“BLUE” the color we are all starting to hate
While reading the City Room blog from the NY Times online, I came across the following article:
June 28, 2010, 3:55 pm
Officer Is Acquitted of Assault Charges
By JOHN ELIGON
A New York City police officer accused of excessive force in the apprehension of an Iraq war veteran in a Manhattan housing project was acquitted of all criminal charges on Monday.
The officer, David London, was seen on videotape striking a man with his baton dozens of times while the man lay on the ground in a housing project on West 93rd Street in July 2008.
David London-The Beater
But Officer London, 45, testified that the surveillance footage of the episode misrepresented the confrontation and did not capture that the man, Walter Harvin, was verbally hostile and did not heed the officer’s commands to stop resisting arrest.
Walter Harvin-Iraqi Vet
Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office also charged Officer London with lying about the episode. -END of ARTICLE-
-My Reply Post- (which is waiting moderation from City Room (NY Times))
Fair justice system. Give me a break. Maybe people need to revisit the
movie “The Great Debater” there was a debate on the justice system in America, and it was dead on balls accurate.
To beat a guy and expect him to say nothing, is like whipping your child’s behind and not expecting him to cry.
And since when was freedom of speech abolished? He was “verbally hostile”? well that is relative. Remember 12 jurors did not see Rodney King get beat either.
The only thing that will stop abusive cops will be abusive people. Remind them that violence does beget violence. Tear that city apart like they did in California, when they got tired of Police brutality and believe me they will think twice.
Believe me O.J. got off because of the Rodney King incident.
