Posted on 03/17/2016 7:02:55 AM PDT by Enlightened1
So the deputies were supposed to prevent the kid from flipping everyone off?
How? Handcuffs?
I, don’t believe that anyone “has it coming”
I really don’t disagree with you but I have been bombarded with so much crap for so long that my thinking has become warped. Thanks for straighting me out.
That "old boy" could have been dropped like a sack of potatoes by a knock out game and the perpetrator was never punished. Who knows?
Sorry.
If the cops were walking him out, he was under their control.
He was in their CUSTODY.
That makes them responsible for him.
I agree, the bombardment has been intense of late and it is easy to become warped.
My only safeguard against that has been the fact that I was violently assaulted (with a deadly weapon - beer bottle to the back of the head), when I CAUGHT a women who was staggering down the side walk at a public even in Denver. Not sure if she was in a fight herself or if she was drunk. My attacker never gave me the chance to find out and I never saw the attack coming (hit from behind). I never mouthed off, never hit or pushed anyone. I was not even facing my attacker and still got assaulted and had to go to the ER because when I fell, I cracked my head on the sidewalk.
The good news is that the perp was caught, arrested and is about to go to trial. I am mostly recovered from my injuries but there are still several thousand dollars of medical bills that are being sorted out.
I’m not saying it’s right, but the situation escalated because the deputies didn’t stop the provocations from continuing once they had decided to eject the protesters.
I left law enforcement in 1988 so I can’t say what it’s like today, but even in my time, if you put handcuffs on someone, they didn’t come off until you hit the booking room.
IMO, this is being made into a bigger deal than it rightly should be, but there’s too much attention being paid for it to quietly go away.
In a just world, the protester got what he deserved, the old man probably shouldn’t have hit him (although I can understand why he did. People can only take so much before they react) and because the deputies had gotten themselves involved, at the point of their intervention it becomes their responsibility to make sure nothing else happens.
That’s not how it worked out so they have to pay the price, whether we like it or not. No one ever said it was easy being a cop.
Only pussies cry about pushback against terrorists. And for someone named Lana Turner to call anyone a pussy...
Only a pussy would feel “terrorized” by some dope protestor. You must shake in your boots at every loud noise. Put on your big girl panties. Real men don’t sucker punch. Ask one. Do you know any?
I’m glad you support BLM types. What are you doing here, Lana?
I suppose that provocation is not an excuse.
Oh, bullsh*t. A nearly 80 year old guy punishes a Black Lives Matter creep and you run to your fainting couch. Take your Marquis of Queensbury rules to the hard left wing that is systematically destroying our country and see how far you get. If they get their way, you’ll be begging somebody to sucker punch them.
Doesn’t make what he did right. We should NEVER stoop to that level.
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