I object strongly to AL SHARPTON using this sad affair to stir up RACE ANIMOSITY...
VERY STRONGLY
NO MORE RODNEY KING RIOTS.... NOW
Posted on 07/28/2014 6:42:30 AM PDT by YourAdHere
Edited on 07/28/2014 7:18:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Because of so many incidents, daily it seems, the presumption now is for the citizen or perp against the police. It wasn’t like that when I was young and not entirely law-respecting. In some ways it was more dangerous to stopped by a cop. If you ran you might have got shot. There were fleeing-felon laws, but you did not face being killed for sass or non co-operation, bruised maybe, but not slaughtered. Even the bad boys didn’t really see the cops as the “enemy.” They were a representative of “society” or “the system” but they were not personally the enemy.
We disagree. The act was intended to induce terror in the victim.
To that degree, I submit it was, by definition, an act of terror.
Though I will agree that perhaps it doesn't fit the more classic definition of inducing terror in a population.
What an ignorant post - as are many on this thread.
It was a couple of cops with ‘control issues’, an all to psychological deficiency with today’s police. Just when did their training transition from ‘to serve and protect’ to ‘you better do exactly as I say to the letter’?
Cops have almost 99% discretion on how they handle their encounters. Why not just tell the man their going to write him a ticket and be done with it?
So, basically.....just ignore what the police ask you to do, right? Good luck with that. Post #10 says it all.
AGREED! It needs to be done through civil discourse and within the envelope of the law (as opposed to under color of authoritah).
Enter The NEW Trayvon Martin....
JUST what America needs right now!
I pray the cop wasnt a white hispanic....
The police killed a man simply because they could, and you are defending them. There is a steady stream of these stories.
“I’ll bet the officer has a history behind him of being a bully with a badge”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/pantaleo-has-been-accused-of-misconduct-before.html
Did I SAY the cops weren’t to blame? A steady stream of stories so they’re ALL the same, hmm? Had he listened to the commands of the police, he’d have been cuffed and it could all have be sorted out. That’s a fact.
because it’s too much work to arrest real criminals while it’s easy to arrest the minor ones
July 24, 2014
http://7online.com/news/strip-searched-suspect-speaks-out-about-officer-pantaleo/213334/
Would you mind posting the balance sheet so those you want to have contributions from can see where the money goes?
Thank you, what is management and admin?
So Ray Kelly knew it all along that this could happen because of his previous actions but kept him on the streets anyways.
How do you justify keeping him ?
I imagine its fairly difficult to fire a NYC police officer...its a union gig, sprinkled with rampant nepotism.
You’d have to ask the Boss but Jim is one and I believe John who has to drive 2 hours to work on the servers and repair FR’s programming when there’s a crash that slimes it. Or like several months back when FR ran out of memory. Ya gotta ask Jim. LOL
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