Posted on 01/20/2014 9:21:32 AM PST by kiryandil
Cops bloodied an 84-year-old man and put him in the hospital Sunday when he jaywalked at an Upper West Side intersection and didn’t appear to understand their orders to stop, witnesses said.
Kang Wong was strolling north on Broadway and crossing 96th Street at around 5 p.m., when an officer told him to halt because he had walked against the light.
Police were targeting jaywalkers in the area following the third pedestrian fatality this month around West 96th Street.
Wong, who lives a block away, appeared to not understand the cop, the witnesses said.
“The guy didn’t seem to speak English. The cop walked him over to the Citibank” near the northeast corner of 96th and Broadway, said one witness, Ian King, a Fordham University law student.
“[The officer] stood him up against the wall and was trying to write him a ticket. The man didn’t seem to understand, and he started walking away.
“The cop tried to pull him back, and that’s when he began to struggle with the cop,” said King, 24. “As soon as he pushed the cop, it was like cops started running in from everywhere.”
Wong was left bleeding and dazed with cuts to his face.
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PING...
Oh oh.
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To stop pedestrians from being harmed, the police have begun a policy of beating jay-walkers....
He doesn’t look like Obama’s son, and he’s not a danger to others. It makes sense that the police would use him to set an example.
Cops made first contact “Tried to pull him back.”
maybe the guy should be thankful the cops didn’t shoot him full of holes and then call it “justified”.
Do cops check their common sense and reason at the door?
A name like Wong probably means Asian = somebody almost as low on the totem pole as whitey. So no minority preference points for him.
BIG Oh oh.
If the cops were onl;y “doing their job” there was no need to beat up, arrest and charge this old man. Low IQ thugs.
Obviously they need to put this guy in prison for a decade as a deterrent to other jaywalkers who might think of resisting arrest.
NYC mommie state tickets for jay-walking.
I always found NYC cops obnoxious even decades ago.
Here is a clue: learn the language.
There are a hell of a lot of stories about LEO over reach
This ain’t one. The guy aparently may not be able to speak english, but if hereally can’t that doesn’t make him stand out in any way whatsoever from people who pretend not to be able to and try to walk off when they are called on something.
Its up to you to learn the language when you go to another country.
What’s wong with this guy?
But they just beat him up to save him!/sarc
Anyone in the shelter of a car can sit and wait comfortably for pedestrians huffing it in the weather.
NYC. Welcomes illegal aliens. Beats up jaywalkers.
Elaine found out the hard way when she hit Ping.
Three people died. The cops were just trying to make it four.
Would the extremes of abuse re police I’ve seen these past few years have increased at the same rate under ANY administration? Is it just the decline into lawlessness on the part of cops as well as people that would occur because our society in general is sinking in corruption? Or is it just reported more often? I don’t see libs “freeing” the cops to beat the populace - what am I missing? They get cameras on them at an increasing rate so I’d think they’d conceal their actions yet we see more of the abuse. Are those who enjoy beating the elderly too sociopathic to stop themselves even if it means charges against them?
Given that I don’t agree with every instance of accusations (e.g., police say drug dealer sic’d his dog on them and he says his dog was playing with a toy when they shot him) without sufficient information, I get called names by other FReepers who insist that no real information is needed - only that accusation is sufficient. And I have never lived in an area where the public expected brutality on the part of the cops, yet. (The FReeper anti-cop tactic of name calling doesn’t seem to be working to “train” me not to disagree with them- I don’t assume all cops are evil.) Not that cops where I have lived are never abused anyone but that it was an unusual event. Yes -there are places on the planet where the cops are humans - many of whom risk their lives for us. But I often hear people on the internetz talking about cop contempt for laws etc. getting worse and I am trying to figure out if it is just being exposed more or that they are emboldened but if emboldened -by what? If the courts are letting them off more - does anyone have an opinion as to why? Just wanna know.
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