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[trinityvixen]

What the FUCK!?

No, really, what the fucking fuck!? I'm appalled. This...jesus. I don't care what you think about "kids these days," the fact is that incidents of juvenile crime are almost across the board substantially fewer. You've a better chance at throwing a stone and hitting water in the desert than you have of calling a kid a criminal and being right. Christ, FIRE THIS COP.

I'm beginning to regret giving Three Guineas such a hard time. When we read it in college, I thought Virginia Woolf was smoking something, but I look at the guy in this video and I have to wonder: if his precious manhood and badge of authority weren't undermined by his dorky outfit and even dweebier egg-mobile, would he feel the need to take out his replacement cock (that is, the other proof of his AWESOME MANLINESS aka his legal authority) and beat the kid with it? HE GRABBED THE KID BY THE THROAT AND SHOVED HIM TO THE GROUND. After repeatedly calling the kid a juvie reject. WHAT THE FUCK!?

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you. I look forward to this guy getting a drunk and disorderly that goes wrong some day. Maybe he'll end up being choke-holded to the ground and then stuffed naked in a drunk tank after being thrown in on his face (just to tie in all the shitty bad-cop abuses at once).

This is a KID. A friggin' KID. He didn't once flip off or curse out the cop, he just called him "dude." My God, he's a terrorist!

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I'm just SERIOUSLY disturbed by a policeman -- an adult whose job it is to protect kids, going off on the kid like that. If he'd just yelled, I would've said the kids should've just walked away, but he physically assaulted one of them.

And no, I don't agree with everyone who says he was probably just mad at his own kid, like it's an excuse. This man reminds me of nothing so much as the shop teacher I had who beat his girlfriend's dog to death. I'm sure, if he's willing to treat strangers like that, he's probably beaten the holy living fuck out of his own kids more than once.

:::RAGE:::

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I don't disagree on any particular point. This situation cannot come off AT ALL well for the police on any front. If these kids weren't disrespectful today, they sure as hell are going to be in the future. They were shown that the slightest thing wrong will end them up being manhandled, shouted at, threatened with juvie, and having the indignity of their parents being mad at them on top of it (unless Officer Fuckwit really lost his cool and couldn't keep a lid on his bullshit when he did get the mother of the one on the phone).

I fucking hope they sued. I hope that kid's mom hugged him hard and told him he didn't do anything wrong. Because there's nothing short of his having just shot a gun in the air that deserved this fucking response. ARGH.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

And no, I don't agree with everyone who says he was probably just mad at his own kid, like it's an excuse.

Who the hell said it was an excuse? You know full well I don't like parents beating their kids, and I certainly don't like it when they beat other people's kids.

Still, this isn't Charles Manson, it's some idiot who freaked out and gave in to his inner Dirty Harry. I wonder why the hell he did this.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I guess I don't even want to speculate on why he did it. I don't fucking want to know why. There's no reason you could tell me that would lessen my reaction to that fucker yelling at those kids like that, and you know me. I am ALL FOR YELLING. It just really upsets me that he's someone whose responsibility is the exact opposite of what he just did, there.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

More like inner Eric Cartman. Matches the outer one.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

He did it because he's a cop. He's been placed in a position of enforcing behavior from others, with no negotiations and no alternatives, and he saw somebody acting outside what he thought was mainstream.

I don't mean to harp on this, but police are notorious for this sort of thing for a good reason. It's only now, in the age of ubiquitous subtle video, that we're getting solid evidence of how widespread it is, and how really unjustified it is.

Imagine if the kid were black! Then he'd likely be dead...

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps someone will break his neck and someday his old friends will dump him out of a wheelchair.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Sweet, sweet karmic justice. We can only hope.