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Jason James
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"Jarkko Altonen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3efe8864.27962220@news-server...
> Let's hope the same tactics find their way across the pacific...
>
> =============================================
>
> Buffalo Cops Wage War on Pedal Pushers
> Iatrogenic Law Enforcement on the Niagara Frontier
> By BRUCE JACKSON
>
>
> More than two dozen Buffalo police officers attacked a peaceful group
> of bicyclists on 6:30 p.m. on Friday evening, May 30. They kicked some
> and beat several with clubs and Mag-Lites. They arrested nine of them
> on the kind of trumped-up felony charges cops always levy when they've
> started a mess they shouldn't have or beaten up folks they had no
> right to have been bothering in the first place.
>
> It's unlikely that the Buffalo police department will discipline the
> cops who rioted or that they'll initiate a training program to help
> the more excitable members of the patrol force differentiate between
> perps committing felonies and ordinary folk riding bicycles. The best
> thing that could happen at this point would be for Erie County
> district attorney Frank Clark to find a tactful way to toss all these
> bogus charges into his prosecutorial garbage can as soon as he
> possibly can.
>
To borrow a quote from their fellow officers: "To protect and
Serve",.......'Protect' from their civil rights and to 'Serve' with some
whacks from a metal torch.
Jason
news:3efe8864.27962220@news-server...
> Let's hope the same tactics find their way across the pacific...
>
> =============================================
>
> Buffalo Cops Wage War on Pedal Pushers
> Iatrogenic Law Enforcement on the Niagara Frontier
> By BRUCE JACKSON
>
>
> More than two dozen Buffalo police officers attacked a peaceful group
> of bicyclists on 6:30 p.m. on Friday evening, May 30. They kicked some
> and beat several with clubs and Mag-Lites. They arrested nine of them
> on the kind of trumped-up felony charges cops always levy when they've
> started a mess they shouldn't have or beaten up folks they had no
> right to have been bothering in the first place.
>
> It's unlikely that the Buffalo police department will discipline the
> cops who rioted or that they'll initiate a training program to help
> the more excitable members of the patrol force differentiate between
> perps committing felonies and ordinary folk riding bicycles. The best
> thing that could happen at this point would be for Erie County
> district attorney Frank Clark to find a tactful way to toss all these
> bogus charges into his prosecutorial garbage can as soon as he
> possibly can.
>
To borrow a quote from their fellow officers: "To protect and
Serve",.......'Protect' from their civil rights and to 'Serve' with some
whacks from a metal torch.
Jason
