Reply to Cop Suspended After Video Emerges Of Brutal Arrests At Teen Pool Party (In McKinney Texas)

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Cop Suspended After Video Emerges Of Brutal Arrests At Teen Pool Party (In McKinney Texas)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are any of you all the actual parents of teens? Do you remember being a teen?

In many instances, it's all about defending yourself. Especially, if you feel you are being wrongly accused/singled out/etc. It's not disrespect, it's trying to state your case. As you grow into adulthood, you learn the time and the place to do this but teens are emotional and generally want to immediately defend their character. [/quote]

I think teens need to learn how to shut the hell up and respect authority. BUT I also think that expecting them to be held to the same consequences as trained, educated professionals is insane! By all witness accounts I read (from blacks and whites), the white woman started it by being insulting and taking the first swing. Teenagers today are not going to tolerate being told to go back to their Section 8 housing when 1. They may very well live in the subdivision, one comparable or nicer 2. The harassers look like trailer trash themselves. Miss Piggy was really having a 50s flashback and had to be reminded the hard way that young blacks today feel [b]empowered.
[/b]
The kids were being kids. We need adults to be adults. And realize that when we fail to do so there are consequences.[/quote]

did you mean entitled?  Climbing pool fences and tresspassing seem more like entitled behavior to me.[/quote]

You're being too kind. I think climbing pool fences and trespassing are seem more like assholish behavior-which is exactly what you can expect from groups of teens and college kids.

As used in my context, I think empowered is the right word. Gone are the days when Blacks have to move into the street to let Whites pass on the sidewalk, avert their eyes when they talk to them and place their money on the counter so their hands don't touch. This generation of black children have likely never heard of-much less experience- such things. So when you throw a racially charged insult and then slap them, expect a response.

Miss Piggy deserves to lose her job. You cannot be broadcast all over the news in a videotape fighting a young girl in the middle of the street like a classless hoodlum and expect to be able to continue to represent a business. There's no reason Miss Piggy should've never lowered herself to the age of someone 5 minutes out of HS to engage in such a conflist. There was no reason whatsoever for her to have any interaction whatsoever with that girl-much less to hurl insults because her 2 tons of fun friend was there to back her up. [/quote]

Matt Walsh makes an important point in his article:

Does that let the officer off the hook? Not necessarily. I can agree that he shouldn’t have cursed at these kids, though it’s hard for me to cry tears over it considering they were just blasting vulgar music. But, still, he should have remained calm. Of course, it’s easy for me to say this, as I’ve never had to [b]almost single handedly control [/b]a rowdy mob of 100 teenagers who are predisposed to dislike me because of my profession. Have you?

Whether he had reason to detain the girl is impossible to know at this point. I do know that if she’d walked away as she was told, this could have been avoided. I also know that making her into a martyr only validates her behavior. And if she disobeyed a lawful order, then she brought this completely on herself. [b]To say otherwise is to suggest that she ought to be allowed to do whatever the hell she wants, which is precisely the attitude many of these teens had, and precisely the attitude a mature and grown up society would try to break, not encourage.[/b]

The bolded is exactly correct.[/quote]

I think this is where the analysis breaks down.  He did not single handedly have to do anything.  There were a dozen officers on the scene. He was the ONLY officer that behaved this way.  In my mind, that fact plays HUGE in my assesment of him conduct. [/quote]

The other officers knew what would happen if they engaged in any way. And they were correct [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics