To protect and serve

~ susie

Javier Payne

If you’re like me, you’re disgusted at how little is being done to stop police brutality. This story makes me sick:

The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange reports that Javier Payne suffered cuts to his face, his chest, and a punctured lung from being shoved into the window of the Hookah Shop. Paramedics had to hold Payne’s chest closed as he was rushed to the hospital — though they did not arrive on scene immediately because police called it in with a protocol used for drunks, not for a pediatric emergency.

Payne was arrested that night with another teenager on charges of resisting arrest, obstructing government administration, and assault. While it’s not clear what the circumstances surrounding the arrest were, police often use these kinds of charges to discredit or obscure accusations of brutality. The report filed by the officers made no mention of the window smashing.

After hours of surgery, Payne’s mother was allowed to see her son. “Mommy, Mommy,” he said. “The cop, he pushed my head through the window while I was handcuffed, Mommy, he pushed my head through the window.”

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4 thoughts on “To protect and serve”

  1. Where and when did this happen? Under the broad heading of “To protect and serve” we have this. Obama’s Justice Department (Holder) is finally going to release David Barron’s memo justifying the assassination of an American citizen without due process. Obama wants to make Barron a judge on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. So what’s on Boston’s immediate agenda? Oh that’s right, the trial of the “Boston Bomber” Todashev. Funny how shit happens. Then there’s the 6300 pg. Senate report detailing the crimes of the CIA. When is Obama going to release that report? Under Obama the law is completely out of order.

  3. Philly fought police brutality in the days of Rizzo. We trembled when he became mayor. But he was a paragon of patience with MOVE for one year which surprised us all.

    The problem with resistance is that you have to do it all over again after a generation or two. All this is unfixable. And tweaking it only stalls it, slows it down while they recoup and look for a better strategy in a better time.We can’t win this way. We are going to have to listen to Cody Wilson’s strategies.

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