Another LAPD beating of an unarmed black man

[genius]

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/video.adp?id=20040624085409990010

This site even contains video and a poll on whether the police went too far.


A lot of jurors trust the LAPD so much that they will base guilty verdicts in capital trials on the testimony of officers. This is why we need to fix the justice system and clear death row, particularly where the defendants are African Americans.

[ihaveaquestion]

1. It's only available to AOL subscribers!

How about posting the text at least?

[genius]

4. Here's the first four paragraphs

LAPD Probing Arrest, Beating of Motorist
By ANDREA ALMOND, AP

LOS ANGELES (June 24) - Federal and state authorities are investigating the arrest of an unarmed black man who was repeatedly struck with an officer's flashlight, an incident that has sparked comparisons with the 1991 Rodney King beating.

The arrest, captured Wednesday by a TV news helicopter, showed an officer hitting the suspect 11 times with a metal flashlight after it appeared the man had surrendered following a car chase.

The incident occurred just a week after the LAPD said it had successfully implemented reforms mandated by a federal consent decree after the Justice Department identified a ''pattern and practice'' of civil rights violations by the LAPD.

Police said the man was not seriously injured but did complain that he had been struck in the head and suffered an injury to his nose. He was treated at a nearby hospital.


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On the poll, 53% have said the police went too far. 26% said they couldn't tell. 22% said no.

How can police repeatedly beating an unarmed man about the head with a flashlight not be going too far?

[merh]

2. It is the mentality encouraged by our "leaders"

"good vs. evil" "evil will pay" "evil has no rights".

And Clinton getting a bj destroyed our youths and confused them about sex and made them promiscuous. The current admin. is encouraging abuse.

Sadly, it is not surprising and we will be seeing more of it.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Just another frat prank?

What did the guy do steal some food?

[genius]

5. Now they can arrest you for not giving them your name

I wonder how that works with three month old infants.

"What's your name,kid?"

"Goo. Goo. Ga. Ga."

"I don't believe you. It's a beating and off to a cell for you."

Don't forget they keep trying younger and younger kids as adults.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. I saw the tape this morning!

Four cops had the guy down laying on his stomach cuffing him and the cop rushed in with the flashlight and started beating the guy in the head! It looked like to me the cop tried to kill the guy!

[JI7]

7. and it happened a week after the LAPD claimed to have restructured

or made reforms to prevent this type of thing. there was a report which was very harsh on the way the system was but they claimed to have changed. and it seems not much has changed since the rodney king beating. just a few years ago we found out a bunch of black and latino men were framed for crimes they never commited and the city has to pay off the injuries caused in a civil suit now. but it's not totally about race. while the victims are often black or latino males, the cops at times are also minorities. this was the case with a cop involved in many of the framing of innocent men.