Posted on 08/03/2010 7:12:02 PM PDT by Steve495
If there are tensions between urban police departments and the African-American community, this kind of stuff won’t help one bit. An Indianapolis police officer was invited to give a presentation at a youth symposium where organizers staged a fight to see how the [white] officer would react.
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Too bad the officer didn’t light up their lives with 50,000 volts. Staging a fight in front of an officer of the law is really stupid! IDIOTS!
This can’t be true . . we’re in a “post-racial” Presidency . . . remember?
Police: Officer Baited In Altercation That Injured Him (Racist Black Church!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2564172/posts
Lots to work with here.
1. Actors are going to be charged with assaulting a police officer, and battery on a police officer.
2. Then comes the police officers lawsuits against the church, minister, actors, and anyone else involved. Personal injury suits.
3. The pastor is an idiot and should be fired or at least censured by the city govt.
4. The minister who said that the police officer in the second affair had to prove that he was innocent should have the Constitution shoved up where the sun don’t shine. He has exposed himself as both ignorant of the judicial system, and as a racist fool. A nice two-fer.
5. Hope the local newspaper bothers to cover this. Used to be a good newspaper. Don’t know what it is today.
Set up by the church’s head racist...nice.
I’m waiting for jackson, calypso lois, naacp and the congressional black caucus to come to the rescue.
Proper response would be to let them beat the crap out of each other, and arrest whoever survives...
Welcome to the AnnointedIdiot’s “post-racial America”..... =.=
Black people at war with civilization.
“We want the prosecutor to charge them with criminal behavior and let them prove themselves to be innocent. That’s fair,” said The Rev. T. Garrott Benjamin with Light of the World Church. “It’s not for us to be the judge on the street. It’s for them to go to court, and if they are innocent, prove it.”
You've come a long way baby...
He needs to sue them.
Is that Louie's wife? lol
Yes the black community in Indy has been a REAL treat of late. 9 people shot at racist black expo, 2 killed last night in a drive by shooting, now this?? We’re fast becoming Detroit I’m afraid. Black leaders here are simply atrocious and we’re headed downhill fast.
But hey, it’s not a race issue! lol
Bump for later.
Geez, if you’re gonna re-post a duplicate thread, at least post it, don’t tease it.
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Indianapolis community organizers bait law enforcement officer with fake fight
Indianapolis community organizers bait law enforcement officer with fake fight
August 3, 2010 at 10:01 pm by Steve McGough 1 Comment | Share via e-mail
If there are tensions between urban police departments and the African-American community, this kind of stuff won’t help one bit. An Indianapolis police officer was invited to give a presentation at a youth symposium where organizers staged a fight to see how the [white] officer would react.
News 6 in Indianapolis is reporting the story, with my emphasis added.
During the presentation, an altercation broke out in the crowd, and [Sgt. Matthew] Grimes intervened. The officer was thrown to the ground and drew his Taser, ready to stun one of the people involved, police said.
At that point, someone stepped in and told the officer that the incident had been concocted to test the reaction of the officer to the situation, police said. Grimes suffered severe back spasms after the incident and was taken to Methodist Hospital for treatment.
James Harrington, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church, said he set up the scenario to test a white officer’s reaction to a fight between two black men.
Genius.
One of the players – Ennis Adams Jr. – stated it was a performance, not something to ‘bait’ an officer, but Pastor James Harrington said “the scenario was an effort to test the officer’s response to an argument involving two black men”. That’s baiting the officer. The fake argument escalated to a physical one, which seems to have resulted in a back injury to the police officer.
Harrington even claims he used professional actors who were trained. Of course, Grimes was not an actor. I’m wondering what the background of Adams is – is he a professional trained actor?
Indianapolis certainly is going through a rough spot when it comes to police/resident relations. I have not had the time to read all of the stories concerning the alleged beating of a 15 year old by police during an arrest in May, but it looks like the kid was interfering with the arrest of his older brother. Whether or not excessive force was used, the following comments really caught my eye.
Anybody else notice what I’ve noticed?
Several members of the clergy also joined in Monday’s protest, calling for officers involved in the incident to be charged.
“We want the prosecutor to charge them with criminal behavior and let them prove themselves to be innocent. That’s fair,” said The Rev. T. Garrott Benjamin with Light of the World Church. “It’s not for us to be the judge on the street. It’s for them to go to court, and if they are innocent, prove it.”
How quickly the “oppressed” become the oppressors when they think they’re in charge.
They self-ghettoize, then they look around and see that everyone is like them, then they think that the crakkas are in the minority and can be abused and defeated.
Bring it on.
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