Today's "WTF?" Moment
"Police incident provokes ire"
If by "police incident," you mean three plainclothes officers beat and tasered a black, 18-year-old violinist and honors student in Pittsburgh because he was walking with a "heavy object" that turned out to be a bottle of soda, then I can see how that would "provoke ire" in some circles.
Oh, and this snippet is amusing:
Mr. Hanlon called them "model officers and model citizens" with special training and "numerous awards and commendations."
He said Officer Sisak earned an award for saving a drowning man when he worked with the Ocean City, Md. police force; Officer Ewing earned a leadership award after graduating from the city's police academy; and Officer Saldutte was named officer of the month last year.
He decried what he said was a perception that "any time anyone has a conflicting story with a police report, the police are lying. Just because Mr. Miles is an honor student doesn't mean the public should discredit the officers' account of the night, he said. The Police Citizen Review Board, he added, is unable to conduct an unbiased investigation and doesn't know the details of the case.
The police are infallible because they got awards for things in the past. The honors student who plays the violin? Just another goddamn punk who should learn his place.
If by "police incident," you mean three plainclothes officers beat and tasered a black, 18-year-old violinist and honors student in Pittsburgh because he was walking with a "heavy object" that turned out to be a bottle of soda, then I can see how that would "provoke ire" in some circles.
Oh, and this snippet is amusing:
Mr. Hanlon called them "model officers and model citizens" with special training and "numerous awards and commendations."
He said Officer Sisak earned an award for saving a drowning man when he worked with the Ocean City, Md. police force; Officer Ewing earned a leadership award after graduating from the city's police academy; and Officer Saldutte was named officer of the month last year.
He decried what he said was a perception that "any time anyone has a conflicting story with a police report, the police are lying. Just because Mr. Miles is an honor student doesn't mean the public should discredit the officers' account of the night, he said. The Police Citizen Review Board, he added, is unable to conduct an unbiased investigation and doesn't know the details of the case.
The police are infallible because they got awards for things in the past. The honors student who plays the violin? Just another goddamn punk who should learn his place.