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08-07-2007, 06:59 PM #1
Cops shoot protester in the head w/rubber bullet, then laugh
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=G63FEamhpA0&mode=related&search=[/youtube]
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08-07-2007 06:59 PM # ADS
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08-07-2007, 07:47 PM #2Originally Posted by RockGremlin
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08-07-2007, 09:52 PM #3
Hmm, reminds me of Liberty Park back in, I dunno, 2000? '99?
"March South, March South!"
Peaceful people getting barged in on and having their drums broken with nightsticks or getting thumped, themselves while legally assembling in a public park. All because some people defended a guy (by yelling and telling the cop to go away and leave him alone) who was getting his puppy confiscated by a cop for not having it on a leash.
I left when I saw police cruisers start driving up on the lawn. I saw the news report that night and spoke with "my people" at the time, the next week.
A lady getting shot in the head with a rubber bullet without being violent toward anyone is absolutely ridiculous. No charges, no investigation. PLEASE.
The police have a tough job, but they need to remember that they work FOR THE PEOPLE! When THE PEOPLE form a group in protest of something, the police should listen to the message, not try to stop it from happening.
(Sorry...struck a nerve. I'll shut up now.)Lost On A Hill
Utah Water Log
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08-07-2007, 10:28 PM #4
Woman: Shoot me! Are you gonna shoot me?
You're damned if you do, damned if you don't....
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08-08-2007, 01:42 AM #5Originally Posted by LOAH
And here we have a bunch of cops downright celebrating a head shot, absolutely loving the fact that it pegged her right in the forehead. If it had killed her, would they have admitted that the aim was intentional?
In this case, they used less-than-lethal not to avoid a physical confrontation, but to mete out on the spot punishment.
They didn't avoid a fight, they avoided having to do the work of a billyclubbing. Of a lady. In a dress. Wielding a piece of paper.
Oh well, she should consider herself lucky, right? 40 years ago in Florida she would have gotten the firehose and dog bite treatment.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
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08-08-2007, 07:11 AM #6Originally Posted by donny h~Jason
Man who run behind car become exhausted...
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08-08-2007, 08:42 AM #7
From the little bit that the story shows It looks like she was confronting the police, peacefully...mabey. How do we know what was going on before that with other people and the cops. Mabey they felt the need to stomp out any confrontation with them before it got out of hand. I am one to say shoot the lady ask questions later. If you are with a group of people protesting and some people in the group are getting out of hand, which may be a possibility in the red suit ladies case, you can expect that the cops aren't going to hold a trial.
The man thong is wrong.
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08-08-2007, 08:54 AM #8Originally Posted by Jaxx
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08-08-2007, 09:06 AM #9
I don't think I'm uninformed of my rights. If I am associating and congregating with a group of people and they start to get rowdy and I don't leave then I can only expect the cops to treat me as they would the stupid people in the group.
I don't think that we can really judge what happened by the footage that the lawyer gave the the interviewer to show. That is a small bit showing only things to make her case look better. She is a lawyer she knows not to show her friends throwing rocks at police (not that that happened, just an example)The man thong is wrong.
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08-08-2007, 09:29 AM #10
If she was the mouthpiece and her words and actions began to incite a few people to get out of hand, the police have to take action. She would have been forewarned that if she continued, she would be shot by less than lethal means. Obviously she didn't take heed in those orders and that led her to being shot. A simple protest can turn into a riot at the drop of a dime. Riots lead to injury and property damage at the least. Keeping it peaceful is paramount.
A lawyer being afraid to bring suit? Isn't that an oxymoron And a shot that far by standing police, using a rubber bullet and actually striking her in the forehead... Wow will that person step forward and teach me how to shoot
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08-08-2007, 10:11 AM #11
Those "cops" (I think "pigs" is a more appropriate term) showed themselves as dickless punks suffering from gang mentality. They guy who fired the shot needs his ass whipped.
I especially liked the film the pigs made of themselves later patting each other on the back for taking pot shots at an unarmed middle aged woman. Boy, what MEN! Any one of those guys confronted by himself without his little badge, buddies, and cheap-ass Glock would wimper and beg like a schoolgirl.
Bull Connor would be proud!
NEVER trust a police officer."The eagle never lost so much time as when he consented to learn of the crow."
-- Wm Blake
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08-08-2007, 11:38 AM #12Originally Posted by Rev. Coyote
If that lady was inciting a riot then she's commited a crime, so take her into custody for that crime, she wasn't in the middle of an angry crowd, she was standing 15 feet in front of dozens of cops.
Cops playing judge and jury.
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08-08-2007, 11:56 AM #13Originally Posted by donny h
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08-08-2007, 11:57 AM #14
Some more info on that protest in Florida, I was wrong about it being 'a great shot', the bullet penetrated the sign she was hiding behind and struck her on the top of the head, not the forehead.
So I got that detail wrong, but Broward county bails me out by behaving atrociously in many other ways:
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/30/Co...ontrol_w.shtml
http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter...2296783&page=1
http://phoenix_rising.gnn.tv/blogs/1...otest_in_Miami
Oh, the irony, being shot by police for no good reason, and the bullet traveled through a sign that reads "Fear Totalitarianism".
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08-08-2007, 12:03 PM #15
More "She says" and the slanted view of Law Enforcement by the writer, free speech, isn't it great.
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08-08-2007, 12:03 PM #16Originally Posted by JP
Never trust a cop."The eagle never lost so much time as when he consented to learn of the crow."
-- Wm Blake
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08-08-2007, 12:10 PM #17Originally Posted by Rev. Coyote
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08-08-2007, 12:15 PM #18Originally Posted by JP
Never trust a cop."The eagle never lost so much time as when he consented to learn of the crow."
-- Wm Blake
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08-08-2007, 12:21 PM #19Originally Posted by JP
The protesters are exersizing their rights, rights that are paid for in blood by our relatives, rights that were hard won and should not be taken lightly, and should NEVER be set aside merely because someone disagrees with the message of the protesters.
Another word for protester is patriot.
How would Thomas Jefferson feel about Broward countys actions? John Adams? James Madison? Alexander Hamilton? Would these men support shooting a lady in a dress because they didn't like her?
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08-08-2007, 12:21 PM #20Originally Posted by Rev. Coyote
You and a bunch of like minded neighbors got together and pulled off a successful stand on that company. You're all standing around at a picnic/victory get together and you start discussing the tactics that seemed to keep them at bay, some of you wouldn't be joking about it?
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