Get out your pens and start writing your local politicians. The Volunteer Park Conservatory is in trouble! EA did a post with more details...
Turns out that home dude searching for Bin Laden was closer than you might have thought. I don't know why they arrested the dude. Seems legit to me. Just think if he would have actually succeeded. One man hiking in the middle of nowhere able to achieve what the most advanced military could not...
Have you seen the video of the cop beating the girl in the valley? I shouldn't say it like that actually because I think that the cop is 100% justified in what he did. These kids think that the cops are all out to get them and just wanted to throw salt in the game. Truth is that I've seen a person get full on hit by a car at that exact spot. It's dangerous and these kids need to realize that the cops are trying to look out for them not just cause trouble. Now if you wanna go pushing an officer you're more than asking for it...
Hollow Earth Radio needs some money for a new location. If any of you could help them out that'd be awesome. They're good peoples. Listen to them, you'll see...
Lil Wayne is spitting rhymes from jail. Via the telephone. Say what you will about his music, you have to respect his resolve...
And to top it all off here's a picture:
Now, while the girl was definitely out of line, a cop should never punch someone in the face. Punching someone in the face is a clear act of anger and retribution. Police are trained in was to subdue people without striking them. This is a video of a cop losing his temper and acting out of training to the detriment of police-community relations. Public servants should, by virtue of their office, be held to a higher moral standard than the rest of the general public. This loss of temper, understandably human though it be, is wholly unfit in the agency of one whom their chief trial is to deal with antagonistic persons. In succeeding to be a human, he failed at being a cop.It's unfortunate and tragic; I'm sure this man, as most police do, had the welfare of the public foremost in his heart, yet he sadly betrayed his duty in such a disgraceful fashion. To be a cop is to be a receptacle of abuse, and one must have the temperament to deal with this; A cops' main function is to provide the vital impression of impartiality that is essential to social harmony. While the girl deserved this pain, and likely more, this cop had neither the license or the privilege of it's distribution, as he is neither justice nor jury. It would be unfit to punish a human for this response, but a cop has chosen to aspire to something greater and more rare.
ReplyDeleteSorry but I've got to disagree with you. I like to think that I hold myself to a certain moral standard and I would have done the same thing. You don't go up and shove a cop and expect everything to be cool. Yes he has a responsibility to maintain peaceful order, however the others involved decided to take that option away from him and act more like an unruly mob.
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