SocialistSlayer said:
-CraZed- said:
No we cannot agree about that.
However, we can agree that the case in New York is a travesty. Anyone who has seen that video has to see how overly aggressive that arrest was. It looked like a pack of hyenas jumping on a wildebeest on the Discovery Channel. Yes, he was refusing to comply with their demands but the officers escalated the encounter with overly aggressive force.
While I do not think they (the cops) intended on hurting or killing him and it wasn't racially motivated they acted negligent and all of the officers involved should face some sort of disciplinary actions. But the officer who actually drug him down buy his neck should have been indicted for negligent/involuntary manslaughter. They know the choke hold is a prohibited technique in taking down a suspect and more so since this guy wasn't acting aggressive or physically threatening in any way.
If the DA doesn't step up and pursue charges then I surely hope the citizens of New York are ready for their tax revenue to go to a very large wrongful death suit. Hell, even if he does and the officer is found guilty in a trial, they'll probably still get a nice settlement from NY.
The other tragedy of this case is that people are already trying to link this to Ferguson as if the two situations are even comparable other than the race of the individuals involved. Which had no bearing on either case. And it gave more fodder to the race baiting hucksters' raucous rhetoric about how this country is a seething pit of deeply seeded racism.
Furthermore, I think this is what happens when you have a nanny state. And New York is a nanny state. New York has made illegal the resale of individual cigarettes because they aren't taxed. How effing ridiculous. There are so many laws in New York and frankly all around the country no one can assuredly know them all and most of us will just as assuredly if inadvertently break one of these laws at any given moment. We have gone so far overboard that grown men die over being arrested for selling a cigarette because the state wants to tax them to the point that they are so expensive that it creates a black market for them.
TL;DR: No this doesn't mean White police officers are above the law but it is a travesty of justice, the case hurts race relations in America and we have too many damned laws!
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awesome post, except one small thing, the type of "choke hold" the officer used wasnt prohibited, as it was not the type that restricts oxygen but rather blood flow.
and to add, it. in 2013 mayor nanny bloomberg implement new penelties for selling untaxed cigerettes, and the nypd police chief ordered police to crack down on these illegal cigerettes. so encroaching government and stupid laws are largely to blame
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give up, they straight up attacked the non agressive man. it could be done by a cop or a hobo and it would be the same.
