TirithRR wrote:
So... you in your own all knowing glory which you claim no one who has an opposing view can have can know that she was brutalized without being there and involved?
Cause you know, the 5 second view from the camera says everything.
In those five seconds we see a unarmed and lightly built young girl being beaten to the ground by a trained law enforcement officer with a nightstick. Saying she was brutalized is an exaggeration but it's obvious that the cop stepped over a line here. Not only that, he called her a *****. I'm pretty sure the police textbook on crowd control at public protests doesn't say "Insult and threaten them. This will encourage obedience."
Neither of them was acting very sensibly, but if it comes to laying blame, it
was the cop who hit her. Saying that she was goading him or something is playground but-she-started-it bullsh1t. Police officers should know better than that.
You can say she took advantage of it, which she clearly has given her "optimistic" statement to the press after being released, but do not try and justify what that cop did. It was way out of line. He slammed her in the chest with his nightstick. That's not crowd control, it's bullying.
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So if it had been a 6 foot man that he pushed and who had fallen to the ground it would have been ok? Just because on video they appeared to be equal?
Not intrinsically, but it would have caused less of a ruckus.
Edited, Sep 1st 2008 1:34pm by zepoodle