🚀 go-pugleaf

And an eye witness to the first incident where the shooting and
police car theft occurred says that the first thing the cops did
was pull the suspect out of the car he was in and start beating
him with their black jacks.

This tends to reinforce my perception that in law enforcement
incompetence is almost always accompanied by brutality.  This is
the same department that a generation ago firebombed and burned a
city block to the ground when a group of blacks would not obey
the sanitary code and allowed their children to relieve
themselves in their yard.  This mini-Waco resulted in not only
the loss of a block of homes but also in several civilian
fatalities as well as at least one police fatality.  The city tax
payers had to directly pay several million dollars for this
fiasco and continue to pay several tens of thousands of dollars
every year to keep the people convicted in prison.

It appears that the only solution is to abolish the current city
of Philadelphia and its law enforcement agencies, and to allow
those segments that so desire to re-incorporate as separate
municipalities, with their own police, recruited from their
residents and responsible to the local voters.

George

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On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:58:34 -0400, "Ken M."
<pobox-dc@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>preppyNOSPAM@springmailNOSPAM.com wrote:
>> 
>> WPVI built up its reputation and that of Action News over the past 30 years
>> as a respectable and responsible news organization. However, with the video
>> of the police arrest, it ruined 30 years of hard work and forever damaged
>> its reputation in 30 seconds, distorting the facts and engaging in
>> irresponsible and unprofessional journalism all for the sake of
>> sensationalism and ratings. Viewers should turn off the television and stop
>> patronizing their advertisers to make the news media pay for this gross
>> unprofessionalism.
>
>Oh please. Just how stupid are you? Americans *thrive* on disasters
>and we all watched South Central L.A. burn down during the Rodney
>King riots. Everyone was glued to their TV's. You think the station
>was wrong to broadcast this latest "police beating." Why? 
> 
>> Let us not forget that the suspect in this case is a career criminal,
>> someone that made nothing out of his life and lived his life in an
>> irresponsible and criminal manner. If anyone should sue in civil court, the
>> citizens and authorities who were victimized by this irresponsible loser
>> should sue him for damages. He has no right to sue for anything because it
>> was his behavior and his alone which was criminal and irresponsible.
>
>So the police did the *absolute right thing* and beat him 59 times
>after they shot him five times? Just how dense are you? 
>
>(ken)
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