NYPD cops beat an old man bloody…for jaywalking

The New York Police Department is receiving widespread criticism after officers injured an 84-year-old man—who doesn’t speak English and didn’t understand police orders—for the crime of jaywalking.

Kang Wong committed jaywalking at an Upper West Side intersection in New York City around 5 p.m. on Sunday, according to the New York Post. He is a resident of the area.

An officer soon approached him and tried to write him a ticket. But Wong, who speaks only broken English, didn’t understand what was happening, and continued walking away from the officer. When the officer tried to grab him, he pushed back. This prompted the fury of several cops, who descended on Wong and threw him against a wall. The elderly man came away from the encounter with a bloodied face. (RELATED: Cop was at fault in car crash, but guess who got blamed)

Wong’s 41-year-old son met his father at the station. He was shocked by what police had done.

“Oh, great! Beating up on an 84-year-old man for jaywalking,” said the son in a statement.

Later that night, Wong was released, but will face charges of jaywalking, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct.

The incident was witnessed by several reporters who were on-scene because a pedestrian had been killed when crossing the street hours earlier.

He must have thought he was living in North Korea:

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America’s Police State: Worse than Communist North Korea?

William Norman Grigg

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/americas-police-state-worse-than-communist-north-korea/

American police taught to treat any act of non-compliance as “resisting arrest,” a supposed offense that justifies the use of pain compliance and – in cases like that of Kelly Thomas – lethal force, if it is necessary to subdue the victim. In fact, most police who go “hands-on” with a victim will pre-emptively shout “Stop resisting!” even when no resistance is offered. Any incidental contact with the sanctified person of a police officer is treated as criminal battery or even aggravated assault.

Interestingly, this doesn’t appear to be the case in North Korea.

Last night (January 14), the PBS program Frontline aired a documentary entitled The Secret State of North Korea that drew heavily from footage collected by a group of underground videographers. Among the scenes captured in that documentary are two encounters between women and soldiers acting as police officers. (The Communist government in North Korea, unlike the proto-totalitarian US regime, doesn’t cling to the fiction that the military and police are separate entities.)

In the first confrontation, a woman running a private bus service is accosted by a soldier who attempts to issue a citation. She is angrily and openly defiant of the uniformed bully’s “authority”; at one point, she actually shoves him several times and treats him to a well-earned outpouring of verbal abuse before turning back to her work. The second incident involved a woman who refused to accept a citation for wearing pants in defiance of a mandatory dress code.

If these incidents had occurred in the United States, the women would have been beaten, tasered, and — quite possibly — killed. The onlookers who had recorded the encounters on video would probably have been arrested for “obstruction,” and their cameras would have been confiscated on the scene.

“Often now when North Koreans are challenged for infringing a certain law, as long as the offense is not political, they won’t hesitate to protest if they believe the law to be irrational,” explains Jiro Isimaru, the Japanese journalist who organized the underground videographer network. This is in stark contrast with the common perception that North Koreans have been “brainwashed” into docile conformity and reflexive submission.

That isn’t true, apparently, of a growing segment of the population suffering under Communist rule in North Korea.

It is emphatically true, tragically, of too many citizens of the purported Land of the Free.

You obviously know zero about law enforcement. Allow me to enlighten you.

If a police officer stops you and is in the process of writing you a ticket for a jaywalking infraction, you are not free to walk away. You are being detained for committing a violation that was observed by the officer.

Now, if you simply walk away while this is happening, the officer will use necessary force to detain you. That includes grabbing you. If you then proceed to push the officer away, the response will most likely be you being wrestled to the ground.

So spare me your Comrade crap. If you want to argue the law or the legality of a jaywalking ticket, bring it up to the judge in court. That's what courts are for. Pushing the cop is not the right answer.

Thank you for proving my point. We are not free.

“Last night (January 14), the PBS program Frontline aired a documentary entitled The Secret State of North Korea that drew heavily from footage collected by a group of underground videographers. Among the scenes captured in that documentary are two encounters between women and soldiers acting as police officers. (The Communist government in North Korea, unlike the proto-totalitarian US regime, doesn’t cling to the fiction that the military and police are separate entities.)

Fancy that “refusing to accept a citation”.

“angrily and openly defiant” of a government employee’s authority.

But you, it would seem, love the Authoriteh.

The notion of liberty terrifies you, which is why you seek to “educate me” with the State-approved response.

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