GuyOnABuffalo:
I feel sorry for cops and the kind of BS they have to deal with on a daily basis. The amount of disrespect, verbal abuse, and physical abuse they take from ungrateful POSs that they have to protect and serve has a debilitating effect on their perspective. I have met many well intentioned officers who after years on the street have developed a variety of biases including racial or ethnic bias. Whether you want them to or not, Cops have to profile people every single day, every single stop and encounter they have to evaluate as being a potential threat. When they work a beat in a city where they encounter a certain profile of individual or group of people who are primarily the ones that defy their authority, commit crime, and resist arrest it instills that bias. In this situation the Cop was wrong. The way he investigated the situation was not fair. There was no threat and he overreacted in a violent manner. From what I see here, I think he should be fired immediately. This woman’s rights were violated and she should sue the the city.
With that said, could this situation have been averted if the cop had not felt he was walking into a hostile environment? (Girl recording saying the cop is going to be a an ass while he is walking up etc.) Does that matter? Should it matter? Did the man really choke the boy? We empathize with the mother who is the victim of this cop’s misconduct and aggression. Did that mother do a shitty job of raising her kids and not teach them to show respect to authority, furthering the behavior that forms the aforementioned bias many cops have? Possibly, but not enough information besides the crude language used by the woman’s daughter.
You’re wrong because only certain groups of people are allowed to be products of their environment.
^Speaking of…the four black guys in Chicago who tortured that retarded white kid, while yelling “F–k white people!” were charged with a hate crime.
I didn’t know black people could be charged with hate crimes. I thought that was exclusive to straight WASPs who were busy oppressing minorities, gays, and non-Christians.
Greenman72:
^Speaking of…the four black guys in Chicago who tortured that retarded white kid, while yelling “F–k white people!” were charged with a hate crime.
I didn’t know black people could be charged with hate crimes. I thought that was exclusive to straight WASPs who were busy oppressing minorities, gays, and non-Christians.
I don’t think there was any way the DA could avoid it with the audio. Also, beating up someone because they are mentally disabled qualifies as a hate crime.
The obvious solution to this problem is to give people more guns.