Authorities have also decided to drop charges against 10 people who were arrested during the Friday protest on the campus of UC Davis. The university system has also created an advisory panel to look into the incident, University of California President Mark Yudof said.
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
Drop the charges, huh? What would those "charges" be? Coughing? Choking in public? Failure to keep your hands down while being pepper-sprayed by those sworn to uphold the law, but instead walk up and down a line of SITTING and UNARMED students (but really reeally DANGEROUS students) and casually spray them with military strength mace? Then claim "you were surrounded" by students (MY GOD! We were SO afraid!!!) and were in fear for our safety? The video clearly shows the students READY to jump up (especially after the second turn under the spray) and do what? Run? And when one kid tries to pull his shirt over his face, the tough guy cop stops to give him an EXTRA dose. BETTER drop the charges and hope a civil trial lawyer doesn't clean out the city treasury. Then FIRE the cop who thinks THAT is, in ANY way, acceptable use of force against unarmed and unresisting CITIZENS. And then reprimand the rest who stood by and watched a public SERVANT (master, perhaps?) commit assault (at minimum, several times). Accessory to a crime, I believe, is what THEY would call it. That is, when a CITIZEN does it. Cops HATE video....
ReplyDeleteThe cops should have used a billy club instead.
ReplyDeleteThe cops should have used a billy club instead.
ReplyDeleteNovember 24, 2011 8:26 AM
On you.