Brutality

[parazel]

Watch This, and Turn Up the Volume:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CdNgoC0cE

An article on the incident:
http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38958

Comments

[descartes_rock]

White and schizophrenic still puts him on the margins of society, and the police are always hard on marginal people.

That said, I hate to stereotype people. Some police are also incredibly helpful to marginal people. I really have known some terrific police officers. It's just as a group, they tend to be not very good with those types of people.

[gale_wind]

Exactly, how were they suppose to know he was schizophrenic?

[gale_wind]

This is a different incident?

I thought he was just tasered not beaten.

Either way, I agree. The first one I could see, but not the others.

[descartes_rock]

I don't suppose it really matters unless his schizophrenia had some sort of impact on his behaviour during the incident.

It's just that schizophrenic people are at risk of drifting to the margins of society because some of them have trouble living a normal life. Many deal valiantly with the disease, but some unfortunately end up on the streets or living in abject poverty.

These people tend to be seen by the police as a public nuissance. They are more likely to get the crap beaten out of them than your average person in a Toyota with a car seat in the back and a brief case in hand. There are three key reasons for this: first, the police see them as undesirables; second, they are likely to behave in ways that provoke the police; and third, there are likely to be fewer repurcussions to mistreating them. This is a bad combination.

I just want to reiterate that there are police officers who go out of their way to help these people. And then there are others.

[gale_wind]

I think you're talking about something different.

If not...

What does this have to do with the taser incident?

[gale_wind]

Oh wait I see. I didn't read that thing above.