“As of Wednesday no charges have been filed, according to WTVD.”
That’ll change as soon as they figure out what to charge the kid with.
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WTVD reported that the Fuquay-Varina police department released a statement saying officers responded to reports of criminal activity and pepper-sprayed Currie after he refused to follow their directions.
At least it was just pepper spray, and not a bullet. And we have seen many times that it really doesn’t seem to matter whether you follow directions or not, if you’re black, the police are going treat you as if you are guilty of capital murder.
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Yeah, I thought that was rather strange, too.
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Cute.
Brown: That’s some serious deflection you’ve got going on there. I’ve yet to hear any accusations that police are falsifying police records or other documents in that case…other than the implicit accusation that Darren Wilson covered his ass in whatever police report he filled out. Besdes, you miss the point. We’re not talking about whose “story” is right in this instance. We’re checking to see if the police have anything on record to support their statement that prior criminal activity (or, I’m assuming, reports thereof that they had to investigate) had taken place in the neighborhood recently. They either have reports or they don’t. That isn’t about what the reports contain.
Voters: From the reports from Yamiche Alcindor from USA Today, the number was corrected and the new one verified by the Secretary of State’s office. The Secretary of State is Jason Kander, a Democrat. Giving him the benefit of the doubt isn’t naive or gullible or irresponsibly insufficient skepticism when there have been zero reports that anyone is disagreeing with the number, claiming something happened, complaining about the supposed reduction, etc. One might think we’d be hearing something from the people who were registering people to vote if it was a big deal, but we haven’t yet. If we do, I’ll re-evaluate, but until we do, I’m not going to run around with a serious belief that the truth is otherwise. I noted that something smells funny about it in yesterday’s posts, but I’m not going to make up my mind, as you apparently already have, that there must be something untoward that occurred and that any reports otherwise are lies.
I feel a lawsuit coming on.
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There is no local paper giving crime stats every week or so? I find that difficult to believe.
I don’t care what excuse these asshole cops gave. Their exigent circumstances of break-ins in the area are irrelevant in this situation. A person has rights, especially when entering or being in one’s own home. That has to come first. This child, by himself, gave no reason for the cops to brutalize him, other than assuming the color of his skin was the precipitating factor in their eyes, which is just wrong on its face. The cops, as dishonest wankers, came up with excuses only afterwards to justify their bullshit reaction to using force. I have no doubt of that.
Police brutality cannot be justified here based on even a false assumption. They have to have actual facts to back up their targeting of a presumed suspect when using overwhelming force against a person. Otherwise, a person has the presumption of innocence, who is entitled to their full respect of their civil liberties, which is to be safe in their person, and obviously in their own home.
When did the cops become both judge and jury in this country??? That’s what I want to know. Does due process still exist in this country? And no, I’m not naive.
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“Driving while black” needs revised as an explanation for the torment and abuse African Americans suffer in this country. “Doing anything while black” is more appropriate.
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Let’s ban “allegedly”. He was treated for being pepper sprayed, or was that “allegedly” also? Did he spray himself with pepper spray? I think not. Put the blame where it belongs… on undertrained, cheap budget officers that are horrible at their job.
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They’re color-blind-----until they’re not.
Black-fear threat level is greater since Ferguson, MO.
‘allegedly black’ until proven otherwise.
I guess the neighbor wasn’t cool with the arrangement and decided to take action. Oh well, it’s another story of racial hate in America. In a few years, the shoe will be on the other foot as whites become a permanent minority. Then, I am afraid, it will be too late to solve the racial divide.
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Basically just another conservative small town that’s turning into a suburb of a growing mostly liberal city. That’s how it was when I moved to the Triangle in the late 80s and I suspect it hasn’t much changed. North Carolina is full of small towns like that, on the outskirts of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Winston-Salem-Greensboro-High Point and in the counties surrounding Charlotte. Some of them dealt with the transition gracefully. Some, not so much.
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What does it matter what the crime rate is. That is no excuse. If there had been no break-ins, would they have responded differently? I doubt it.
I don’t know why he was pepper sprayed, but I understand why the cops were suspicious. All the pictures on the wall were white. He was black. He didn’t look like anybody else in the family.
I would expect the cops to call the foster parents and clear things up.
True enough—but I remember going to Durham to visit my grandparents and aunts & uncles when it was less integrated but more accommodating in some ways.
Then the small towns were just little backwaters where nothing ever happened.
Now those small towns are resisting the 21st century in a way I’ve not seen before.
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Lucky they didnt shoot their gun and all he got was the pepper spray.
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No, I haven’t made up my mind. It just wouldn’t surprise me if the police are doing some of that CYA that certainly has happened X number of times, especially recently.
I didn’t mention the voting thing first. That’s unfortunate, especially if only 128 or so people have registered to vote. Trying to suppress the minority vote has also been in the news of late, however.
Maybe some enterprising journo will check into the NC incident. Until then, it’s all conjecture - on your part too, I might add.
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The police also told the TV station that the neighborhood has recently been the target of criminal activity.
The inherent bias in that statement is they (and/or the neighbor) naturally assumed it was a black boy/man committing those crimes.
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This. If you take a dangerous job, you have to accept those dangers. You can’t transfer them to the innocent people you’re supposed to be protecting. It seems so painfully clear to me. I don’t understand why it’s not brought up more.
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