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In reply to the discussion: Do you feel comfortable with your local cops? [View all]KamaAina
(78,249 posts)103. More like wary than threatened
but that is likely because I am not Vietnamese. San Jose has only a 3 percent African American population, so the SJPD has had to find some other group to work out on, and it's most often the Vietnamese.
http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12343463
"Don't kill him! He's mentally ill!"
That's what Brian Duy Pham, 29, shouted as police officers rushed into his Berryessa neighborhood home just about noon Sunday, according to family members.
His brother, Daniel, had just attacked him with a knife, and his girlfriend was still inside the home. But lodged in this Vietnamese-born family's memories was the high-profile police shooting of Bich Cau Thi Tran.
The mentally ill Vietnamese mother was holding an Asian vegetable peeler, which police mistook for a cleaver, when a San Jose officer shot and killed her in July 2003, igniting the Vietnamese community at the time over issues of mental health and cultural sensitivities.
That's what Brian Duy Pham, 29, shouted as police officers rushed into his Berryessa neighborhood home just about noon Sunday, according to family members.
His brother, Daniel, had just attacked him with a knife, and his girlfriend was still inside the home. But lodged in this Vietnamese-born family's memories was the high-profile police shooting of Bich Cau Thi Tran.
The mentally ill Vietnamese mother was holding an Asian vegetable peeler, which police mistook for a cleaver, when a San Jose officer shot and killed her in July 2003, igniting the Vietnamese community at the time over issues of mental health and cultural sensitivities.
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_13819041
A newly enhanced video of the arrest of a San Jose State University student further deepens the questions about why police repeatedly struck him with batons and shocked him with a Taser, as the student never speaks defiantly to the officers.
The video, taken with a cell phone by a roommate of Phuong Ho inside their house, shows Ho saying over and over, "I'm just looking for my glasses ... I'm looking for my glasses" as he is struck. Ho's glasses had fallen off earlier in the encounter as an officer shoved him.
In the video, Ho repeatedly apologizes as the officers strike him and asks officers not to stand on him.
A transcript of the enhanced version of the September incident, created by an audio and video-forensic analyst hired by the Mercury News, also indicates one of the officers said at one point, "I wanted to punch that (expletive) in the mouth."
The video, taken with a cell phone by a roommate of Phuong Ho inside their house, shows Ho saying over and over, "I'm just looking for my glasses ... I'm looking for my glasses" as he is struck. Ho's glasses had fallen off earlier in the encounter as an officer shoved him.
In the video, Ho repeatedly apologizes as the officers strike him and asks officers not to stand on him.
A transcript of the enhanced version of the September incident, created by an audio and video-forensic analyst hired by the Mercury News, also indicates one of the officers said at one point, "I wanted to punch that (expletive) in the mouth."
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It's a problem. Israel profiles, and takes people aside and extensively questions them.
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#122
You say "for more good", but admit there are a lot of bad cops to people "that give attitude." n/t
ieoeja
May 2013
#82
Class, race and lifestyle all enter into how people will answer your question
Fumesucker
May 2013
#5
I didn't mention race at all. It seems your own racism is showing, if that's what you saw
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#115
You bring up a "valid" point. The victim should always be blamed, whenever possible.
LooseWilly
May 2013
#61
Oh, pleeez. Middle class and upper class people don't have butlers, and most don't have secretaries.
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#116
If you are getting your ideas about people from TV that may not be an accurate depiction
Fumesucker
May 2013
#80
So you agree that younger males have "issues" with authority figures? That's my observation, too.
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#117
I think those who have an attitude with authority figures never really lose it
Fumesucker
May 2013
#128
This is true. As I pointed out above, cops aren't usu on the lookout for a middle aged female serial
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#121
As someone who would like to go into law, I am comfortable with our local police
PennsylvaniaMatt
May 2013
#10
Once you understand that my local cops love any excuse to bust down a door, they're pretty good.
Ian David
May 2013
#11
Yeah. Big city cops are absolute thugs when it comes to the downtrodden. (WARNING graphic image)
Nye Bevan
May 2013
#18
A few bad eggs shouldn't spoil the whole bunch. W/o law enforcement there would be anarchy.
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#43
I don't believe that's true at all. I think it's in CERTAIN urban areas...
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#123
You might want to tell that to all those out of towners who have had 10s of thousands...
TheMadMonk
Jun 2013
#142
I guess because we're more likely to actually know whether our local cops are OK, or fascists
MannyGoldstein
May 2013
#17
High-speed chases where people die for stealing at WallyWorld or for running a stop sign have made
Mnemosyne
May 2013
#32
Are you kidding? We live in Las Vegas. Our cops are so bad LAPD uses them to excuse their own
Egalitarian Thug
May 2013
#40
Would it be accurate to say that they haven't para-militarized the police in your area yet?
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#56
in general, i'm ok with them. only one questionable experience, but it was also understandable
HiPointDem
May 2013
#57
"Do you feel comfortable with your local police" = "are you white and middle class?"
Spider Jerusalem
May 2013
#60
I have no problem at all with local LEOs, city or county. Some of them are the same age as
bike man
May 2013
#74
I love my local cops - it's one of the reasons I live in this township n/t
TorchTheWitch
May 2013
#89
if i were male + of color i would not be so comfortable around cops in nyc
La Lioness Priyanka
May 2013
#94
My locals are better than those I grew up with, but they've been highly visible recently.
politicat
May 2013
#98
I consider ALL Law enforcemnt a direct threat to my person until they prove otherwise.
YeahSureRight
Jun 2013
#134