You thought the Rodney King thing was bad--- I think this one is worse.

[trumad]

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Everyone one of these Cops should go to jail.

Houston's mayor said Thursday that the release of a video showing several Houston police officers last March allegedly kicking, punching and stomping on a handcuffed teenager could jeopardize the prosecution of four officers in the case.

"We don't want to do anything to jeopardize the prosecution of these police officers," Mayor Annise Parker said Thursday, following a weather news conference at Houston TranStar, the local emergency management center. She said the video's release may cause the trials to be moved out of Harris County.

Parker said she was "shocked and disgusted" when she first viewed the tape last year.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7411929.html

[secondwind]

1. K&R - everyone needs to see this. What did this teenager do in the first place?

I could not watch the entire video. But there is NO REASON IN THE WORLD to mistreat a person who has surrendered. These cops should be taken off the force, and this young man should sue the Houston Police Dept. for such a brutal attack.

[tblue37]

46. Suspect in a burglary. But he was not tried and found guilty, yet he was beaten

and kicked like that by so many goons.

And he is just a kid--15 years old.

Cops dont get to go to town like that even on convicted adult burglars!

[SkyDaddy7]

2. MISDIMEANOR CHARGES?!? WTF!!!!!!!???

These cops will all get off with no jail time either...I hope they riot! NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!!

[LuvNewcastle]

4. They need to do time for this.

Assaulting an officer is a serious offense; when cops abuse their authority over the rest of us, they should be held to the same standard.

[spooked911]

3. they beat King with nightsticks and it went on longer than this

but this is totally disgusting, no doubt

[trumad]

5. I know....

King was the ultimate... but this rates right up there in mho.

[tblue37]

47. A kick to the head can cause permanent brain damage or death.

This 15-year-old boy was kicked repeatedly in the head and his head was stomped on.

[spooked911]

54. I don't mean to belittle what happened to this kid

No doubt it was horrible.

[The Wizard]

6. It's Texas

The guy getting the beat down will be sentenced for damaging police shoes.

[rapturedbyrobots]

15. seriously

i have a friend serving 10 years in texas for exactly this. he made the cops chase him, so they beat the shit out of him & charged him with assaulting an officer. i hope these cops find some hood justice.

[d_r]

7. shocking

There are some on the right wing who will hee and haw about the draconian government taking their rights away with health care reform, who would probably cheer on this officers and say something like "if he hadn't broken the law he wouldn't have been beaten, had it coming to him."

[kooth]

8. Re: Shocking

Too true! Why can't they see the hypocrisy?

[Enthusiast]

12. Too dumb. nt

[Enthusiast]

11. You are right. nt

[Very_Boring_Name]

9. I'm sure the inevitable 3 day paid suspension of the officers will teach them a lesson

:eyes:

[Enthusiast]

10. Those cops should get

a prison sentence.

The cop behind the wheel that struck the man should also be charged with assault. Obviously he was trying to hit a man that 'might' have committed an act of burglary. Intentionally hitting the man is a worse crime than burglary, imo.

The guys kicking the man in the head should be charged with attempted murder.

[tomm2thumbs]

24. +1 on all counts

[kath]

29. Good point about hitting him with the car -- that asshole should also be charged with

felony assault or attempted murder.

[tblue37]

48. Sorry, but that "man" was a 15-yar-old boy. nt

[WingDinger]

13. Are you sure those arent Mubarek's thugs?

[KansDem]

14. But...but...the officers feared for their lives!

I posted yesterday a question asking why police officers feel it necessary to "punish" suspects who surrender.

And I received a post saying the officers felt their lives were in danger(?)

Right...
Suspect is running away from me -- I sense my life in danger;
Suspect is lying on the ground -- I sense my life in danger;
Suspect is face down with arms outstretched -- I sense my life in danger;
...therefore I must beat the snot out of him!

I simply don't follow this kind of logic...

[WhoIsNumberNone]

25. They'll be fearing for their lives if they ever walk the streets of Houston again

Every thug and hood rat in the city will be dying for a shot at them once they see this video

[kath]

31. as well they should.

I'm a very non-violent person, but even I would like to beat the shit out of those thug pigs.

