Posted on 05/20/2021 4:36:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologized for leading them on a high-speed chase...
(Excerpt) Read more at wwltv.com ...
Local media in Florida is running this video in an attempt to fan racial flames.
I guess some folks get to speed away from cops at 115 mph and then resist arrest without expecting rough treatment....
Caveat: the cops may have behaved criminally. Let the courts decide. My objection is to the fake news siding with one side in this issue.
I’m familiar with this case. The local DA sat on it for a year before sending it to the Feds, and only then after the family filed a federal wrongful death suit.
The DA, who I know personally, sent me a statement last night, which I published on my newsblog.
https://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2021/05/20/belton-issues-statement-on-greene-homicide/
True, the guy ran from the cops, but he didn’t deserve to be beat to death.
IMHO.
Without being in the moment, it’s impossible to understand what’s going through the minds of these LEOs. High stakes combat psychology varies by individual, but anyone willing to flee from LE at over 100 mph isn’t exactly a low threat individual. Getting out of the car and apologizing doesn’t make you immune from getting your ass handed to you.
Thanks. Appreciate a citizen’s perspective much more than that of a fake news reporter.
The thing is...would this have happened if he were a white guy? I’m betting “yes”.
Several months ago at a local meeting, I asked Belton about the case. He is black, fyi, and wants to run for Louisiana Attorney General.
During our conversation, he tap danced all around the issue for 10 minutes. I’m old enough to know when someone is sowing bullshit, and that’s what he did.
This will be a case of the coverup causing much more damage than the original issue.
Another observation that the media mentions but only in passing: these videos are incomplete and/or edited, right?
But the fake news GIVES THE IMPRESSION these vids tell the whole story. Local media is pretending it is another George Floyd event.
Our entire system of justice is built on legal/constitutional protections that are damn near sacred -- the right to due process, a presumption of innocence, protections against self-incrimination and warrantless searches/seizures, etc. But this system only works if it is acknowledged and respected by the government AND the citizenry. If you resist arrest or lead the police on a high-speed chase, all bets are off and your legal rights go right out the window, as far as I'm concerned.
Cases like these are no different than the classic "Wanted Dead or Alive" scenario from the Old West -- where outlaws were stripped of all their legal and constitutional protections after they had demonstrated a wanton disregard not just of the law, but of the LEGAL PROCESS.
Another case where the body camera is completely different than the police report.
Before video was almost everywhere it was very, very rare that an officer would be charged.
I don’t know the extenuating circumstances behind this story, but it is not the job for the police to administer justice. They should have added as many charges as necessary to the situation and booked him for the courts.
The guy should have watched Chris Rock’s video on how to avoid getting your ass kicked by the cops. Especially the part when he says if the cops have to chase you they’re bringing an ass kicking. True that.
That's about where I stopped caring WHAT they did to him.
Comply - Don't Die
As a white man, I fear the police in a different way:
Civil Asset Forfeiture.
They don’t beat you. They just take your money. They are quite literally the modern highwaymen.
It’s a psychological and physiological response. When fight or flight is triggered, the brain and body follow very different scripts. In a fight scenario, it becomes a matter of survival. Logic, reason, and even senses like hearing become dull. Survival taxes the body.
The whole Democratic machine has tried to re-ignite the racism of the 1950’s. It is as if they cannot survive without it, so must fan the flames at every available instance. Why is that? Booker T. Washington said in 1911 “There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” We have made great progress in terms of race relations for the last 40 years, but the bad elements of the society have wanted to hang on to the “race war” for their own purposes. You see it in every single riot, where folks break out windows and steal ‘stuff’ that does not belong to them. They do it with a sense of entitlement, which is what Booker T. Washington talked about. We do not need DIVERSITY, we need UNITY!
The fact that ~64% of all murders in 2013 were committed by 14-15% of the population is incredible.
That’s BS. Police are supposed to be professionals. If our uniformed service members treated a surrendering combatant this way, they would be investigated, charged and convicted...all by their peers.
15% includes old, young, and female. If you discount kids under 14, all women, and those over 45, the real number is about 3%.
We don't have a crime or gun problem, we have a black male problem, age 14-44, mainly in blue cities or blue states. They commit 50% of the crime and 75% of all violent crime.
If you EXCLUDE all black crime, we would have the crime rate of Iceland.
True. But, I think on balance, the bodycam footage has generally been a benefit to police more than it’s been incriminating. There are some high-profile exceptions to be sure. And, over the last 12-months, even when the bodycam footage largely validated the police action, there are some instances when it couldn’t overcome ‘the narrative.’
But, even though Chauvin was convicted, think how much worse it would have been for him absent any bodycam footage and instead, all we had from the incident was the cellphone footage from bystanders. That bodycam footage definitely added exculpatory context to the arrest....context that the jury ignored probably because they were afraid for their own lives.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.