After watching that video I think I would want to file a complaint against that officer.. You do not taser someone unless they become violent.
First, he wouldn't be RUNNING the team any more than my owning Microsoft stock means I run the company along with Bill Gates. Second, you don't know WTF you are talking about with your slanders. The only racists in the NFL are people who want racial quotas in hiring and race-baiting neanderthals like Al Sharpton who egg them on.
i'm a cop. i pseudo defended the san diego cops in the other incident b/c the video was incomplete. these officers are completely in the wrong and should be reprimanded. the jets fan should sue.
Thank you very much for posting this. I was hoping a police officer would respond and call it like that. As a combat veteran in Vietnam, I also once responded in similar fashion to the LT Calley Trials, in which he was accused of mowing down innocent Vietnamese civilians in a ditch outside of a village called My Lai. I denounced the killings, even though he was "one of my own." I therefore commend you, Stanner, for taking this stand. What's right is right. You will never go wrong with taking that stand, my friend.
Jets fans in Indy... I am a 17 year season ticket holder and all of the Jets fan my son and I and our firends talked to were great. Several of them were very surprised how friendly the city was and took some ribbing as great sports. Sucks to lose and alcohol makes it even more of a pisser some times....Just wanted to say that I expected jackasses and didn't see it.
got to admit, if i were a cop, me and my badge buddies would routinely kick the living shit out of ANY opposing fans that even made eye contact with us. except for jet fans, of course.
both of these incidents reminds me of how the soccer fans in england behave. it's awsome. they follow their team from stadium to stadium and rumble the fuck out of anyone and everyone. when rex calls us out to be the badest ass fans in the nfl, clearly this is what he has in mind!!!! i think rex is a bit miffed that jet fans didn't take out 200-300 colt fans after that hit on sanchez and i don't blame him.
This was posted in the Sun-Sentinel as well. http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/spo...g/2010/01/jets_fans_vs_police_in_the_pla.html
Not to drag up an ugly incident that made no one look good in the media, but there is an important fact that seems to be missed here: Mallon wasn't even tased. There are multiple views of the incident now available on youtube. They take a few seconds to find. From different camera perspectives you see exactly what happened: 1-the police were trying to make their way down the road 2-a fan wearing a Jets fire helmet obstructed the scene and pretended to direct traffic blowing a whistle drunk in the middle of the way 3-the cops got out and talked to the man and his buddies. 4-the guys talked back and the guy wearing the fire helmet got back into the middle of the cops path, blowing his stupid whistle again 5-his buddy gets pulled away by the cops (audio unintelligible), but one can only assume that he must have done more than make a cute comment. Otherwise the fireman would have been nabbed first. 6-They pulled the man to the trunk of the squad car, he didn't follow instructions and resisted, and the cops pulled the taser out and told him to calm down or he would be tased. 7-Mallon and the fireman were both charged with public intox (not suspected, but public intox), among other things. 8-Mallon decides to go on the news back in NYC and he + attorney father suggest he was tased and decide to press charges 9-a day later, he suddenly decides not to press charges...maybe because the other angles support the fact the guy was never tased in the first place. Lesson: if you're going to get drunk at a game, don't mess with cops. If you are a cop, you might want to at least appear to try a little harder before coming down on the guy. Cameras will be rolling in a crowd, and not all angles will support your view of how things occurred.
I'm pretty sure you're right, he wasn't tasered. But regardless, don't go trying to justify the cops overreacting. See the video I posted previously, in which you can clearly hear the cop begin cursing at the fan like he was in a bar with his buddies looking to pick a fight; you know, instead of trying to maintain the peace, serve and protect. Don't say s*** like "the cops got out and talked to the man and his buddies" - it was clear they weren't simply "talking" to them, but being incredibly antagonistic and aggressive. Maybe this guy was guilty of being a moron by obstructing the cops' passage, but does that really warrant the reaction from the cops? And why should we "only assume that he must have done more than make a cute comment"? Your mentality that cops should always be assumed to be right is part of the problem. Too often, they aren't. Just the fact that they charged him with public intoxication, something which every other fan in the video could have been arrested for, shows that he did such little wrong they needed to charge him with something ridiculous. Lesson: This guy may have been acting like an idiot. But what he did (if your version is accurate) doesn't warrant the reaction he got. And nothing he did in the video should have prompted the cop to pull his taser (which he did), whether he used it or not. The fact is, the general public should feel safer with the presence of our police force, not feel like this is Nazi Germany and cops are the Gestapo, always given a free hand. P.S. Please post these "other" views/videos you've found on YouTube.
