I remember reading Kafka when I was young and naive, thinking things could never get like that here.
Artis said that after buying his dinner at the Armadillo Grill, he “quietly began to eat his taco, waiting for the bus,” when [officer] Rollins “approached Artis on foot … and asked if a beer was his.”
“Artis leaned forward and saw what appeared to be a discarded can of beer that had been concealed from his view” by a newspaper rack. He says he told Rollins, “‘Why, Officer, if that beer were mine, I would be enjoying it with my meal.’” And he resumed eating his taco.
He says Rollins asked him for ID, then “Without either warning or being told he was under arrest, Rollins grabbed Artis by his still taco-laden arm, and spun Artis around with great force, which pivoted Artis on his left leg and sent the hapless taco flying.”
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“All of Artis’ weight was still on his left leg from being spun by Rollins, and Artis felt and heard his lower left leg sicken[ing]ly crack when Rollins swept-kicked him.”Artis adds that he “was not in possession of a deadly weapon; he was, however, in legal and actual possession of a taco, which Artis did not wield in any threatening manner.”
And that was only the start of his insane journey through our fine justice system. RTFA to see what happens next.
This is all Obama’s fault. Had John MacCain won the election he would have made sure this news be ignored by the media.
Isn’t it great how many of these discussions sink to the level of name calling in a microsecond. People are so passionate about things that don’t matter but not passionate at all about stopping our runaway illegal and unconstitutional government.
As to the story, that’s why we call cops pigs, it is a very good word to describe how they behave all to often. There have been 5 cops in my family and I have no problem referring to them as pigs or even thinking of them as pigs, and they have committed most of the crimes they have ever arrested anybody for.
Bad cops? Obviously. Bad Judge? Possibly. But are the N.C. voters also to blame. They elected this judge. Probably liked his “I’ll bust heads” campaign promises. And they aren’t making any demands upon their Governor or Mayors, to clean up the Police’s act. So I’m guessing their all quite pleased with things as they are. That’s why I’ll never live there. What a bunch of self-righteous morons.