If You Want Us to Start Snitching, Lead the Way

[Rusty5329]

Warning, this diary and video is not suitable for everyone. Please use caution, it contains extreme violence.

http://leftchattering.blogspot.com/2009/05/if-you-want-us-to-start-snitching-lead.html

[tekisui]

1. Those cops were dumbasses.

They went to the man lying there ans started beating him before they even secured the vehicle. I hope they were all fired, they should be arrested.

[Rusty5329]

3. five were fired...

charges I don't know about yet, but the man was freakin' unconscious. It should not be a hard charge to make stick.

[Subdivisions]

2. I empathize with their anger over this idiot hitting a cop with his car but...

WTF???

WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED TO THE RULE OF LAW IN THIS COUNTRY???

This is outrageious behavior by the cops!

[Oregone]

5. What has "happened"?

Where have you been the last 200 years or so? This is all standard operating procedure, more or less.

[seahorse19]

4. I don't like to watch violence, so I'll pass, but I want to make this point:

I was in my apartment last summer when I heard a crash. I went out to investigate and found a car had crashed into a store front across the street. There was a young Hispanic man, presumably his wife and infant son. Oh, and tons of booze in the back seat! The man had this head in his hands and looked distraught for having gotten in an accident. His wife was cradling the baby.

A big crowd had gathered and the cops were going around asking for witnesses. They were trying to determine who had swerved into whom (but the physical evidence apparently pointed at the man I saw). Another Hispanic man next to me told me that he had seen the whole thing and it was the guy's fault. I asked him to tell the cop and he said: "I don't snitch." I had heard that term after the outcry of the 'no snitch' crap by gang members. I looked at him and said that this is why communities fall apart; people will not invest the energy to make sure that those who break the law (at least are an acual menace where they could kill someone) have to face up to it. When the cop came by, I pointed at the dude, but the cop ignored me. Even thinking of that mentality right now just burns me up. I am so glad I finally got out of there...

My point is that two wrongs don't make a right. I live in MY community and answer to MY neighbors. The cops will do what they do, but I won't wait for anyone to act before I do.

[Rusty5329]

6. I completely agree with youy...

and I do "snitch." I do not support the no snitching campaigns. I just hate watching police officers get all high and mighty about it, when there is a no snitching campaign in their own ranks that is just as strong and just as dangerous. And they never speak out against it.

[Mythsaje]

7. They have a damn good reason not to trust the authorities...

Given the attitude of many of the cops I've interacted with over the years, there aren't many situations where I'd be willing to talk to them, even if I were the victim. If I could REQUEST specific officers I've known, it might be a different story.