Posted on 02/25/2014 9:32:06 PM PST by Altariel
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLORIDA - All Gilberto Powell, 22, a five foot tall man with Down Syndrome, wanted to do was walk a half block home from a friend's house, but this was enough time and distance for the police to intervene.
Police "followed" Powell because they noticed a "bulge in his pants." He was not happy to see the cops; this was only his colostomy bag (which police ripped from his body). Powell was then beaten down in the street by police, leaving him bruised and battered from blows to the face.
The beating officer insisted Powell ran, but Powell disputes this and said he did everything he could to comply. When Powell's mother asked the cop if he could tell her son had Down's Syndrome, the cop said he wasn't a doctor.
Powell said he felt "helpless" and wants an apology from the police. He also wants to community to be aware that this could happen to YOU
“Is it true that anyone with an IQ greater than 100 is prohibited from becoming a cop?”
Well, it does seem that prerequisites for employment in law enforcement today are:
-Roids
-A sense of superiority
-A keen lack of common sense
-The marked inability to holster suspicion leading to looking at everyone as a perp
-Hatred of dogs
Along with the directive from their masters that LEO’ing has a quota and they had better meet it or else.
Then you are a troll, and should be banned from or leave Free Republic.
Write an opus about all us “cop haters” (that is, defenders of the US Constitution) and leave. It will save the admin moderator and Jim Robinson the trouble of your banning.
LOL! Coffee spew alert!
We let them get away with it at the airport so it’s no surprise these search and seizure violations are moving into the street. Welcome to the USPSA.
Ah, the argument from authority, well that’s it then, no need for free opinion or debate, The Oracle has spoken.
It’s impossible these days to give the benefit of the doubt to law enforcement.
I think the motto has gone from protect and serve to beat and kill.
I would not hesitate" !
“When Powell’s mother asked the cop if he could tell her son had Down’s Syndrome, the cop said he wasn’t a doctor. “
Trust me, Trisomy 21 is very easy for any retard (no insult to people with Trisomy 21) like that cop to detect. It is the very reason these babies are most aborted. That cop was just a bully who wanted to pick on a poor innocent person.
It is a wonder they did not kill this man like the police killed that other man with trisomy 21. People with this disease don’t have good heath to start with.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23701326/mom-man-down-syndrome-talks-about-his-death
“Mom of man with Down syndrome talks about his death in Maryland movie theater”
On a person with Trisomy 21 YES! Plus the fact they should have realized very quickly after talking to him that he had the disorder. Any normal, rational person would come to the conclusion that this is not your average run of the mill drug runner and this person is mentally off and just send him on his way.
Are you aware that the modern police forms stems, in part, from 18th century slave patrols?
My question to you: why does a Free man desire to justify or defend acting subservient, as a slave to a master?
An excerpt:
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From the cop’s perspective, the expression “law-abiding citizen” is a functional synonym for “Properly obedient slave.” Not only did the uppity Mundane refuse to submit, he actually behaved as if he was the rightful owner of his person and property: “It was almost like he had the attitude of you – you cannot tell me what to do with my gun in my, you know, in my castle.”
Slave-keepers don’t have to ask permission to invade the servants’ quarters, and slaves have no right to protect the sanctity of their person or effects. In his study of 18th Century slave patrols – the largely unacknowledged ancestors of today’s “professional” police agencies — historian Philip L. Reichel points out that “patrols had full power and authority to enter any plantation and break open Negro houses or other places where slaves were suspected of keeping arms; to punish runaways or slaves found outside of their masters’ plantations without a pass; [and] to whip any slave who should affront or abuse them in the execution of their duties….”
No-knock midnight raids; gun confiscation; “stop-and-frisk”-style demands for identification that quickly escalate to violence and arrest; summary punishment for “contempt of cop” – all of these practices would be immediately recognizable to 18th century slaves. They would probably find it incomprehensible that people who consider themselves to be free would allow such practices to continue.
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/02/support-your-local-slave-keeper.html
Do you think "a bulge in the pants" constitutes probable cause that a crime had been committed? What crime?
Aside from that routinely ignored "right to keep and bear arms" thing, there is also the fact that hundreds of thousands of people in Florida have jumped through all the hoops to legally carry concealed weapons.
Had it been a gun obviously it was well concealed in this case. We know that because, in fact, it was a colostomy bag, for which no state permit is required; at least as of this date.
We also have an epidemic of cops who believe their authority trumps all Constitutional rights and who will lie when necessary to protect themselves. The young man says he didn't run.
It's worse than that. A young man I know was in in the academy to become a police officer. He dropped out after it became quite clear that police agencies are not interested in having a cop who had any tendency to understand what he was supposed to do as opposed to what he was ordered to do.
Much like the situation in Mexico. I'll never go there again.
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