anbuend wrote:
Sarcastic_Name wrote:
I'd love to see how a cop would react if 6 peole bigger than him were throwing water ballons at him without permission. Taser's? Pepper spray?
Quite possibly. A cop even used a taser on a little boy relatively recently. (Not as old as the girl described above. Somewhere between 6 and 8.)
Not that all cops do things like that, but the fact that those who do are being given any power... <shudder>
There was also another child about 6 years old, who got tazered by police while in school. And recently, there was a 7 year old girl who threw a big tantrum in class. The teachers couldn't hold her down due to risk of injury and liability so they called the police who handcupped the girl and took her to the station until her mother came to pick her up.
I noticed one thing all these children have in common.....They're all non-white children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Why is it that the police only find it necessary to use excessive force on minority children? Surely with white Americans making up 70% of the population, there have to be white children in similar situations.
Oh wait! I just answered my own question.....because people wouldn't feel the need to call the police in the first place if everything about each incident was similar..... except that the children were white, suburban kids from upper-class backgrounds.
[SARCASM]After all, you never know if a 6 year-old kid could be packin' heat and you know how dangerous those "inner-city"(read "minority") children can be.[/SARCASM]