A South Carolina deputy has been fired and charged after a dash camera recorded him punching teenager Jeremy Laquan Rucker, 18, in the face. What is curious is that there is no word on action taken against the other officers who assisted former deputy Brian Tollison.
Rucker is accused of initially resisting arrest, but the police admit that he soon relented. Yet, the tape shows one deputy appearing to hold Rucker and Tollison beats him. The full video also shows deputies taser and kick Rucker.
Tollison is charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Rucker is charged with drug possession and resisting arrest.
Greenville seems to have a serious problem in controlling its own officers. Another officer was fired after releasing a dog that attacked another officer, click here.
Obviously, a tort action is likely to result in liability in such a case for battery. While the police department will claim a rogue employee defense, the other officers in the video will make that hard to sustain.
For the video, click here.
For the full story, click here.
Russ,
you are are acting cowardly for being unable to answer whether it’s white bread and whole wheat that you prefer. You totally ignore the question and launch into a diatribe about stuff in eastern Europe.
Zak,
you’re ironic “Happy Tisha B’Av” statement proves that you are anti-Jewish, rather than just anti-Zionist. First because you obviously know when Tisha B’Av arrives and secondly because you know what the observance means to Jews. Thirdly,because you lack the intellectual honesty to answer why when Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan etc. call themselves Islamic countries they are not practicing apartheid in the same manner that you accuse Israel of doing by calling themselves a Jewish State. Ah yes I know, because you’ve stated it, that you’re a champion debater at University. Sadly, your rhetorical skills are strangely akin to that of the American Conservative Movement.
Rafflaw wrote:
I also hope that the civil suit will be successful in the Florida boot camp case. A large money judgement sometimes is the best way to initiate change in a situation like that.
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Absolutely, I should have added that. I’ll try to be more thorough next time. 🙂
Susan,
I also hope that the civil suit will be successful in the Florida boot camp case. A large money judgement sometimes is the best way to initiate change in a situation like that.
Welcome back and Happy Tisha B’Av.
Here we have solid proof that even a people still scratching to get out of the stone age while others have flown to the moon & planets have some among them literate enough to post garbage on a blog.
Gyges wrote:
Where exactly does personal responsibility figure into this whole issue? How is it childish for Raff to want to discuss the issue? What was up with your badly thought out attempt to discredit global warming?
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Gyges, to answer your last question, Russ always dodges the hard challenges — which he obviously can’t answer — by going off on wild tangents like the global warming debate that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. He’s done that more than once.
Rafflaw wrote:
I had forgotten about the “boot camp trial” case. I can only hope that the juries will understand that some of these police are out of countrol.
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Well, THAT jury certainly didn’t understand it, since they acquitted ALL of these defendants, including the nurse. Even with a videotape of what these so-called “corrections officers” did. I just hope the family of Martin Lee Anderson files a civil lawsuit in Federal court against whoever in FL law enforcement was running this “boot camp,” aka jail for teenagers.
And more germane to the topic, I think many Cops are hoping that these incidents become so routine that it will no longer be reported in the media.
Once again demonstrating the importance of a conscientious and unbiased media. Can you imagine the spin if over 90% of the major media was controlled by people that felt the Police were always right?
VP; Of course what Russia is doing is wrong; my point was that some people are hypocrites and only denounce violence when it’s not meeting their objective.
If Georgia didn’t have a ‘Welcome Mat’ waiting for NATO, Bush, russ and all the other Zionists and neocons would be about as concerned over Georgia as they are over Darfur.
Kommadant Klink stated “Sheese. YOU sir are a buffoon and ninny. There is NOBODY speaking for the hundreds of cultures that believed that insanity as you do. Do YOU KNOW WHY? Because their VIOLENT CRIMINAL and DEMANDING neighbors KILLED THEM! “
Sure. What Israel and Palestine have is very special. We should all seek to emulate them.
“Sheese”.
And Zakimir, please don’t pretend to agree with me and then state that Russia is dropping candybars on the people of Georgia. What Russia is doing is wrong. The problem is we’ve been saying its not for the past 6 years.
Oh look. russ is playing with his strawmen.
