the happening world / the boys in blue are beating on you

Reason #4,586,221 That People Don't Like Cops comes from WMC-TV news in Memphis TN:

Exclusive video obtained by Action News 5 shows a Memphis police officer beating a suspect at 201 Poplar in an apparent case of police brutality.

The video, recorded February 12th, shows Duanna Johnson in the booking area at the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center after an arrest for prostitution. The tape clearly shows a Memphis police officer walk over to Johnson - a transsexual - and hit her in the face several times.

"Actually he was trying to get me to come over to where he was, and I responded by telling him that wasn't my name - that my mother didn't name me a 'faggot' or a 'he-she,' so he got upset and approached me. And that's when it started," Johnson said.

Johnson said the officer was attempting to call her over to be fingerprinted. She said she chose not respond to the derogatory name the officer called her.

"He said, 'I'm telling you, I'm giving you one more chance to get up.' So I'm looking at him, and he started putting his gloves on, and seen him take out a pair of handcuffs," Johnson said.

The officer hit Johnson several times with the handcuffs wrapped around his knuckles. In the video, you can see the flash of the metal. The tape shows another officer holding Johnson's shoulders as she tries to protect herself. Source / video

Yes, these two cops are beating this poor person up because she's a trannie. I don't "get" transsexualism myself, but I don't have to: it's a free country, after all, and none of my beeswax. I'm not aware of any law against being a transsexual; last I heard, people are free to express their sexual nature in any lawful way they choose. Besides, the cops have no right to beat any suspect, especially not one that is seated and unarmed.

Of course, the transsexuality is just a side issue here. The real reason they're kicking this person's ass is because she "difrefpected dem in dey own howse". The cops in most cities are nothing more than a legally-sanctioned street gang — and, as do all gangsters, gangster cops infist on being "refpected". Any perceived "diss" is grounds for a good, old-fashioned lesson in Who's The Boss.

However. unlike real street thugs, the cops have badges and the legal authority to beat, gas, and kill you.

Don't get me wrong. I'm strictly a Law & Order kind of guy. The society I'd prefer to live in would be more like Singapore, complete with floggings and the noose for wrongdoers. However, in my opinion many American police officers are obstacles to law and order rather than its preservers. I have seen (and experienced) cops acting this way far too often during my own life — and I know many people who have seen and experienced bad cop behavior as well.

It's not that I'm a cop hater. A good cop is as close to a real-life superhero as you'll ever find. But for every selfless Sheriff Andy Taylor out there "protecting and serving" the public, there are a hundred fuckup Barney Fifes roaming the streets looking to prove what a badass they are by using their shirt-pocket bullet on you.

We do not need police as they currently exist. The Blue Gangs of ex-high-school bullies and 'roided-out psycho jocks we have now hurt the people more than they help. Instead, we need an unarmed civilian neighborhood watch à la Sir Bobby Peel, backed up by a professionalized, semi-military gendarmerie. By keeping civilian cops unarmed, and by restricting the use of force to professionally trained officers under UCMJ-like military discipline, we can hope to curtail crime — both street crime and the crimes committed by the police themselves.

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TOLERANCE ALERT! Charlotte Gill of the London [UK] Daily Mail, 18th June 2008:

Two youths were seen wearing niqab-style [Muslim] face masks and wielding a sword after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed, locals have claimed.

One was heard to say 'I'm going to kill him' as the pair walked calmly down a residential street chatting at about midday yesterday. The schoolboy was knifed in the chest just yards away at 5pm on Tuesday. He collapsed in a pool of blood in front of drinkers outside a pub as they enjoyed an after work pint.

A terrified local, who saw the sword-wielding teens but did not want to be named, said: 'I saw two boys wearing Muslim women's headgear but normal clothes otherwise and you could see only their eyes. 'One of them was carrying a sword with a huge blade over a foot long which looked like something you would use to gut a lamb. 'I saw them and my heart was gone. I've never been so terrified. 'Although I could only see their eyes I could see their hands as well and they were two black boys, tall, probably about six feet and I would guess they were 16 or 17 years old.'

They were less than 50 yards from the Tabard Garden Estate in Southwark, South East London, when the boy was attacked after a row among teenagers on an astro-turf football pitch in a park. The pair were spotted by a number of locals going into a block of flats right by the scene of the stabbing. Another local who did not wish to be named said: 'They were just walking up the street calmly chatting in the middle of the day while they wearing masks and openly carrying a blade.

'I heard one say to the other "I'm going to kill him." It was completely unbelievable, I've never seen anything like it, what is this country coming to?

'I've lived in this area for years and have always felt safe, but not anymore. The government has to do something about this, they need to take some tough action because things are getting worse.'

Sorry, ma'am. The government is going to do nothing to protect you. They're afraid of being called racists.

It can't happen here, of course.


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We're off to JAFAX. See y'all next week.

ENDE