Comments on: Officer: Lincoln Memorial Fathers 4 Justice Protester ‘Resisted Arrest from Smaller, Female Officer’

By: Bambino

Bambino — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:16:15 +0000

Overreaction? Of course not! Hell, what’s a little MORE injustice and physical abuse piled onto another American male…

How about we combat “Violence against men” for a change?

As for the arresting female officer? She probably had a lot of juices flowing at the time, all giddy and excited to play that most favored of all gender bonding exercises, (as amfortas might say) “Let’s you and him fight” with multiple male officers backing her up with guns…

And the police protocol in this instance seems almost standard for male perps. I have worked out in a gym owned by a cop and frequented by many others (including prison guards) since ‘02 and have become friendly with a few of them.

These guys are intense. Several officers meet twice a week for 60 minute mixed martial-arts (MMA) training/heavy bag workouts and they ALL hit the weights hard.

Most of the officers I have observed (including the MMA team members) seem to be reasonable and fair men but a couple seem to lack the ability to ratchet down the intensity level and adrenaline rush they find at times in their professional lives.

Put simply, these particular cops seem wired too tight all of the time and a few are even a little intimidating. Reading the Sacks story above made me think of these guys: they train and train and train, week after week and after awhile they want to try out some of their “moves” for real, on someone other than each other and outside of their controlled environment in the gym.

“Just give me a reason, punk…”

Thank God these types are by far the minority from what I have observed.

By: James Meager

James Meager — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:59:44 +0000

Why does ‘Steve’ even bother to mention the gender of the first officer? If it was a smaller *male* officer would ‘Steve’ have reacted differently? Resisting arrest is resisting arrest, regardless of the gender of the officer. Just sayin’.

By: Big shooter

Big shooter — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:51:38 +0000

These male cops need to consider that with the sky high divorce rate among cops- they mighty be the among the beneficiaries of the justice these protesters are fighting. At the moment they are like Jewish guards in a concentraion camp.

By: amfortas

amfortas — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:06:11 +0000

“I don’t think it would be over-reacting to think that these people dressing in costume and scaling a national monument could have much more dire plans.”

What would it be then?

What ’signs’ of a peaceful protest intent should a person expect to see, or that you are ‘trained’ to detect? (Perhaps there should be a Law that secret peaceful protesters should carry a large sign with a friggin’ timetable of actions on it). What other ‘plans’ could people dressing up in costume have, so you think, Steve? Have a think. Take a moment. Did you take a moment during your off duty time to think? No? No thoughts?

These be-costumed protesters, Steve, were they carrying guns? Big round thingos with fizzing wicks and ‘bomb’ written in the side? Did you think their sign was going to have a shocking, rude nasty word on it, like “Hillary”?

I have seen perfectly innocent passers by wrestled to the floor by uniformed thugs, Steve, and those thugs’ excuse was ‘resisting arrest’ too. The smaller, female ones seem quicker than most (size?) to solve the ‘resisting’ issue with a gun too. Thank goodness that didn’t happen. No doubt you would expalin away that too.

Steve. You over-reacted. You gave everyone a good laugh all around the world. Maybe its the way you tell’em.