Question: not all cops are vicious scum, but it's a very enticing job if you're a limp-dicked bully who wants to victimize people and get away with it. Do you reckon there's any way to ameliorate this? Letting cops police themselves has clearly not been the answer. It seems to me the best way would be to make sure they never become cops in the first place, but I don't see how.

Here's a video showing him being arrested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNc9ImWpNT0

It's hard to see what exactly happens. He's the one riding the bike and screams his name out while being put into a car. After that, the video is just a stand-off with the cops and chanting anti-war slogans.

This sort of thing is nauseating. But then Republicans see this and automatically assume the kid must have been provoking the cops, and the media doesn't care.

The real problem is the attitude of the American public at large. Most of us have come to believe all protesters are annoying un-American whiny little shits and therefore deserve any abuse they receive at the hands of the authorities.

Bad cops aren't dumb. They won't mistreat someone if they know they're going to get in some kind of trouble for it. They used to stick with inner-city minorities and poor white trash because nobody cared what happened to them. Now, nobody cares what's going to happen to some college-age kid trying to voice opposition to the war in Iraq.

At least they didn't shoot him.



Yet.

Are we sure these allegations are true? Will somebody really start throwing up from not eating for 12 hours? I think we should reserve judgment until the facts are in.

That being said, this seems plausible.

No rating but I go 12hr. without eating all the time. :(

Uh huh.

I have to admit that the urge to call this guy gay is hard to resist.

As someone who eats every 2-3 hours 98% of the time, I think it's worth mentioning that I've had no problems going 12 hours without eating on a few occasions.

Guys please keep using the flash on on your camera. We want to make this look like a real press event.

Whiny ass scruffy hippies, yeah they deserved it. God, listen to his voice.

Yes, if Fox News is not there, or if anyone other than Fox News IS there, it is clearly not real news.

'Conservative' Stockholm-cases will keep latching onto the boys in blue, right up till the police state. Clearly it's up to the 'big government' 'tax and spend' liberals to give two shits about how the law is being enforced.

Why is it that every time Fred Phelps and his group protests, the cops seem to be fresh out of pepper spray, and forgot to charge their tasers?