China: Diplomat beaten, injured by Houston police

[NJmaverick]

Source: Associated Press

DALLAS – Three Houston police officers have been restricted to desk duty after they followed a Chinese diplomat into the parking garage of the Chinese Consulate, arrested the man and injured him, the Houston mayor said.
Mayor Annise Parker said in a statement that the officers' duties will remain limited pending an investigation into how Chinese diplomat Yu Boren was injured last Saturday.
Officials in China's Foreign Ministry released a statement Friday saying police harassed and beat a deputy consul-general while he was driving to the consulate. The statement said a family member also was involved, but did not say if that person was injured.
The consulate in Houston did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press. Houston police and the U.S. State Department are investigating the incident.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100430/ap_on_re_as/as_china_us_consular_official;_ylt=ApWvtsswd4fjYo7PuffYhNqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTQxYjlvbWpjBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNDMwL2FzX2NoaW5hX3VzX2NvbnN1bGFyX29mZmljaWFsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDNARwb3MDMQRwdANob21lX

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I am SHOCKED, shocked I tell you, that such a thing could happen in Texas

[Dr.Phool]

1. He probably didn't have his papers.

[old mark]

2. Maybe they thought he was a Mexican.....nt

[midnight]

3. This is not good. Why would a Chinese diplomat be beaten by police?

I look forward to hearing the explanation....

[pipoman]

4. Yeah, nothing like this could ever happen in, say, New Jersey, huh?

The newest ACLU-NJ complaint against the Newark Police involves 13-year-old Tony Ivey Jr., 15-year-old Faheem Loyal and their football coach Kelvin Lamar James, who were pulled over on June 14, 2008 and abused by several Newark police officers after a day centered around their Pop Warner football team, the North Ward Scorpions. They were pulled out of the car in the rain, searched, had guns held against their bodies and told they "didn't have any fucking rights," despite committing no crimes and having only football equipment in the car.

http://www.aclu-nj.org/news/aclunjannouncesrepresentat.htm

unrec for idiotic broad brush state hate..

[ClarkUSA]

5. These racist pigs will probably get off with a slap on their wrists. n/t