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NEW YORK (AP) -- A professional basketball player was about to give a handout to a man asking for money when police officers took him to the ground and arrested him, a former teammate testified Wednesday.
Ex-Atlanta Hawks power forward Pero Antic said he was sitting in an Uber car with the door open near a trendy Manhattan nightclub in the early hours of April 8 when he heard officers arguing with guard-forward Thabo Sefolosha as he tried to give a beggar money.
''They didn't allow him to give the money,'' said Antic, who was also arrested after he climbed out of the car and touched an officer's shoulder while asking why his friend was being placed under arrest. ''The police officers arrested him before he got to.''
Sefolosha has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor obstructing government administration, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges stemming from the confrontation with police outside the 1Oak nightclub. Charges against Antic have been dropped. Prosecutors have said in court papers that Sefolosha was lunging toward an officer when he was confronted.
The Swiss national's leg was fractured in the struggle. His attorney has argued that injury was caused by the officers, one of whom had a baton in his hand during the confrontation
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ex-teammate-arrested-nba-player-giving-cash-homeless-180445080--mlb.html
Posting here because i think this transcends sports.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)Sounds more like Republican Jesus, if you ask me.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Chakab
(1,727 posts)bullies off of the street are even worse IMO. They enable the unprofessional behavior.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The pigs would have broken his leg, too!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)assholery of kkkops these days, is there?
Sefolosha is going to sue the living bejesus out of them, I am sure. As well he should.
valerief
(53,235 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)there would not be a problem.
rockfordfile
(8,708 posts)"Prosecutors have said in court papers that Sefolosha was lunging toward an officer when he was confronted." That's a bs statement.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)especially the cops.
frylock
(34,825 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)About 15 years ago my mother (4'-11", in her 70s) was trying to put a few dollars in the hand of a homeless old woman sleeping on a NYC subway platform. A cop yelled at her and told her to stop. She turned around and asked him, "what if she was YOUR mother?"
He stopped, thought about it a few seconds, and then apologized!!!
But that was 15 years ago, not today.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Go, Mom!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Do police departments make it a goal to hire stupid? Because there sure seems to be a lot of it.
Please sue the living daylights out of the department.
progressoid
(50,000 posts)The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower courts decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class, Jordan said today from his Waterford home. I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.
He said he does not plan to take any further legal action.
Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.
Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)According to Citizens United giving money is the same as freedom of speech