ROFLMAO!! Black Reporter Arrested Reporting On Police Anti-Gang Tactics!

[BlooInBloo]

If that doesn't just beet awl!

It's on NPR right this second - I'll see if I can find a link.

EDIT: Here we go - it's an NYT reporter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/weekinreview/30moore.html?pagewanted=print

THE police officer had not asked my name or my business before grabbing my wrists, jerking my hands high behind my back and slamming my head into the hood of his cruiser.

“You have no right to put your hands on me!” I shouted lamely.

“This is a high-crime area,” said the officer as he expertly handcuffed me. “You were loitering. We have ordinances against loitering.”

Last month, while talking to a group of young black men standing on a sidewalk in Salisbury, N.C., about harsh antigang law enforcement tactics some states are using, I had discovered the main challenge to such measures: the police have great difficulty determining who is, and who is not, a gangster.

My reporting, however, was going well. I had gone to Salisbury to find someone who had firsthand experience with North Carolina’s tough antigang stance, and I had found that someone: me.

Except that I didn’t quite fit the type of person I was seeking. I am African-American, like the subjects of my reporting, but I’m not really cut out for the thug life. At 37 years old, I’m beyond the street-tough years. I suppose I could be taken for an “O.G.,” or “original gangster,” except that I don’t roll like that — I drive a Volvo station wagon and have two young homeys enrolled in youth soccer leagues.

As Patrick L. McCrory, the mayor of Charlotte and an advocate of tougher antigang measures in the state, told me a couple of days before my Salisbury encounter: “This ganglike culture is tough to separate out. Whether that’s fair or not, that’s the truth.”

Heh. Whether or not it's fair (arresting any black man in sight) doesn't matter to these people. I think I'm done being shocked for the time-being.

[Greyskye]

1. how's that for irony?

Looking forward to that link.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Got it!

[BlooInBloo]

3. ROFLMAO!!!! And the (white) NPR interviewer has the balls to ask the black reporter...

... if he has any sympathy for the cops' position!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[liberalhistorian]

9. OMG, are you KIDDING me?

They really asked that??? Damn that "librul" NPR, anyway. Jeebus. Sounds like the "O'Reilly Journalism Brigade" is more than alive and well.

[KAZ]

4. Fuck the PIGS. And DU authoritarians can fuck off too.

And what the hell is "harsh" antigang enforcement? Arrested for Breathing While Black?

[burythehatchet]

16. specially DU authoritarians (cuz I have to share internets with them)

[Jed Dilligan]

5. Antigang, tough on crime, "quality of life" laws

are the new "state's rights"--political code for authoritarian/fascist leaders to speak to their racist base.

[superkia]

10. Good that you support a candidate that is speaking out about...

our rights, I wish more people in America realized the assault that is taking place on our rights. I do and the Kuch is getting my vote, he is on the right side of almost every issue. War, non profit health care, patriot act, corrupt politicians, impeachment, you name it and he has been standing up and speaking for the people as he was elected to do. Yeah, it doesn't pay as well as supporting the corporations and the wars but he speaks for me and he gets my vote for change!

[Jed Dilligan]

12. I just changed my avatar last week

I was wavering between DK and the most likely contender vs. Clinton, which will probably be Obama. But I've decided to vote conscientiously instead of strategically. If Dennis got more press coverage a lot of young non-voters would turn out for him.

[superkia]

14. If he had the coverage that Clinton had, his message would win!

He is speaking for Americans, he stands for the things we want and if he were seen and heard, he would be the nominee. Thats why the media has completely kept him hidden away from the start, not after some polls, from the start. I didn't even know about him until I found this website and I'm thankful I did or my vote would have been wasted on someone that didn't even represent me.

[Cha]

6. Yeah, I guess I'm

done, too, cause that didn't shock me after everything else the last 7-8 years..I hope this is the "It's going to get worse before it gets better" syndrome I've been hearing about and we got something else in our future that's "bet-tah"!

[baldguy]

7. "...police have great difficulty determining who is, and who is not, a gangster."

They obviously don't: anyone with dark skin in "that kind" of neighborhood.

edit: Here's the link to the NPR story. I'll have to listen when I get home.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14895682

[porphyrian]

8. I thought all black men were in gangs... - n/t

[renie408]

11. Great. More evidence that southerners are idiots. n/t

[bbinacan]

13. I doubt this only happens in the South

stereotype much?:think:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

18. Ever heard of the NYPD and LAPD?

[Rex]

15. So the mayor thinks all black men look alike?

Hey, maybe he can get some pointers from Billy O! They can get together and go eat at Dennys. :eyes:

[BlooInBloo]

17. Yup - and happily *acted* on his low-resolution identification system's verdict....

... It's par for the course - that's the biggest thing white folks refuse to acknowledge.

[NOLALady]

19. I'm sitting here trying to think of something to say!

[Karenina]

20. How about, "Bidness as usual?"

;-)