A Baltimore police sergeant was spat on and kicked during a check, authorities say - CNN
"A group of people kicked a Baltimore police sergeant as he tried to arrest a man who'd spat in his face, authorities say.
The sergeant was conducting a business check just before midnight Friday when a person started arguing with him and spat on him, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said in a statement Saturday. It's unclear what the argument or the check were about.
There a video attached. Judging by the video and the article, the cop was checking on a business (probably asked to because an alarm went off or someone behaving suspicious outside) when he got into an argument with a man who spat on him. He went to arrest the man and was assaulted by him and multiple other subjects in the area who kicked and punch him while he struggled with the subject. He has been praised for showing restraint.
The subjects who assaulted him and can be seen laughing while doing it, recorded the incident and posted it online (apparently).
I'm sure we can all agree that this is bad and shouldn't happen. I know that if the situation were reversed, and this was a black subject and a group of white cops beating him...we'd see a lot of the same claims we normally see...
Claims like...
-This was racially motivated.
-Even the cops who weren't involved should turn them in, because they make the whole police community look bad.
-For every time you see this on video, it happens dozens of times without anyone knowing.
-This is why certain communities don't trust cops.
-Cops are held to a lower standard than the average person.
Do these same arguments hold up here? Is this racially motivated because the cop is white and all the suspects appear to be black? Should we expect the friends and family of these people to come forward and turn in everyone involved in this attack? Does this sort of thing happen to police all the time and this is just one of the few times it was recorded? Is it understandable if this cop and others who have been in similar situations now distrust the communities who did this to them?
If you answered no to any of the above questions....do you really think we hold the police to a lower standard than the general public?
"A group of people kicked a Baltimore police sergeant as he tried to arrest a man who'd spat in his face, authorities say.
The sergeant was conducting a business check just before midnight Friday when a person started arguing with him and spat on him, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said in a statement Saturday. It's unclear what the argument or the check were about.
There a video attached. Judging by the video and the article, the cop was checking on a business (probably asked to because an alarm went off or someone behaving suspicious outside) when he got into an argument with a man who spat on him. He went to arrest the man and was assaulted by him and multiple other subjects in the area who kicked and punch him while he struggled with the subject. He has been praised for showing restraint.
The subjects who assaulted him and can be seen laughing while doing it, recorded the incident and posted it online (apparently).
I'm sure we can all agree that this is bad and shouldn't happen. I know that if the situation were reversed, and this was a black subject and a group of white cops beating him...we'd see a lot of the same claims we normally see...
Claims like...
-This was racially motivated.
-Even the cops who weren't involved should turn them in, because they make the whole police community look bad.
-For every time you see this on video, it happens dozens of times without anyone knowing.
-This is why certain communities don't trust cops.
-Cops are held to a lower standard than the average person.
Do these same arguments hold up here? Is this racially motivated because the cop is white and all the suspects appear to be black? Should we expect the friends and family of these people to come forward and turn in everyone involved in this attack? Does this sort of thing happen to police all the time and this is just one of the few times it was recorded? Is it understandable if this cop and others who have been in similar situations now distrust the communities who did this to them?
If you answered no to any of the above questions....do you really think we hold the police to a lower standard than the general public?
