I hope he gets his 450K.

i need more info. was the teen doing something like robbing the place? he was handcuffed and taken away.

i am not trying to belittle those kicks, he obviously had his hands up.... i don't know, depends on the cirumstances. $450k is a lot of money for 3 kicks.


googled it: sounds like some shady business was going down but the judge let this kid off.... so he decided to sue for a half million. i don't know what amount of testicle damage and chest/face pain could be worth that much money...

i guess it comes down to an old belief of mine: you know who didn't get kicked in the face? the kid NOT selling drugs to undercover cops.

Cause the only factor in determining the outcome of your life is strong self will..

..not age or ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, political climate, access to employment, whether you're part of the dominant social group; right?
>> ^EmptyFriend:

i guess it comes down to an old belief of mine: you know who didn't get kicked in the face? the kid NOT selling drugs to undercover cops.

you know who else didn't get kicked in the head? george w. bush.

You know who thinks it's ok for state security operatives to batter defenceless kids who know if they try to defend themselves they'll be killed or tortured or put in a box for 5 years? Dictatorships. And stupid right wing assholes.>> ^EmptyFriend:

i guess it comes down to an old belief of mine: you know who didn't get kicked in the face? the kid NOT selling drugs to undercover cops.

*money *fail

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>> ^EmptyFriend:

i guess it comes down to an old belief of mine: you know who didn't get kicked in the face? the kid NOT selling drugs to undercover cops.


That would certainly be nice.

>> ^EmptyFriend:

i need more info. was the teen doing something like robbing the place? he was handcuffed and taken away.
i am not trying to belittle those kicks, he obviously had his hands up.... i don't know, depends on the cirumstances. $450k is a lot of money for 3 kicks.

googled it: sounds like some shady business was going down but the judge let this kid off.... so he decided to sue for a half million. i don't know what amount of testicle damage and chest/face pain could be worth that much money...
i guess it comes down to an old belief of mine: you know who didn't get kicked in the face? the kid NOT selling drugs to undercover cops.


More info? [Edit] The kid wasn't doing anything wrong or shady other than looking like someone that sold drugs to an under cover officer... So he gets kicked repeatedly because he looks like someone. Then the cops have the nerve to say what the under cover cop did was necessary/required. I didn't know it was necessary/required to kick someone repeatedly about the body and head because they allegedly sold drugs to an under cover cop. Pathetic. They discuss this at the end of this clip by the way.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Cause the only factor in determining the outcome of your life is strong self will..
..not age or ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, political climate, access to employment, whether you're part of the dominant social group; right?
>> ^EmptyFriend:
i guess it comes down to an old belief of mine: you know who didn't get kicked in the face? the kid NOT selling drugs to undercover cops.



That must be why Jewish and Asian Americans outperform white people.

Different incidents. Oops. I missed that it was at the END of this vid that the new incident is discussed.

I don't follow this that closely, but I think that the Federal Government is stepping in to investigate the Seattle Police Department for unnecessary violence. I live an hour away -- close enough to care, far enough away to not worry about me being a victim at any given moment.


>> ^Duckman33:

>> ^EmptyFriend:
i need more info. was the teen doing something like robbing the place? he was handcuffed and taken away.
i am not trying to belittle those kicks, he obviously had his hands up.... i don't know, depends on the cirumstances. $450k is a lot of money for 3 kicks.

googled it: sounds like some shady business was going down but the judge let this kid off.... so he decided to sue for a half million. i don't know what amount of testicle damage and chest/face pain could be worth that much money...
i guess it comes down to an old belief of mine: you know who didn't get kicked in the face? the kid NOT selling drugs to undercover cops.

More info? [Edit] The kid wasn't doing anything wrong or shady other than looking like someone that sold drugs to an under cover officer... So he gets kicked repeatedly because he looks like someone. Then the cops have the nerve to say what the under cover cop did was necessary/required. I didn't know it was necessary/required to kick someone repeatedly about the body and head because they allegedly sold drugs to an under cover cop. Pathetic. They discuss this at the end of this clip by the way.

>> ^chilaxe:

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
Cause the only factor in determining the outcome of your life is strong self will..
..not age or ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, political climate, access to employment, whether you're part of the dominant social group; right?
>> ^EmptyFriend:
i guess it comes down to an old belief of mine: you know who didn't get kicked in the face? the kid NOT selling drugs to undercover cops.


That must be why Jewish and Asian Americans outperform white people.


I don't see too many Asians or Jewish people running americas corporations. You might see a couple in Executive positions but you also see a couple black people. You think ethnicity isn't something that matters it most certainly does, in study after study after study.

@Yogi

Asian Americans are around 4% of the US population, and Jewish Americans are around 2%, so we wouldn't expect to see a high proportion of CEOs belonging to those groups.

It is, though, not uncommon to see Asian Americans in high positions in Wall Street, in medicine, or as CEOs in Silicon Valley, where I live, and Jewish Americans are certainly overrepresented as CEOs relative to their proportion of the population. The majority of big Hollywood companies, for example, have CEOs who are Jewish.

>> ^chilaxe:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/Yogi" title="member since May 15th, 2009" class="profilelink">Yogi
Asian Americans are around 4% of the US population, and Jewish Americans are around 2%, so we wouldn't expect to see a high proportion of CEOs belonging to those groups.
It is, though, not uncommon to see Asian Americans in high positions in Wall Street, in medicine, or as CEOs in Silicon Valley, where I live, and Jewish Americans are certainly overrepresented as CEOs relative to their proportion of the population. The majority of big Hollywood companies, for example, have CEOs who are Jewish.


Well that certainly show'd me. Oh hey Harlem...Oh hey Compton...Oh hey Black and Hispanic kids graduating at a phenomenally lower rate than white kids. Damn guess there's nothing in America that has to do with ethnicity, socio-economic status, access to employment ect. Must be the weather or something right?

Look you're just crazy if you don't think it matters it does. There's been hundreds of studies on the subject if you want to look it up and stop bothering to argue it over the internet.

@Yogi

The point is that if it's being part of a minority group that causes outcomes, rather than personal actions or culture, it doesn't make sense that some minority groups/cultures not only perform at the same level as the majority group but actually outperform the majority group in many ways.

Emphasize personal actions and positive culture, and people won't be able to disagree with you.

Or alternatively, if we can show that Asian Americans don't perform at the same level or higher than the majority group, that would effectively counter my argument.

may have been somewhat drunk when writing that comment, glad to see i'm not the most hated person in the world.

i am in no way justifying what the cop did. it was a very quick interaction and he probably did not think through what he was doing.

he should probably be fired or at least suspended without pay and issue a formal apology. it sounds like he made a pretty big mistake and hopefully he learned from it.

also, @Duckman33 "The kid wasn't doing anything wrong or shady other than looking like someone that sold drugs to an under cover officer" maybe i'm reading the articles wrong, but this wasn't the wrong kid. he was with the men who sold drugs to and assaulted the officers, he just wasn't the one doing the selling/assaulting and was let off.