This is some amazing video--an epic NFL-like takedown tackle LIVE on the Sacramento CBS Affiliate, TV 13.
Besides the cop who tackles the suspect on the bike, take a look at the photographer's work--either he's nuts or one of the best good Samaritans of the century.
Incredible.
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The funny part is that although the cop jumped and tackled the suspect causing the gash above his own eye, they will charge the suspect with battery on an officer. What!? It sucks to be poor and of color in this country!
ReplyDeleteIt sucks to be poor, period!
DeleteAnd yet it always seems to be "poor and of color" in these videos. Coincidence?
Delete@4:11 is right. By the same token every mass shooting seems to come from a privileged white guy. Coincidence?
DeleteHow do you know he's poor? Only poor people commit crime? Why is there an automatic assumption that a brown thief is poor?
DeleteI just heard some white liberal say on the news how sad it was that the black guy in today's amber alert was forced to steal just as it was sad that somebody was carjacked. Seriously, stealing steak and lobster is equal to being carjacked and kidnapped? The man tried to stuff filet mignon and lobsters down his pants, for chrissakes, not baby formula and ground beef. Get out of here with giving criminals cover by assuming they are poor. Being broke - or an opportunist - ain't the same as being poor.
@6:17 over 60% of the prison population in the United States is Black and Hispanic alone. While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. Coincidence?
Delete@6:17 is just plain ignorant.
Delete@8:03: I personally know middle class youth of color who committed violent crime and skated with a slap on the wrist or less. Some grow into career criminals before it catches up with them. Don't confuse who goes to prison with who commits crime. People with resources and connections can go a long way before paying the piper. Former Oakland mayor Lionel Wilson's son was charged twice in federal court for major drug activity and tax evasion. Son of two judges. Did he serve time? Please.
Delete@8:03 most white collar crime committed by whites isn't even prosecuted. Yet we have cops tackling brown guys who skip paying a train fare. There'd be lots of whites behind bars if we had brave cops tackling Wall Street thugs and their puppets in Washington DC. Don't even get me started with the white privilege brats who get away with murder using affluenza as an excuse.
Delete> The man tried to stuff filet mignon and lobsters down his pants, for
Delete> chrissakes...
Plus did you see the store video of the dude? He doesn't dress or look poor.
> By the same token every mass shooting seems to come from a
Delete> privileged white guy. Coincidence?
Actually if you want to do a little research there are plenty plenty of lone-gunman shootings being done by black today, especially recently. They seem to be catching up.
He made a blanket statement. If we wanted to get technical, worldwide, I'm sure people with some color in their skin have committed more mass shootings than "privileged white guys".
DeleteWhat all of these comments show is that there is always someone (like 3:04 and the current administration) that have to turn everything into a racial situation. Such division. We need a "reverend".
DeleteWas this today?
ReplyDeleteMonday.
DeleteThe Raiders could use a safety who can tackle like that cop!
ReplyDeleteWhile it was a great takedown, that kid looked pretty strong and I applaud the (civilian?) with the pony-tail who moved quickly to subdue the perp.
ReplyDeleteIn crocs no less!
DeleteGood Stuff. Love the involvement of the photo guy. Help the guys that help you.
ReplyDeleteThe "reverends" will claim he was intentionally thrown into oncoming traffic violating his civil rights in some way. Then again, the "reverends" probably won't chime in on this one because A. there's no money to be made B. the video clearly showed him trying to run C. again, there's video proof and they can't make money or race bait on this one.
ReplyDeleteHow could this happen during Black History Month?!?
ReplyDeleteThis is everything that is wrong with local news. Five minutes for a guy suspected of not paying for a ride on public transit? That much police? (Of course, I could be wrong and he have been wanted on a violent assault warrant - though I wouldn't know that from the report)
ReplyDeleteDo they spend five minutes on every person busted for not paying for a public transit ride?
The equivalent of a great slam dunk in the 2nd quarter of a loss. Yeah, they'll show the highlight - but what does it add to the story. Not a lot.
