Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 02/10/2011 3:43:06 AM PST by humblegunner
Outrage mounted Tuesday to the video broadcast of Houston police officers beating a teenage burglary suspect, with several activists and civil rights groups holding a town hall meeting and news conferences to demand tougher and more open disciplinary procedures aimed at curbing police brutality.
A number of civil rights groups also backed a Houston congressman's call for an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. Meanwhile, local prosecutors forcefully defended the appropriateness of misdemeanor charges filed against four police officers who took part in the youth's arrest in March.
Chad Holley, who was then 15, was fleeing from a burglary on Houston's southwest side when police officers punched and kicked him repeatedly as he lay face down on the ground with his hands behind him. Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland fired seven officers last June, as charges were brought against four of those involved in arresting Holley.
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Burglars should be shot on sight.
Some are. They hate that.
Thieves and robbers are treated too well.
Police are very trained, very well paid, and very well “benefitted” civil servants.
Its their job to apprehend and arrest criminals, not dispense “street justice”.
If we condone beating up a robbery suspect by uniformed thugs, we are one small step closer to the kind of brutality enacted by law enforcement officials against legitimate civil rights demonstrators in less enlightened third world nations.
Government is like fire - it is dangerous when not strictly controlled and this is especially true of law enforcement officials.
This issue is not about a young teenage thug getting what he properly deserves. Its about civil servants out of control.
I think anyone should be able to blast a Burglar to smithereens. Not just the cops. I would be for a safety zone that robbers who come too close to a citizen can be shot. We need to make our streets safe again. All our streets.
“I think anyone should be able to blast a Burglar to smithereens. Not just the cops.”
I have no problem with a civilian victim or bystander blowing away a criminal in the act of committing or trying to commit a crime. My issue is with the government using the kind of extra-constitutional force whose employment could be threat to all our liberties.
Once honest citizens start blowing away the crooks it will make our streets safer.
Well, under certain circumstances, i.e. catching the felon in flagrante dilicto.
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far away ( the State of New Jersey as a matter of fact), there was a rule or law called the BARMS law. It gave a citizen the right to blow away a criminal caught in the act of Burglery, Arson, Rape, Murder or Sodomy. A more enlightened Solon, Governor Tom Keane (RINO), was responsible for having that changed, having removed also the concept of “citizen’s arrest”.
But again, citizens are allowed to do some things a law enforcement officer cannot and that is fine and dandy with me. I am suspicious of government officials - all of them.
Don’t think the story is about what joe citizen should do, it is about cops acting like Hitlers SS. Cops job is to arrest offenders, jury’s job to punish them. All of the cops present should be fired.
The streets have broken down so much no one is safe. PC is the cause. Honest citizens should be empowered. Law and Order is needed.
It amazes me that people who think that government has gotten way to big and abusive and that government employees have become arrogant and power hungry applaud anything that its armed enforcers do. This man was a SUSPECT. And even if they saw him do the crime, they had no right to attack him in this vicious manner. Hope you or your children never get mistaken by for a perp by government thugs.
PC has rendered our streets unsafe for the honest citizen.
I am sorry. But I do not feel sorry for him. PC has got to go.
What is politically correct is that government power is not to be questioned or opposed. This is an outrage. There is nothing conservative about government goons having their way with citizens. More appropriate for a totalitarian country.
This gives fuel and credibility to all the race-baiting poverty pimps. I found myself finding that Quannel X (is that his name?) was quite reasonable. My guess is that before this incident I would have total disdain for him. If there is an accusation of racism, I would not find myself disagreeing. The police thugs just fueled the racism, racism, racism folks.
Has nothing to do with PC. Has to do with decent society and limited government that cannot assault and batter its citizens. The man surrendered. Much has changed over the past 50 years. The police of today are not the public servants that they were back in 1960. We are no longer living in Mayberry with Sheriff Andy. Anybody with a shred of humanity would be disgusted by what happened.
I agree. A police force that feels it has the freedom to beat suspects under the wrong leadership will take upon itself the power to beat and kill citizens who are politically opposed to the power structure.
“A police force that feels it has the freedom to beat suspects under the wrong leadership will take upon itself the power to beat and kill citizens who are politically opposed to the power structure.”
Agree 100%. Tea Party-ers who approve of this travesty be careful of what you support.
Robbers Thieves and Muggers should be shot on sight.
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