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If You're Diabetic, You Might Want to Steer Clear of Nevada, Also the Police
[font size=3]If You're Diabetic, You Might Want to Steer Clear of Nevada,
Also the Police[/font]
02.09.12 - 2:21 PM
by Abby Zimet
The city council of Henderson, Nev. has approved a settlement of $158,500 after police brutally beat a man in diabetic shock after they stopped him for what they thought was drunken driving. Video shows five officers screaming at, pulling guns on and subduing Adam Greene as a sixth kicks him hard enough to break several ribs. Then they figured out he was ill. Who is it these guys work for again?
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02.09.12 - 2:21 PM
by Abby Zimet
The city council of Henderson, Nev. has approved a settlement of $158,500 after police brutally beat a man in diabetic shock after they stopped him for what they thought was drunken driving. Video shows five officers screaming at, pulling guns on and subduing Adam Greene as a sixth kicks him hard enough to break several ribs. Then they figured out he was ill. Who is it these guys work for again?
- Stop resisting motherf****r! Stop resisting motherf****r! - one of the guys hired to serve and protect said, as Greene lay on the ground. (VIDEO)
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- "What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap between the government and the people. And it became always wider the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about and kept us so busy with continuous changes and "crises" and so fascinated by the machinations of the "national enemies," without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us.
Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone, you don't want to "go out of your way to make trouble." But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes.
That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father could never have imagined."
~Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)
''Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.'' - Aldous Huxley
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If You're Diabetic, You Might Want to Steer Clear of Nevada, Also the Police (Original Post)
DeSwiss
Feb 2012
OP
1-cops are not trained right in this country! 2- They will let any stupid ass be a cop and most of
Justice wanted
Feb 2012
#2
liberal N proud
(60,347 posts)1. Bet that video will not show up on COPS
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)2. 1-cops are not trained right in this country! 2- They will let any stupid ass be a cop and most of
them are loud arragont SOBs who have no respect for human life. THEY want to hurt and BULLY people!
Honestly I would trust a crazy Psycho with my life before I trust a cop with a gun!
Ian62
(604 posts)3. Cops getting out of hand - O shud do summat about it
Cops always were discriminatory. E.G. Rich white kids snorting vs poor black kids snorting. Think O cud do better in this area.
And cops seem to be getting more aggressive and less fair. They geting too much of a free hand at the moment.