[Tax-chick]

OH, for goodness's sake! He "allegedly" beat a person who made a request he didn't like. I strongly doubt her race or manner of dressing was a key facter.

[lentulusgracchus]

When she asked Alfaro, who was on the phone, to put it out, they got into a verbal fight. [Emphasis added.]

A black lesbian asked someone to put out a cigar?

Wonder how she asked.

[Archangel86]

Isn’t there something in the non-ping contract that states you should be pinged every time the word “lesbian” appears in the headline?

[Willow25]

Was there any more witnesses besides her relatives at that pool?It sounds just to fishy to me..She might have been beat up but was it by the police officer..or was it by someone that had no money so she could not sue for damages..

[yorkie]

It appears she doesn’t like cigars. Unlike an intern I seem to remember......

[17th Miss Regt]

I thjink there is a lot more to this story than we are getting...

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

“The officer at the end of the day got paid for beating me,” Vaughan said.

The technical term for this sort of thing, in employment placement circles, is "perk."

[balch3]

Homo agenda at work. What’s the REST of the story?

[Xenalyte]

Tamara Vaughan, 18, said her jaw was pushed in and she still cannot open it far after an attack by Detective Keith Alfaro, 35, who was off-duty.

Pushed into what?

I can't for the life of me imagine what she's trying to describe.

[Xenalyte]

Vaughan, who is a lesbian, said Tuesday, July 31, she believes Alfaro was attacking her sexual orientation.

Um, NO, you stupid broad. He was attacking YOU. (Unless you define yourself as and limited to your sexual orientation, I guess.)

[digitalbrownshirt]

I read an article in a SA newspaper earlier indicating this is the 4th time he’s been suspended. It also said he was suspended without pay.

[Old Professer]

Is she a lesbian because she wasn’t wearing a bra, because he thought so, or because she said so, or just because she is 18 and can be anything she wants?

The article says he called her * (formerly known as the N-word)but it doesn’t say he called her a lesbian, rather it says, looking like a man.

If looking like a man is all it takes then I had all men teachers in high school.

[eyedigress]

This is the stupidist one I’ve heard in a while. Sheesh

[Recovering Hermit]

“I don’t speak ghetto. I don’t understand Ebonics. Speak English.”

I'm with the "perp" on this one.

[kcvl]

Tamara Vaughan, 18

A San Antonio police detective was charged Monday night with aggravated assault, resisting arrest and evading arrest.

[kcvl]

"He told me: 'You (racial slur) need to go back to the East Side where you belong. Just because you think you have money, you think you can stay where y'all want,'" said Vaughan, who is Hispanic and African American. "Then he said, 'If you want to act like a man, (I'm going to) treat you like a man.' I was punched in the face with a closed fist. Before I could get up he was beating me in the head, neck, chin, and my arms. Then he choked me."

Detective Keith Alfaro — a 10-year member of the force assigned to investigate property crimes — was suspended without pay in April 2003 after his supervisors found some merit in two allegations of wrongdoing, both of which involved a pair of brothers who claimed they had been mistreated, threatened and pushed by the officer.

Those incidents, however, did not prevent the officer from earning promotions. He was made a detective last year, according to the department.

Vaughan's allegations came nearly five years after Alfaro was accused of striking a man in the chest with his forearm, causing the man to fall backward. This was after the man had called to report a burglary at his apartment.

Later, Alfaro allegedly told the man, whose brother said he witnessed the October 2002 incident, that the "only thing that's saving me from kicking your ass or killing you is that you are in your house," according to a sworn statement from the man that is in Alfaro's personnel file.

http://tinyurl.com/3xwxy2

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police have opened an internal affairs investigation into the behavior of a veteran officer accused of using a racial slur and beating a lesbian woman who asked him to put out his cigar at a community pool.

When did lesbian become an adjective? Somehow I think this is a loaded story.

[Constantine XIII]

In this thread: People who think JBT’s are grrrrrreat when they beat up on people we don’t like.

[rabidralph]

Tamara Vaughan, 18, said her jaw was pushed in and she still cannot open it

Sounds like a workman's comp-type issue, as well.

[ishabibble]

Cha-Ching ping!