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Showing Original Post only (View all)More racist brutality by NYPD Thugs-in-Blue, for dancing in the street [View all]
What are you dancin in the street for? What the f**k is wrong with you? barks the NYPD cop as he assaults a man for dancing.By Matt Agorist * The Free Thought Project * December 29, 2014
New York, NY A harmless and humorous dance challenge by TV personality Ellen Degeneres, goes brutally awry after the NYPD gets involved.
Ellens #DanceDares have brought humor and laughter to so many people, until now. The premise for the #DanceDare is simple, dance behind someone without them noticing.
Most of these interactions simply make people smile, or at worst walk away. However, when YouTube personality, Alexander BOK attempted this playful stunt behind an NYPD officer, he was accosted and assaulted.
Accosted and assaulted for dancing in the street on Christmas Eve.
In what looks more like a gang bullying than a police detainment, BOK is immediately thrown up against the NYPD van while a hand clinches his neck for dancing.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/york-man-detained-choked-thrown-ground-nypd-dancing-street/
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More racist brutality by NYPD Thugs-in-Blue, for dancing in the street [View all]
99th_Monkey
Dec 2014
OP
"Coulda been grabbing his gun" with reference to terrorist stabbings in 3....2.....1.....
alcibiades_mystery
Dec 2014
#4
Nothing is harmless and humorous to the NYPD. Especially when done by a person of color.
progressoid
Dec 2014
#6
OMG. I'm sorry you had that happen. That said you said a word that makes is all too real:
Raine1967
Dec 2014
#64
"i" Did not have my jaw wired shut for 3 months or have the jaw/face malform as I got older
hollysmom
Dec 2014
#70
Just before they are all prosecuted for assault and accessories to assault. Every goddamn one of
ohheckyeah
Dec 2014
#42
It's quite clear who the real fucking assholes are. And it starts at the top of the PBA.
Comrade Grumpy
Dec 2014
#18
The worst kind of bullies are the ones with the power of the state behind them
helpmetohelpyou
Dec 2014
#26
Why not just turn your backs like you did to Deblasio, you fascist pigs? nt
geek tragedy
Dec 2014
#23
I don't blame the officer in the van that jumped out when he saw him come behind
helpmetohelpyou
Dec 2014
#33
I agree except there is no way to know if his being black made any difference to how he was treated.
Vattel
Dec 2014
#69
Yeah, cuz having some creep sneak up behind you and dance in your personal space
Vattel
Dec 2014
#39
ANY cop who cannot stand being in the presence of a dancing black man w/out assaulting him
99th_Monkey
Dec 2014
#40