At no point did those cops need that guy’s help. It was to make things better on the streets... The knife was gone and the cop had his knee in the guys back but the guy kept his arms underneath his stomach.
The cop asked the guy videotaping to pull the arms out so they could handcuff him. There was no danger at any point.
If the cops thought that was good community outreach that’s fine.
But the sympathy and pity the black people had for a guy with a butcher’s knife who stole money and was on drugs was ridiculous.
If that was my neighborhood and it was an Italian guy with a knife on drugs and stealing I would tell the cops to beat him like a baby seal and I’d kick him in the stomach once myself.
Cuz he ain’t heavy and he ain’t my brother if he’s doing that.
RE: this story...why do I get the impression that Houston is still suffering the aftermath from Hurricane Katrina?
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Thank you for posting this
Thank you for posting this
The police needed assistance? What is going on here?
That sounds weird to me.
I really like how the officers handled this. They didn’t really need any extra help, but they chose to get the bystanders involved. It totally diffused a potentially volatile situation and given the current climate, it comes out as a huge net positive for relations.
Oh, yeah, Mr. Fields. Glad you’re on top of whether or not there’s another George Lloyd incident. “Are you standing on his neck?”
Wow, the bystanders cared more for the violent criminal than for the victim or the police.
The cops were forced to diffuse the situation by asking for help, but the truth is, bystanders can accidentally kill a person being arrested, too.
He didn’t need help. He asked for help so these lame brains videoing wouldn’t start another George Floyd invented incident that he’d be a part of and eventually fired, jailed and god knows what else.
If he had fallen in the knife and cut his own throat after being tased the cops would have been called murderers...
Give that cop a promotion, but don’t coddle the guy who was arrested.
In the photo at the top of the article the guy in the white tee shirt looks like a ref at a wrestling match.
That was good. The cop could have probably pulled the fellow’s arm out himself, but doing so would probably have allowed his weight to shift off his back, and allow him to move. Asking for assistance was great psychology. The guy may well have been drugged out thug, but he’s still a citizen. It looked like at least 2 people assisted, and everything ended well. The situation could have easily been worse. The fact that the cop requested assistance changed the dynamics of the it, and it was no longer an ‘us vs. them’ dynamic. Good job all around, by both the cops and bystanders.
Two comments:
1) If this were in the North and it took that long for white cops to subdue a black man, the bystanders would have summoned LaHood and there would be a riot situation to deal with.
2) The guy shooting the video needs to get out of that hood and into VIDEO PRODUCTION. This is, by far, the best quality real-life video that I’ve ever seen, super-smooth. For starters, he’s even figured out how to hold the camera horizontal, something 98% of white snowflakes are working on.