Sexism too, I'm sure. http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2008/12/galveston_false_arrest.php http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/02/final_arguments_expected_in_tr.php http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou090207_mp_police-thought-girl-was-a-hooker.2bbb0691.html Yes, you read it right. The tween girl attacked and beaten by three police officers is the one now on trial for assault. I'm truly surprised I haven't heard more (anything) about this story in the national media.
The only think I take away from this story is that Texas is still the #1 source in America for crazy news stories.
Further proof that police officers are completely incapable of ever admitting fault for anything they do.
I don't care for such generalizations, but in this particular case that appears to be exactly what's going on. It's truly disgusting.
Didn't catch where it says she's black in the article. Still don't see it as necessarily racist or sexist, just an example of idiot cops (which unfortunately is all too common regardless of race).
The scariest part is that the lawyer for the cops might very well be right: "The city has investigated the matter and found that the conduct of the police officers was appropriate under the circumstances," We see this a lot in stories about no-knock warrants and drug arrests; the powers of law enforcement continue to grow at the expense of civil liberties.
The original thread title I conceived was "Racism is Dead... Right, MitH?" But I changed it. A former P&CE regular sent me this link: It's worth reading, and supports my long held belief: there's something deeply wrong with Texas.
My guess is that if Dymond were a few years older and disappeared in Aruba we wouldn't hear much about that either.
This has nothing to do with some abstraction about big versus small government, and even less to do with healthcare.
I don't believe this. I'm going to have to demand a demonstration to prove the allegation. Yes, sir, come stand over here. Okay, young lady, you're right here, pretend this is a tree. Now, try to punch him in the face. Again. Again. That's fine, now kick him in the balls with your left foot. Harder. Wait, no, something still isn't right. Could we try that again with the other guy?
Awesome. My brother was high school baseball coach at Tenaha. Some of those family trees haven't branched in decades. He had freaks who could throw a baseball 95 mph and couldn't spell their first names- they were literally retarded. The entire school faculty has to be imported, because there is zero homegrown talent that goes to college.
I imagine any 12 year old running around telling the police to go ******** themselves will probably wind up in jail someday anyway.
Reminds me of a joke.... It's the first day of kindergarten and all the kids are filing in. The teacher says "good morning class, I know no one here knows anyone else so we're going to play a little game so we can all meet each other. I want you to stand up, say your name, what your favorite animal is and what kind of sound it makes." She point at a little girl and says."you go first" The little girl stands up and says "my name is Becky, my favorite animal is a cow and a cow goes moo" Very well says the teacher, you're next. a little boy stands up and says."my name is Billy my favorite animal is a dog and a dog goes woof' The teacher goes all thru the class when at the end she comes upon the token little black kid. She looks at him and says..."Go ahead, it's your turn" The little black stands up and says.."My name is Willie Jefferson and my favorite animal's a pig." the teachers says that's great Willie, what kind of a sound does a pig make? " Willie gets back up and says..."Get your black ass up against the hood and spread 'em n*****.