Cop mocks dying man story on CNN any minute.

[Are_grits_groceries]

I caught the tail end of the blurb. 8:03am et

[Richard Steele]

1. OK, , that was ALMOST a sentence...

...in some ways.

But mostly, not so much.

:wtf:

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

There ia a news story about a cop mocking a dying man. It will be coming up on CNN in a few minutes. The time is now 8:03am ET.

Satisfied.
I was hurrying back to catch the story because I thought it might be related to this.:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5480036&mesg_id=5480036

Now I hope that I have spelled things out sufficiently and with the structure you want. I'm sorry I shocked you so much that a :wtf: was needed.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. OMG!!!!! I'm just learning about that story and the mother posted on DU

WOW!!!!! This is SICKENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:mad:

[Richard Steele]

4. That's still not terribly HELPFUL, but please don't worry about it.

You have a nice day anyway- I'm sure I'll figure out
what you are talking about sooner or later.

[cwydro]

5. If you follow the link, it's not that hard

to understand. That's what I did.

[Richard Steele]

6. If I wanted to "follow links" to know what the FUCK people were talking about,

I could just watch the AOL Headline-page
instead of logging onto DU.

Here at DU, we kinda have a TRADITION of posting
a paragraph or two that explains our thread headers,
knowhutImean?

Notice how this thread hasn't gotten any responses but mine?
That's because it's just a headline with a LINK,
and no explanation in between.

Here at DU, we expect MORE than this.

[cwydro]

7. Who peed in your cornflakes this morning?

My goodness, such anger so early...

[Richard Steele]

12. Let's be honest: it was -ME- again, wasn't it?

Of course, that doesn't have anything to do with the fact
that this OP was a lazily-constructed, semi-coherent
piss-poor excuse for a THREAD STARTER, by DU standards.

[Are_grits_groceries]

13. Bless your heart.

It must be a dull day when all you have to do is patrol DU threads. Are you on the job 24/7 or do you just work weekends??

[Richard Steele]

14. And REC your thread, even though it's FAR from your best work.

That's what botheres me MOST, y'know.
You have a memorable Username, I noticed it early,
and I remember it because you usually post really good stuff.

I see your name next to something, I read it- no question.

But you WASTED a thread here- if you had taken 45 seconds
to cut-n-paste in 4 paragraphs from the story, this thread
would have 10 recs by now.
You've been at DU long enought to know that.

And this story is an important one here- one with a DIRECT link
to an actual DU member.

Of all the times to get LAZY and post a "header/blind link" post,
you really chose POORLY.

[Are_grits_groceries]

15. Okay.

I was in a hurry to see the story before it was off. I thought enough people had read the other post so they might check it out on TV.

I was going to come back and post more, but then I saw your post.

Truce? :hi:

[Richard Steele]

17. No truce is necessary...I was never at WAR with you, friend.

Sometimes I'm an insensitve jerk
who doesn't know how to TALK to people
without pissing them off,
but I was never at war with you. :hug:

[frogcycle]

8. "here at DU"

people do whatever the hell they want. Who died and made YOU king, anyway?

[Richard Steele]

10. Oh, we can do whatever the hell we want? Wow, that's good to know.

In that case, I'm gonna go ahead and put you on "ignore",
just because I WANT to.

Thanks so much for the helpful advice!

Bye bye now! :hi:

[L0oniX]

16. AOL ? Association of Old Lamers? WTF uses AOL for anything?

[Richard Steele]

19. Dude, I'm currently living in a house in the woods in the center of a RED state....

...and AOL dialup is -ALL- there is here. It's fucking MEDIEVAL.

I'd have to drive 2 hours in any direction to find a wireless cable LAN,
I shit you NOT.

Big surprise: folks in this county voted 69/31 for McCain in the last election.

It's an utter SHITHOLE of racist Limbaugh-sucking teabaggers.

[L0oniX]

20. My condolences to you.

[Richard Steele]

22. It's OK. I won't be here forever...

...And at least I have a job. Lots of people don't.
I'm counting my blessings, knowhutimean?

[Egnever]

23. what was hard to understand?

if you need help with figuring out you likely have bigger fish to fry.

[malaise]

18. Can't be the same story Are_grits_groceries

The mother on CNN this morning was black.

[northernlights]

9. did it turn out to be the same person?

For Richard Steele, who apparently got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, A DUer posted just yesterday pleading help. Her 16 year old son had been run over by the target of a police chase. The EMTs arrived within a minute or so. The cops on the scene and the EMTs assumed he was already gone and stood around for 17 or 18 minutes laughing and joking instead of attempting to save him, while her son lay bleeding to death. This was all caught on a police cam, including someone comparing her son to a cockroach that refuses to die.

His mother has waited quietly for 5 months since his death, waiting for the suspect who ran him over to be convicted. She is now suing various agencies. And she was seeking help in publicizing the horrific circumstances of his death.

[Are_grits_groceries]

11. They ran it much later than I was expecting.

I hope they run it again. I came back here and ran into the DU police because of my OP.

Edit to add: I checked the CNN site. It isn't the same person. This was somebody who was shot. It's sickening to hear the cop talk about it. Here's a link just in case my machine has now been hacked so it will blow up if I don't post one.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/04/19/erie.youtube.police.cnn

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. Erie police try to remove video from YouTube

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090417/NEWS02/304179948

Erie police try to remove video from YouTube

Before the YouTube video of an off-duty Erie police officer was locally circulated and Mayor Joe Sinnott was notified of its existence, the police internal-affairs investigator was working with the videotaped officer to find the source of the video and get it removed from the Internet.


Internal-affairs Inspector James DeDionisio was accompanied by the officer in the video, Patrolman James Cousins II, on Tuesday when he questioned the brother of the man who posted the video on April 6.

The brother said DeDionisio warned him to find a way to have the video removed from the Web, and told him police were pursuing a possible wiretapping case against the person who posted it.

The man questioned by DeDionisio and Cousins said Cousins was nearly in tears as he implored the man to find a way to pull the video off the Internet.

An apparently intoxicated Cousins, 40, can be seen on the video at a Girard bar, delivering a profanity-laced monologue in which he makes fun of a March 28 homicide victim, Rondale Jennings Sr., and mocks the victim's grief-stricken mother.

"He said, 'Look, man, they are telling me I could lose my job over this,'" the man said Cousins told him.