"To Protect and Serve"?
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- kelpie0
yes V4, I am very biased against non criminal people being wrestled to the ground and surrounded by police for crossing the road.
what's so hard to understand here?
- Witt0
- paraselene0
i'm glad he got a beating. not cos he was jaywalking but because he sounds like an insufferable pompous twat.
to wit:
He told the Times that his colleagues now regard him as "as a combination of Rambo, because it took five cops to pin me to the ground, and Perry Mason, because my eloquence before a judge obtained my immediate release".
orly?:
The charges of jaywalking and disorderly conduct were dropped after he appeared in traffic court the next day and pleaded with the officer that any record could jeopardize his immigration status in the United States, police said.
pu-leeeeeze mistah judge, let me keep my perfect record. whimper, whimper, rambo my arse. what a nob.
- chossy0
it's a nightmare for everyone in the US cause the slightest little thing gets everybody jumpy.
A dude just ignored my order for him to not cross the road *b'ding terrorist, ok pal show me some id, he's just asked for mine therefore refusing to show me his *b'ding terrorist. Aieee cut him down and pure stomp on him etc.
I can see both points of view on this one. The idiot brit guy should have known that when an officer asks for your ID you just show them it simple as that. Perhaps the officer shouldn't have been so eager to hack the cunt down to the floor.
- chossy0
in fact fuck it I hate that guy I hate him so much, if I ever saw that guy who got a beating by the fuzz I'd throw a hot cup of coffee on him.
- kelpie0
that would be my beef here too, laws are laws but the guys method leaves a lot to be desired.
para, is giving a guy a shoein' cos he's a pompous twat legal in the states?
I'd better never go there then. :-/
- chossy0
aye if you ever refer to dinner as supper you get a beat down from paraselene, thats pompus like a mother fucker.
papa invited us round for supper *smack
- rafalski0
(for err.. lifestyle reasons)
rafalski
(Jan 12 07, 01:59)did you just come out of the closet?
:D
paraselene
(Jan 12 07, 03:29)just a jaywalker, not closet-hider, ffs!
btw, I wonder if you can jaywalk in SF, don't really remember..
- version30
what's so hard to understand here?
kelpie
(Jan 12 07, 03:49)did you read other accounts of the incident or only the initial one published by the bbc? i have linked other articles that describe a different scenario. one of which is a local atlanta paper and another to a scanned fax of the police report
i feel bbc is sensationalizing something into more than it was
- Crouwel0
oh come on now.. you guys are choosing the side of the state now.
have you seen that there's an actual police line there? are they fucking mental beyond belief???
- lowimpakt0
i feel bbc is sensationalizing something into more than it was
version4
(Jan 12 07, 04:03)
-----------what did it say? did it warrant 8 cops?
- chossy0
sensationalizing
not a word in my dictionary and jesus wrote mine so it's fully correct. Just jokes baby :D
- Crouwel0
i would like to believe there must be some sanity there and that this story is incomplete, the guy must have been very aggressive toward the immediate environment .. i mean..seriously..
- moth0
*burns American flag
Hello.
- version30
what did it say? did it warrant 8 cops?
lowimpakt
(Jan 12 07, 04:05)
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i've supplied the links i base my opinion on, if you do not agree with my beliefs, i recommend you review mine as well as find additional sources and deduce your own conclusions as I have.
- Crouwel0
sensationalizing
not a word in my dictionary and jesus wrote mine so it's fully correct. Just jokes baby :D
chossy
(Jan 12 07, 04:06)mexicans don't write dictionaries, unless noone else wants to do it..
j/k!!!
- paraselene0
nah, kelpie, it's only legal for people I think are pompous twats to get a shoein', don't worry, i won't sic the cops on you, i like you.
i dunno. i'm with chossy. i can see both sides of it. when they make it out like he's just a visiting academic for a conference who was attacked by a swat team for crossing the road, then yeah, it sounds pretty shitty.
but, he's basically like me. i'm here at her majesty's fucking leisure, and while i may not follow british rule to the letter, i know the consequences if i don't.
if you're worried enough about your visa to go whimpering to a judge that you don't want any marks on your record, you should probably not lip off to cops in the street, even if those cops happen to be on a power trip.
i certainly wouldn't.
- chossy0
it's the whole ID card debate crouwel the guy didn't show his so he got a leathering from a cop.
Why are folk such cocks.Show me your ID please seen as I just told you to not jaywalk and you just did.... guy responds by not showing his and asking for the coppers. so the copper fucks him up.
The guy should have shown his ID and not been a prick. Conversly the cop shouldn't have cut the fool down so hard he should have showed a little more restraint. Or perhaps just tazered the shit out of him for being a bozo.
- Crouwel0
pls relink, v4, can't be arsed to weed through gazillion posts in this thread.. ain't gonna read them all..
- lowimpakt0
I gave a cop polite lip today because I cycled down a traffic-free one way street on the way to work and he stopped me.
We had banter.
he didn't beat me to the ground.
i respect him because of it.