Looking over the ABC report after their interview of the Cook, the BALD guy did the following that night:
(note: the BALD guy is referred to as the initial perpetrator in this article)
"F—- you, nig——-!" Thomas said the initial perpetrator responded (to his WOO-HOO)
"F—- you, cracker!'' Thomas said he replied.
The car stopped, he said, and the man who allegedly screamed the epithet got out. Thomas said the man walked over to him, POKED him on the shoulder with his finger, and said, "You don't know what you're getting into, BOY."
Thomas said he suggested to the initial perpetrator that a fight was imminent.
"I don't have to do it,'' the man allegedly said. "He's going to do it,'' and pointed to the driver of the Nissan.
Thomas described the initial perpetrator as about 6'1", medium build, BALD and with no facial hair.
Back to my comments, after the BALD man says he's going to do it, the man that BALD guy pointed to, DID, swiftly attack the man, according to the Cook's statements.
So the cook attributes the following actions to the BALD man:
Racial slurs
additional "Boy" comment
Aggressively and menacingly confronting him
Poking him in the shoulder (assault)
communicating threats (he's going to do it, etc)
the urging of a officer to assault and batter a person surrounding a man while he's being attacked
fleeing the scene
failure to report the crime.
Note: No BALD man is charged, the 3 men not charged (one is the BALD man) have had their restrictions lifted and they are back to their normal status on the Police force.
ABC article detailing alleged events that night:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=2227472&page=1
(note: the BALD guy is referred to as the initial perpetrator in this article)
"F—- you, nig——-!" Thomas said the initial perpetrator responded (to his WOO-HOO)
"F—- you, cracker!'' Thomas said he replied.
The car stopped, he said, and the man who allegedly screamed the epithet got out. Thomas said the man walked over to him, POKED him on the shoulder with his finger, and said, "You don't know what you're getting into, BOY."
We are supposed to believe that these white cops, in front of their fellow cops who are african-american, suddenly threw out the n-word at the cook?
Sorry, but that's not how these things go down. Just as in the case of the Duke lacrosse party, where we are supposed to believe that these white college students, in front of their african-american teammate who has stated he has never detected any racism in his teammates, suddenly starting calling the two strippers the n-word?
What is more believable is that both the strippers and the cook fully realize that by claiming that whites started the altercations by using the n-word, they can shift the ground of defense and shield their own words and actions from scrutiny.
I have no problem believing the Durham cops could easily have initiated the PHYSICAL aspect of the altercation, and the ones who did should be hit with assault & battery charges.