............. Cowardly cops in Cuomo's liberal heaven.
............. Cowardly cops in Cuomo's liberal heaven.
Having grown up watching David Carradine in “Kung Fu,” I can understand the officers appehension & fear. This 84 old man could have been Master Poe!! If not maybe an under cover Shao Lin monk!! Best no take chances!! (Typed with extreme sarcasm!)
Having grown up watching David Carradine in “Kung Fu,” I can understand the officers appehension & fear. This 84 old man could have been Master Poe!! If not maybe an under cover Shao Lin monk!! Best no take chances!! (Typed with extreme sarcasm!)
NYPD cops are trained at the Fullerton, CA police academy.
In the Wong place at the wong time.
Call me an insensitive mindless clod, but...
First of all, I take strong issue with the headline, which sets the stage for the entire article.
The man was NOT arrested for jaywalking; he was arrested for failure to respond, and pushing an officer.
Next, let's confirm a reality ALL adults are or should be aware of : failure to respond to a police officer will get you in serious trouble in any country in the world. Most, much more serious than 'getting bloody.'
Not learning the language in a country foreign to you has its penalty and consequences, and unless you are prepared to argue that foreigners, young and old, are too stupid to learn the host country's language, there really is no excuse.
Most socially mature persons would never push back on a police officer no matter what in a foreign country.
I suppose this politically correctness idiot product has a driver's license, too.
In other words, he wasn't beaten for jaywalking, but some FReepers can't repeat the lie often enough.
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.