Posted on 08/09/2006 7:11:51 PM PDT by SmithL
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - A high-ranking sheriff's officer apologized Wednesday for insensitive comments he and other officers made about demonstrators after a free speech summit in 2003 in Miami.
The comments wound up in a police-training video produced a day later. The video shows Maj. John Brooks and other officers praising each other for shooting protesters with rubber bullets.
"Looking back at the tape, in hindsight, I shouldn't have said those things," Brooks said in a report published Wednesday night on The Miami Herald's Web site.
Broward County Sheriff's officials said no one would face disciplinary action in connection with the training video.
A civilian investigative panel last week concluded that police indiscriminately used stun guns, tear gas and other weapons and unlawfully arrested and searched protesters during massive demonstrations at the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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Was this a riot, or a peaceful protest?
""Looking back at the tape, in hindsight, I shouldn't have said those things," Brooks said in a report published Wednesday night on The Miami Herald's Web site."
Quick, let's put that quote into the truth translator:
"Looking back at the tape, in hindsight, I shouldn't have said those things when a camera was on."
Am I wrong for not feeling sorry for this guy - the same guy that volunteered to help Clinton's thugs kidnap Elian Gonzalez?
The spoiled brats think that the police should coddle them like mommie does when they take a tantrum.
Was the woman in Homeland Security in Florida who profiled Rush Limbaugh ever disciplined?
"The spoiled brats think that the police should coddle them like mommie does when they take a tantrum."
Whatever it was the police appear to be extremely unprofessional.
Massive rioting calls for massive use of rubber bullets.
This guy may deserve a medal...but apologize?
Apologizing for comments made while working at a Free Speech Summit???? Is it me or has this country lost its mind?
So, if I call a Law Enforcement Officer a Jack-Booted Thug, Highway Obstructing, Revenue Enhancement Specialist, and then apologize later, I get unarrested, right?
Did they apologize to Elian's relatives?
Sounds more like a Sedition Summit.
maybe
I agree that they should not used rubber bullets on the bastards. They should have used lead bullets.
I remember those "domonestrations".
This is what happens when the PC police run amok. I have checked my hand-dandy pocket version of The Constitution and nowhere does it guarantee anybody the right to not be offended or have their feelings hurt.
Cool!
Do I get "paid administrative leave" until that happens?
That would be perfect.
And anytime you get ANY of these Euro-Trash with their So-Called "PROTESTING" ( what the MEDIA calls in; in reality we all know what the Bandana-Masked teen-boppers do to harass the Police at these GEORGE SORROS BACKED things!
I like EUROPE cauise when ANY Economical Summit or FTA is held- ALL the far left nuts cases come out to START RIOTS to get attention anyhow!
Although- The police SHOULD know that AFTER the events; ANY comments they amke will be over heard and leaked to the press by INSIDER SPIES for the left!
(Think Isreal is the only ones who don't really knwo just how many IRANIAN SPIES there are in THEIR Military!- Imagine how many Libbie spies are in a Police UNION ORIENTATED " John Kerry for President " setting?!!)
It seems that our law officers are being required to apologize for every act of good police work, particularly those that are caught on tape and taken out of context.
It's remarkable that any criminals are caught at all anymore, what with the PC Fascists tying the hands of our law officers behind their backs.
They talk about indiscriminate firing of rubber bullets....they haven't seen my (soon to be patented) design for a rubber-bullet-firing Gatling gun.
"snicker"
You could always sue
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