Probably good the camera was there for the suspect's sake though.
Amen. I did some research and the guy had a warrant for car theft. I did not see any violent crimes in his record at all. Five minutes of a news broadcast showing a cop doing his job...what's next? Showing a plumber unclogging a toilet?
DeleteHey 8:55: They spend an entire segment of the news on guys just doing their job every day . I think they call it sports. I'd rather see coverage of the police nailing some entitled fare evader. Seriously, the perp was only wanted for car theft? Not your car, why should you care. You know how many violent crimes are commtted with stolen cars? Straight up GTFOOH.
Delete8:55 is right on. The over the top news coverage and the dozens of cops on scene for what? To catch some poor slob who skipped on a $3 fare? Then they act like the diving cop is some sort of hero. Wow I feel much safer knowing a fare evader is in custody thanks to the tackling cop!!! I wish cops would go after all the "homeless" twenty something white kids on the Haight harassing everyone for money. You want to talk about entitled take a look at those idiots with afluenza
DeleteKPIX had a more complete and informative piece on this story. The guy was not coming from his own home, but someone else's he had broken into. They interviewed the homeowner, who I believed was not home when it happened, who said the perp had rifled through his property, and that the guy had just stolen the bike he was riding. It belonged to the homeowner's wife. A thoroughly justified takedown on the part of the police. And kudos to the neighbor who helped.
DeleteHey 10:31: If this guy had a warrant for car theft, what are you bitching about? Anybody who runs from the cops is probably not a choirboy. I have zero sympathy for someone who runs from cops. I'm glad he's off the street.
ReplyDeleteLocal blogs reveal the Bay Area to be crowded with people eager to rationalize away the uncivilized and criminal behavior of African Americans and Hispanics… while local real estate values reveal no accompanying eagerness to have these socioeconomic "victims" as neighbors.
ReplyDeleteI see plenty of uncivilized whites roaming the streets. Their behavior is usually excused by white society as just kids "having fun". Heck I saw a republican white thug on tv the other day threaten to throw a reporter off a balcony. Yet Sherman's rant created more controversy. Coincidence?
DeleteHey10:07: Ever hear of Occupy Oakland? Crazy, violent white people who reigned chaos down for two years and counting. Allegedly the riots in SF Mission Dist were carried out by OO. According to the SF Weekly, the Trayvon Martin riots in Oakland last summer were orchestrated by a 70-year old white anarchist male who lives in SF. Most domestic terrorism is carried out by white people. Isn't it funny how less scary violence is to white folks when it's violence carried out by white folks. If the violence is comitted by nonwhites, you want to call in the Marines.
Delete6:17 AM: Usually excused as kids "having fun" by whom? The voice in your head? Sherman let loose his rant before the largest audience of the television year, that's why the huge response. Learn to think before you type.
ReplyDelete7:32 AM: If you find white people to be as dangerous as blacks, then I have to assume you live in either Bay View, Oakland, or some other colorful Bay Area neighborhood where housing is a bargain and the streets are decorated with flower memorials and chalk outlines.
@3:20: I am a black woman of a certain age. I have never been assaulted by anyone in my life except white males. As a child, beat up, spit on, and like Richard Pryor, I was 18 before I discovered my name was not n***er.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1980's, assaulted on two separate occasions while jogging Lake Merritt early in the morning by a very tall white male. The second time he nearly knocked me off my feet.
Two summers ago, a well dressed white male jogger, white beard, yellow and black togs, did $800 damage to my car while I was stopped for a red light. He said I was in his way. An investigator for the SF DA's office gave me a written witness statement of support while whie I waited for the police who never came.
Then there are the countless times times I've had epithets thrown at me by white males. Never white females or anyone of any other race.
So yes, you are damn straight I am more afraid of white males than anyone.
With just a simple testimonial you just refuted the entirety of crime data collected throughout the world. It is amazing what the mentally ill can accomplish.
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