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Taxpayer property?
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 06/20/2012 - 1:45am
Did we not establish that the kids were skating on private property?
So much butthurt.
By anon
Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:02am
As much as I dislike skaters fucking up very expensive stone-work/property (to those of you who don't think they do, notice the scab marks around the places that had been "skater-proofed" after enough damage had been done), the police officer in this instance acted like a complete prick. I also agree with previous replies that the millenial kids have not had enough smacks to the teeth/ass to teach them their place on the continuum of civility.
It's not a paid police officer's job to teach them this lesson by acting outside the scope of their duty. BPD officers get paid plenty, and robbing doofy 16 year old kids of their skateboards without an official and documented arrest/detainment is absolutely not within the scope of their duty. Let's not mention, as in this instance, the raging ape move of throwing the kids' shit all over the pavement without a second thought and plainly out of spite. If this cop had done this to somoene who upset a "vet" based on hearsay, and the cop decided to just arbitrarily take their legally-carried gun away and wreck some of their shit in the process, I suspect that some of the responders here would be shitting dense bricks of "injustice" and "violation of mah rights!!1"
The cop was being an asshole. I question his judgement, and by extension, the judgement of the Boston police force as a whole. We have had enough students shot in the face/killed and "detained" to death to see that BPD officers should start paying out of pocket for their monkey behavior directly. As a taxpayer in Boston, I don't particularly want to see another seven-figure settlement coming out of the city coffers to clear up the BPD lax bros' chimping. Shit like this will just keep happening over and over again: http://www.facebook.com/animalsasleaders/posts/101...
Community policing my ass. This is plainly a case of the 9/11 syndrome, where the officer decided to puff up his chest at some kids he already didn't like because they... *gasp* maybe had some words with a "vet." If the "vet" had pulled the same and lit up his butts on the State House steps, he would be the motherfucker.
Why don't cops get respect?
By anon
Tue, 06/19/2012 - 9:22pm
....because for most young people, their first encounter with the police goes like this.
If cops want respect, they have to earn it.
Ask any young person what they think of cops, and you will get an ear full.
Does anyone know who this shithead cop is?
Anyone wonder why cops get no respect......?
By anon
Tue, 06/19/2012 - 9:26pm
...because their first encounter with a cop went something like this.
If cops want respect, they have to earn it.
As any young person what they think of cops, and you will get an ear full.
Does anyone know who this shithead cop is?
I use to skateboard downtown,
By anon
Wed, 06/20/2012 - 7:10am
I use to skateboard downtown, back bay, all over, when I was a teenager. Use to skate in NYC/Manhattan also, and was a bike messenger. I know, skateboarders and bike couriers are 'cool' and a 'hip' part of the urban scene. That said, I'm a grown up now [early 30s], and I can see where that cop is coming from.
1) If the cop tells you to move along with your skateboard, you move along. There's plenty of other places to skate.
Did he use 'unprofessional' language? Yeah, but so what? He doesn't operate in a corporate boardroom and isn't a drone at an HR department. His job requires different skills. I often wish more people would speak and behave less 'professional' [i.e. insincere, plastic, robotic, passive aggressive]. Maybe people would more clearly understand each other.
If he spoke that way out of the blue to an otherwise respectable citizen, then yeah, I'd have a problem with that. Does that happen? Yes, it's happened to me, and I was BS with the cop. But that's not the case here.
2) The 'old man' is probably a homeless vet from the nearby shelter. Cut the 'old man' a little slack. His life regardless of the reasons why, is hard enough. Probably harder than 99% of the lives of people reading this.
3) How many on here have been or are a cop? How many have had to deal with the probably endless, mind numbing stupid, even violent sh*t that human beings engage in daily, like many cops do? They're human, and get worn down by it just like anybody else.
Teenagers can be obnoxious. I know, I was one once.
1) You want cops to talk like
By anon
Fri, 06/22/2012 - 1:56pm
1) You want cops to talk like this... because they're not in a board room? Their job is to protect and serve, not pitch a profanity-laden hissyfit at a bunch of kids for - horror of horrors - skateboarding. Maybe he should apply his "different skills" to dealing with someone who is actually causing a crime, rather than someone who is doing something harmless that bothers entitled, soulless assholes.
2) I don't give a shit if some asshole on the street may have fought in some war I would have been against if I was alive when it happened. Fuck this cop for trying to guilt people into feeling like they owe this scumbag anything.
3) Cops obviously have to deal with a lot of irritating/horrible stuff. That doesn't give them a license to occasionally take it out on a bunch of 16-year-olds from the suburbs. Sorry.
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