Thursday, June 24, 2010
The Police State’s ‘Cardinal Rule’: The Mundane Must Submit
Marilyn Levias, a 19-year-old Seattle girl involved in a jaywalking incident during which a police officer assaulted another 17-year-old girl, displayed “a dangerous refusal to observe a cardinal rule that civilians simply must comply with instructions from police officers,” insists Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes.
For this, Miss Levias faces a gross misdemeanor charge of “Obstructing a Police Officer.” During the confrontation, Levias’s 17-year-old friend, Angel L. Rosenthal, intervened on her behalf and was punched in the face by officer Ian P. Walsh. As is typically the case when a Mundane’s face obstructs the trajectory of a police officer’s fist, the victim is the one facing criminal charges.'
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Yes, I saw this on another blog and my comments from there were as follows:
ReplyDelete"To protect and serve".
Isn't this the police's motto over in America?
However, it never fails to amaze me the amount of racism we continue to see from America.
Personally, I couldn't live over there, the place is just too rough. The police are unruly and think they can do as they please and of course they get away with it.
They arrest people for jaywalking, a bogus 'crime' while real criminals are running around the streets selling drugs, killing people, rape, stealing, child abuse and goodness knows what else, but some teenage girls are being arrested for Jaywalking? Not only has this man escalated a situation that could have been dealt with in a completely different and calm manner.
Sometimes, unfortunately, you can see the racism quite blatantly from white people. If these girls were white, he would have reacted in a completely different manner and I'm sure would have been more cool, calm and collected.
Police brutality is not a new thing in America. The police think they can do what they like. If these girls had been guys, would he have thrown a punch in the same way? I guess he would have been given a good beating himself.
Another problem is that some of the people in America are so brainwashed and stupid that when things like this happen, they will side with the police, until it's their turn of course.
I think like one song says, "...the gun and badge shit is going to their head".
I think this police officer should take up a career in boxing. Would be nice to see how far he would get fighting real men instead of beating up young girls.
Just unbelievable.
America is supposed to be one of the most sought after places to live on the planet, illegal immigrants apparently flocking in by the truckload (why I wonder), a first world (allegedly), highly developed (so we are told) part of the world, yet the place is full of barbaric acts.
I would expect to see this sort of brutality elsewhere around the world, not in America.
If it's not the politician's over there trying to beat up students for asking simple questions, then it's the police beating up teenagers and finishing off where the politician's left off and taking their frustrations out on the innocent.
At the beginning of June a cyclist was kicked by LAPD at an anti-BP protest for no apparent reason. If these people are frustrated, why don't they just find other work instead of taking out their frustrations on innocent people? I mean it's not these people who are to blame for their low wages for goodness sake.
The country is just too barbaric for my taste, one of the last places I personally would want to live!
Jaywalking.
In the UK, people cross the road at the wrong spot all day, everyday. Does it mean that they should get punched in the face for that?
The problem with America and police is general is that they will never apprehend true criminals, they always look for the easy work or should I say the easy target, bullying the weak. I see it all the time.
Just so scandalous.
Of course, on Youtube, you always have the highly uneducated with their racist comments, saying things like monkey and so on.
I think that place is emotionally bankrupt, something to do with the culture of the place, I suppose.
Will covert and blatant racism ever end there, I wonder?