:biggrin:OK..I will not correct your spelling:wacko: -- I will just ask you to read your message again and look for your mistake.:biggrin:The first time I learned cops had waaaay to much power was around 8 or 9 years ago when my friend was at a party in steilecoom, Washington when an off duty cop walked into the backyard of the party and started demanding peoples I.D for background checks. There were roughly 50 people in the backyard and I'm not sure what gung-Ho type moron would walk in plain clothes demanding stuff to a bunch of drunks but my friend had said "sir you are here illegally and nobody invited you onto the property, please leave". Well the officer then threw my friend to the ground, sat his knee on his neck and finally called for back up. Once they arrived my friend had his future ruined with a charge of intimidating a police officer.
I was flipping out because of all the prior traffic run ins I'd had with this cop so I went to the police station and requested his pubic file. The stack of complaints was 3 inches thick! Did it matter to the judge though when it came down to who's word? Nope, my 22 year old friend with not so much as a traffic ticket started his criminal history right there
:biggrin:OK..I will not correct your spelling:wacko: -- I will just ask you to read your message again and look for your mistake.:biggrin:
Anyway this happened to us here too a few years back. Our son has his party in the backyard and they were becoming too rowdy. Nothing bad, no alcohol and no drugs either, just having a bonfire and having fun. Time was about 8 or 9pm.. A policeman who lives down the road went came inside our property and asked a few questions. He got angry at them. Sonny boy told his dad what happened then said the next time he comes in here without permission, tell him he is on private property. He did not come back so there is no real incident...
Which happened first, the media publishing stories about Officer Daniel Harless of the Canton Police Department or Ohioans for Concealed Carry posting the dashcam video on the internet?I deal with more racial predjuices in a week than most Americans deal with in a lifetime. You said that where you live there are very few blacks. I believe that. Where I live the ratio is closer to 50/50 and where I work it is about 65/35 black majority. I grew up in the Deep South only 15 miles from where the original Brown vs. BOE started. I have watched the KKK burn a cross and hold a rally 100 yards from my house. I have high school friend with an IQ of 60 sitting in jail right now supposedly for lynching a black man. Don't come here with me not knowing about racial predjuice.
I did not say that they story was not true but only that there is more to it that what you have posted. When I see on the national news that cops in Medford OR drug a man out of his house and beat him, the carries him off into the woods to beat him some more simply because he was black I will believe it and apologize to everyone involved. I don't even have to have the part about his son getting whipped with flashlights the next day for no reason and the wife getting arrested on such trumped up charges. If that is all there is to that story then I suggest you get out of there ASAP because it is no longer part of the US.
Notice of Extinction - Educated white male.Then again most of us are white and don't have to deal with daily racial prejudice.
:biggrin:OK..I will not correct your spelling:wacko: -- I will just ask you to read your message again and look for your mistake.:biggrin:
I think a minimal of two years college education should be required before someone can apply to become a police officer and a bachelors, masters, or a doctorate degree should be required before an officer can be promoted to a higher rank.
If we want to reduce the horror stories of police brutality then we must be willing to pay more taxes for a truly professional police force.
Never happen. A few years ago, I followed the story of a man in his 40's who'd always wanted to be a cop. His local PD advertised they were hiring. So he took their entrance exam and passed with the highest score they'd ever seen. They rejected him because it was "too smart to be a police officer." It's hardly surprising that a reasonably well read man in his 40's would know a lot more than a kid in his early 20's, including how to take tests - but remember, they don't want intelligent cops.
This guy was determined, and he fought it all the way to his State Supreme Court - where he lost.
So, NO, it will never happen. Police are the enforcement tools of the ruling class. The very last thing the ruling class wants is intelligent enforcers who may question orders.
Something about this doesn't sound right. I'm not suggesting that the original poster is lying, but consider:
1) They're all in separate cars. Did they form a convoy on the way home, or did they separate?
2) The police don't show up for 15 minutes? Why so long? If they were 'stalking' him with the intent on being a-hole racists, why the wait?
3) They just up and beat on the guy for asking for a lawyer? No other reason - just open up the whoop-ass?
Now I know that there are still pockets of blatant racism out there, but by and large there aren't too many cops who would be this blatantly racist in this day and age. It's suicide.
There HAS to be more to this story. Did the step dad have an accident on the way home? Did he hit a parked car? Did he hit a pedestrian? Did someone phone in a complaint about him (which would explain the 15 minute delay)?
I say we wait to hear more about this before unilaterally passing judgement on these cops (which is the very thing everyone here is condemning these cops for doing).
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