Santa Clara PD Attacks Pac 12 Fan

[Boom_70]

Santa Clara PD attacks Pac 12 fan. No word of Grand Jury investigation yet.

http://deadspin.com/santa-clara-police-attack-fan-at-pac-12-championship-ga-1667994556?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

49er stadium seems to be off to a bad start. It's one incident after another.

 

[DanOregon]

The product on the field, and the field itself, isn't much better. Don't know what led to the thing, but the guy seemed more than willing to be cuffed, yet they seemed intent on taking him down to the ground? Weird. Bad policing is bad policing.

 

[Tarheel316]

The product on the field, and the field itself, isn't much better. Don't know what led to the thing, but the guy seemed more than willing to be cuffed, yet they seemed intent on taking him down to the ground? Weird. Bad policing is bad policing.

A police riot. Inexcusable. I guess it's legal for police to assault people. That guy was not resisting.

 

[old_tony]

Victim is white. Nobody cares.

 

[bigpern23]

There's going to come a tipping point where people aren't going to allow themselves to be policed in this manner anymore. Frankly, the officers are lucky that the crowd didn't get surly. There were a lot more fans than cops there.

Victim is white alive. Nobody cares. He got lucky.

 

[Tarheel316]

There's going to come a tipping point where people aren't going to allow themselves to be policed in this manner anymore. Frankly, the officers are lucky that the crowd didn't get surly. There were a lot more fans than cops there.

Victim is white alive. Nobody cares. He got lucky.

No doubt. The police mugged this guy. And crowd was very upset.

 

[SnarkShark]

He's not dead? Progress.

 

[SnarkShark]

Victim is white. Nobody cares.

Other than the several people yelling at the cops to stop and the Deadspin article, nobody cares.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Levi Stadium, Year One - A whole bunch of suck.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Levi Stadium, Year One - A whole bunch of suck.

Just wait until Harbaugh leaves.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Levi Stadium, Year One - A whole bunch of suck.

Just wait until Harbaugh leaves.

No kidding.

The Raiders with Harbaugh will win more games next season than the Niners if the franchise is stupid enough to promote from within.

 

[Stoney]

Can't wait to hear the police apologists tell us why this one was entirely reasonable and necessary. Not sure if cops are actually doing this **** more frequently, or if social media just enables us to see it more, but seems like there's a damn near daily "cops gone wild" story nowadays.

I'm convinced part of the problem is that the profession, by nature, just seems to attract a disproportionate number of assholes.

 

[Boom_70]

Can't wait to hear the police apologists tell us why this one was entirely reasonable and necessary. Not sure if cops are actually doing this **** more frequently, or if social media just enables us to see it more, but seems like there's a damn near daily "cops gone wild" story nowadays.

I'm convinced part of the problem is that the profession, by nature, just seems to attract a disproportionate number of assholes.

Real knuckle draggers with GED degrees.

Boy Levi Stadium has become a real **** show so far. So much for
laid back Californians.

 

[JC]

I look forward to Barons police defense on this one.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I look forward to Barons police defense on this one.

For one, what was the guy doing before the tape was rolling?

Two, the cop tells him he's under arrest, and the guy starts to move away from him.

Three, they're trying to take him down, and the guy won't go down until there are five cops on him.

 

[Stoney]

Two, the cop tells him he's under arrest, and the guy starts to move away from him.

Three, they're trying to take him down, and the guy won't go down until there are five cops on him.

Except there does not appear to be any ****ing reason why he needed to be put "under arrest" or "taken down." According to the article the dude's only offense was walking on the wrong side of the pathway, which ain't supposed to be a take down and arrest sort of offense, but more of the simply "sir, could you please walk on the other side of the line..." variety.

At the point this happened the guy's no longer on the wrong pathway--so problem solved--and it appears he just wants to get away from these cops and return to his seat, which is what reasonable maintainers of order would've allowed him to do. But, since the cops in question here were a pack of dimwitted douchebags, they instead pulled out the tasers and clubs and went into tackle, choke and arrest mode.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Two, the cop tells him he's under arrest, and the guy starts to move away from him.

Three, they're trying to take him down, and the guy won't go down until there are five cops on him.

Except there does not appear to be any ****ing reason why he needed to be put "under arrest" or "taken down." According to the article the dude's only offense was walking on the wrong side of the pathway, which ain't supposed to be a take down and arrest sort of offense, but more of the simply "sir, could you please walk on the other side of the line..." variety.

At the point this happened the guy's no longer on the wrong pathway--so problem solved--and it appears he just wants to get away from these cops and return to his seat, which is what reasonable maintainers of order would've allowed him to do. But, since the cops in question here were a pack of dimwitted douchebags, they instead pulled out the tasers and clubs and went into tackle, choke and arrest mode.

Except it looked like the guy was arguing with the co p from the first couple seconds of the video. Not a "Sir, you are walking on the wrong side." "Oh, I'm sorry," sort of situation.

Maybe the cops were stressed, or maybe the guy made a mistake on where he was walking, or maybe they all were being douchebags. I don't know.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Yep. Baron is going to excuse anything a cop does. They could have pulled the guy out of his seat and beaten him to death, and Baron would want to see the ticket stub to make sure the guy was in fact in the right seat.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Victim is white a Ducks fan. Nobody cares.

In all fairness, of all the examples of excessive force we've seen lately, a dude getting hit in the legs with a baton and tackled to the ground is the most benign of any of them.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Yep. Baron is going to excuse anything a cop does. They could have pulled the guy out of his seat and beaten him to death, and Baron would want to see the ticket stub to make sure the guy was in fact in the right seat.

And as usual, you add very little to the conversation.