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Assault on boy, 15, admitted by ex-Portsmouth officer
The Virginian-Pilot ^
| February 4, 2003
| By AMY JETER
Posted on 02/04/2003 5:23:10 PM PST by SWO
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Let me see, sentence longer than one year = "No guns for you", according to federal law. Wonder if he gets to continue working at the Airport or will it be double standard time.
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posted on
02/04/2003 5:23:11 PM PST
by
SWO
To: *bang_list
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posted on
02/04/2003 5:26:21 PM PST
by
SWO
To: SWO
Not long ago I mentioned an incident in Virginia Beach with an officer out of control. I also mentioned how Virginia was a privvy. It bears repeating here.
More alarming is that it is an issue not confined to Virginia. But then, it isn't confined to only police officers either. We are an (increasingly) angry society. Its everywhere. From the highway to chat room, we have problem.
To: SWO
This guy belongs in jail, where if he has someone bruise his testicles, it will be the least of his problems. Any cop who abuses a citizen should stand trial on felony charges, IMO. We need to hold them to a higher standard and make an example of them when they abuse a citizen.
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posted on
02/04/2003 5:43:00 PM PST
by
Henrietta
To: *Donut watch
ping
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posted on
02/04/2003 5:43:20 PM PST
by
Henrietta
To: dhuffman@awod.com
You related to this cop...?
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posted on
02/04/2003 6:13:16 PM PST
by
freebilly
(Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
To: SWO
Wrede and two other officers pulled up about 11 p.m., before the adult had arrived. The boy was outside his car, and the girls were inside. The girls ranged in age from 12 to 17. The usual question: Where are these kids' parents while the kids are in the park at 11:00 p.m.?
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posted on
02/04/2003 6:44:10 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
To: Tax-chick
The boy and four girls went to the Churchland Park area to meet an adult and hit baseballs, do pitching exercises and play paintball.I've used late-night rec facilities more than once in my life....
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posted on
02/04/2003 6:50:54 PM PST
by
freebilly
(Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
To: freebilly
Yessir, but I assume you were never a 12-year-old girl! If my daughter wanted to go somewhere to "meet an adult," in the company of a teenage boy and three other girls, no way she'd be leaving the house!
Maybe I'm just an overcautious mom, but this doesn't sound like an innocent recreational outing to me.
Not that it excuses the nutcase security guard. What is it about airport security people, anyway?
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posted on
02/04/2003 6:55:34 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
To: Tax-chick
Way back when my daughter was 12 and her brother was 16 she used to go places with him in his car. Some times they even met adults where they were going.
I remember once they went to meet my 19 year old nephew who was home on leave after boot camp.
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posted on
02/04/2003 7:17:48 PM PST
by
SUSSA
To: Tax-chick
I think he was a cop when the incident happened. But the rent-a-cops/security dudes are generally certifiable. I used to work at a winery where a security guard pulled his gun on a visitor to the winery. Seems the visitor was just trying to find the picnic area.
Said security guard was gone that day. I wonder why...?
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posted on
02/04/2003 7:24:27 PM PST
by
freebilly
(Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
To: freebilly
So you looked at my 'profile'? Do you respond so all armed citizens? To me, 'conservativism' lies more in actions than words. Again, I suggest that you study more (first language then rhetoric), read more and write less (you would be better recieived on DU).
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:04:03 AM PST
by
dhuffman@awod.com
(The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
To: dhuffman@awod.com
No idea what you do for a living and don't care. I fully support the right of all citizens to be armed with as many weapons as they wish.
I agree that conservatism is more in what you do than in what you say. But you come across as an arrogant SOB in your posts, who seems to have the ability to read and think only on the literal level-- a talent I've seen, regrettably, on the worst LEO's and security guards....
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:50:20 AM PST
by
freebilly
(Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
To: Tax-chick
The usual question: Where are these kids' parents while the kids are in the park at 11:00 p.m.? If the kids were all orphans, would it excuse the cop's behavior? Otherwise, why is your comment germane to this situation?
To: Hemingway's Ghost
It seemed to me to be germane ... although you're certainly entitled to disagree :-) ... because incidents like this don't occur in a cultural vacuum. As someone higher up the thread pointed out, there's a system-wide decline in civility and standards of behavior. Out-of-control police are a part of it; parents letting their preteens run around late at night are also part.
What I'm saying, and I've already admitted to being an overcautious mother :-), can be summarized, "If these kids were at home where they belong, this wouldn't have happened."
We all see things in different ways ...
To: freebilly
Well, let's see...my ability to think on only the 'literal level' would not account for my career (from which I am retired), nor my training and not for my education. Capitalizing on our slender commonality, I was educted in California, before the abandonment of standards, in a community much influenced by the Jesuits at the University of Santa Clara. Also at an honors program at San Jose State College (then). My intelligence is +4 s.d. on any number of scales.
Usually I'm called pompous but I understand arrogant too. So what? I don't come here to FR or to some Kalifornistanian for self-esteem or even approval.
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02/06/2003 7:21:51 AM PST
by
dhuffman@awod.com
(The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
To: dhuffman@awod.com
Capitalizing on our slender commonality, I was educted in CaliforniaWe have even less in common, I received my degrees from universities in Connecticut (I was nearly abducted in California, but never educted)....
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posted on
02/06/2003 7:47:06 AM PST
by
freebilly
(Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
To: freebilly
So much for standard deviations....
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posted on
02/06/2003 7:47:32 AM PST
by
freebilly
(Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
To: dhuffman@awod.com
+4 s.d....? I've a friend who holds thirty+ patents in the areas of RF & Microwave technologies. I'm not sure they can accurately measure his intelligence. When I'm with him I realize how stupid I really am.
Oh, by the way, my intelligence has been measured at +4 standard deviation....
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posted on
02/06/2003 8:10:34 AM PST
by
freebilly
(Why do Republicans play hardball like little girls...?)
To: freebilly
Me too.
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posted on
02/06/2003 5:47:45 PM PST
by
dhuffman@awod.com
(The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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