This El Monte Police Officer Was Justified in Kicking This Suspect in Head as He Surrendered

Read the following article and watch the embedded video to understand a reasonable explanation from the police union about why this head-kick was justified. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/the-kick-deliver-by-an-el-monte-police-officer-to-the-head-of-a-car-chase-suspect-laying-on-the-ground-at-the-ending-of-a-tel.html

The reason that the Police union gave to justify kicking this suspect was that it was a distraction technique that police officers are taught in police training classes. Often a violent and unpredictable suspect will feign surrender, while planning a surprise attack on the arresting officer. Police are taught that a swift jolt to the head will disorient a suspect, so that they can handcuff the suspect without putting themselves at risk.

However, I believe that the kick delivered to this suspects head was justified for an entirely different reason. The cop was completely justified for kicking the suspect in the head because the suspect was obviously a "WASTE OF HUMAN FLESH".

Click on the above link to view the suspect's photo. Obviously this "waste of human flesh" has tattooed himself in such a way as to make himself look like a violent, psychotic felon who is prone to act, unpredictably and irrationally, especially when cornered like a rat.

The suspect's "markings" warned the officer that this suspect was potentially dangerous. The officer was justified by nullifying this potential threat with a kick to the head.

The only reason for a gangster in today's America to tattoo himself in such a manner, is to warn people that he is capable of psychotic, unpredictable,violent and irrational behavior. In other words, he is advertising that he is dangerous.

Similarly, poisonous snakes advertise the danger they pose with bight distinctive markings and sounds. These prominent markings on venomous snakes warns predators that these snakes are potentially dangerous. As a result they are usually left alone.

Just like the poisonous snakes, Extreme markings on gangsters are usually not idle bluffs. In most cases these anti-social sociopaths will be dead or in prison before their 21st birthday as a result of their psychotic behavior. However, their warnings are real, if you mess with them, you are likely to suffer a fatal blow, just like with venomous snakes..

However, even in nature there are posers. There are "look-alike" snakes that are harmless. However, the casual observer can easily confuse them with their deadly their deadly counterparts. In most cases, harmless snakes are protected by their markings that imitate those of their venomous counterparts. However, there are times when their bluff could lead to their death.

I understand why the psychotic, criminal gang member would use extreme tattoos to warn his enemies that he is capable of unpredictable, deadly behavior. However, I do not understand why otherwise normal youngsters in today's popular culture would imitate these violent, psychopathic, gangsters with tattoos, mannerisms, dress, gestures language, music and attitude.

The popularity of "gangster look-a-likes" in today's popular culture is more proof of the statement: .

"When you celebrate and embrace something that is abnormal and unhealthy, reason and common sense are turned on their head. Our children lose the ability to distinguish between, good and bad, right and wrong, normal and abnormal, healthy and unhealthy, constructive and destructive, considerate and rude, brave and cowardly, modest and lewd, vulgar and polite, acceptable and unacceptable, respectful and contemptuous, virtuous and shameful, tolerant and intolerant, etc."

Rather than finding myself in the position of being a victim of police brutality, I personally avoid this scenario by taking the following precautions:

1) I don't run from the police unless I am certain that I will escape. If I am caught, I understand that I am at risk of being beaten.

2) I do not purposely alter my appearance to look like an unpredictable psychotic. This strategy may backfire on me.

3) I speak respectfully to the police. I call them "officer" and I say "yes sir" and "no sir". I keep my hands in full view of the police and make no sudden moves. I strictly follow police instructions whenever I have contact with them.

4) I do my best to keep my criminal record free of felony convictions.

This has been a winning formula for me in avoiding police brutality. I think that these ideas should be taught in schools, universities, the media and the "arts". Instead, they are teaching today's youths that police are brutal, racist and unfair. They are teaching our youth that police are their enemies rather than their strongest defense against psychotic criminals and the like.

Today's police are the most pacified police that this nation has ever seen. They are afraid to perform their job effectively, lest they get criminally charged, sued or fired for doing their job too well. There has undoubtedly been an increase in cases of police brutality brought against cops. It is ironic that this is happening in a time when America's police have become sissified and pacified and less actual brutality is actually being committed.

