Comments on: Cops, Testilies, and Video Tape

By: No Quarters

No Quarters — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:18:06 +0000

The eyes are on you now
What is going on with this country people? It used to be a cop could club a few heads and get away with it, or even mass arrest people and convict them on trumped up charges

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:25:34 +0000

Carp, Anderson, SM is playing you.

I'm easy that way.

By: F. Silberman

F. Silberman — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:03:25 +0000

New York State recognizes no right to keep and bear arms, and New York City is especially contemptuous of citizens claiming those rights. So this is a little bit like hearing that Joseph Stalin's cops lie. You cannot _be_ a cop in New York City without ignoring key parts of the Constitution. Residents of New York City have chosen to make the police a person's sole avenue of defense from violent criminals. Under such circumstances, you have to take whatever protection you're offered. It would be foolish to criticize cops who could get vengeance simply by quitely withdrawing their protection. They could even hint to predators that if forced to arrest them for attacking a certain person, they would be sure to "accidently" violate his "rights" -- therefore getting the attacker off the hook. If cops were to do this to New Yorkers I'd laugh. Don't tell me this goes against what America stands for -- New Yorkers have already rejected that.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:44:25 +0000

Carp, Anderson, SM is playing you.

By: Who Can Really Say?

Who Can Really Say? — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:12:58 +0000

When These Things Happen
From the NYT, NYC cops have been, more or less, caught lieing in prosecutions of protestors at last summer's GOP convention. I think they ought to be taken out and shot fired, but James Joyner is more forgiving of...

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:49:49 +0000

Doubtless why his ancestors sought to secede?

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:30:48 +0000

Way to go, southernman. You miss the point of America.

By: southernman

southernman — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:09:05 +0000

Oh I am so sick of these liberals anyway. I don't see so much of a problem hauling a few off to visit the jail for a few days.

By: RE Gardner

RE Gardner — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:25:43 +0000

At the NY Times site (link above), there is a good video of the reporter, with snippits of the referenced tapes. The link is under "Multimedia" on the right side. If you double-click on the video (in firefox at least), it will go to full screen.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:12:30 +0000

Hmm ... how about jury instructions to the effect that "police officers in general typically lie under oath," or words to similar effect?