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I sure hope they STAY fired. They are a menace to society!

FYI ping.

More to come. It looks like they're trying to beat the feds to the punch [choice of term intentional] over the 01 December 2003 Memphis police beating of a former Memphis teacher in his home after he'd been handcuffed, taken outside his apartment, and beatenm and kicked by more than a dozen of the Central Precinct's finest.

Unfortunately for them, one of the apartment residents videotaped everything that happened after they brought him out of his apartment, with both hands cuffed behind his back.

There was at least a MPD Sergeant and LT on the scene, as well as paramedics and a news crew from the nearby channel 13 TV newsroom. Oops.

"MPA attorney Ted Namsom said it's easy to point fingers in the cool of the courtroom, but officers work in the heat of the streets. You can't always say 'Hold still so I can hit you where I was trained...." "Dr. O. C. Smith, Shelby County medical examiner, ruled the overweight Buckley had heart disease and his death was of natural causes. Buckley had several welts on his back caused by batons, and a large gash on the back of his head."

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What?? No welts or gashes on the hand(s) holding the knife wielded by the now-dead perp?

As I said about this incident in a previous thread:

Horse puckey, Deputy Chief Janice. You can't zero in on "pressure points" with a baton under the "best" of conditions (e.g. unlawfully, with the subject restrained or unconcious) -- batons, expandable or otherwise, are to be used to effect "pain control" and temporary incapacitation through swelling of soft tissue, and not bone, with the legs, and not the arms, as the target.

MPA attorney Namsom seems to "get it," but from the wrong angle, IMO. In fact, his attempt at justification of the officers' improper use of batons would appear to be more damning than exculpatory.

Nice work, counselor. You missed the point entirely -- probably because you said what you were told to say by the same (allegedly) bungling cops and their (allegedly) duplicitous bosses.....

r FR home page: "One day, tomorrow or five years or fifteen years from now, we're going to take 5 to 10 million Mexicans and they are going into Dallas, into El Paso, into Houston, into New Mexico, into San Diego, and each one will have embedded in his mind the idea of killing ten Americans."

I expect that they will end up too dead to realize what really ended up "embedded in (their) mind(s)," such as they are...