Oh boy, I wish I was an investigative reporter looking to do a story on police brutality and I read a PUBLIC forum like domelights and I read a thread started by a cop who claims officers are lumping people up instead of using a taser to minimize injury.
I took a ton of videos on Wednesday night, but the best two were back-to-back. There was the car-flipping I posted yesterday; above is the video I took a minute or so later.
So, um, since when did Mega Man give up his arm gun and switch to batons? That doesn’t seem like the best way to defeat the evil Dr. Wily and his robot masters!
Eh, really, forget all that baseball BS. What was really in the minds of Philadelphians when the Phillies made the playoffs was this:
YESTERDAY, the Phightin’ Phils were trying to win a postseason game for the first time in 15 years.
But, more seriously, let’s put put present-day Philadelphia into proper perspective with this question: How horrible and pathetic has the City of Brotherly Love become when the number of playoff victories for the baseball team during a period of 15 years is three FEWER than the number of funerals for Philly police officers who were murdered in the line of duty in this year, 2008?
I wonder how our letter writer (John Leonard from Philadelphia) would deal with 1980. Yes, sadly, four police officers died in the line of duty. But the Phillies won seven playoff games and the World Series that year. Not horrible or pathetic at all!
Man, this really is putting baseball into its proper perspective.
Yeah. So that’s not fun. But there’s a lesson here as well: Let’s take a look at the first three comments on the Action News story:
This is pretty much the only three kinds of comments on news stories nowadays: Not-so-subtly racist ones (comment 1), oddly naive responses to previous racist ones (comment 2) and absolute nonsensical ones complaining that soap operas — in this case, One Life to Live and/or All My Children — were pre-empted for a few minutes (comment 3).
Reader Joe writes: “The article says it happened at 1:45, so the story probably went up around 2. The first comment is at 2:06. I think commenter 3 was watching TV and his program was interrupted — so he went online with the specific intention of complaining about the show being bumped.” He also notes that commenter 3 refers to a double-police shooting as a “slow news day.” Man, who needs to be shot to impress that person? “How dare they interrupt Days of Our Lives to tell me the Pope was shot!”
When a Philadelphia sports team has a nationally televised game, the broadcast always includes at least one camera shot of Pat’s and Geno’s. (This is either an FCC rule or sports producers are too lazy to come up with new ideas. Hmm, I think it might be the latter.)
CBS obliged during Sunday’s Eagles-Steelers tilt, and what did we see at Geno’s? That’s right: The famed official Daniel Faulkner shirt calling for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s execution. (For more fun, check out the whole selection of tacky gear available on the Daniel Faulkner Online Store. They even co-opted the “Never forget” slogan.)
I’m fairly certain this isn’t the first time I’ve seen this shirt on a football broadcast, at Geno’s. That shirt might even be the uniform. You do have to hand it to the cops (and, um, cheesesteak cooks). There aren’t too many people who are semi-regularly told they should die on national TV. I’m not sure if that bodes well for the Domelights/Geno’s/Michael Smerconish crowd, though: Nobody was all that successful in killing the other guy I can think of who got that kind of treatment (Osama Bin Laden).
Back when Dan Rubin ran Blinq as a daily blog, everybody read his posts no matter how good or bad they were because he was, for better or worse, the Philadelphia paper of record’s official blogger. Then a while back they pulled him off the blog full-time and gave him a column. Now nobody under the age of 35 reads his stuff anymore, because while they know he writes one of the paper’s metro columns, they can never be bothered to find the thing on the website.
Well, well, well! Rubin wrote a column yesterday that quite a few people read. Specifically, police officers read his column. To be more specific, the kinds of police officers (and cop wannabes) who post on Domelights read his column. Don’t get too excited at once; the media in this town is still too terrified to write about any actual problems with our local cops. No, Rubin wrote about the free parking cops get at sporting events down at the sports complex.
I will personally punch this b*tch in her face. If she NEEDS to wear that scarf on her head, then go get a job a Burlington Coat Factory. We don’t need her.
I love when the first Domelights reply is the best so I don’t have to read any more. But poster CODE3 chimes in later with, “Maybe the threat of physical harm went too far, but I agree about the b1tch part.” That poster also notes he is surprised the Philly.com comments are going against her. Ha!
Homeland Security searched the property; L&I inspected and sealed it. (Someone got L&I to come out!) The four had circulated petitions against police brutality; police went to the residence to investigate a nearby surveillance camera spraypainted inoperable and later entered when “they had probable cause to believe there was trespassing or even burglarizing,” Lt. Frank Vanore told the Daily News. When the foursome went to prison, Moffat said a police captain called it a “kidnapping.”
And just hear what what Mr. Dreamboat says the cops did to him: “I couldn’t find my phone list that was posted on the wall. I couldn’t find a notepad with a bunch of my notes in it. I couldn’t find this little book with a lot of phone numbers in it.” They took any chance of getting a booty call to ease the pain of being detained for 12 hours by the police.
According to the Fraternal Order of Transit Police, SEPTA Transit Police Officer are officially on strike as of 3:15 PM this afternoon. The work stoppage centers on pay, benefit and contract issues. SEPTA reports that measures are in place to continue normal operations during the work stoppage including the use of SEPTA Police Commanders, Philadelphia Police and private security to ensure the safety of riders.
As additional information becomes available it will be forwarded via Alert Philadelphia.
I don’t think this is cause for immediate alarm, but just in case everybody panic.
Eh, really, forget all that baseball BS. What was really in the minds of Philadelphians when the Phillies made the playoffs was 
