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In reply to the discussion: WATCH: Bystanders at Dallas Airport stop antigay attack by piling on drunk bully [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)He should be charged with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, etc. I got kinda confused. The guy he was carrying on about was by the counter with blonde hair, a pink shirt and black clothes. I just saw him fussing at that point. But he kicked a guy wearing all black. Then and a guy in a pink shirt gets out of his wheelchair with latex gloves and helps the cops take him down... So at first that was confusing. I couldn't make it all out and I played it several times trying to see the sequence, the who and what was happening.
But yeah, if he'd been black, it would have been different, all SWAT, and I already knew that he was being given privilege. By the black officers, but I think they thought he was another racist asshole who would soon learn the error of his ways. They bent him over hard as they were taking him away and he knew he wasn't going to given a pass by that time.
I don't know what the woman was that talked to him, if a passenger or an officer. If I'd been there I'd have insulted him so he didn't know it, and he was too stupid to get it, but everyone else would. So I don't see approval of him, just trying to get his goat. But as I said, he was too egotistical to see it as anything else but being complimented.
I've lived in Texas, and that is a way of insulting an self-entitled person, just like calling them 'macho.' That one is used a lot talking to guys. They think it means they were manly, but that's not at all what is meant when it's said.
You use their own little buzz words to make them feel you're on their side and they just lap it up with pride. Stupid, arrogant guys don't know when a woman is really insulting them.
I get your take, but her words as the 'Keep on smiling, you asshole' routine they will never understand. Then laugh behind their back when they leave. It's about the balance of power in a situation, and that jerk had none, and will soon have a lot less.
The balance of power and the future do not belong to people like him. Deep down he knows it, just the same as everyone else in the airport lobby did. He's a loser, trying to own what he never had, except in his immature mind. A real Tea Party freakazoid at the end of his reign.