Bob Slay wrote:
> Officer Leonpacher, 28, offered a robust defence of his actions,
> insisting the historian had repeatedly refused to co-operate and had
> started to "wrestle". He told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "I used
> an excessive amount of discretion."
"Discretion"? Really! Is that what they call it in
red-neck country?
>
> Joe Cobb, of the Atlanta police department, which held an internal
> inquiry into the incident, said: "The level of force was dictated by
> the professor, not by the officer. This gentleman had his British
> driver's licence on him the entire time. All he had to do was provide
> that to the officer and the worse-case scenario is he would have been
> given a ticket."
Which might have been a bit difficult to do, while being
pinned to the ground and handcuffed by a crew of dim-witted
yokels who have no place on a big-city police force! (If
he'd reached in his pocket for his wallet and drivers'
license, he'd probably have been shot!) |