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.
I am outraged at this clear-cut case of a race-based violation of Currie’s civil rights. The cops that did this should be fired and prosecuted for illegal entry and assault. But this is North Carolina, so that’s completely out of the question. Forced pepper spraying into the face of those officers would be nice, too.
“police department released a statement saying officers responded to reports of criminal activity and pepper-sprayed Currie after he refused to follow their directions”
Clear case of Contempt of Cop, for which summary punishment is always in order. Should we listen to the guy? Should we deal calmly with a confused situation? Maybe we made a mistake, here? Wait, HE DIDN’T RESPOND MEEKLY TO MY ORDER! Thinking is OVER, time for pepper spray!
I’m only surprised they didn’t charge him with “interfering with officers” or “resisting law enforcement” or some other of the usual legalisms that stand in for Contempt of Cop.
They wouldn’t have to fake anything to justify “the neighborhood where this happened has recently experienced criminal activity.” I live in a predominantly white, middle and upper middle class, predominantly Republican area. I get a weekly police report of activity in my neighborhood and in all neighborhoods within 5-6 miles. There is no neighborhood you could not say that about, including nearby gated communities. It’s vague BS, and it’s irrelevant to police attacking an innocent citizen, minding his own business, in his own home.
I certainly understand where you’re coming from. I guess my point was just cautionary that when we’re being a little hyperbolic, we should try to be self-aware of it so as not to fall into the same deep dark pit of hysterical, irrational, delusional thinking the entire GOP/Teatroll party has jumped into…gleefully…carrying shovels…so they could dig it deeper…
A very good point. It’s why things like high-speed rail get vehemently opposed by certain folks. You know, because certain other folks were supposed to stay corralled in the city where we could keep an eye on them, where they could be economically oppressed en masse very easily and weren’t bringing down the ole property values in the places “they” don’t belong.
Not quite what I meant. More a matter on people in whose families have lived in an an agriculture-centric small town for generations deal with the change that comes when the farms are converted into supersized McMansion subdivisions. Some have adapted to becoming bedroom communities and some have sullenly resisted.
The police were responding to a burglary call, and it is a high crime area. Then they see he is not in the family pics, and he is not even the same color. And then the kid himself said he got “angry”, not really a good idea. Just say “hey, please call my mom and dad, they will verify this”.
They responded to a specific burglary call in that house, but there also had been lots of criminal activity there anyway. It’s a 20 rating for cities, with 100 being the highest. Not too good.
No, the cops were there because some neighbor reported a break in at the house. Then the kid said he lived there, and they saw all the pics of the kids (he was not in them since he was only with them a year) and not only was he not in the pics, he was a totally different color. At that point the kid should just say “hey man, call my folks, I’m a foster kid”, etc. Instead he himself said he got “angry”. Well his anger should be directed at the neighbor who reported him as a burglar, not the cops who reported responded to a call.
And it is a pretty high crime area for the record.
“…And then when they come in and they just profile me and say that I’m not who I am. And that I do not stay here because there was white kids on the wall, that really made me mad…”
He was the smartest person in the room, clearly, and among the most intellectually sophisticated people in the city.
" At that point the kid should just say “hey man, call my folks, I’m a foster kid”, etc. Instead he himself said he got “angry”. "
Being angry when falsely accused in your own home on a racist basis – not like the kids on the wall – is apt to make any young male teenager quite angry. The police should recognize that this is a normal reaction if the kid is telling the truth. The people who should have stayed calm and decided to call his parents were the cops. They are supposed to be both professional and adult.
The real problem is that the idiot cops believed the idiot neighbor and were unwilling to consider the possibility that the kid was telling the truth.
