Police: Officer Baited In Altercation That Injured Him (Racist Black Church!)

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[tcrlaf]

INDIANAPOLIS -- Relations between the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and some members of the African-American community are still a sore spot in the weeks since the Brandon Johnson incident.

Case in point -- an altercation in which an officer was injured during a presentation to a youth symposium last weekend that officials said was staged, leading to the suspension of a parks manager and animosity among officers, 6News' Jack Rinehart reported.

Sgt. Matthew Grimes was asked to give a presentation to a church audience on July 24 at Municipal Gardens, in the 1800 block of Lafayette Road.

During the presentation, an altercation broke out in the crowd, and Grimes intervened. The officer was thrown to the ground and drew his Taser, ready to stun one of the people involved, police said.

At that point, someone stepped in and told the officer that the incident had been concocted to test the reaction of the officer to the situation, police said. Grimes suffered severe back spasms after the incident and was taken to Methodist Hospital for treatment.

James Harrington, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church, said he set up the scenario to test a white officer's reaction to a fight between two black men.

[TigersEye]

Leave the black communities. LE should simply leave and refuse to patrol or answer any calls there. When they do they just get called racists and invite lawsuits.

[grame]

Pastor Harrington it seems would be better serving his community, his parish, and His God if he would lead by example those of his ethnicity who seemed dedicated to eradicating themselves by resolving their ‘anger issues’ with the finality of a gunshot. Nine shot in gang shooting, 4 year old shoots 2 year old with gun laying on kitchen table(I leave spoons laying on the kitchen table not guns). What message are they preaching to the black youth of Indianapolis. Certainly not ‘hope and change’. More like ‘hood and cha-ching’.

How sad for this community that this message is being drummed into these heads full of mush.

[I Buried My Guns]

The pastor is deserving of serious prison time.

[Eaker]

He down’t need a link.

So your word is good enough?

Are you an expert on every subject such that none of us ever need a link again?

Or maybe you are just full of crap?

[texmexis best]

You’re from Massachusetts, aren’t you?

[Eaker]

Yeah, n00bie.