Police violence

I once saw an episode of COPS, where they tried to put a man into the back of a squad car. The man was halfway in, on his back, when he kicked at the cop with his cowboy boots. He missed the cop, but provided a nice handle for the cop to yank the guy out of the squad car, let him fall to the ground so the cop could then land on the guy's chest full force with his knee. Must a really hurt. As I watched my thoughts were, "Bet he won't try that again."

I never heard any fuss being made about that episode, even though once the cop smashed the guy about a half dozen cops then closed in with billy clubs out, to teach the guy a lesson he's apparently never learned: Never, ever try to hurt a cop doing his duty.

I appreciate honest cops. I detest bad ones. Unfortunately, sometimes it's hard to tell which are which. Cops must demand respect in order to do their job. Ordinary people will automatically respect cops, bad guys won't. So the cops have a dilemma because they also can't automatically tell which is which. So they have a tendency to approach most situations with cold sternness, which give them an advantage with bad people, but makes them look like arrogant jerks to the rest of us. Good cops drop the act once they figure out your just a law-abiding citizen, but you need to give them that chance. Bad cops are almost always jerks regardless of the situation and the person they're dealing with (unless it's a superior who can end their career)

But when dealing with a crowd of people containing some definite trouble makers who are being even more stupid than usual due to the deleterious effects of mob mentality, cops are in a seriously tough position. They cannot treat people as individuals, but they must protect people from the violent, even those that chose to be there with the violent. Cops have been killed trying to handle mobs gently. Violence can escalate quickly when idiots gather in groups.

Watch this video to see how the protestors were behaving even before the real violence broke out...

So when police were confronted with masked hooligans throwing things at them, did the other protestors bother to move out of harms way? No, they ignored the problem, then complained when they fund themselves caught up in it.

Immigration Watch Dog has audio and video of the protest. Not how frequently the media repeats the lie, "...peaceful until police..." as if there was no violence at all until the police initiated it. Michelle Malkin points out...

You must bear in mind that MacArthur Park is no ordinary park. It is the birthplace of the violent MS-13 illegal alien gang enterprise. It is infested with drug dealers controlled by Colombian gangsters and the Mexican Mafia.

You must also recall that MS-13 has targeted police officers for assassination. Orders to ambush police officers, called "green light" notices, have been issued across the country.

Keep all of this history, context, and current reality in mind as the heat turns on the rank-and-file LAPD officers who were defending themselves from masked rock-throwers and bottle-throwers and hubcap-throwers and club-wielders like the one pictured above. Keep all of this in mind as police-bashers gin up misleading portraits of officers exercising force unjustifiably. Keep in mind that many reporters in Los Angeles are naked mouthpieces for the open-borders lobby--local reporters like reconquista propagandist Tony Valdez.

I really detest bad cops, but what irks me more is when bad reporters try to crucify good cops, doing their jobs.

Posted by Danny Carlton at May 3, 2007 11:02 AM