In many cases, today's police have lost the ability to protect themselves in the sissified environment that now defines most police forces. It stands to reason, that if the criminals fear the cops, rather than the other way around, there will be less crime and less people behind bars.

The commonsense way to reduce crime in America is to have tougher cops, stronger families, and independent citizens.

Television, Computers, MP3 Players, Video Games, Cell Phones, the Breakdown of Morals, and the End of Our Society

I think that the root cause of the breakdown of morals has been the advent of television, and has been worsened by the advent of the computer, mp3 players and cell phones. There is no turning back now and we are all on a collision course with the end of our society as we know it.

I have been watching a lot of old TV shows on cable TV lately. Sit-coms like the Beverly Hillbillies, Sanford and Son, Mash, Mary Tyler Moore (my favorite), Home Improvement, The Jeffersons, Good times, Happy Days, Leave it to Beaver, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family, Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes and Andy Griffith. These shows were mostly made in the 60's and 70's when I was growing up. I didn't notice it when I originally watched these shows back in the 60s and 70s, but now I notice that all of these shows are sending out subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) liberal messages. As the years go by, the messages became more liberal and less subtle. When I was a kid, a big part of my view of the world was based on what I watched on TV. I probably watched 2 hours of TV per day. I remember wondering how my parents could have possibly existed without TV because there was no TV available when they grew up. My parents generation is know as "the greatest generation", because they sacrificed for their children, fought WWII and paved the way for today's prosperity and peace.

It is no accident that the sexual revolution, the feminist movement, the increase in divorce, the increase and acceptance of single mothers, the increase of blended families, the celebration of the working mother, frivolous student protests, the growth of social programs, divisiveness based on wealth and race, the growth of atheism, the pacifist movement, disrespect for the police and the military and the blind acceptance and celebration of everything weird and unusual have all become mainstream, as a result of the messages of these early TV shows and rock and roll music. Many of today's youths, have it so easy, that they never learn the hard truth about life, they learn from TV, movies and music. Others, who have grown up without a "normal family", or in an inner city ghetto, get the message that they are victims and entitled to sympathy and special treatment.

Studies show that today's average teen/tween spends 6 hours per day watching TV, playing video games, on the computer, listening to music and/or talking or text messaging on the cell phone. However, the messages that are sent out on today's media are very strong, blunt, explicit, disrespectful, inconsiderate, violent, sexual, homosexual, outright satanic and immoral. The view that today's youth have of the world is shaped by the messages offered by these medias, just like my generation's views were influenced by TV. But the messages that are sent out today are much stronger and are reinforced by the public schools, the universities, the news media and even by parents who grew up in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. The brainwashing that my generation got from watching Mash, Mary Tyler Moore, Happy Days, and "rock and roll" music, lead to the more blunt and extreme messages that are being disbursed by today's perverted media and education system.

Unfortunately, there is no turning back now. I wish we could go back to newspapers snail mail and the land-line, but we can't put the Jeanie back in the bottle. We are on on downward spiral toward a complete breakdown in morality. Widespread corruption and anarchy will surely follow. When the collapse in our society eventually comes, people will not work together, instead they will act like a mob fighting over the scraps of a once great civilization. They will undoubtedly blame the conservatives, the Christians, and anyone who has retained their moral compass as the cause of the subsequent breakdown of law and order. This will lead to real suffering and wholesale deaths in our country. Sorry if my forecast sounds extreme, and bleak, but I see no other outcome after we suffer a complete moral breakdown coupled with hard times from an economic disaster or an actual physical attack from a foreign or domestic source. Without a strong moral foundation we will be ultra-vulnerable to threats and hard times.

Do you think that I am completely nuts and over-reacting? Do you think that I have everything exactly 180 degrees out of kilter and liberalism will usher in a new era of universal love and peace? Or do you think we will just continue on the path of prosperity and individual freedoms?

Gang Violence vs. Single Moms

I recently saw a documentary on CNN news about gangs in southern California. This documentary highlighted the hard luck stories and the cycle of violence in this gang infested neighborhood in Los Angeles. It told of various gangsters who were brutally murdered, interviewed others who were currently gang members, a priest who buried 150 slain gangsters from the neighborhood, and offered others a way out through a work program .

