Comments on: My Take On ‘Police Brutality’ http://www.andrewshouts.com/2009/04/08/my-take-on-police-brutality/ Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:39:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://www.andrewshouts.com/2009/04/08/my-take-on-police-brutality/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Andrew Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:13:46 +0000 http://www.andrewshouts.com/?p=820#comment-189 I couldn't agree more, Val. Thanks for your contribution! I couldn’t agree more, Val. Thanks for your contribution!

]]> By: Val A http://www.andrewshouts.com/2009/04/08/my-take-on-police-brutality/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Val A Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:05:16 +0000 http://www.andrewshouts.com/?p=820#comment-188 I once asked my father about something like this that has happend before. Since he has done this kind of work in his RCMP career. Its quite touchy cuz there is a fine line. I dont wanna put words in my father's mouth so that this as a approximation of what he said and not litteraly. He mentionned that its hard to differ between people. You can't really give a "chance" to one person and be seen as weak. You are to move as 1 unit. Sometimes that 1 person walking away seems harmless then they attack the cops. So maybe the cops should have hit him. I also think it was not right (and I strongly beleive my father would say the same). He could of told him to bug off before taking action or I dont know. But how is the cop to know that this man was not a protester, had no bad intention or even had a heart problem? On the other side, why was this man walking from work trew a protest crowd? Must say he was putting himself in a unstable situation. Maybe the man could of said somehing like "I'm just heading hom." Either way... there is alot of "if"s and "maybe"s... It's just very unfortunate that this happend. I once asked my father about something like this that has happend before. Since he has done this kind of work in his RCMP career. Its quite touchy cuz there is a fine line. I dont wanna put words in my father’s mouth so that this as a approximation of what he said and not litteraly.

He mentionned that its hard to differ between people. You can’t really give a “chance” to one person and be seen as weak. You are to move as 1 unit. Sometimes that 1 person walking away seems harmless then they attack the cops.

So maybe the cops should have hit him. I also think it was not right (and I strongly beleive my father would say the same). He could of told him to bug off before taking action or I dont know.

But how is the cop to know that this man was not a protester, had no bad intention or even had a heart problem?

On the other side, why was this man walking from work trew a protest crowd? Must say he was putting himself in a unstable situation. Maybe the man could of said somehing like “I’m just heading hom.”

Either way… there is alot of “if”s and “maybe”s… It’s just very unfortunate that this happend.

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