Cute, but but since I never said “all they have to do is erect a peace sign, throw away their defenses, walk over to their homes and say “hi, I want to be friends with you, and by the way, you are welcome to my wife”, nothing you said has any inkling of addressing my comments.
Inventing a position for me, particularly such a ridiculous one, then proceeding to debate it does not constitute a rebuttal.
VP and LJM are correct; and compared to what the US is doing to Iraq, and Israel is doing to Palestine, Russia is dropping money and Hershey bars on Georgia.
Vladimar Pootin = Zakimar playing his stupid little games again. Go back to your own country zak, you deserve that rot there.
vlad writes: “What you will find however is a spotlight, cast directly on yourselves showing the utter stupidity of your crew in not listening to us 2 percenters who warned you that if the US turned into an aggressive military power, that other nations would follow suit. Now, that prophecy is being realized and the larger nations are becoming more and more brazen in their offensive tactics and invariably citing us as their role model.”
Wow, now that is bizarre thinking. So I gather in your world if anyone is surrounded by violent neighbors, all they have to do is erect a peace sign, throw away their defenses, walk over to their homes and say “hi, I want to be friends with you, and by the way, you are welcome to my wife”.
Sheese. YOU sir are a buffoon and ninny. There is NOBODY speaking for the hundreds of cultures that believed that insanity as you do. Do YOU KNOW WHY? Because their VIOLENT CRIMINAL and DEMANDING neighbors KILLED THEM!
Sheese. What a bunch of total wackjobs here.
martha and percy disappear and russ appears, could be a coincidence, but I’d go with, “Hi martha, I missed you”.
And VP, we don’t have to wait for the inevitable above scenario, just until next year, when McCain goes into Iran.
PS. Buy oil stocks now, hold if McCain wins (then sell when oil is at $300/barell), sell if it’s Obama.
I think it’s best to ignore folks like Russ who love government authority and don’t have the intellectual or moral courage to criticize it when it’s abused.
When Pakistans government is replaced with a fundamental Islamic regime, Russian tanks are guarding the Iranian border and the Chinese defense minister announces their unfettered support for Russia while directing his landing forces into the Taiwan strait, then you’ll learn what war is. You haven’t a clue what it is at the moment, but you will then. Then you can show us all how brave you are, winning the Medal of Honor and all defending an entire platoon from kid with a squirt gun or something. Preferably postumasly of course.
Just so we don’t have to hear you brag.
Well gee russ, didn’t know you cared about us 2 percenters. I’ll have to put you on my Christmas card list.
As for condemning it, just check liberal blogs all over. You’ll find no support for bombing civilians, except in the right wing blogs. It’s you “98” percenters that get off on that.
What you will find however is a spotlight, cast directly on yourselves showing the utter stupidity of your crew in not listening to us 2 percenters who warned you that if the US turned into an aggressive military power, that other nations would follow suit. Now, that prophecy is being realized and the larger nations are becoming more and more brazen in their offensive tactics and invariably citing us as their role model.
Soon we’ll be facing China in the Taiwan straight, emboldened by our doctrine of preemptive war and totalitarian style leadership. As always the world tends to follow our examples whether knowingly or not, and we’ll be seeing it across the board. Soon, thanks to guys like you, we’ll be hearing of our troops being stripped naked, raped, humiliated and photographed for all the world to see their shame, then beaten and tortured.
Why? Because guys like you wanted it to be so. You set the example with your actions, and now we are beginning to reap the rewards. Countries like Russia and China will take the lead we gave them and run with it. Not that they were guilded saints before. Far from it. But now the gloves are off so to speak. The moral high ground is lost, perhaps for good. We have no further mandate to call other nations into humanitarian restraint thanks to the man you and those like you cowered behind and helped change the world forever. You took America, my America, and turned it into a band of snibbling lying thugs like yourself, and you pomp and strut like a proud peakcock too stupid to know the damage you’ve done. I’d pity you except I’m too busy pitying the rest of us who are stuck with the ramifications of fools like you.
COME ON TWO PERCENTERS: START CHEERING FOR RUSSIA!
