Wednesday, January 05, 2011

San Francisco's "Abu-Rahmah"?

Israel is being accused of heartlessness, premeditated murder and other assorted crimes in what can only be termed an accidental death, at worst, of an Arab woman last weekend.

What happens at other locations where there is violence and police?

Let's go to San Francisco:

San Francisco police say a knife-wielding man in a wheelchair stabbed an officer before the attacker was shot.

Officers were called to the Department of Public Health building Tuesday morning by witnesses who said the agitated man was slashing tires on parked cars. An officer was stabbed in the shoulder. The police chief says officers tried to subdue the man with pepper spray and eventually a bean bag round before the shooting.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports the man got out of the wheelchair and walked around at one point. Police released a witness cell phone video showing four officers surrounding the suspect in his wheelchair before the shooting.

The suspect and wounded officer are in the hospital with non life-threatening wounds.

Four policemen and one cripple.

Gee.

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4 comments:

Goldbrener said...

Non-San Franciscans probably cannot understand the context for this incident. Please allow me to put things into perspective:

First, your characterization of the wheelchair user as a "cripple" is politically incorrect. Many San Franciscans have adopted wheelchairs as a non-polluting mode of transportation.

Second, it seems likely that the wheelchair activist was exercising his first amendment right to protest against automobiles and their adverse environmental impact.

Suzanne Pomeranz said...

Third (though this should probably be first), if you are talking about the woman who "died from inhaling tear gas while protesting", the whole thing was a hoax, as she was lying in hospital dying of cancer... just more "Palywood".

YMedad said...

As I was deriding the police, PC or not, if it takes 4 to subdue a person requiring a wheelchair, maybe they are the cripples.

And protesting or not, knives are violence just like stones being thrown.

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The dude is totally right, and there is no suspicion.