Quote Originally Posted by Bong30
Hurting a Old women is never good.......... But there is 2 side to every story.

My grandma (rip) would have put up one big fight you would have needed to tase her. It said

what does refusal to leave mean?
Good point Bong. We read these stories with outrage but unless we were there we never really know the whole story. Certainly it does seem like excessive force was used in at least some of these cases but who knows.

The law is the law and it applies to everyone. Just because a person is a senior citzen it doesn't exempt them from obeying the law. Take the example of 70-year-old Rich Collins who was distributing handbills . It's easy to say that he was exercising his democratic right but a shopping center is private property. If that shopping center has a policy against it, they have every right to ask him to stop or to leave, and if he doesn't they have the right to have the police remove him. What if he refuses, do the police just say "ok, your an old man so it's ok, never mind" No! They forcibly remove him.

And as far as the woman who left her grandchild in the car, my guess is she got what she deserved. It fails to mention how old the child was. My guess is very young, probably an infant, if it was an older child I'm sure the article would have said something like "a ten year old who could easily take care of himself...". I don't care how old you are, how cool it is, or whether or not the kid is sleeping, YOU DON"T LEAVE AN INFANT IN THE CAR!. Maybe next time she'll think twice.

The problem with most of this crap is that that it is self defeating. If the article was just about the blind woman, which absolutely seems like a case of extreme excessive force, it would have more impact and a sense of validity. Instead, every example no matter how outlandish is dragged out. Details are left out and the story twisted to fit the use of the writer. Instead of being an alarming story about police abuse it ends up being just another one of Pissy's anti-establishment/conspiracy theory posts. It's the old "Boy who cried wolf" story. When 99% of what I see is crap that makes me laugh and roll my eyes it's hard to take the other 1% seriously.
Fengzi Reviewed by Fengzi on . ESSAY- Police state: Has common sense taken leave? i know someone here can justify what was done to the 90 year old blind woman and all the rest...what is wrong with us? look what's happened to the country and the mindset...it's really disturbing. when did it go from protect and serve to beat upside the head and mace someone? oh that's right, we all could be criminals. ESSAY- Police state: Has common sense taken leave? JOHN W. WHITEHEAD | July 7 2006 A culture of meanness has come to characterize many aspects of the nation's Rating: 5