On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:09:02 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 1/18/14, 10:38 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:29:03 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Houston cops cuff and detain man for an hour
for giving change to homeless person


Police in Houston, Texas handcuffed, detained and searched the vehicle
of an innocent man for over an hour this week, all because he gave
change to a homeless person. According to Houston’s Channel 2 News,
police wrongfully accused Greg Snider of giving drugs to the man who
approached him and asked for change.

Snider said that he was pulling out of a parking deck and talking on his
cell phone when a homeless man asked if he could spare any change.
Snider rolled down his window, gave the man 75 cents and drove away.

Minutes later, a Houston police cruiser appeared in his rear-view
mirror, blue lights blazing. He pulled over and was astonished to find
himself face-to-face with a violently agitated officer.

“He’s screaming. He’s yelling. He’s telling me to get out of the car.
He’s telling me to put my hands on the hood,” Snider recounted. “They’re
like, ‘We saw you downtown. We saw what you did.’ And I was like, ‘Are
you kidding me? I gave a homeless man 75 cents.’”

Officers dragged Snider from his car and cuffed him on the side of the
road. At least 10 other police cruisers arrived at the scene and the
officers spent an hour with drug-sniffing dogs, ripping apart the
interior of Snider’s car and looking for drugs that weren’t there.

Finally, the police were forced to admit their mistake and let Snider
go. He is considering legal action and was particularly put off that the
cops seemed to find the whole thing funny.

“He said everything was a misunderstanding and that I was free to go,”
Snider said. “They were laughing and everything.”

Watch video about this story, embedded below:

http://tinyurl.com/p3dmuey

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In a previous post about misbehaving kids, I mentioned there were a lot
of changes in our society in the last 60 years that contributed to the
problem, and it was a lot more than just plain parenting.

This is a brutal country we live in…and the brutality teaches our
children much that is bad.

There you go. Police are bad. Problem solved.

Tell that to the parents of the hundreds of kids in Chicago and Detroit killed when no police were
around.

There you go again, with Chicago and Detroit. But you have no agenda,
right?

Chicago and Detroit are two fine examples of the problem. But, I can switch to East St. Louis, IL,
Flint, MI, Atlantic City, NJ, Washington, DC....and the list goes on. The people compiling the data
must have some kind of 'agenda'--right?

You post a story of cops making a mistake. No brutality involved. You then generalize, based on your
story, about our 'brutal country' and that 'the brutality teaches our children much that is bad'.
Wow. All that based on the mistake made by some cops.

Look at the hundreds of kids killed in the neighborhoods I showed earlier. Why the hell are you not
decrying them? Not exceptional enough?