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Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man

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Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man

ATLANTA — An Alabama police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of using unreasonable force against an unarmed Indian man during an episode in which the officer slammed the man to the ground while he was on an early-morning stroll through his family’s suburban neighborhood.

The Feb. 6 confrontation, which led to the partial paralysis of the man, Sureshbhai Patel, 57, has exported America’s national debate over the use of force by police officers as observers and news media in India expressed outrage over Mr. Patel’s treatment.
Facing some serious charges.
Thoughts are?
 
Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man


Facing some serious charges.
Thoughts are?

If the facts support the charges, I hope the officer is prosecuted to the fullest. I strongly support police and the difficult job they do, but there are people in every walk of life who go too far.
 
Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man


Facing some serious charges.
Thoughts are?

My primary thought is that bad cops get busted pretty regularly but those that hate cops will look at this as confirmation that all cops are bad instead of that the system generally works.
 
Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man


Facing some serious charges.
Thoughts are?

A good question would be what are your thoughts?
 
My primary thought is that bad cops get busted pretty regularly but those that hate cops will look at this as confirmation that all cops are bad instead of that the system generally works.

Sterotyping a group of people because a few bad apples? You mean like all Republicans are racists, all Democrats are welfare lovers, all Hispanics are lazy and illegal, all blacks are good at playing basketball because the NBA is filled with blacks, all Asians are good in math, and all guys named crosscheck are hunks? Nah, we aren't like that............
 
Wasn't there a thread on this and a video of the incident posted with it? If that is the incident, yes charges should be brought.
 
Wasn't there a thread on this and a video of the incident posted with it? If that is the incident, yes charges should be brought.

Yes, I saw a video of this a few weeks back. Cops went way beyond the line.
 
A good question would be what are your thoughts?

On the surface with few confirmed detail, does not look good. That said more information is needed. We only have a news report.
 
The victim has partial paralysis from being violently thrown to the ground.

There you go.
 
Good. The reason the police got involved was because a resident was apparently scared of skinny black guys walking (even tho he is Indian).. ." Alabama city of Madison when a resident called 911 and reported that “a skinny black guy” was “just kind of wandering around.” “I’d like somebody to talk to him,” the caller said, according to a recording of the 911 call." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/u...in-confrontation-with-unarmed-indian-man.html

From the video its clear to me, this is nothing but police brutality.
 
Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man


Facing some serious charges.
Thoughts are?

If he did something wrong, he needs to be punished accordingly. This one for example could have been solved if there had been a service that the police officer could have called to use as a telephonic translator so that he could have asked the man the relevant questions and not needed to use force against a person who must have clearly not understood a word he said.

But on the other hand, people who do not know the lingo of a country that they are visiting for an extended period of time should at least learn some rudimentary phrases like "I don't speak English, I am from India and I live at this address". Then the officer could have realized that it was not unwillingness but fear and lack of understanding that was the reason the man did not do what the officer wanted him to do.

That this lead to tensions between the US and India should not be taken into consideration. The officer did something wrong or he did not, politics and other issues should not come into this. This is a legal issue and nothing more.

But from what I have seen so far from the video tape so far there was no obvious reason to see (with 2 men guarding a puny elderly old man) for that officer to slam the man to the ground in such a brutal and possibly dangerous manner.
 
My primary thought is that bad cops get busted pretty regularly but those that hate cops will look at this as confirmation that all cops are bad instead of that the system generally works.

Nobody thinks all cops are bad. But not all bad cops have been purged from all departments, and not all departments do the necessary work to prevent hiring them. So vigilance needs to be perennial.
 
If he did something wrong, he needs to be punished accordingly. This one for example could have been solved if there had been a service that the police officer could have called to use as a telephonic translator so that he could have asked the man the relevant questions and not needed to use force against a person who must have clearly not understood a word he said.

But on the other hand, people who do not know the lingo of a country that they are visiting for an extended period of time should at least learn some rudimentary phrases like "I don't speak English, I am from India and I live at this address". Then the officer could have realized that it was not unwillingness but fear and lack of understanding that was the reason the man did not do what the officer wanted him to do.

That this lead to tensions between the US and India should not be taken into consideration. The officer did something wrong or he did not, politics and other issues should not come into this. This is a legal issue and nothing more.

But from what I have seen so far from the video tape so far there was no obvious reason to see (with 2 men guarding a puny elderly old man) for that officer to slam the man to the ground in such a brutal and possibly dangerous manner.
I have not seen the video yet.
 
He was standing there. We can all see that he made no movement whatsoever, and the police confirm in the video that he doesn't speak "a lick of English" so we know he didn't tell the cops to **** off. This is just a pos cop that needed taken out. Good job GJ. Hopefully he's convicted in trial court.
 
For no apparent reason the Officer body slammed him to the ground.
Kerist.

Why do people keep saying it was for no reason? He got slammed to the ground because the officer thought he was Black.
 
No Apparent Reason is a figure of speech, and in this case a true statement. Fooking police mentality...:roll:
 
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