Chicagoist: Local Man: Cops Hit on my Wife

quicksloth

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:11:25 -0600

Well, much as I hate to say it, compared to the FBI, I guess Chicago cops aren't so bad after all...

fed up

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:38:35 -0600

to quote D. Tilman "Iwants my forty acres and a lexus"

Spook

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:12:00 -0600

LAMO Navin You just launched the first White Reparations Movement. Do you think they will want their own States and proportional representation, Congress and Universities ? Next thing they will discover the glass ceiling!

Navin

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:32:18 -0600

In typical Hollywood form, whites were bad. Too true Ward, It truly is a black man's world. Hopefully that'll change some day.

Spook

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:23:11 -0600

I feel like the voice of the Sheriff in the movie “No County for Old Men”. Like this "stuff" is just a bit over my head, and I can’t quiet grasp it. I wanna understand why, like I wanna make some sense of it. But it just don’t. Especially after looking at the picture of the dude’s Mom in today’s paper and him in a suit. She must have gone out of her mind as much as she was able to hold it together for her son, while he, a good kid, was locked up for a murder he didn’t commit, and she with little resources being his only hope. Mean while this cop is not feeling guilty, but is coercing this dude’s girl friend for sex. I just don’t understand. p.s. The book "No Country for Old Men) was better than the movie and both were better than this.

joseph_dunphy_in_chicago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:17:32 -0600

Quoth Robinson: "Kicked me, stomped me, spit on me. Did that for like three days, from Sunday to Tuesday. I was thinking, why would they do this?" he said. "It's not like I'm a troublemaker, I've got no criminal record. Why pick on me?" If he's telling the truth, that's easy. Because the cops were sociopaths. Honestly solving crimes is hard. Framing innocent people is much easier, and getting a more or less free pass on those nasty, narrowminded laws that keep some of us from indulging their sadistic urges? Pure joy. If one is a sadistic sociopath, that is. For the rest of us, it can kind of suck. Kevin Robinson (any relation, I wonder) writes: "Read the comments on this article for an extra special treat!" They were, but not as bad as I expected. A few idiots arguing that the fact that he was acquitted was beside the point, a genuine brownshirt or two making his appearance, but this time the idiots met resistence. Usually, they really don't.

Spav1

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:51:29 -0600

I am TOTES being sarcastic!

Ward Up

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:23:50 -0600

By the way, maybe I should say that I was NOT being sarcastic.

mike_thoms

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:11:09 -0600

Spav...i thought you were being sarcastic...tell me you're being sarcastic, please.

Spav1

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:07:05 -0600

Mike: Again, a movie with a "GAY" theme will NEVER win best picture. Crash was about WHO WE ALL ARE. Not just being gay. Obvs.

Ward Up

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:01:44 -0600

Also, "Crash" was not even close to being as good as "Brokeback Mountain," the film it beat for Best Picture.

mike_thoms

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:54:18 -0600

Oh yeah I loved Crash...I loved how manipulative it was. It was all the great lessons of an after school special only with more profanity and bigger celebrities.

Spav1

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:50:53 -0600

Mike Thoms: What are you TALKING about?! We are all INTER-CONNECTED! We get TESTED in various ways! The "good guys" aren't ALWAYS what we seem. If there was ever a deserving lesson flick, it was Crash.

mike_thoms

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:42:27 -0600

Ward...that may be true but it doesn't change the fact that Crash is a steaming pile of shit passing itself off as an Oscar winner

Ward Up

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:20:22 -0600

There is a difference between this story and the on in "Crash." Specifically, in "Crash," the offending police officer was white. In the case of today's CPD story, the offending police officer is African-American. I would also point out that "Crash" was fiction. In typical Hollywood form, whites were bad.

mike_thoms

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:50:19 -0600

It doesn't sound overwrought and cliched enough to be from "Crash"

smussy

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:19:45 -0600

is this a real-life scene from 'crash?'