U.S. Officer Arrested for Beating a Chinese Tourist

[JSJ]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/24/content_351350.htm



A Homeland Security inspector of the United States was charged Friday with violating a Chinese tourist's civil rights following an altercation that left the innocent woman's eyes nearly swollen shut and bumps and bruises on her face and head.


The Chinese woman Zhao Yan suffers bumps and bruises on her face and head.


The incident occurred late Wednesday at the Rainbow Bridge on the US-Canadian border in Niagara Falls, after Customs and Border Protection officers confiscated marijuana from a male pedestrian.

Officer Robert Rhodes, mistakenly believing the Chinese woman standing nearby was involved, allegedly sprayed her with pepper spray, threw her against a wall, kneed her in the head as she knelt on the ground and struck her head on the ground while holding her hair, according to witnesses.

Confirms my belief that Ridge, Fascroft, et al, are serious ass-holes--- and the thugs they employ are very retarded.-SJ

[thebigidea]

1. you know, even if she WAS smuggling reefer... that would be ok?

This is the first time I've actually read about a "Homeland Security" guy actually doing anything at all.

Generally all you hear about is Tom Ridge, you never hear much about HS... hell, 411 couldn't even give me a number for them. They had no listing.

For a while I thought they didn't actually exist, just an illusion created to imply safety.

[Aidoneus]

3. They must exist, they're obviously saving us!

don't you watch The Grid? Brave and sexy heroes. Saving us from the perfidious peril of Chinese tourists!

[thebigidea]

4. Ooo, they already have a HS-glorifying series on the air? I didn't know...

There's another one supposedly coming out that sounds even MORE propagantastic:

Bush Backs New Terrorism TV Series

by Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn
Feb 26, 2004, 4:40 PM PT

In what would be a highly unusual action for a president, George W. Bush is apparently giving the White House seal of approval to a television series, D.H.S.--The Series, a drama about the Department of Home Security being introduced Thursday night to prospective networks at an Industry gathering.

President Bush and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge both "endorse and contribute sound bites to the introductions of the series," according to the show's producers.

The show is billed as a realistic action series following the exploits of Special DHS Agents Andrea Bacall and Jack Callahan, portrayed by actors Alison Heruth Waterbury and Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh. The characters venture from the halls of Washington, D.C., to war-torn locales as they fight fanatical terrorism. Producers claim "the series will educate, inform, and inspire the average citizens around the world about America's front-line defense/offense against those who have declared war on the U.S. and our democratic allies."

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. Sounds exactly like J. Edgar Hoover's personal approval and....

...review of each showing of the series "FBI" (1965-1974) starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.:

<http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fbithe/fbithe.htm>

"The FBI marked the first time QM Productions chronicled the exploits of an actual federal law enforcement body and each episode was subject not only to general Bureau approval, but to the personal approval of director J. Edgar Hoover."

[Ravenseye]

13. Don't you Fly?

All the baggage checkers now have Homeland Security on em...I loved one of my last trips out to Socal. The guy at the Pittsburgh airport had to be 70 maybe even 80 years old, but he was a Homeland Security Agent...Luckily I didn't look like that poor girl after I got through to my plane.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Read about this the other day

Your subject line doesn't match the actual headline. Mods will lock your post unless you edit...you still have time to change it. O8)

[JSJ]

5. follow-up article in The Buffalow News

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20040728/1057298.asp


The alleged beating of a Chinese businesswoman by a Customs and Border Protection officer at the Rainbow Bridge last week has turned into an international issue.
The attack against Zhao Yan, a 37-year-old woman visiting the Falls on a business trip to the United States, left her with both eyes nearly swollen shut and the officer, Robert Rhodes, 43, of Niagara Falls, facing a serious criminal charge.

But the incident, which occurred at about 11:15 p.m. last Wednesday night, also has led to these developments:

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing have discussed the incident, with the Chinese official demanding an investigation and the State Department later vowing to conduct a thorough probe.

Zhao's attorney has vowed to file a lawsuit seeking at least $5 million in the incident, which the attorney called an assault on an innocent civilian.

The incident at the Rainbow Bridge also has led to headlines in at least several newspapers in China, with the victim calling the United States a "barbarous" and "brutal" place.

[Judi Lynn]

6. I really hope they aren't going to look the other way here, and cover-up.

This man is a psychopath. He needs to stay away from people who are smaller, or older than he is. He should NOT be around helpless people. He's not competent. He'll probably get a super raise.

[cprise]

7. Brownshirts under the influence of marijuana

I hope this is covered well in the Canadian press.

[drhilarius]

8. "Homeland Security:...

beating coloreds so you don't have to."

[Kinkistyle]

9. Damn! She looks dangerous! Good thing they sprayed her THEN beat her.

Looks like she could give big old American cops a tough time. Can you blame those cops? They're very lives were probably at stake, considering that there was the suspicion that she might possibly be on the strength and reaction enhancing influence of marijuana :eyes:

[thebigidea]

10. Reefer MADNESS!

Ya know, "weird orgies, wild parties, unleashed passions" doesn't sound that horrifying, really.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Where these Parties?????? I wanna go.....................................

[struggle4progress]

14. kick for vicious xenophobes

:kick:

[TheLastMohican]

15. When a man beats a woman

no matter whether he is a policeman or a Home Land Security pigshit, there is something really wrong with his psyche. I bet he beats his wife on a regular basis, if he has a wife, no woman with sense will approach such homicidal maniac.

[0007]

16. How many incidents like this one of the Chinese woman

goes unreported and covered up? With "Private Prisons for America?" and all these new Security and Mercenary companies and Police Departments under the disguise of Homeland Security, I bet the incidents are high.