# The sick video of 4 New Orleans cops beating up on a 67-yr-old former teacher **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 11, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753 "2005-10-11T14:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrahamWellington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/54ee81/32.png) [@GrahamWellington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrahamWellington)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/1 "2005-10-11T14:48:50Z")
That one cop was hitting him hard in the face with his head banging against the building with each punch, it was ugly. I gotta hand it to the elderly black gentleman for being so tough that even four thug cops had their hands full even though it didn’t appear that the guy was making very much of an effort to fight back. The fellow (I didn’t catch his name) was interviewed on GMA a few minutes ago and was asked about the allegation of him being drunk and resisting arrest. He answered that he hadn’t had a drink in 25-years and that he couldn’t have been resisting arrest because the one thug cop sucker punched him from behind. It’s beyond belief that this kind of crap (still) goes on. If there’s any bright spot in all this it’s that a (Caucasian) woman was seen in the video telling one of the cops (as the other rogue cops were doing their thing) that the guy didn’t do anything. At this time, however, they don’t know who the woman is … though it might not matter that much as the fellow was clearly being abused, or so it seemed from the video. Perhaps he’ll at least get some money for what they did to him, we’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/2 "2005-10-11T14:55:40Z")
So what is your general question? ---
**Author:** ![GrahamWellington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/54ee81/32.png) [@GrahamWellington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrahamWellington)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/3 "2005-10-11T15:14:24Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > So what is your general question? I guess I don’t have one. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/4 "2005-10-11T15:22:21Z")
> [@GrahamWellington](#): > > I guess I don’t have one. “Isn’t all this so awful?” is a good enough question for me, which I think the OP implied. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/5 "2005-10-11T15:24:35Z")
> [@E = mc²](#): > > “Isn’t all this so awful?” is a good enough question for me, which I think the OP implied. But it’s not one with a factual answer. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/6 "2005-10-11T15:27:31Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > But it’s not one with a factual answer. “Yes,” seems to work ok. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/7 "2005-10-11T15:37:02Z")
Would it be possible to have this forum not accept an OP unless it contained at least one question mark? And yes, I realize that ATMB is the correct place for this query. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/8 "2005-10-11T16:02:17Z")
If you see a post in the wrong forum, just click the “report this post” button. Moderators can’t read all every post in every forum the second it is posted. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/9 "2005-10-11T16:29:33Z")
I suggest moving this to The Pit, so appropriate epithets can be applied to deserving persons. I suppose a GQ could have been “What percentage of cops use substantial excessive force?” or “How many instances of excessive police force occur in a given year?” If you were very sheltered, you might ask “Do cops in the US ever beat people?”. Folks need to remember cops are just human… some will fail to do their jobs properly, just like everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/10 "2005-10-11T17:16:54Z")
> [@GrahamWellington](#): > > It’s beyond belief that this kind of crap (still) goes on. Beyond belief? This “kind of crap” which I take you to mean an apparent senseless beating by authority figures has always gone on and always will. Is human nature. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/11 "2005-10-11T17:21:28Z")
> [@Mr. Slant](#): > > I suggest moving this to The Pit, so appropriate epithets can be applied to deserving persons. > I suppose a GQ could have been “What percentage of cops use substantial excessive force?” or “How many instances of excessive police force occur in a given year?” > If you were very sheltered, you might ask “Do cops in the US ever beat people?”. > Folks need to remember cops are just human… some will fail to do their jobs properly, just like everyone else. Or you could just visit one (or both) of the active threads there already: > **[To NO police: please don't beat up old people](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=339055)** > > Here Stealing 200 cars during the hurricane might be excusable in some sort of bizarro world, but beating up a non-violent 64 year old man is a bad idea especially if there is cameraman from AP filming you > **[No pit thread on the New Orleans police beating yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=339258)** > > Let’s get it going then. The fucking Police Union is spewing its ususal bullshit about “using the amount of force necessary to overcome the situation.” never mind that there was no “situation” except what the cops created themselves. The video is... (I take that back; the second thread was just locked up.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/12 "2005-10-11T17:53:19Z")
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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/13 "2005-10-11T18:01:51Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > If you see a post in the wrong forum, just click the “report this post” button. Moderators can’t read all every post in every forum the second it is posted. I reported it several hours ago. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sick-video-of-4-new-orleans-cops-beating-up-on-a-67-yr-old-former-teacher/325753/14 "2005-10-11T18:42:31Z")
The General Questions forum is for questions with factual answers. There is no such question here, so I’ll close this thread. Feel free to contribute to the ongoing thread in the BBQ Pit. bibliophage moderator GQ