[Festivito]

16. I'd think everyone from the police, supervisors, prosecutors to the judge, should be indicted.

They saw the video, they sought to obstruct justice, they acted to condone and thereby promote more violence and inevitable chaos, they should be treated as enemies of the American people that they are.

[booley]

17. looks like the comments have been freeped

The ones saying this is wrong all have so many negative hits they are hidden. All of them consistently.

The ones excusing this and even glorifying it are in the highest rated.

Yet out of 6000 people who watched this, only 16 voted on the video itself.

[NuclearDem]

18. Bite the ground boy! BITE IT!

[Pharaoh]

19. These guys must do time

Brutal racism.

[tiny elvis]

20. rodney king's tormentors hit him in the head with a club

which is as bad as a dozen punches to the abdomen
what makes this worse is that king attacked the former police before they pummeled him
this young man's worst offense seems to be running faster than a policeman
racism being a constant in the comparison

[AtheistCrusader]

21. Ah sweet a police beating of a minority, Been weeks since i've seen one of these.

Fuck yes, I love me some street justice.


:sarcasm:

[suzanner]

22. IMO, this is calculated assault to cause certain kinds of permanent injury

- brain, vision, hearing, kidney, face disfigurement, broken leg, etc. These cops are messed up and should be in jail themselves or a straight jacket.

[defendandprotect]

38. Exactly -- if this isn't criminal, it sure is insanity!!

[tomm2thumbs]

23. seems like grounds for immediate firing in any job, especially one of trust

hope they go after the PD and the City with as many lawyers as will offer their services

bankrupt the City of Houston AND their PD - hiding this video and letting these officers be charged with less than assault is a complete cover-up - and Houston's city government & leadership's names are now mud.

[BOHICA12]

40. 7 Cops fired - 4 indited ....

... but the charges are not felonies.

[FLAprogressive]

26. Unbelievable.

[Dokkie]

27. You know you have an

awesome Union contract when can evade losing your job from crimes like this. Not only should these cops lose their jobs, they should tried, convicted and if guilty, sentenced to life

[kath]

28. Fucking pigs.

Fucking fucking asshole pigs.

Stomping and kicking someone's head should lead to a charge of attempted murder.

[Marblehead]

30. fucking animals

these cops aren't human, they have lost their humanity

[rurallib]

32. Mayor calls for the releaser of the tape to be prosecuted

Um .......... I think she missed something ........

[greiner3]

33. The teen will end up being convicted;

Of injuring a cop's feelings. 5-10 in TX.

[jimlup]

34. Cops just do this

Sorry but it is a fact of life. They are natural bullies. It is that simple. Unless they are supervised continuously this will always happen.

I've been attacked physically by cops. While protesting the first Gulf war nonviolently, cops attacked me from behind and beat me. They knew they would get away with it. They didn't arrest me. They just beat me.

[defendandprotect]

37. Trying a few of them for assault would begin to stop some of this ...

these cops should all be in jail for the next 10 years -- !!

[jimlup]

51. For a little while

But the problem is systemic. If we don't change the way the system works, it will continue to happen. Cops, through their current position in society, tend to be natural bullies.

[defendandprotect]

52. It's like any other influence from leadership .... when Establishment and higher-ups remain racist,

sexist and homophobic -- exploiters -- then the people they hire will do their

dirty work.

When they assassinated JFK in Dallas - 50% of the police force were KKK --

When they assassinated Bobby in LA -- 50% ofthe police force were John Birchers --

Today, we understand how racial profiling was put in place and used for decades

before there was even any publicity about it --

We also understand how police are being used to destroy civil rights of citizens --

as they are being told to look with suspicion on anyone who mentions The Constitution!

Certainly the Drug War is part of this attack on civil rights -- and not only in our

own country.

However, we must begin to hold these cops responsible for their crimes -- and can't

help but noting that the "Chief"/? seems to be a man of color while the offenders

seem to be all white -- so there is no color line when men are hired to carry out

filthy deeds for higher ups. If individually they have to pay a high price for these

crimes, they would no longer take on these jobs.

[jimlup]

55. Agreed 100%

[Jokinomx]

35. Shame on them all ... they all certainly should be fired .. and never allowed to

be in any kind law enforcement again. Including security at any level.

