they didn't -- there was no videotape of the officers trying to get him to erase the original videotape.
There's no law anywhere in that department, top to bottom.
Correct on many levels. Given that he was from a Hispanic cultural matrix, he will see women differently than will a whiten American.
Hispanics come from a culture shaped by Spain. Spain was shaped by first European kings and then Muslim Conquest for hundreds of years. Nothing in Spanish culture is predicated upon the individual Hispanic having freedom/security in person and property.
Ubermensch Lopez, when faced with the possibility of increased insurance costs from his son’s accident liability, did what often is done in Hispanic cultures - he used the corruption button.
Culture counts. Repeat, culture counts.
Those who do not fully accept the Constitution are, and willfully remain, foreigners. As such, they must not be allowed power over anyone who is an American. Ever.
Lest anyone think this gives carte blanche to American born citizens who do not support the Constitution, guess again. Being American means accepting and integrating into ones behavior, the American social contract.
Americans do not grab young ladies by teh neck, throw them around, and abuse their authority.
PS Check out the DA and you will also find a person who, at their core, does not accept the Constitution and has violated his/hers/its oath of office. Take that to the bank.
“She’s a fool with a fool’s temper. The LEO should be fired and prosecuted for coming into that scene the way he did with his gun drawn and shoving people around. But the way she reacted with her hysterics was very dangerous for herself and her companions”
Oh Really, and how exactly would you react when someone unexpectedly grabs you by the neck and shoves a gun in your face?
Ironcially, the a TV news piece last night describing the large applicant pools to the police force and how much better qualified they are than in the past.
Conspicuously white, so the minority will still keep his job.
You make a good case for Vigilante-style justice.
Our government no longer respects the law, but uses it to bludgeon those who question or disagree with it... that is not Justice.
That was a VERY long way of saying, ‘I don’t have one’.
>She’s a fool with a fool’s temper.
She was assaulted from behind! She then tried to defend herself from an unknown attacker!
Even when deployed in Iraq, part of the ROE was “You always have the right to defend yourself.”; give me a good reason that this young woman shouldn’t also have that right.
Have to wonder if Lopez Jr. still has his carry permit.
He joined in the assault. None of us would still have ours if we attacked someone.
Respectfully, I can’t find the word “vigilante” in my post.
What I did attempt to make clear is the duty of each citizen to understand the Constitution, and to be vigilant in his watching his public servants to prevent their tendency to abuse the power the citizens have delegated to said public servant.
Interestingly, the shoulder patch on the uniform of all Montana Highway Patrol has, at the bottom, 7-3-77.
Those numbers refer to the size hole in which criminals were buried.
Tolerance of those unwilling to regulate their own behavior was pushed by commies/socialists/anarchists as a method of creating societal unrest, breaking confidence in the American system - look on it as Cloward-Piven strategy, but before either Cloward or Piven was whelped.
It wasn't a story a year ago it was just another arrest by the PPD. and I'd bet the rent that IA never announced the results.
From the story .... Lawless' attorney, Alan Yatvin, said that he was exploring a civil suit on her behalf.
Rounding up the usual suspects
but nothing about the experience of the officer nor his record, I doubt this level of rage occurred (out of the blue) without previous incidents.
That is rather strange , I wondered about that too
It seem, quite often, that police departments are reluctant to take action against an officer because the fear this will be seen as an admission of liability. Instead they choose to reinstate someone who clearly does not have the temperament to be a police officer and whose action appears to be criminal. The probability of another incident is very high.
I'm with you on that.
It is Philadelphia.
You didn’t. But read my post 57; and factor in that the prosecuting-power against corruption seems to be waning and waning:
— refusal of the USSC to hear a case on the government invalidation of contractually-obligated bonds [GM/Chrysler].
— refusal of the courts to allow slander civil suits against Murtha from the Hadathia Marines [saying that law protecting federal employees in execution of their office applied].
— refusal of ANYONE to press Treason charges on Murtha; he went on national television to slander and condemn warriors in a war-zone of crimes without either trial or investigation AND FURTHER affirmed/legitimized the [false] claims of the enemies of the USA.
There are many who believe civil war is coming. And, honestly without Justice and accountability on/from our leaders, it is almost certain.
That is idiotic. Sorry, but if someone grabs a female by her neck from behind, and shoves a gun in her face, he deserves a lot more than a little pushing back. He deserves to have his family jewels smashed into a thin red paste by a well-placed knee, followed immediately by a swift kick to the face with a steel-toed boot.
Badge or not. Uniform or not.
It's probably a good thing for both "Officer" Lopez and myself that I wasn't present in the store and had any sort of blunt object near to hand.
At the very minimum, the LEO should be charged with ADW. And his punk son should get a heavy aggravated assault charge for manhandling the girl like he did.
BTW, in every jurisdiction I have experienced, the driver in the rear is ALWAYS at fault in a rear-end collision. The cop and his punk kid need to be under the jail.
Badge-lappers on deck in 3... 2... 1...
Right, because the way he/she framed it, it described an abuse of any system. It combined systemic (structure of land ownership) with abuse—at mercy of whim.
Whims are by definition abusive.
So, if you need a single word phrase: abuse of power.
Which is what I said originally was what happened at the Philalphia convenience store.
And what my interlocutor tried to shove under the label “feudal.”
Satisfied?
This should bring into question ANY conviction based on his testamony. All of the past cases should be up for review.
So, what IS that word?
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