I totally agree!! They indicate that the suspect provoked the cops.
Regardless if he did or not, that once the suspect was handcuffed, nothing should have been done to the suspect. Instead they slam him on the car and hit him, I truly find that misuse of force and should be punished. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/09/02 01:27PM >>> At 01:16 PM 7/9/02, Jacob wrote: >I heard this on the radio this morning here in LA. > >"The problem is not the police beating on suspects. It is the people >videotaping the beatings." Most people probably thought it was just an episode of HBO's new series, The Wire, which featured almost the exact same scenario in a episode a few weeks ago. Suspect hits cops, cops slam him onto car hood and beat the crap out of him. They then take him back to the station and beat him some more. As long as cop shows on television can make beatings like this an acceptable part of the plot with the cops never being punished, real cops are going to think it fine for them to behave that way. My uncle, a tiny little man less than 5 feet tall, was beaten to death by two huge Knoxville, Tennessee police officers during a raid on a bar. He was doing absolutely nothing wrong, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing was ever done to the cops involved, they walked away laughing. His mother never got over it, and died shortly after of grief. So police beatings aren't a very popular topic in our family. I think the police should be held to a higher standard of conduct than the general public, and penalties for them breaking the law should be more severe, not less. ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
