I can't get over this story. Here was a guy who was in a car wreck, dazed, bleeding and burned so badly that his skin was flapping on his back, and he had staggared away from it far enough to sit, naked on the curb. (His clothes had probably scraped against the raw burned flesh.) The police showed up and called for an ambulance, and then while they were waiting they decided the guy might be crazy, (after all, he was NAKED) and even might HAVE A WEAPON!!! Here was this guy sitting naked and trashed on the ground with his hands folded in his lap and the police decided they should get him to lie down on the ground and be handcuffed just for their own safety.
The guy kept saying "okay," but then wouldn't move. (No kidding.) They decided that maybe the pavement was too hot for his burned raw skin so they pointed to a grassy patch across the sidewalk. They got frustrated with his "belligerance" and started screaming at him. He kept saying "okay," but couldn't get his body together to move.
Next thing the police did was zap him with a taser. (That must have really helped, on top of severe burns) and then the poor victim got all the more confused and in the meantime the police heroes decided they didn't want to touch him anyway because he was so covered in blood that they got nervous about what to do next. Every time the poor guy would try to move, (at their original command) they would get paranoid and convince themselves that he was going to go berzerk and so they would taser him again.
Finally, in one moment when he managed to look like he was going to stand up, they shot him and killed him "in self defence."
All I can think about is how disoriented I feel when I am in shock from a trauma and in physical pain. How DARE they treat him like a criminal when he desperately required medical attention and comfort? On top of everything else, somehow a sleazy radio jock got wind of it, and was broadcasting jokes about the fact that he was naked. Then, when he was shot, he snarked into the phone with a drizzly giggle about how "Now Naked Man is dead. Yeah. Naked Man is dead now. (Hee hee.)
I feel like that guy could be any one of us. (Remember when "Officier Friendly" used to come visit us in kindergarten?) We are becoming dangerously militarized with the onslought of this New World Order. Soon the "law keepers" will even be imported globally, impersonally, PRIVATELY, (as in Blackwater, ) from various street gangs all over the world. They will be trained to do one thing: Subdue. And of course, there will be no habeus corpus any more, because our little pipsqueak dictator already saw to that. We will have to be very, very careful. Right?
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I think the clip does much for the credibility of the message and it is very effective but at least now you have your details.
Rob, yes everybody blamed someone else for it. They go over that part right at the beginning. Pictures and everything.
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Jerry you know Fox would have got this on the air , now as to which way they would have gone with it who knows . I'm not nesscarly disagreeing with olga I just need to see proof , and I dont beleave any thing u- tube says
I suppose you don't believe the News Station Logos in the bottom of the clip, either then. And it happened in 2005 so you were probably still in diapers. Now go to bed and leave us alone.
Again, I say that the police used excessive force in my estimation, but the a grand jury vindicated the police officers of any criminal charges.
There's quite a lengthy article about it in the local newspaper. Here's the link:
http://www.sandypost.com/news/story.php?story_id=115654635282841200
Olga hope you have a good recipe for crow
In my home town (Wilmington, Delaware) on November 2, 2006, a man named Derek Hale was murdered by a Wilmington Police officer.
("Confusing explanations surround fatal shooting").
Derek Hale was a Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq. He had no criminal record whatsoever. His only crime -- apparently punishable by death by execution -- was that he was a member of the Pagans motorcycle club.
He was sitting in front of a house on Sixth St., picking up some possessions of a girlfriend who had recently moved out. Turns out the house was being surveillanced, I guess because it was a known Pagan hangout.
It was broad daylight, and there were about a dozen witnesses around; including a construction crew working on a house across the street, and a woman and her child who were standing on the stoop talking to Derek.
About ten police officers suddenly pulled up and surrounded Derek, and allegedly told him to remove his hands from the jacket he was wearing. But according to EVERY witness (other than the policemen present, of course), the cops started zapping him with the taser before he had a chance to even comply.
They tasered him a first time, and he was obviously stunned. Before he could do or say anything (althought the woman on the steps with him claimed he was trying to say "okay"), they tasered him a second time. After that, he rolled over onto his side and started vomiting. At this point, it's clear that the cops had a clear opportunity to subdue and handcuff him if they wanted (but it's also clear that they had no intention of leaving with him still alive). After Derek finished vomiting, he tried to sit back up (he didn't try to stand through any of this), and the cops tasered him a third time. He fell back over onto his side again, clearly stunned and disoriented, but being a Marine, had the strength to try to sit back up again. This time he tried to remove his hands from his pockets -- as he had been ordered to do -- and was promptly shot three times in the chest by officer William Browne.
After seven months of stonewalling and "internal investigations" by the Wilmington and Delaware State Police, all of the officers present during Derek Hale's murder were cleared of any wrongdoing by Delaware AG Beau Biden (Senator Joe's little bro).
Derek Hale served and survived two tours of duty in Iraq, only to return home and be murdered by the police.
I suppose the police in Delaware are above the law now. I wonder if this made the news in any areas other than Delaware and the Philadelphia/South Jersey area. I know I never saw anything about in on CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News.
Look at these dudes. How would anyone like those jack boots stomping around outside their window?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f4_1180199701
I think those had no intention of arresting Derek Hale. I think it was pure, cold-blooded murder, committed by men sworn to "protect and serve."
In the first News Journal (local newspaper) article I read about this, the reporter had interviewed a man who was working with the construction crew across the street. He saw the whole thing happen. He said that one of the officers walked up to him afterwards and asked him what he had seen, and he told him "I saw you just murder that young man." Needless to say, they did not take a statement from him.
But for the most part, if not before, soon after, they become the 'defenders' of law and order against any that would even question such ... defenders of the 'system' ... the leadership hierarchy of power and control where all others are but potential threats and suspects ... strap on the gun and all of the other weapons and associated protective gear, tasers, gas, what have you ... roll up your sleeves to show your bulked up biceps and go out and kick-ass. (or as written here, maybe kill someone) ...
Sure, not all cops are like that, but it seems that more and more are depicted that way ... and proud of it ... the more fearful they actually are, the more 'macho' they act.
With the ever increasing polarization taking place in this country, the day may soon come that we are either on that side or the opposite ... and there is at least one commenter here that will probably be the snitch that turns the rest of us all in. But at least some of us will be in 'good' company.