[defendandprotect]

36. In our wildest imaginations would we have dreamed of anything like this ... ??

how deserving of broad brush questioning and challenging!!

And the problem is .... the release of this video?????

Folks, we need to turn this world right side up again!!


Wasn't a racist attack, either -- of course!!??

[johncoby2]

39. Another jewel from the great state of Texas

[Moostache]

41. K&R...but what do you expect?

Clearly the cops have lost their fundamental respect for human life and need to be imprisoned and barred from EVER again wearing a badge or working in law enforcement....but what do you expect in this country now?

Wall Street criminals and banksters steal and defraud people out of BILLIONS and then take TRILLIONS in loans and guarantees, yet how many are in prison right now for this?

Clarence Thomas evades income taxes - the VERY SAME THING THAT ONCE BROUGHT LOW AL FUCKING CAPONE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE - and yet there is not even an indictment handed down? No scandal or even discomforting questions from the press???

The cops are dirty, the judges are dirty, the politicians have ALWAYS been dirty but now are down-right filthy in campaign money and look-the-other-way back scratching as a result.

We were once founded as a nation with a unique foundational understanding - one man, one vote and ALL with equal protection under law not kings. When laws no longer apply to the criminals flaunting them or the law enforcers who become criminals themselves, then we have lost and the grand experiment is over. It has failed and the longer we pretend it has not, the more scenes like this we will endure.

Make your choice - rationalize it as out of control "few bad apples" or accept it as symptomatic of core rot within our failed monetary-infested system.

[DeSwiss]

42. K&R

Anyone who is shocked by this doesn't know the police. It's that simple.

WAKE-THE-FUCK-UP!

P-O-L-I-C-E S-T-A-T-E.

That's how you spell it and that's what we're living in.

- And it's been this way for a loooong time. But they tore away the facade when they passed the Patriot Act. Ever since them your so-called "rights" have been flushed down the gurgler......

In the Bill of Rights of the United States, there is an attempt to secure certain freedoms and protections by way of mere text on paper. Now while I understand the value of this document and the temporal brilliance of it in the context of the period of its creation, that does not excuse the fact that it is a product of social inefficiency and nothing more. Declarations of laws and rights are actually an acknowledgment of the failures of the social design. There is no such thing as 'rights' - as the reference can be altered at will. The fourth amendment is an attempt to protect against state power abuse, that is clear. But it avoids the real issue, and that is: Why would the state have an interest to search and seize to begin with? How do you remove the mechanisms that generate such behavior? We need to focus on the real cause. ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPmHaTirnCc">Peter Joseph

[Leithan]

43. In Britain, they have street cameras watching for criminals.....

Over here, we need street cameras to watch the cops.

[Enthusiast]

50. I'm in favor of cameras.

But, we have had several incidents of police abuse on camera yet nothing is done. Like the Bush Administration and the Wall Street fraudsters, cops are above the law.

[TroubleMan]

44. All these cops should get long jail sentences.

...and not Camp Fed either - a real prison.

[Buddha2B]

45. It makes you wonder

How much violence went unreported or officially denied prior to the invention of video tapes?

[democrank]

49. This abuse of power is chilling.

The kid was 15 years old.....handcuffed. I`m ashamed of these thugs.

[goforit]

53. WTF is wrong with white men???..... I'm white, and this is discusting

animalistic behavior.
They just can't get enough of it.
Totally shameful thugs.

[Wibly]

56. training and recruitment

The real problem with policing, everywhere, including here in Canada, is training and recruitment.
In Canada, our police tend to recruit from sports camp. The end result is we get jocks and bullies signing up to become police.
When it comes to training, they're turned out on the streets with, in most cases, about six month's training. That's just not enough.
A person should have a least a BA in criminology, social work, psychology, sociology, or some related field, or at least two years experience working in either the social services field, or some practical field related to policing, before even being considered for policing.
What's more, there should be stringent psychological testing of all policing candidates to insure the candidates possess the mental strength to make good policemen and women!
What we have now is a bunch of jocks and jockettes who get themselves all pumped up, psyched up, and stressed, then go out there in the streets full of adrenalin! The end result, is people get beat up, or tazed, or shot! Its just plumb bad policing, and it seems to be endemic across North America!