So a senior Hasidic (ultra-Orthodox) Jew by the surname of Schick is talking on his cellphone while driving in a Hasidic neighbourhood of NYC and the police pull him over for breaking the law. Then lots of young Hasids get upset at this treatment of an elder and riot. All the Hasids are clearly in the wrong. But what happens next is another matter:
"Schick told reporters that the officer who arrested him said, "This is the way we treat a ni**er," as he was violently tossed into a police van. And City Councilman Simcha Felder said he was stunned to hear Esposito scream, "Get the f- - -ing Jews out of here!" as cops in riot gear clashed with rioters. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has acknowledged that Esposito used "inappropriate language," but not a slur. He said he had "full confidence" in his embattled deputy."
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The N-word is not a slur??? I learn something new every day!
And police are very slow to mention the race of an offender if he is black but referring to "f- - -ing Jews" is OK? It seems that when you are Mr Hispanic Deputy Esposito it is. Why else would the police Commissioner himself say that he still had full confidence in his abusive deputy?
Did I mention double standards?
Update
I have received the following email from a regular reader who is a member of the NYPD and who was present at the time of the incident mentioned above:
"First off, Chief Esposito is not Hispanic, but of Italian decent. Also, the man who was first stopped by the police, (Mr. Schick) is in fact, the one who incited the riot by screaming and yelling in the street, attracting a large crowd! On Friday morning (4/7/06) he gave a statement to the NYC media "admitting" that the police "did not" assault him in any way, as he first claimed at the scene! As for the NYC Council member, (who by the way, "was not present" at the time of the incident) who did his best to incite not only the crowd, but the media as well, finally admitted that he did not actually hear the Chief make "any" racial comment, but was told this by "someone" in the crowd! This incident was only the latest in a long series of violent demonstrations in this community..... Also, many people who work for Mr. Schick are now coming forward describing him to the media with words like, "tyrant, slave driver, and non-payer". He has also been accused of making "racially insensitive" remarks to many of the illegal Mexican immigrants that work for him! As the old saying goes, "there are two sides to every story, then there's the truth"."
Prosecuting an 11 Year Old "Racist"
We all know that the schools have gone limp on discipline these days. But kids need discipline on some occasionss. So what to do? The British solution seems to be to take them to court and get the court to discipline them!! So we had recently the case of an 11 year-old boy in Manchester (should that be Personchester?) who called one of his fellow students "Paki, nigger and Bin Laden". I guess it was racist but, more to the point, it was abusive and schools have a reasonable duty to keep abuse between students within some sort of bounds. And no doubt the school did reprimand the boy, which should have ended the matter.
But with the total lack of balance and proportion that is characteristic of poolitical correctness, the school then decided to report the matter to the police and the equally loony police took the matter to court. Fortunately the judge was one of the old school and threw the case out -- though it could possibly be resurrected.
The teachers' union has however now criticized the judge so it seems that British teachers as a whole have totally lost the plot. It's not just a few loonies at fault. Details of the affair here.
And the idea that a police force should be spending its time prosecuting little boys for playground abuse when England is in the grip of soaring rates of murder and gun crime is Kafkaesque. Once again we see the total loss of balance and proportion that political correctness engenders.