There were also numerous interviews with their sobbing mothers. They all blamed poverty, peer pressure, and a history of gangs in their neighborhood and families for the fate of these young men. The documentary was 1 hour long and about twenty percent of it was listening to mothers, sisters and girlfriends sob as they told their stories. Amazingly, every mother portrayed in the story was a “single mom”. Also amazingly no, one ever discussed the possibility that just maybe the reason why so many of these men went down the wrong path was that they had no father in their household to discipline them, set an example for them, direct them or advise them.

Every one in the story was portrayed as a victim, even the priest who had been taken advantage of by some of the men he was helping. No solution was given except, the priest who insisted that he would not give up on these young men and keep giving them another chance to do good. From what I saw in this documentary, these men were already “ruined”. Even with the “kit glove” treatment these violent gangsters were given in the interviews, I could tell that they had no conscience. They rationalized hurting and killing others and selling drugs. Many had already been shot and were proud of it. One talked about enjoying feeling the pain when he was beaten. One said that he hated cops because they could carry guns and get away with it. These gangsters had gang symbols and and other bad things tattooed on their bald heads, foreheads necks, forearms, and hands. The only thing that they seemed to take pride in was how evil they could be and how much pain they could cause and receive.The young men interviewed were clearly psychopaths or very good actors. No doubt that these young men probably harbor a great deal of anger and resentment which is probably justified, but it is precisely that anger and resentment that has caused their psychopathic attitudes and behavior.

I myself do not know the path to unlearn this anger and resentment, but there in lies the key. I believe that the answer is individual and spiritual. Some have found it, I have not.They have an attitude of “you can't do anything to me, I'm prepared to be locked up or killed like most of my friends were. Try to hurt me, I welcome the pain and I will only enjoy my revenge even more”.

There is only one example I can think of in my own life that even comes close to this experience. I had an experience as young boy, away from home for the first time, in a sleep-away camp. I remember being on a hike with my counselor and my bunk mates. I began to misbehave in some way on this hike. I don't know exactly what I was doing but I remember the counselor repeatedly scolding me and telling me to stop. I clearly remember thinking that he wasn't my mother, he couldn't beat me up, therefore he had no power over me and I was free to continue to do what ever I wanted. So,I continued with my bad behavior with a feeling of impunity. Next, my counselor told me that if I didn't behave that I would not be permitted to see the movie on Saturday, I would have to remain in the bunk alone instead. I continued to misbehave and he made good on his threat. He already made up his mind and my crying didn't soften his resolve. I stayed alone in the bunk the next day while the other kids watched the movie. I realized that the counselor did have power over me and for the rest of the summer I knew when to back down. Is it possible that this simple incident had changed my life?? I don't know but I still remember it clearly 40 years later.

That day I learned how to take direction from an authority. I believe that is why it is so important for a child to have a strong father for direction,discipline, guidance and example. A mother is also crucial for love, nurturing, support, understanding even sympathy. It is only from this combination do we have a chance of growing up normal.In this day and age, women are no longer stigmatized for bringing up children alone. To the contrary they are glorified as strong and independent women who struggle to succeed against all odds in bringing up their children while maintaining a household and often by working a full time job, all by themselves. While single mothers do struggle and sacrifice, society as a whole, and their very children in particular, are far better off having a strong loving father in the home.

You can jump up and down and scream at me all you want. You can call me sexist and racist. My answer is simple common sense.Open your eyes. Look around you. The black community has a 70% rate of unwed mothers. The Hispanic community has a 35% rate of unwed mothers and whites are not far behind at 25%. These figures have tripled in the past 40 years. Can you not see the accompanying rise in gang activity, and general disrespect for authority?? Men are commonly used as the scapegoat here. It is said that they walk out on their pregnant girlfriends, do not pay child support, are woman abusers,child abusers or abuse drugs and alcohol. That might be true in many cases, but remember two things. First, those behaviors are much more common in men who grew up without a strong loving father and second, the woman has the ultimate responsibility for getting pregnant in the first place. Blaming the man and glorifying the woman does not change this fact. Any woman who has gotten pregnant without the support of a loving husband has made a huge mistake. Only when strong social pressures are put on women not to make this huge mistake, will society see a decline in single moms. And in this mans opinion that is the only way to reduce gang violence, poverty, crime and misery in America

The Case of Anderson Tate Jr.

