Cops challenge black student to basketball game, lose, arrest him

[DetlefK]

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/philly-cops-challenge-black-college-student-pickup-basketball-game-and-arrest-him

They challenged 21-year-old Samir hill, point guard in his college team, to a game, 2-on-2. He won without problems.

The cops vowed to return for a rematch the next day. They didn't show up.

Samir's friends had filmed the game and shared it online.

Two days after the match they arrest him because the thought they saw him with contraband, get him to the precinct and search his car, all the while claiming that they are doing this because they suspect one of his friends to be a criminal. (Samir denies this, he mostly hangs out with other college students.) He was released after one-and-a-half hours without charge.

[blackspade]

1. Just a few bad apples.....

[gregcrawford]

2. Of the dozen or so guys I knew in high school who became cops...

... every single one of 'em was a malicious bully with a juvie record. My own stepson had his issues with temper and intolerance, and now he's a cop whose politics are somewhere to the right of Atilla the Hun. He sure as hell didn't get that shit from his mother or me. Some people are just born hardwired for mean.

[RedCappedBandit]

3. Yep.

It is very clear that certain professions attract certain types of people. Compound this with the fact that certain professions actively try to recruit certain types of people, and you have the proliferation of abusive bullies in law enforcement positions.

[samsingh]

4. i guess we're going to have to fire 50% of the cops in America - maybe put them into prison

certainly should be sued for civil rights infringement.

the cops seem to lie without hesitation about everything.

[Ilsa]

5. Philadelphia cops harass teen.

My, aren't they big men! So macho! Harassing a kid after pretending to be friendly with him. Creeps.