Jets fan arrested for cheering at Chargers game (UPDATE with Colts' game bust)

I bet you half the parents that yell three seconds have no frickin idea what the three-second rule really is.

 

I'm shocked, shocked I tells ya, that Indy suburban cops are acting this way.

Not to get into Indy's Unigov history, but it wasn't long ago (or it could still be) that the townships were in charge of their own law enforcement. Many of them hired private security firms as their "police", with all of the inherent problems that would result from it. Those dudes can be the biggest cocksuckers on the face of the planet.

Factor in dopey provincialism from some in Indy about what NY fans are like and I guarantee these idiots thought they were policing something at the level of Altamont or some such thing.

 

I didn't even known Whitestown had cops, plural. While the town is starting to convert from a small town to a suburb, it's still small enough to have only a town marshal. Plus, what in Whitestown prepares you to do crowd control at a major sporting event? (Other than the beacoup bucks of overtime the cop was paid, which probably doubled his Whitestown salary.) The IMPD can be dickheads on their own -- they don't need to import Fat Barney Fife to do the dirty work.

 

Your comment made me curious so I looked. Whitestown, pop. 681, has 17 cops. I'm sure some of those are part-time and reserve, but damn. I remember there being four or five when I was a kid.

Maybe you could count clearing out the crowd at Ralph's Sports Pub at close as preparing you for crowd control?

 

Just noticed a couple other clips from this incident that add a touch more context.

This (

) from before the arrest that shows a jet fan (although not the one arrested) who does appear to be taunting the cops a bit.

And this (

) from right after the earlier clip that ends with the crowd chanting "let him go" at the cops. The thing that jumps out to me in both this and the San Diego incident is how the home fans seem to side with the Jet fan and against the cops.

 

And it keeps going...

Another fan got smacked upside the head with a wooden leg of a police barrier

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/jets_fan_beaten_bloody_in_indy.html

 

Siding with some guy who just got assaulted by two cops trumps your team colours any day.