To: snarks_when_bored
"The bystanders should be charged with inciting to riot."
We aren't given enough information for you to make this charge. This cop may have had a reputation for being a real jerk and the people were sick of him. I don't know and neither do you.
25 posted on
05/21/2005 7:38:22 AM PDT by
jwh_Denver
(My monkey is working on a new tagline.)
To: jwh_Denver
Encouraging assault on a police officer is reasonably construed as inciting to riot, it seems to me. If the D.A. doesn't charge, that's a political decision; if the D.A. charges and the jury acquits, that's the justice system.
To: jwh_Denver
Sorry. Doesn't wash. I've seen many incidents when cops, oft times trying to take care of calls/reports made by residents, are attacked just because they are cops. In some areas, cop hating is a community sport. Most intercity areas have hosts of activists primed to go after cops in court and city hall. Jumping a cop, beating him and trying to take his gun is kinda draconian,..even if he is a "jerk". I've had a couple of similar incidents happen to me when making an arrest. I was lucky. Plus, my "situational awareness" in police work always seemed to benefit from my combat background. Like the man said: "Everybody hates cops,..if you want to be loved, be a fireman."
43 posted on
05/21/2005 8:06:36 AM PDT by
womcg
(was in the hospital longer than Kerry was in-country)
To: jwh_Denver
We aren't given enough information for you to make this charge. This cop may have had a reputation for being a real jerk and the people were sick of him. I don't know and neither do you. Using your very same logic, the readers don't know that he wasn't a very good cop either. Why read anything into this story? The suspect assaulted and battered the cop. Now he gets to pay the price for having his little fun.
66 posted on
05/21/2005 9:16:13 AM PDT by
Tactical
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