Forum Post: Stephen Pushed By A Cop
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 12, 2011, 7:18 a.m. EST by darrenlobo
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One of the Occupy Dallas protesters was pushed from a 4 foot planter, which led to a disturbance ending in 8 arrests. This video clearly shows a Dallas police officer inciting violence.
The cop is in public in uniform... so on duty or not doesn't really matter. I believe if it were the other way around... If Stephen were pushing the cop off the planter... it would be considered assaulting a police officer. But Stephen is just a civilian, and some animals are more equal than others.
OK, people, you may think we have to bow down to our police masters but I don't see it that way. If none of us can push anyone out of our faces like that neither can the cops. The badge doesn't give them special rights.
actually. it doesn't give them special rights, but it does give them special powers. it gives them the power to break the law in order to enforce it. E.G., a cop can speed to catch you for speeding. They also can use force. E.G., you get in their face, they get to push you out of it. Police are endowed with some powers that NO other person except police can use, and that is use force. So they can put their hands on you, bodily arrest you, forcibly stop you and even take your life if the circumstances meed the requirements. That is what they are powered to do by definition. What planet are you from that your police don't have the ability to use force?
Planet Human Rights is where I'm from. The police are only supposed to use force only under certain circumstances, just like the rest of us. You're wrong to say that "Police are endowed with some powers that NO other person except police can use, and that is use force. ". Civilians can use force to defend themselves but not to violate anyone's rights. The same applies to the cops. If they have these special powers you ascribe to them they are the Gestapo, not the serving & protecting peace officers of a free society.
That officer was off duty and working through a security guard contractor for Bank of America so he really had no more rights than granted to any private citizen in this case. He has been placed on reserved duty and the one who got pushed spent four days in jail before having his charges dropped.
Not to diminish what you said because it is true but people defending the officer should know he wasn't on duty. The people attacking him should know that as well...
Obnoxious Whining Selfish
I see three themes here: the obnoxious, the whining, and the selfish.
[the following reflects responses posted] Ah, gotta love the positive progressive (an entirely oxymoronic phrase). The glass never half full nor half empty; rather, your glass will never be as shrewd as mine.
Pushed? Oh my God!
Guess what... go out and scream and march and taunt and act like a bunch of militants, and bad things are going to happen. Much worse than someone getting pushed off a platform.
Police are not robots. You guys should be ashamed for putting them through the stress of months-long occupations.
I'm working on a "Stephan Song" right now. The working title is...."Little Stephan, you crybaby bitch"
who the hell is Stephen? who cares? Maybe he called the cop the N word. who knows what happened on that planter. you're really grasping with this one.
Stephen Urkel ? He probably just fell when his shoe laces got under his feet.
I GOT IT!
"Cops mowed us down...Stephen got pushed down"
everyone!
"Cops mowed us down...Stephen got pushed down"
Is there a "Stephen fund" we can contribute to? Or how about a song, honoring the victim? Any song writers out there? What about some film maker?..I can see a documentary now...titled....."Stephen's Fall". Leo Di Caprio could star as..."Stephen"
Stephen? pushed? That's it..now they have gone too far! What new chants can we come up with to pay them back?
Humpty dumpty WAS pushed, damn.
poor poor stephen. I'm sure his pussey hurts now.
What a bunch of BS. What it shows is the guy right up in the Cops face and the cop telling him to get down or get out of his face. He clearly didn't comply and the cop removed him from that position. Once again, do what the police ask you to do, and there won't be a problem. Just more evidence that protestors want to get hurt and are inciting cops to prove 'they are violent'. Same tactics as Rules for Radicals. Who would support that? Marxists.