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FBI opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Inglewood Police Brutality
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Posted on 07/10/2002 3:24:39 PM PDT by truth-a-holic
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This cop is a racist pig I hope they put him away for a long time.
To: truth-a-holic
''We believe this is a seven-figure case,'' said his attorney John Sweeney.
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posted on
07/10/2002 3:33:42 PM PDT
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map
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To: truth-a-holic
This cop is a racist pig I hope they put him away for a long time. His attitude about race is not material. He is violent, and demonstrates an authority figure complex common to law enforcement types. He would do it to a white guy too. The code of silence and the comradery of cops is the problem. Many believe they are above the law. When is the last time you saw a cop follow the speed limit? We are a nation of law not men. One cannot ever break the law to enforce it. Ever.
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posted on
07/10/2002 3:40:36 PM PDT
by
Lysander
To: truth-a-holic
truth-a-holic, member since 2002-07-10
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posted on
07/10/2002 3:42:48 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
To: illuminati
Seven figures is too little. The attorney is too shy. He should ask for eight figures. After all, it is a federal case.
What am I thinking? Didn't Dr. Evil ask for one billion dollars?
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posted on
07/10/2002 3:43:58 PM PDT
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map
To: truth-a-holic
I don't know if he's a racist...there was a black cop right there with him when he did that..the black cop didn't do anything or look mad.
This cop though, certainly needs a desk job...his anger has taken over. No excuse for what he did....but I can understand his frustration...I've seen retarded adults (in the mental institution) get beat up by their attendants...because of the burnout and anger or frustration. Some of these retarded adults are very strong...arrogant...nasty...and beat, spit, throw things at you or hit you whenever they can....everyday....and some of them know exactly what they are doing. They know no one is allowed to hit them back. There are many people put on compensation every day because of it.
Some of the attendants just had enough and lose control...and the few times that I was punched and spit on and knowing that these adults do it on purpose and know they can get away with it.........well....I can just understand the frustration. (I didn't even work with them ...just around them)....But I realize that when you lose that control...it's time for them to change careers.
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posted on
07/10/2002 3:44:54 PM PDT
by
Sungirl
To: truth-a-holic
Racist? Rage that was inappropriate plus a kid who had some hearing/speech disabilities that might have clouded the confrontation, but no way excuses the puncher's conduct.
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posted on
07/10/2002 3:47:34 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: map
''We believe this is a seven-figure case,'' said his attorney John Sweeney. Greedy b@stards! Why make the taxpayers pay for this one mans rage????? Why not take the mans house or car or first born??? Why make the taxpayers foot this bill.....this really sucks.
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posted on
07/10/2002 3:48:09 PM PDT
by
Sungirl
To: truth-a-holic
This cop is a racist pig How do you know this? Perhaps he is just as likely to do this to one of his own race.
Using unsubstantiated, trite labels is not a characteristic of those who are "truth-a-holics."
To: Jagdgewehr
"How do you know this? Perhaps he is just as likely to do this to one of his own race."
Its only an opinion but I don't think he would have beaten a white guy.
As to your ad hominem attack, please try to control yourself, or I will have to hit the abuse button next time.
To: illuminati
"While that does seem a bit excessive, such awards may finaly push law enforcement agencies to implement better psychological testing in order to weed out the agressive control-freak weirdos that populate to many police departments."
You are absolutely right. They also need to screen for racism, most cops are racists, this needs to be corrected.
To: map
"''We believe this is a seven-figure case,'' said his attorney John Sweeney."
I think they ought to give him ten figures. This poor guy got beaten for no other reason than being a black guy who got in a racist cop's way.
And I bet there's more where he came from too. Often the culture of racism permeates entire police departments, they should investigate the entire department as well.
To: truth-a-holic
"...most cops are racists..."
Does that include cops of all races?
There are some who say truth-a holics are racist.
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07/10/2002 4:13:28 PM PDT
by
map
To: map
"There are some who say truth-a holics are racist."
Please be aware that I have hit the abuse button on your ad hominem attack
To: truth-a-holic
So you joined this forum today, to denounce the cop most closely involved in the incident. Does this mean that you want to help promote American Conservatism, or just take an opportunity to call a cop a "racist pig?" And just what is your interest in saying that in this Conservative forum? Do you seek to make a constructive statement towards turning America to the Right; or is your purpose something quite different?
No one thinks that a person in custody, and in hand-cuffs, ought to be beaten up. Just as with a prisoner of war, civilized protocol calls for a non-violent treatment. But just as with prisoners of war, there is sometimes a momentary lapse among those who have just been in the heat of battle with those now in captivity. And sometimes there are human lapses. It is not always easy to go from a desperate battle, to smiles and offers of smokes and drinks and warm, dry, bedding. Perhaps you will relate your own battlefield experiences, if you take exception to that statement.
According to the accounts that I have heard, the cop was wounded in the skirmish with this "victim," immediately before the successful cuffing. While the cop should be disciplined for his clear breach of protocol in continuing the violence, there is nothing in this incident which ought to justify enriching one who, immediately before he was inappropriately struck, was engaging in lawless conduct calcualted to provoke. It would be like awarding damages to a burglar who was shot breaking into one's bedroom, or the insane verdict in the Bronx against Bernard Goetz, some years back. The kid should not benefit because he provoked this assault. And the Officer should not have his career destroyed, because of an inappropriate punch. Discipline him, by all means. Do not destroy him.
Finally, it is a shame that Attorney General Ashcroft has allowed himself to get drawn into this local matter. Surely the proper parties to investigate and discipline the errant officer are in his own department. This should not be an FBI matter, and probably would not have been in the days when J. Edgar Hoover operated the Department with a firm hand, but a sense both of its importance in its proper fields and also on the limitations on the extent of what were its proper fields.
Sometimes the hardest thing for political office holders to learn is that they are not to use their power to solve every problem under the sun--only those actually entrusted to them. But that is at least as important a lesson as the one which tells officers to stop the violence, once the prisoner is pacified.
The only reason that this minor local abuse of a prisoner is getting this attention is because of the Leftist slant of the media. Otherwise, this would only be a page six story--if that--in the L.A. papers, and no where else. There was probably far more serious and grivous violence that same day in every large and medium sized city in America; but reporting it served no Leftwing purpose, so it went largely unnoticed.
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posted on
07/10/2002 4:22:40 PM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: truth-a-holic
As to your ad hominem attack, please try to control yourself, or I will have to hit the abuse button next time. You have got to kidding, right?
To: Jagdgewehr
You have got to kidding, right? = You have got to
be kidding, right?
oops.
To: Ohioan
Finally, it is a shame that Attorney General Ashcroft has allowed himself to get drawn into this local matter. Surely the proper parties to investigate and discipline the errant officer are in his own department. Amen to that!
To: Ohioan
Well said! I play in a band and do a lot of outside party gigs. Our motto is we'll play till the cops come, and they do! But I've seen them handle the call from friendly and peaceful to coming on to the scene like a murder was in progress and everyone was under arrest! My point being that some cops are ANDYS and some are BARNEYS but a word like racist should not be used by anyone who does'nt know the whole truth of the matter. One more point please.
Correct me if I'm wrong but when I saw the cops all over Rodney King I was horrified by their actions and then I found out about the chase at high speed. So be honest, did'nt you ever see someone speeding like a maniac that if you had you hands on them you would go bezerk on them before you came to your sences? We're all human so dont be so quick to judge.
Again good thinking Ohioan. You are welcome in my camp.
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