{"id":313,"date":"2006-11-13T15:25:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-11-13T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T20:25:23","slug":"as-much-as-i-hate-the-state-patrol-ice-cube-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"as much as I hate the state patrol – Ice Cube was wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time in a slow news season things like this tend to pop up. <\/p>\n

I have to weigh in on this<\/a>. Anyone who takes the side of the \u201cvictim\u201d in this incident (and thousands like it) should be committed. Yes, police brutality is wrong. However, every time this happens the victim coincidentally isn\u2019t exactly a Stanford Alumnus on his way to give blood at the local Red Cross before going to work and performing brain surgery at Cedar Sinai.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at this latest incident in question. I\u2019ll put some choice quotes up. With them OUT of context maybe you\u2019ll start to see my point.<\/p>\n

\u201cgang member William Cardenas\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201conly a fraction of what transpired\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCardenas was resisting\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cwanted on charges of receiving stolen property\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCardenas ran\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201che was resisting\u201d<\/p>\n

Everyone who is protesting for this man \u2013 get a clue! You want to know how you avoid police brutality? Here is a tip sheet for you:<\/p>\n

#1 Don\u2019t break the law<\/p>\n

#2 Don\u2019t break parole<\/p>\n

#3 Don\u2019t run from the police<\/p>\n

#4 Don\u2019t threaten the police<\/p>\n

#5 Don\u2019t resist arrest<\/p>\n

#6 Speak clearly, concisely, and quietly to police or not at all<\/p>\n

#7 Do exactly what law enforcement officers tell you to do at all times<\/p>\n

A similar \u201coutrageous\u201d police incident<\/a> happened a short while ago here when police shot and killed a man holding a baby. <\/p>\n

What Jessie Jackson and family members of the \u201cvictim\u201d won\u2019t tell you is that the police were summoned originally because the man was already shooting at random people on the street before police showed up. They also make light of the fact that the man verbally threatened to kill the child (his own) if the police didn\u2019t leave and then proceeded to use the child as a human shield. Oh \u2013 and never mind the fact that while holding a baby in his arm he used his other arm to point and fire a gun at the police officers that were trying to convince him to put down the baby.<\/p>\n

What is it these people want? Don\u2019t you want criminals to fear the police? If a gang banger thought he\u2019d get shot if he runs from the police don\u2019t you think that would be a more effective deterrent than \u201cdon\u2019t worry, there will be an extensive internal investigation if those cops lay a finger on you while you resist arrest.\u201d Never mind once these criminals ARE arrested they get free housing, food, legal representation and health care \u2013 which trust me in Los Angeles is not cheap. Maybe fewer cars would get stolen by teenagers if the kids knew they\u2019d get the shit beat out of them when the cops finally pull them over. Getting your jaw broken by a 300 pound LAPD officer is scarier to a young punk than getting six months of probation.<\/p>\n

I want a brutal police force, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From time to time in a slow news season things like this tend to pop up. I have to weigh in on this. Anyone who takes the side of the \u201cvictim\u201d in this incident (and thousands like it) should be committed. Yes, police brutality is wrong. However, every time this happens the victim coincidentally isn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}