Video showing a woman being pushed down some stairs by a police officer that led to a battery charge against the woman has prompted calls for charges against the officer. [More]Yeah, that and lying about it and filing false charges makes an eight-hour suspension seem about right, wouldn't you say?
What is this, "Only Ones" imitate art?
Incidentally, if you didn't hear it, Richard Widmark passed away last week. Sadly, my appreciation for his work as a classic American film actor is tempered by disappointment in his real life support for citizen disarmament:
...Widmark often portrayed killers, cops and Western gunslingers. But he said he hated guns.Which I guess means he preferred the advantage going to psychotics on both sides of the law who push women down stairs.
"I know I've made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence," he remarked in a 1976 Associated Press interview. "I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns."
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