- Shreveport, LA Police caught on cell phone camera using racial slurs and foul language while repeatedly tasering and pepper-spraying two members of the cast of the movie "W". Now you know why I left Louisiana. They're still stuck in the 1960's. And yeah, the word "nigger" is still used by many white Louisianians in private amongst themselves, even though they would be aghast at the notion of using it in public where it could offend someone. I can assure you that the powers-that-be in Shreveport are as upset and aghast about this as folks in San Francisco -- but for a different reason (not because they disagree with the sentiments of the cops, but because the cops behaved in a crude and undignified manner).
- A couple of illiterate hick cops (read the affidavits!) arrest a man for taking their picture. Only problem: Tennessee doesn't have any law prohibiting photography of a police officer, so their affidavit accusing him of "unlawful photography" is about as valid as one accusing him of "sorcery and witchcraft". But hey, law is for the little people.
- Florida Daytona Beach cop, Lt. Major Garvin, fired for extorting free coffee at Starbucks. No comment. Whatever happened to frequenting the local donut shop, anyhow?!
- And a sad goodbye to David Woodman, who was given the death penalty by the Boston Police Department for the crime of drinking in public.
2 days ago
Good grief. That's pretty frightening. How much serving and protecting went on in those articles?
ReplyDeleteThen again, there may very well be some sorcery-related law on the books. Generally, laws are just added and added; the ones from 1702 are still there somewhere.
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