Business…today on the ESPN, I’ve got a piece on why a dress code in the NBA is no good.
So I’ve thought more about this old cat the NOPD roughed up.
I can’t remember where I saw it, but the old man says he was not drinking. Turns out he’s a retired teacher. I must say that it’s easy to think an old man’s a drunk when he’s walking around in a church beater. For the unwashed, that would be the regular white undershirt that your uncle wears while drinking a tall can of Miller High Life.
Anyway, I started watching that clip with the assumption that buddy was drunk. He may have been. All we have to say he wasn’ was the old guy saying he wasn’t drunk. Lawrence Taylor said, “I wasn’t high,” many times when it wasn’t the truth.
Anyway, watch the clip. Even if the old cat was drunk, he was being remarkably still when they had him against the wall. So, I’m voting for not drunk.
Now, let’s move to the cops. The cops have him against the wall, and then the horsie magically appears in a way to obscure the camera. Sweet, sweet coincidence.
Then, they start beating buddy in the back of the head, sending his face into the wall. But check this line from the AP report.
>The suspect, Robert Davis, appeared to resist, twisting and flailing as he was dragged to the ground by four officers.
Well, you tend to twist and flail when you’re gettin’ the brakes beat off you.
Anyway, when the old man’s heading toward the ground, somebody put him in the scorpion deathlock or something.
Yo, when did you need to do all of that when there’s four of you and the dude is 64? Huh?
This is just as terrible as Rodney King, if not more. I might be saying that because I know now what a reprobate King was–and still is–but this is worse than I previously gave it credit for being.
And if they’re doing this to old folks, what’s happening to everyone else?
So, news media…where are you? It’s time to get to investigating. The Times-Picayune has moved back to New Orleans, so they need to get to work. Tell me about these officers. Tell me the story on the guy who went from playing lookout to beating up a television producer. Who else has been catching it like this?
And for all this time we’ve talked about the possibility of systemic racism in the federal government, now let’s talk about it with New Orleans. Let’s talk about the history of the NOPD. Let’s see what other complaints these four clowns have.
Oh yeah, and let’s talk about these cops that play too much Grand Theft Auto and started boosting cars and stealing other things.
The more I think about it, the more I realize that poor people didn’t have a fighting chance, but they damn well better have been able to fight.
This makes me wonder if rebuilding is even worth it. If these cops don’t do jail time or face some penalty, then we need to replace everyone employed by the city from Nagin on down. Sometimes, something’s too messed up to be fixed. Sometimes, you gotta build from the ground up, even if that means cleaning house.
This might be one of those times.
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yes, the guy is saying he wasn’t drunk. I wonder if they actually ran a breathalizer or something when they booked him–I doubt it. But I find it interesting that this guy seems to be a middle class retired professional, which did nothing to shield him from this abuse. Not to mention the officer who attacked the AP guy after the beating–guilty conscientous. I wonder.
That scorpion deathlock seems like the sort of thing cops are typically taught as a submission technique…why it was necessary there, I’m not quite sure.
And Garndpa may not have been drunk, but I wouldn’t assume that off of him being relatively still. Lots of folks get a bit slow when they’re sloshed. Him being semi-stationary does, however, make one question the level of force used.
I don’t think “public drunkeness” is the issue. I mean, why does it always seem that whatever excuse cops give we spend so much time trying to measure a brotha’s guilt or innocence over? The bottom line for me is two-fold: first: an unarmed, overweight and out-of-shape 64 year-old man is not a threat to a trained, in-shape cop, let alone four (drunk or not). Second, how long has police brutality been a standing issue in the Black community? Is this new? Knowing this, how long does it take before we mass a nation-wide critique/protest of such institutionally-supported behavior? I’ll admit I was a bit surprised that these cops were detained, but I’m damn curious to know what will happen to them. Or whether or not bourgeoisie Black politicians (potentially corrupt themselves) will challenge the unethical police behavior in their own cities.
shid a scorpion deathlock? That looked a lot like dude had that old man in the STF or the Texas Cloverleaf…
but i coulda sworn i saw a European Uppercut forearm smack that old man upside the head…along with him being put in the Million-Dollar Dream or the Tazmission when he got slammed into the wall…
But you right Bo, house needs to be cleaned…fugg it..I hope the Bayou Classic stays out of the NO..because N.O.P.D. is knoooown for messing with the black folks..HARD!
Fred, you remember that year the horse almost ran over me on Bourbon, right?
amen Bomani. I seriously don’t see any threat this man had towards these cops. I’m just saying, how menacing could he have been to get the shit beaten out of him?
I know this isn’t the first time this has happened, and there are probably way too many cases like this that doesn’t catch media attention…but with the “lawless element running in NO”, the media is turning out to be a blessing and a curse.
I’ve been checking Faux News and all of the other Republican Liars (Limbaugh,Hannity et.al) and they try to minimize this situation. It was just a “random” act buy a “few” out of control cops.
Will someone please show me the footage of some young suburban white kid or some old white retiree getting the elbow of death?
How is it that the brothers are “randomly” chosen for the beat down in every region of the country?
What is the statistical probability of that happening?
Not Guilty?