I researched that story of the man who died in police custody after swallowing a bag of cocaine. Judging from the information that I could find, this seems like a case of media bias. The press seems to be predisposed to take the side of a black criminal, rather than being impartial or, God-forbid, take the side of the police. I could not find a copy of the video, but I did get a description of it from several news articles. I will reprint one of those articles below which was written when the man's mother filed a lawsuit against the City of Fort Pierce, FL.

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A federal civil rights lawsuit recently was filed by the mother of a Black man who swallowed crack cocaine when he was arrested and died in police custody because his pleas for help were ignored by officers.

Anderson Tate Jr., 22, was pulled over by a state trooper in Fort Pierce, FL, in December 1996 for not having a license plate, attorney Guy Rubin said. He swallowed the crack cocaine he was carrying, according to Rubin. When taken to jail, Tate's pleas for help reportedly were ignored, and he was taunted in a three-hour ordeal captured on video by a surveillance camera. He went into convulsions and died later at a hospital.

"It was a tragic death," Tate's mother, Virginia Barrett, said. "You can see what they do to young Blacks who go to jail."

Her lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from the officers involved, the sheriffs office, the city of Fort Pierce and the Florida Highway Patrol.

The St. Lucie County Jail surveillance videotape shows one officer dancing a jig as Tate, strapped in a chair, begged for help.

Two officers were fired, one was demoted and four were suspended, attorney Stuart M. Address said. Six of the officers are White; the other is Hispanic.

Prosecutors are investigating whether to bring criminal charges against them.
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I could not find any articles indicating that the police involved were charged with a crime, nor could I find any evidence that the mother had won the lawsuit. Unless you know otherwise, I assume that the police were not charged with a crime and that the mother did not win her lawsuit. Don't you find it odd that the allegations were reported repeatedly, but I can not find mention of the outcome?

First I would like to say that the articles that I read about this case all tried to infer “racism”. The mainstream media jumps at any opportunity to try and prove that racism is the cause of many of societies problems. I saw no evidence of that in what I read, besides the fact that the victim was black and the police were mostly white and the mother alleges racism.

Second, if no charges were brought against the cops and the mother's civil suit did not prevail, I must assume that the cops had a good reason for what they did that day. I could find no such explanations in any of the articles that I found. To the contrary, I found several related articles written by college professors, the ACLU and Amnesty International who all wrote about racism and police brutality.

Third, although I didn't see the video, I can imagine what went on judging by the articles that I read. I'm sure that the mainstream media were only too happy to repeatedly play that video as an example of racism and police brutality in our country.

Now, you may ask me how I could come to any other conclusion after reading about a video of a black man tied up and thrashing about and saying that he was dying and needed help, while mostly white police officers laughed at him and mocked him until he died. I am hoping to shed some light on how society, particularly the youth, is being deceived and manipulated by the mainstream media, universities, public schools, and the arts. In this case they were repeatedly playing a seemingly damning video of police brutality, without offering any explanation of the police's behavior. It's quite convincing, but then; How come no charges were brought against the police despite charges from the ACLU and Amnesty International, who were calling for investigations? How come a celebrated attorney, Ellis Rubin, did not prevail in his civil suit against the town of Fort Pierce, FL? And how come there were no articles that I could find about the subsequent investigation that apparently cleared the police. How come I could find no articles on the outcome of the lawsuit? How come the only thing that YOU remember seeing, is a video of a black man tied up and begging for help while he was being mocked by the white police?

Well, I will relate a few personal experiences of mine to offer the “other side” of this story that I was unable to find in the press reports. Of course this doesn't have anything to do with the actual case, only my personal experience in similar situations that offer possible explanations.

I have been arrested and locked up about ten times in my life, in various States across the country. Usually, they hold you overnight in a cell in the local police station. On average there are about four to six cells and on a busy night they can put as many as 4 people in each cell. One of the first things that they do when you are being booked, is to ask you if you have any medical problems that require immediate attention or require special medication. If you answer yes, you are immediately seen by a nurse who decides if you need to go to the hospital or need special medication. I have to assume that Anderson Tate Jr. did not request medical attention at this time.

