Oakland, San Francisco and Bart police are becoming notorius for using excessive force, and their have been several unarmed people killed in recent years - Oscar Grant being the most notable.
It's only going to get worse as the current office holders - especially in Oakland - are incompetent beyond belief. On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That Asian -- Filipino?-- woman's arrest made the front page of the > San Jose paper, I just noticed, btw. The force is so disproportionate. > One unarmed 90-pound woman, half a dozen police officers with batons. > They were hitting her long after she was down, it looks like in the > videos, and as best I can tell all she did before that was mouth off. > Interestingly, several police officers were also filming, though, > probably not that part -- they would have been more interested in > documenting why they might feel threatened. So hey. They should make > that footage public. That's what I say. I also wanna know why officer > 327 felt he had to beat up a woman who does not appear to have fought > back. Interesting side note, the resolution is good enough to confirm > that he is on the Oakland force. That matters because Oakland police > apparently have a protocol that was broken, and one question being > raised was whether it would have applied to say a San Francisco police > officer who was on loan. Apparently there were more than a dozen > police forces participating. > > All in all, now that I *have* done some research I am dismayed and > feel a little sick. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343807 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
