Vancouver police get off beating innocent man

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http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Van...969/story.html

Thoughts?

[bspot]

Get off as in skeet skeet skeet?

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They pretty much beat the crap out of him and then the police investigation said they did nothing wrong.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by bspot
Get off as in skeet skeet skeet?

1st thing came thru my mind as well.... that's some serious fetish there.

[bspot]

I remember hearing about this when it happened. Brutal that it took this long and that they got off.

Especially being plain clothes police officers busting in on a guy that doesn't speak english, if he resisted I don't blame him at all. If I was home and two dudes in plaid shirts busted my door in and started yelling at me, I'd probably fight back.

[NuclearPizzaMan]

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/...rges-laid?bn=1


This is just business as usual. Cops are vicious sociopaths. The ones that claim otherwise are just as guilty for covering for the supposed 'bad apples'.

I'm all for law and order, but assaulting an innocent person (or really, any other major crime) committed under the colour of authority should be dealt with in the harshest possible way.


At the very least, these 2 clowns should lose their jobs, but I wouldn't shed any tears if the government set up a firing squad for them.

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Some people are blaming it on him because he doesn't speak english, if two random clothes guys bust into your house would you politely say "hi who are you, what you are doing", or would you say "who the fuck are you, and what are you dong here and get the fuck out" and possibly try to fight back.

The police even said he "resisted arrest" then later said he didn't, how can anyone blame someone for "resisted arrest" on two random men who start beating the shit out of you...

[clem24]

Originally posted by NuclearPizzaMan
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/...rges-laid?bn=1

Yeah this one... The problem with this one is that the civilian resisted arrest, and was uncooperative and combative. True the police should not have done what they did, but in this case, I think both parties acted inappropriately.

[calgary403]

I like this Paragraph in the article;

"A Star investigation of two decades of cases probed by the SIU found that police officers are treated far differently than civilians when accused of shooting, beating, running over and killing people."

The rule of law is that NOBODY is above the law. So if it is not applied evenly it is corrupt and useless. The whole system becomes useless.

[spike98]

Lessons learned:

1. When living a country that is not of your origin, try and speak the language that is employed by the natives of that country. At least the basics.

2. Dont resist police, you will end up getting beat up.

[atgilchrist]

Originally posted by NuclearPizzaMan



This is just business as usual. Cops are vicious sociopaths. The ones that claim otherwise are just as guilty for covering for the supposed 'bad apples'.
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At the very least, these 2 clowns should lose their jobs, but I wouldn't shed any tears if the government set up a firing squad for them.

Wow. You don't jump to extremes at all.

[calgary403]

Originally posted by NuclearPizzaMan


This is just business as usual. Cops are vicious sociopaths. The ones that claim otherwise are just as guilty for covering for the supposed 'bad apples'.

I wouldn't take it that far. But the rest of the officers in this department are criminals also imho. Working with an officer you know is guilty of a crime and doing nothing means you do not deserve to wear that badge.

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It really makes you wonder what the hell is going on with law enforcement. These cases are just absolutely ridiculous.

[Scuderia]

Originally posted by spike98
Lessons learned:

1. When living a country that is not of your origin, try and speak the language that is employed by the natives of that country. At least the basics.

2. Dont resist police, you will end up getting beat up.

So with those two points you're implying the guy was completely at fault?

[adidas]

Originally posted by calgary403


I wouldn't take it that far. But the rest of the officers in this department are criminals also imho. Working with an officer you know is guilty of a crime and doing nothing means you do not deserve to wear that badge.

If you think all officers are angels, than you got some serious problems.


This story reminds of the time when my next door neighbor knocked on my door and asked me to call 911 as she was getting abused next door. When the officers arrived(2) they stormed into my house like we were the ones fighting.

[spike98]

Originally posted by Scuderia


So with those two points you're implying the guy was completely at fault?

Yes,

Point one is just a courtesy but would have aided in rectifying the situation.

Point two needs no explanation.

Had these been uniformed officers and had tools like tazers and pepper spray to aid in the resisting person, perhaps he wouldn't have gotten a shit kicking.

Ive been fucked by the long dick of the law, so my opinion isn't bias. I got roughed up because i resisted. I deserved it. So did this guy.

[calgary403]

Originally posted by adidas


If you think all officers are angels, than you got some serious problems.

I never said that. I just said that not ALL of them are vicious psychopaths. But I would definitely say the apparent amount of corruption in some forces is FAR too much to be tolerated.

[broken_legs]

Ward said the investigation report shows that while his client was interviewed by police for more than an hour and a half the day after the beating, and for another hour and a half at a later date, Delta police didn't get around to interviewing the two officers involved until May 12, nearly four months later.

According to Ward, the interviews with Florkow and London — held in the presence of the Vancouver Police Union president — lasted just 51 and 37 minutes respectively

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by spike98


Had these been uniformed officers and had tools like tazers and pepper spray to aid in the resisting person, perhaps he wouldn't have gotten a shit kicking.

Did you read the story? Especially the part that says he did nothing illegal, and the police had the wrong address, because it was the people living in the basement suite, with their own entrance, that called them?

Why should he comply to arrest, when he didn't require arresting?

[ZenOps]

Originally posted by spike98
Lessons learned:

1. When living a country that is not of your origin, try and speak the language that is employed by the natives of that country. At least the basics.

2. Dont resist police, you will end up getting beat up.

Chinese is the local language in Vancouver. *Ding*

On the other side of the coin: Its rare for a person to get beat up in Hong Kong who speaks one of the dozens of Euro dialects of latin (including english) though.

There was that one model that got killed by a mugger though, but thats not really police.

On the other hand, I'd like to invite Rob Anders to France - and then prank call to the local police that there is this psycho english guy who is ranting that French people are terrorists, look like hamsters and have cheese breath.

If Rob were a politician in France, he would have a lit protest flare shoved up his ass by now.

Or send Chancellor Merkel to Greece. Euro to Euro language hate is strong, maybe even more than Euro to other nation.

Hongcouver is a nice place normally though.

"Vancouver, or as we call it down here, Hongcouver, they can fight for those jobs, but may the best province win." - Arnold Schwarzenegger