On at least two occasions when I was in jail, there was a prisoner in one of the cells who was raising quite a ruckus. They would scream for hours, thrash about, bang on the walls floor and bars and jump up and down. They would constantly call out to the police who would largely ignore them. They would say that they were sick, that they needed a doctor, they would say that they were dying and needed help. If they became so violent that the cops thought that they might hurt themselves or the other prisoners, they were taken out of the cell and hog-tied and chained to a bench until they calmed down. I assume that they were either very drunk or very high on drugs, the cops seemed to be used to this type of behavior. They eventually calmed down, but sometimes they ranted and raved for hours before they tired out. I believe that this kind of behavior is very common in jail when people are first arrested. If I had a video camera, I could have made a similar video that night and perhaps two or three nights out of every week.

Another possible explanation for why the cops ignored Anderson, was because they thought that he might want to be taken to the hospital, where he knows that he will be more comfortable than jail and he is sure to be given drugs(medication) to calm him down. He may be withdrawing from heroin and his only chance of getting drugs, would be to fool the cops into thinking that he is sick, so that they would send him to the hospital. Heroin addicts will do anything, if they are withdrawing and they think that there is a chance of getting heroine or morphine or codeine or oxycotin. By the way, California now allows heroin addicts to be detoxed in a hospital after being arrested. This came about after someone died during his heroin withdrawal in jail. As a result, police are now more reluctant to arrest heroin addicts in CA, because of the extra time and expense required to care for them. The county Jail in L.A. has a floor that is a hospital ward. My friend Jay-Jay in California, had a virtual “get-out-of-jail-free-card” after her kidneys failed and she required dialysis. Even if the cops caught her with heroine, which is a felony in CA, they would let her go because her medical condition presented too many problems for them, and they would rather let her go than deal with it. Don't feel to happy for her, she died from her heroine addiction. Maybe if she got locked up she would have gotten clean, gone to a rehab, got a kidney transplant, and had a second chance. Who knows, maybe not.

Once, when I was living in Mission Viejo, CA, I almost let a girl die in my apartment, because she told me that she was having an allergic reaction to “medication”, and I didn't believe her. I almost didn't take her to the hospital. Her name was Christine. She was a heroine addict but, off of heroin for six months, because she just got out of jail. She just got out of jail the day before, and was stranded in San Diego, after being imprisoned for about 6 months. She was supposed to come to my apartment in Mission Viejo when she got out. Instead, she decided to call the police and tell them that she wanted to commit suicide. This was a ploy to get admitted to the hospital (nut house) and to get medication. The cops took her to a hospital, just like she wanted, and they gave her lots of medication just like she planned. They released her the next day and gave her a bottle of pills to take with her.

The next day, when I got home from work, there she was, waiting outside my door. She said that she hitch hiked from San Diego. After about a half hour she started telling me that she was sick. She said that it was an allergic reaction to the medication that they gave her at the hospital. She said that she must have taken too much. She begged me to take her to the hospital. I did not believe her. I thought that she was “faking it”, in an effort to get more drugs at the hospital. I was already mad at her for “relapsing” and getting drugs at the hospital in San Diego. She started shaking and breathing heavy. I still thought that she was faking and I refused to take her to the hospital. I was very angry at her for putting on such a show. I told her to call 911 if she was really sick, but she did not. I was now really convinced that she was “faking it”. Then she started making this terrible noise, like her airway was restricted and she couldn't get enough air to breathe. I got scared and I rushed her to the hospital. By the time we got to the hospital she could barely walk and barely breathe. It turned out that she was having an allergic reaction to the medication, and her airway was closing up. They immediately gave her a shot of something, (I think it was called epinephrine), and soon she started to breath normally. It was a close call, a few more minutes and she could have died. She could have died because I didn't believe her at first. She was “the girl that cried wolf”. I understand how come the cops didn't believe Anderson Tate Jr. I might have done the same thing.

All I am trying to say is how eager the press is to portray the cops in a fashion that makes them seem brutal and racist. Apparently, after being exposed to this bias all of your life, you too are eager to believe it. I am trying to open your eyes to what is going on, after all, you do claim to be “open minded”. Please give it some thought.