Police Commissioner Says Bludgeoning of Jaywalker Justified

Hell, you should know his site by now | 26 Jan 2014 | John Semmens

[Tainan]

New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton defended the bludgeoning of 84 year old Kang Wong by City police officers as “fully justified.” The incident occurred as part of the City’s new “get tough on jaywalking” campaign. Wong, who does not speak English was roughed up by several cops when he failed to obey the first officer’s command to stay put as he wrote Wong a ticket for jaywalking. After the beat down Wong was taken to the hospital where surgical staples had to be applied to close a scalp wound.

Bratton insisted that the scalp wound “must’ve happened when Mr. Wong fell,” and discounted the possibility that one of the many blows to the head he received from the officers’ batons could have been responsible. “In our view, the intervention of the City Police may have saved Mr. Wong’s life,” Bratton speculated. “The street on which he was jaywalking was the site of a pedestrian fatality earlier that very same day.”

The Commissioner brushed aside critics’ contentions that excessive force was used. “Crossing the street mid-block is against the law,” Bratton pointed out. “Law breakers like Mr. Wong expose themselves to harm by breaking this law and have only themselves to blame if they suffer damage for lack of expeditious compliance with the commands of a duly authorized member of the Police Force.”

[Mike Darancette]

You go John! Illegitimi non carborundum.

[Ken H]

Another satire column...

Are you sure? :)

[OldNewYork]

Even with relatives and friends in NYPD, I laughed.

Here’s a question: how long has this man been in our country without learning some basic English and the ability to recognize police officers doing their job? He wasn’t beaten for jaywalking. He shouldn’t have been beaten even for what he did, but it wasn’t for jaywalking. And those cops should be manhandling desks for a long while, at minimum, if the whole story has been told.