[Veracious Poet]

You're correct, I did intend ""threw the first blows".

I was typing to fast for spell-check.

In fact, the police "threw the first blows" in this situation, according to what I heard on a talk radioshow that alerted me to this debacle.

Does it matter though? Is this the way we deal with angry, blind 71 year old women (or men for that matter) in America now?

[Onelifetogive]

I was typing to fast for spell-check.

I assume you mean "too fast"... hehehe ;)

Does it matter though? Is this the way we deal with angry, blind 71 year old women (or men for that matter) in America now?

I think it matters...

999 out of 1000 times that people get "beat up" by the police, the person was violent, drunk, and forcing the issue. This could be the 1000th. (And I would be the first to applaud throwing the bad cops in jail.

as an aside, this happened in Portland, Or. A liberal town in a liberal state... I am not terribly bothered by them getting taken for a wad of cash...