Quote Originally Posted by psychodelic
First, what a stupid thing to do, bring race into it. Second, if there's a video, how about a link?? Third, the suspect was resisting arrest. The cops didn't force the bag in his mouth, then tase him. They followed standard procedure when he was resisting arrest.



Yeah, that makes total sense, seeing as how cops make a commission for every charge they bring in! I know cops have monthly quotas for tickets and citations, but it's ridiculous to assume that the cops purposely tased him because they saw something in his mouth. Again, they tased him because he was resisting arrest. Also, how can you say he wasn't violently resisting arrest? They had one handcuff on and he broke free! How can you break free from a polic officer handcuffing you without using force/violence?

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I don't understand why race is being brought into this. Pure ignorance.
heh as far as the race thing goes, I was just commenting on this other dude's comment, which i think was silly to bring up, but nowhere near ignorant. unwarranted force and violence by the police is a sad but true and undeniable occurrence

as far as the main topic, each charge means $$ for the district through fines, each charge and arrest is a feather in the cap of a officer trying to make his way up the ranks and higher pay grade and like you said, meating their quota. Ever been to a municipal court? Pure fund raising, not much justice involved in the ordeal...

As far as running..it is simple and really doesn't require violence, slip your jacket and run, pivot and sprint if they have you facing a wall, etcetc. Only situation in my life i can think of where I could have ran (not got away just ran) where resorting to force or violence would have been my only choice is while laying on the ground with a cops knee in my spine, and even then to use enough force to free yourself you would have to be on PCP..

Although flicking a finger nail clipping in the general direction of a police officer can be considered assaulting an officer lol.. don't know exactly how things went down, for all I know he grabbed the cops baton beat him over the head with it, so I can't say anything besides police don't need a valid reason to use excessive force.
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