Body-blow Cop Suspended :report

A NYPD tough-guy street cop wear­ing cam­ou­flage jack­et and base­ball cap with peak turned back­wards, is now cool­ing his heels on sus­pen­sion for rain­ing blows on an under­age boy who was ini­tial­ly accused of assault­ing someone.
The charges against the youth were report­ed­ly lat­er dropped.
John McDevitt , an anti-crime cop from the 7^th Precinct was iden­ti­fied as the accused cop who ran in and deliv­ered sev­er­al body-shots to the young man’s mid­sec­tion, while three oth­er cops had him pressed against a car and were in the process of plac­ing cuffs on him.

Interestingly there was a black female cop who stood around as the kid was pound­ed by the cop and did noth­ing. That takes care of the sug­ges­tions racial diver­si­ty with­ing police depart­ments are some sort of panacea for police abuse. From what we have seen in the Eric Garner case and oth­ers, cops of all races appear to be equal oppor­tu­ni­ty abusers.

In this case the black female cop seemed more con­cerned with a lady who iden­ti­fied her­self as a lawyer as she lament­ed that they would actu­al­ly be com­mit­ting the assault in light of recent occurrences.

This is yet anoth­er exam­ple of what black and brown New Yorkers have been com­plain­ing of for years. This is not about aggres­sive polic­ing which is clear­ly need­ed to make sure that crime stats trend down and remain down.

From Social media com­ments of some igno­rant observers, there is no pos­si­bil­i­ty of aggres­sive­ly going after crim­i­nals and respect­ing the rights of citizens.

Of course those opin­ions are not based on real­i­ty , but on utter igno­rance and racial hatred.
Police offi­cers can aggres­sive­ly go after crim­i­nals and at the same time refrain from tram­pling on the rights of cit­i­zens. There is a dif­fer­ence between aggres­sive­ly going after crim­i­nals and being undu­ly aggres­sive with citizens.
One thing this recent upsurge of police abuse, excess and unlaw­ful killings revealed, is the deep ugly under-bel­ly of racism in America. Be it Police or any oth­er mat­ter, the con­ver­sa­tion defaults to race. That is where the igno­rance and utter idio­cy of those who blind­ly sup­port cops or what­ev­er cause they cham­pi­on from the right comes out. No amount of con­vinc­ing will change the views of those who hold racist views, those who hate, into real­iz­ing racism is igno­rance per­son­i­fied. After all igno­rance is all they have to hold onto.
New York cops are not with­out sup­port­ers who believe it is per­fect­ly good prac­tice to abuse, injury and kill peo­ple of col­or. We can­not change the mind of the igno­rant who feel that way. New Yorkers can make cops under­stand we love them , we respect them but we will under no cir­cum­stances allow them to abuse and kill with­out consequence.

Once again NYPD’s finest abuse cit­i­zens then gripe and com­plain about not get­ting respect.
You do not get respect when your demeanor is one of a hooli­gan and a com­mon thug.
Differentiate your­self from hooli­gans thugs and gang­sters and peo­ple will respect your authority.
Nowhere in his­to­ry has those who seek to use brute force over per­sua­sion ever work in the inter­est of the practitioner.
Force begets force , vio­lence begets vio­lence, use the author­i­ty of your badge and peo­ple will respect you.