Post by macky on Jun 22, 2020 2:44:07 GMT
And that's at the base of all the trouble that these guys get themselves into.
In the nineties while installing phones in the Auckland CPD I spoke to an Indian parking ticket warden that had been in the country for only a few months. He was warning me that he would write me a ticket for parking on a Loading Zone if I stayed there. He was polite, no threatening.
I told him that there was no option in this part of the city, I had to work nearby to my installing job because of all the coming and going from my van, and that I would accept the ticket no worries.
It was quite comical because he pulled himself up to his height of at least 5' 3" and in his accent "You Sir, are a gentleman. And for that, I will give the smallest possible ticket. I am a Christian Sir, how can I face my God when I give a ticket to one person and not to another. Here you are Sir."
He went on "You know, where I come from and that Iraqi who was angry with me just a minute ago, there is much bloodshed. Do you know why ? It is because they do not want to obey the law !"
Of course by this time in the narrow street there were quite a few bystanders looking in on all this with grins on their faces, and it took a bit of an effort to not start smiling at this Indian gentleman. The accent was doing it.
But he was right ! Those laws are not made to oppress people (usually), but so that everybody can co-operate and move in the same direction while having the options open to them to do different things, as long as they are within the law. An ordered society.
Brooks broke the law by driving while over the alcohol limit. He broke the law by not co-operating with instructions from the police, by fighting with them (including assault), running when told to stop, snatching a taser from one of the officers when he told Brooks "hands off the taser", firing it at an officer. Undoubtedly breaching his probation conditions.
Is all that obeying the law ?
Another thing which I believe goes a long way to wrecking an ordered society (apart from the media which should be fined appropriately for inflaming serious situations) is these utterly selfish people in the middle levels like that jack-ass Paul Howard who has only got his eyes on his hopeful re-election. Serving up 11 charges outside of a proper investigation before it's finished is selfish, self-serving, and uncaring of the consequences to others.
There seems to be far too much of that sort of thing going on, and it only obstructs justice and fair lawful treatment, and the media does the rest.
I'm sure the officers could have done better. Like I said, they shouldn't have tried to overpower Brooks who very quickly demonstrated his superior strength and grappling ability. But with all that, and the number of laws that Brooks broke in a matter of seconds, the media now has him as some kind of a martyr and the police in general get a bad name once again.
Isn't it a sad day in the country when an habitual child beater and violent person who is serving time for fraud and unlawful imprisonment and who is out on probation, suddenly becomes an iconic figurehead as some sort of a martyr when he is taken out while carrying out so much law-breaking ?
The whole thing is a great shame.
In the nineties while installing phones in the Auckland CPD I spoke to an Indian parking ticket warden that had been in the country for only a few months. He was warning me that he would write me a ticket for parking on a Loading Zone if I stayed there. He was polite, no threatening.
I told him that there was no option in this part of the city, I had to work nearby to my installing job because of all the coming and going from my van, and that I would accept the ticket no worries.
It was quite comical because he pulled himself up to his height of at least 5' 3" and in his accent "You Sir, are a gentleman. And for that, I will give the smallest possible ticket. I am a Christian Sir, how can I face my God when I give a ticket to one person and not to another. Here you are Sir."
He went on "You know, where I come from and that Iraqi who was angry with me just a minute ago, there is much bloodshed. Do you know why ? It is because they do not want to obey the law !"
Of course by this time in the narrow street there were quite a few bystanders looking in on all this with grins on their faces, and it took a bit of an effort to not start smiling at this Indian gentleman. The accent was doing it.
But he was right ! Those laws are not made to oppress people (usually), but so that everybody can co-operate and move in the same direction while having the options open to them to do different things, as long as they are within the law. An ordered society.
Brooks broke the law by driving while over the alcohol limit. He broke the law by not co-operating with instructions from the police, by fighting with them (including assault), running when told to stop, snatching a taser from one of the officers when he told Brooks "hands off the taser", firing it at an officer. Undoubtedly breaching his probation conditions.
Is all that obeying the law ?
Another thing which I believe goes a long way to wrecking an ordered society (apart from the media which should be fined appropriately for inflaming serious situations) is these utterly selfish people in the middle levels like that jack-ass Paul Howard who has only got his eyes on his hopeful re-election. Serving up 11 charges outside of a proper investigation before it's finished is selfish, self-serving, and uncaring of the consequences to others.
There seems to be far too much of that sort of thing going on, and it only obstructs justice and fair lawful treatment, and the media does the rest.
I'm sure the officers could have done better. Like I said, they shouldn't have tried to overpower Brooks who very quickly demonstrated his superior strength and grappling ability. But with all that, and the number of laws that Brooks broke in a matter of seconds, the media now has him as some kind of a martyr and the police in general get a bad name once again.
Isn't it a sad day in the country when an habitual child beater and violent person who is serving time for fraud and unlawful imprisonment and who is out on probation, suddenly becomes an iconic figurehead as some sort of a martyr when he is taken out while carrying out so much law-breaking ?
The whole thing is a great shame.