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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

I totally disagree with your attitude about this.

If there was no sign posted and it was an otherwise open space open to the public then he was doing nothing wrong.

That being said, someone could have politely told him he was in a reserved space and would he please go to such and such location.

In my opinion he was removed because he was a black man with braided hair, he scared someone.

Cops are not special people. They have a responsibility to the people they stop and talk to as much as those who they think they are protecting. Too often they don’t get to exert much authority because the vast majority of people obey the law most of the time. When they get a chance to exert a little authority they leap at the chance, sickening.

Was the black man being a jerk? Perhaps. Is it against the law to be a jerk? No, I don’t think so. Being arrested is a traumatic event, a violent event. The charges were dismissed, obviously arresting this guy was simple abuse of authority and force, perhaps assault.


42 posted on 08/29/2014 9:17:59 AM PDT by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: JAKraig

If police can tase everyone with a bad attitude,I think half my town would be getting the taser.

He was Lollie-gagging around and needed a good tasing.

/sarc


48 posted on 08/29/2014 9:40:30 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: JAKraig
I totally disagree with your attitude about this.

The vast amount of private properties in America do not have obnoxious no trespassing signs to spoil the view. Sometimes the boundaries are obvious and sometimes they are not. Often property owners employ security to patrol their properties. That appears to have been the case here. He ignored private security. So they called the police to dal with him. The black guy has a chip on his shoulder. He is playing the race card. I'm sure the dreadlocks didn't help

49 posted on 08/29/2014 9:47:24 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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