“What is most striking about the crisis is how strongly it recalls the bad old days of the Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin has cast aside any pretense of having given up the reins of power, and is directing the Russian Army. Here is how Pravda is covering the conflict:
War between Russia and Georgia orchestrated from USA:
Russian officials believe that it was the USA that orchestrated the current conflict. The chairman of the State Duma Committee for Security, Vladimir Vasilyev, believes that the current conflict is South Ossetia is very reminiscent to the wars in Iraq and Kosovo.
Russia: Again Savior of Peace and Life:
The international community collectively held their breath waiting for the reaction of Russia after the savage, brutal, criminal attack by Georgia on South Ossetia. After having offered a cease fire in hostilities, the back stabbing Georgians immediately violated the cease fire, invading South Ossetia and causing massive destruction and death among innocent civilians, among peacekeepers and also destroying a hospital. …
Georgian troops attempted to storm the city [Tskhinval] much as Hitler‘s Panzer divisions blazed through Europe. Also noteworthy is the fact that Georgian tanks and infantry were being aided by Israeli advisors, a true indicator that this conflict was instigated by outside forces. …
Relating what has become common practice among war criminals, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reported: “A Russian humanitarian convoy has come under fire. Panic is growing among the local population, and the number of refugees is increasing. There are reports of ethnic cleansing in some villages… The situation is ripe for a humanitarian catastrophe.”
The two-faced, underhanded foreign policy of Georgia:
Ask anyone in the Caucasus region, and they will tell you never to trust a Georgian because they would shake your hand with a smile and then stab you in the back. On Friday morning, we saw a perfect example of this treachery, when hours after declaring a ceasefire, Georgian military units launched a savage attack on the civilians of South Ossetia.
Hours after Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili, the pro-western Washington-backed anti-democratic stooge (attacks on opposition policians in Georgia are rife) declared a unilateral ceasefire, the Georgian army lanched a savage attack on the capital of the province of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, with tanks and infantry, while the air force bombed a village and strafed a Russian humanitarian aid convoy.”
SO:
We appear to be witnessing the resurrection of the Brezhnev era. If so, the news is ominous indeed, for if Vladimir Putin looks like the second coming of Leonid Brezhnev, Barack Obama looks equally like the second coming of Jimmy Carter, whom Brezhnev treated as a lackey. Today the Obama and McCain campaigns both put out statements on the Russian invasion. Politico’s Ben Smith contrasts them:
While Obama offered a response largely in line with statements issued by democratically elected world leaders, including President Bush, first calling on both sides to negotiate, John McCain took a remarkably — and uniquely — more aggressive stance, siding clearly with Georgia’s pro-Western leaders and placing the blame for the conflict entirely on Russia.
In case that wasn’t clear, he adds: “McCain’s initial statement…put him more closely in line with the moral clarity and American exceptionalism projected by President Bush’s first term.”
In another weird echo of the Brezhnev years, Obama adviser Mark Brzezinski– Zbigniew’s son–said, “It’s both sides’ fault — both have been somewhat provocative with each other.” Sure. Just like the Czechs provoked the Germans in 1938.
The Russians, needless to say, are not neutral as between McCain and Obama. Ben Smith recounts that their Washington public relations firm contacted reporters to remind them that McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann has lobbied for Georgia. Unbelievably, the Obama campaign aligned itself squarely with Vladimir Putin, putting out a statement that echoed the Russian PR firm’s:
“John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser lobbied for, and has a vested interest in, the Republic of Georgia and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government,’ said Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan.
In the common sense-free world of Barack Obama, advocating for a fledgling democracy that is trying to align itself with the West and is threatened by the imperial aspirations of Russia constitutes a “conflict of interest.”
The McCain camp responded with this statement:
The Obama campaign’s attacks on Randy Scheunemann are disgraceful. Mr. Scheunemann proudly represented a small democracy that is one of our closest allies in a very dangerous region. Today, many are dead and Georgia is in crisis, yet the Obama campaign has offered nothing more than cheap and petty political attacks that are echoed only by the Kremlin. The reaction of the Obama campaign to this crisis, so at odds with our democratic allies and yet so bizarrely in sync with Moscow, doesn’t merely raise questions about Senator Obama’s judgment–it answers them.
The American people once elected Jimmy Carter to defend their interests against Leonid Brezhnev. It will be interesting to see whether they are willing to do it again.