I'm done supporting cops, deputies, detectives, Law Enforcement in general. Here's TODAYS video...

[nadinbrzezinski]

86. And I am not being sanctimonious, or lecturing you,

just pointing a fact. Creating the other for whatever reason, in your case animal abuse, it could be something else, like race, faith, sexual orientation, etcetera, makes the practice of torture that much easier.

That is a fact. You can argue this fact with human rights organizations. I am not lecturing you, I am just stating a well known and trodden fact. I do not lecture, I state facts. And this one is extremely well established in human psychology. Nor will I tell you how to feel. Just will share with you how I see this. Yes, Mr. Pusok is not a nice human being given his colorful history with law enforcement, what happened to him was extrajudicial punishment, and I can separate his previous actions from the fact that he was beaten to a pulp by officers of the law. My psychological makeup can separate the two and I can have empathy for him, his girlfriend and his kids, as well as the rest of the family. Does that mean I would invite him for dinner? No, not really.

And I should qualify not a good human being. He is still a father and is steady with somebody. I am sure I would be corrected on my impressions based on news reporting. To those people what happened to him yesterday IS personal.

As to the horse and all actions by the horse, most news reports were based on the incident report...in fact, I quoted that precise news release in my own coverage of this just about ten minutes ago. Don't worry, I will not post it on DU... it's a new angle, (how social media reacted to it), but still, not worthy of DU.

Hold a second I will quote the exact phrase for you from the release.

Deputies made contact with Pusok and as they approached, the horse threw him off.

It is in the same linked document I gave you.

Now the reporters are being good stenographers here... the Sheriff's office has a horse unit. I do not expect reporters who live in cities... or are on a helicopter and later revising their own reports for later news shows using that precise news release, to know this. I could bore you to tears with conure behavior since we share the house with two of them, but I am hardly qualified to know better about horses. (My husband is qualified though. He worked with horses at one point in his youth) On the other hand, the SO should know better. As I wrote, they have a horse unit.

You would be amazed how many of these misstatements actually do start with officials. Some of it is trying to make it understandable to most folks. They realize, in this case, that most people have not been near a horse beyond a photo. And since the story just went sort off, national... this makes it even more likely that these kinds of statements will be made.