I saw this video yesterday on The Globe and Mail website. It shows a cop bodychecking a cyclist during a Critical Mass ride, a monthly protest of urban reliance on motor vehicles. The Globe reports that the cop was stripped of his badge and gun shortly after the incident. When you watch the video for the first time, sure it looks cruel, but you can clearly tell the cop singled this rider out. Comments on the video allege that Police radioed ahead to stop this rider for assaulting a Police Officer a few blocks ahead. Here’s what sucks: because some Jerry saw this and uploaded it to YouTube, some cop is suspended for doing his job. I’m confident that within a few days he’ll be reinstated, but they had to show the public they took action.
The whole ‘caught on tape’ thing is getting a little out of hand. Not to excuse Michael Richards of his racial tirade, but I wonder what kind of publicity it would have gotten if someone hadn’t caught that on video. The same scenario applies to a number of other videos that have surfaced since the video upload craze. It seems to me it just takes something away.
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