Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: vaskidmark on March 29, 2015, 06:56:08 PM
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http://www.knoxnews.com/news/watchful-eye/black-community-has-officer-gs-back_14827940
A crowd gathered as Knoxville Police Department Lt. Gordon Gwathney struggled with the screaming black woman in the public housing development.
Gwathney already had shot his stun gun at the 5-foot-2-inch tall woman, but her crack cocaine high made her impervious to the electric jolt designed to freeze the muscles of large men. She ripped the metal wires from her body and continued to fight.
As he tussled with the 110-pound woman, the crowd of onlookers in Walter P. Taylor Homes swelled. Gwathney’s radio was ripped from his uniform as he forced the woman to the ground, so calling for help as the crowd closed in around him was not an option.
As he fought to get handcuffs on the squirming woman, two people from the crowd jumped into the fray. ....
Seems more than just a few people were fed up with the way things had been going. And took it upon themselves to "do something" about it.
There is a Paul Harvey "Rest of the Story" moment to this, but I'm going to make you find it on your own.
stay safe.
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My hope for humanity has ticked up a couple of notches. Still not out of negative territory but upward motion is good.
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Hope those people don't suffer reprisals.
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My hope for humanity has ticked up a couple of notches. Still not out of negative territory but upward motion is good.
It might start ticking down again:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/us/st-louis-metrolink-beating/index.html
Yeah, I'm just a ray of sunshine.
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To residents of East Knoxville, Gwathney is “Officer G.”
“He treats us like people; he knows our names,” said Linda Conner, a resident of Walter P. Taylor Homes whose two adult children benefited from Gwathney’s influence.
I am sure this has something to do with it. Seems Officer G is an anomaly in LE.
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It might start ticking down again:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/us/st-louis-metrolink-beating/index.html
Yeah, I'm just a ray of sunshine.
We also had a white yahoo in South County assault a black former Cardinal (baseball type), which appears to have been racially motivated. He's alleged to have said, "Go back to Ferguson." Also, like ten people got shot this past week, if I remember correctly. A bunch of them died.