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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was a mistake, the top police brass apologized profusely and the officer has been suspended.  [b]There is a definite  resemblance to the suspect, though[/b].[/quote]

Did anyone say it wasn't a mistake?   :roll: [/quote]

Forgot this part, didn'tcha? The other fact you are ignoring is that it was clearly a black individual that committed the crime to begin with. Was that racist too, that the actual guilty individuals were black? Should the police gone after Asian individuals or Caucasian individuals instead while searching for the suspects? [/quote]

Actually, the other guy was innocent, too.   Moreover, the alleged crime was a nonviolent financial issue, so even if he had been guilty, the whole matter of attacking the suspend and never identifying himself as a cop was still way out of line.[/quote]

You have NO idea who is packing any sort of weapon and who isn't. So whether or not the crime was financial is of no never mind. The officers went on the best information at the time, and that's what a trained officer is supposed to do.

Officers are routinely killed during traffic stops. Those individuals were not violent at the time they were stopped, until they because violent.

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So, you believe that the police should be able to tackle any citizen at any time, and wrestle them to the ground without identifying themselves as law enforcement?  No matter the alleged crime and lacking any verification of the alleged perpetrator's identity?

[b]Because that's what happened here.  Can you imagine such a world?  In which you can just be minding your own business and at any time some thug in plain clothes can grab you and throw you to the ground because you might resemble someone who committed a nonviolent crime?  The officer (and the victim) are lucky the victim didn't fight back, which is the normal response when attacked by someone who doesn't identify themselves as a police officer.[/b]

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This.  I think part of the issue is some people can't imagine that world because that isn't the world they live in.  They don't have to imagine their mother, their father, their sisters, or brother or themselves ever being in that type of situation.  Would the person that thinks it's okay for the cop to behave that way with Blake because of mistaken identity give the police a pass if it was their brother that basically could have been killed if they did anything less than be humble and non-confrontational when randomly approached by undercover cops that didn't identify themselves?  Oh, and remember not to reach for your wallet to prove your identity because that could be misconstrued as going for a weapon.

What really gets me even more about this situation is when the NY Mayor mentioned in an interview having "the talk" with his son, NYPD basically have him their back at the various events where the Mayor spoke.  [/quote]

Yeessss! He was standing there, against the wall, not looking to flee. Not in an aggressive stance. That cop literally blindsided him and then threw him to the ground. Does police work generally involve this level of physicality on a day to day basis?? (I lived in DC and came across more than one uniformed 300+ lb police officer) The need/opportunity to need to physically subdue a suspect seems like it would be not an every day occurrence. I could be mistaken. But that guy went after him like it's part of his daily routine. And if it is, it's reasonable to ask why.[/quote]

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