Comments on: Don’t Throw Snowballs In D.C.

By: Sandra Seegars

Sandra Seegars — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:25:41 +0000

I don’t know of any sensible grown folk who would plan to go to a busy intersection and hurl snowballs at unsuspecting motorists, or assault/batter anyone with a snowball who is not a confirmed participant in the fiasco. Is the detective in trouble because he is African American and the snowball hurling mob is Caucasian? Double standards! A Caucasian police officer can shoot African Americans in the back and it’s ok! A mob of non hood wearing police officers can beat an African American almost to death and it’s ok. If the mob refused to adhere to the officer’s warning to stop and hit him in the face with snowball(s), what was he supposed to do?
The police should have arrested the entire mob.

By: OMI

OMI — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:41:54 +0000

You are defacing an innocent man’s character “Elmer Baylor”. He is NOT the detective that performed this act. It is MICHAEL BAYLOR! If diligent research was performed you would have realized there are two detectives on the department.

By: Martha Washington

Martha Washington — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:43:06 +0000

If I had been there, and he pulled his gun on me, I would have been in a life threatening situation and shot him dead leaving red blood in the white snow.
Don’t go pulling your gun without expecting that you might get shot.
People will start to take matters in their own hands if justice is not respected.

By: Seymour Glass

Seymour Glass — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:22:56 +0000

He should have shot those dirty hippies.

By: OhNoNotAgain

OhNoNotAgain — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:26:14 +0000

The actual incident, a tempest in a teapot. Hot-headed cop got mad his car was hit with a snowball.
Bigger issue is, good lord, look how MANY cameras are going here. I think a TV crew showed up before it was over.
Imagine if Rodney King happened today. There’s be like 50 angles of it and we’d probably have heard every word the cops said as they hit him again. And again.
I think most cops are great folks and want to help. Then there are hot heads. Some of those get a rush off the authori-tye. Some have drop pieces.
Gonna have to be extra careful with those drop pieces these days if everyone and their uncle has a camera or a cellphone video.

By: Just a good ole boy

Just a good ole boy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:51:27 +0000

Black cop pulls a gun on a crowd of mostly white kids over a snowball fight–no racism involved; a white officer questions a black man about his presence at the scene of a break in–and the officer is a racist. Is it me or is there something wrong here??

But let’s take this a step further,exactly what law was broken that caused a off duty officer to stop his vehicle in the middle of what has been termed by the media as a friendly snowball fight?? The reports of the presence of “weapons” has no been discredited as the only ones with guns were law enforcement. Further local officals tried to down play the incident stating there was no confrontation, until the tapes showed up of the officer shoving a student in the face, the officer walking around brandishing his service weapon, the responding officers responding with their weapons drawn (until they realized it was one of their own with a gun).

It does cause a person to stop,pause and wonder how close we came to media event where a law enforcement person killed a student(s)?? Every day thousands of men and women get up,put on their uniforms and go out and risk their lives to protect us,our property,our children, that which we hold most dearest. Then one of them comes along and does something that just makes you wonder…

By: Biggie Tea

Biggie Tea — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:49:57 +0000

I’m torn. On the one hand, the cop clearly overreacted and should never have drawn a weapon. He needs to suffer some kind of discipline at his job over this. But on the other hand, there sure were a lot of douchebags in that crowd. Loud, obnoxious, hipster douchebags. Hard to feel real sorry for some of them.

By: countryboy

countryboy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:36:16 +0000

Bet if he had fired into the air those little Democrats would have “Pelosied” in their pants.

By: Jeffy01

Jeffy01 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:15:51 +0000

Warren Bolton ought to be outraged. This is as big as the news of his sunday school christmas party, no doubt the subject of his latest big news scoop. This should be front page above the fold at The State.

By: Mike at the beach

Mike at the beach — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:07:37 +0000

That’s a little nuts- no pistol necessary for those girlie granola-eaters. I would have just grabbed the first one I could get my mitts on and hit him with a few special snowballs up close and personal to see if any of the others wanted some of that action…