first of all; I have to say…this is a big deal in Philly, this happens every damn day in Los Angeles. The LAPD beat the crap out of tons of people everyday and no one ever cares. I’ve seen people sitting and waiting for the bus, subway…not bothering anyone and the Po just walking over and throwing them to the ground and fucking with them.
Granted I don’t know their history on the streets or any back story but still; if you aren’t bothering anyone…you should be left alone. On another note, that is why we have high speed chases everyday on the various freeways…because no one wants to pull over cuz they are so frozen with fear over the cops and being beaten…often times, the chasee is simply evading the authorties for a minor warrant or traffic violationg because they are so damn scared.
Even normal people like me get fucked with by the police and famous people because of just that…the cops in the La think if you are clean and pretty you are a criminal too; they assume you are a coke-head or doing something wrong…if not; they try and find something to accuse you of, cuz they know you have the money to just pay the ticket to make it go away. It’s all a money making scam.
But out here; the fuzz mess with EVERYONE…I havent been beaten per say; but when I was a youngster…a cop pulled me over just because of some hoodrats I knew…they towed my car because I forgot my license at home and left me on the side of the 10 freeway in east LA…HELLO?? Young single girl? I had to walk to a gas station and call a buddy and go get my car out of the impound lot for nothing…I got no ticket…I had to go to the towing company, show my license and then later; I filed a lawsuit which settled out of court.
But there are millions of stories like that in LA…and now in Philly; someone gets beat up and it’s a national news story…same thing though; I don’t know the backstory…all I know is the cops “thought” these guys were murderers and so they beat the crap out of them. Then when they searched their car; hmmmm, there were no weapons…mistaken identity? We don’t know…What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? or is it vice versa now and no one told us fine citizens about the law change?
Another example of a police beating…i was with my latino friend and he got pulled over once and I asked him WTF? And he said it was probably mistaken identity…(which it is a lot and the LAPD doesn’t apologize for fucking up your day)…they pulled him over and I looked in the rearview mirror and there was a damn firing squad behind us…they were looking for some high speed chase mother fucker and the fact that he was hispanic was enough for them to completely scare the living fuck out of us. It was reason enough to justify pulling over every Hispanic in the neighborhood apparently.
My pal has a clean driving record, has a master’s degree and lives an upstanding life…however, they treated us like goddamn animals (not so much me…but they threw him to the ground and roughed him up quite a bit for NO reason)…When I got out of the car; I saw the firing squad and threw up and passed out.
They checked my ID and it was clean…then they checked his ID and it was clean…and they said; “you are free to go”…My friend was like; “What? No apology?”…I’m like; “dude, don’t push it or they will fuck with us some more”…
This is what happens in my neighborhood on a daily basis…it happens once in Philly and now people care…