Brickbat: Officer Friendly

Antonio Martinez

Antonio Martinez was just walking between his home and the bakery his family owns in Vista, California, when a San Diego sheriff's deputy decided to stop him and ask him about a domestic violence incident. A neighbor tried to explain that Martinez has Down syndrome and wasn't doing anything wrong, but the deputy then pepper sprayed and struck Martinez with a baton. Deputies took him into custody for possible obstruction of justice. But they released him without filing charges.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Perhaps a certain someone's family bakery wasn't putting enough sprinkles on the donuts.

[Endless Mike]

Yeesh, talk about beating the hand that feeds you...

[Live Free or Diet]

Bakers being schryved upon the pyllory is medieval. Oh, yeah, California.

[Warty]

Right thread this time: It sounds like he had a job, but I don't think he had a hat, and he definitely wasn't bringing home the bacon. So the officer should have known.

[BakedPenguin]

He doesn't look happier than you or me, either, but that could be a result of getting beat up for no reason.

[WomSom]

Welcome to the New Regime! And they wonder why we rejoice everytime some stupid cop gets clipped in the line of duty!

http://www.Ano-Surf.tk

[Ted S.]

Nice alt-text.

[JW]

How bad of a cop do you have to be, to assault a baker? Isn't there some kind of elaborate banishment ceremony indicated in the Police Union's rules for beating the hand?

[Endless Mike]

Dammit, should have down this before I spouted off.

[Endless Mike]

*Read down.

[John C. Randolph]

Where's Dumpy? I'm sure he has some excuse to offer for a cop beating up on an innocent man who presents no danger to him at all.

-jcr

[JW]

There was cake involved. He had to put him down.

[Kaptious Kristen]

The cake is a lie!

[Ted S.]

We obviously don't know the totality of the fact pattern. Besides, we're bigorati. And most of the people are OK with this stuff, as we saw from the celebrations in Boston on Friday.

[Generic Stranger]

Hi. This is Wilford Brimley. Welcome to Retardation Cops: A Celebration. Now, hopefully with this book, I'm gonna dispel a few myths, a few rumors. First off, the retarded cops don't rule the night. They don't rule it. Nobody does. And they don't run in packs. And while they may not be as strong as apes, don't lock eyes with 'em, don't do it. Puts 'em on edge. They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming "No, no, no" and all they hear is "Who wants cake donuts?" Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake donuts.

[sarcasmic]

And nothing else happened.

[Mensan]

Clearly the problem is that the cop was not properly trained to not beat up disabled people for no goddamn reason whatsoever.

[Mainer2]

Ah man, now they're beatin' up retards.

[Stevie OneLeg]

He didn't have a dog to shoot. What do you expect them to do?