Honor student beaten to a pulp by police

[amdhunter]

Just to clear something up really quickly that a couple people have brought up.

I worked as an EMT in Pittsburgh. There aren't really any "black" neighborhoods. There are bad neighborhoods, tons of them, but they are not exclusively black. 3 white guys in the hood don't stick out because there are tons of poor white people in Pittsburgh. The city isn't like Harlem where a white person would look unusual. The bad areas are a pretty even mix.

lol, Harlem is like 30% White these days. They are pushing the Black people out. There are days you see more Whites walking down 125th street than Black people these days.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

He ran from the police. That answers the question on what action he choose to deserve what he got.

There is always a choice - he made the wrong one. Actions and decisions have consequences, let's hope he learned that.

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Read much? No! Let's blindly defend the police.

 

[SandEagle]

how come every black kid that seems to be on the losing end of a beating is dubbed as an HONOR student?

in detroit, if you're a C-average student, you make it on the honor roll.

 

[lokiju]

I'm not siding with the cops but there's always to sides to a story.

 

[Aharami]

bah. didnt realize it's such an old thread

 

[RedCOMET]

bah. didnt realize it's such an old thread

You can blame me for bringing it back up to the front pages of OT. I thought it was important to highlight that the charges was dropped, and that police want the charges to be re-filed. Hopefully when the FBI complete their investigation we will have the full story of what happened. Then we can really start ripping in to the guilty party (Ie the kid or the cops) for being a dumb ass.

 

[sdifox]

You can blame me for bringing it back up to the front pages of OT. I thought it was important to highlight that the charges was dropped, and that police want the charges to be re-filed. Hopefully when the FBI complete their investigation we will have the full story of what happened. Then we can really start ripping in to the guilty party (Ie the kid or the cops) for being a dumb ass.

lock and stock for the idiot cops

 

[2Xtreme21]

It pisses me off that this is a race issue and people around here (especially the black action society at Pitt) is turning this kid into the newest victim of "white authority brutality" against the "oppressed black minority." Someone tell them it's not 1961 anymore...

Yes, I think it's horrible, and yes I think the police overstepped their bounds. But seeing black action societies further their own segregation by doing this kind of shit baffles the fuck outta me.

 

[SagaLore]

He ran from the police. That answers the question on what action he choose to deserve what he got.

There is always a choice - he made the wrong one. Actions and decisions have consequences, let's hope he learned that.

He ran from 3 guys dressed in normal clothes.

 

[RedCOMET]

It pisses me off that this is a race issue and people around here (especially the black action society at Pitt) is turning this kid into the newest victim of "white authority brutality" against the "oppressed black minority." Someone tell them it's not 1961 anymore...

Yes, I think it's horrible, and yes I think the police overstepped their bounds. But seeing black action societies further their own segregation by doing this kind of shit baffles the fuck outta me.

PITT's BAS doesn't represent the Black students at Pitt any more than the PITT's Engineering Student Council represents the Engineering Students. When I attended PITT, the BAS liked to make themselves out to be super duper important when in reality they weren't.

SagaLore,

Spidey has been really arguing that point through out this whole thread.

The one only question that I have that is still unanswered is: Did the three plain clothes officers take an unusually aggressive posture while approaching the student, and what is the normal police procedure for approaching some while not in uniform?



PS: 2Xtreme21, what do you do in Pittsburgh? I recently moved back into the Wilkinsburg area

 

[F1N3ST]

Injustice anyone?

 

[PieIsAwesome]

He ran from 3 guys dressed in normal clothes.

And even if we use the "he ran from police" argument, how is beating the hell out of someone a reasonable response to that person running? Running may suggest guilt, but it doesn't directly threaten anyone or make it necessary to smash someone to pieces.

 

[Narmer]

And even if we use the "he ran from police" argument, how is beating the hell out of someone a reasonable response to that person running? Running may suggest guilt, but it doesn't directly threaten anyone or make it necessary to smash someone to pieces.

Cops don't like to run. For every step they have to take, you get a punch to the face.

 

[zinfamous]

Cops don't like to run. For every step they have to take, you get a punch to the face.

maybe we should just toss free donut coupons as we flee?

 

[WA261]

+1 for da police

 

[2Xtreme21]

PITT's BAS doesn't represent the Black students at Pitt any more than the PITT's Engineering Student Council represents the Engineering Students. When I attended PITT, the BAS liked to make themselves out to be super duper important when in reality they weren't.

PS: 2Xtreme21, what do you do in Pittsburgh? I recently moved back into the Wilkinsburg area

IT work at the big pharma company right off 22/30 toward the airport (am not saying the name for obvious reasons, but if you're from here, you'll know it). Nice to see another Pitt alum though.