Brickbat: Shine a Light

A federal grand jury has indicted former Louisiana state trooper Jacob Brown for a civil rights violation in a 2019 beating that left a black motorist with a broken jaw and broken ribs. Brown struck Aaron Larry Bowman 18 times with a flashlight. Brown recorded 23 use-of-force incidents since 2015, 19 against black people. He also faces state charges in connection with the Bowman case and the arrests of two other black drivers.

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The trooper later told investigators he “was in the area and was trying to get involved.”

The trooper's wife was just happy her husband found a different outlet for that night.

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[Chumby]

No report on the condition of the flashlight. Really hope it was able to make it’s way home safely.

[mad.casual]

Was the flashlight black?

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[Stuck in California]

Of course not.

The flashlight is black.

[m4019597]

In fairness, the area he patrolled is over 60% black in demographic, and his use of force is in line with that. It’s not like he singled out a group.

For a city with nearly the worst crime rate in America, if he cracked more skulls he’d be doing a public service.

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Committing crimes stops crimes!

[MatthewSlyfield]

Cracking the skulls of innocent people does nothing to reduce crime no matter how high the crime rates are.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Technically, if innocent people stop reporting crimes, the rate will drop.

[Gray_Jay]

Was he innocent, Matthew? The linked article says Bowman was resisting getting into handcuffs when Brown showed up.

I have no idea whether Brown used excessive force on Bowman to get Bowman to comply with a lawful arrest. He very well could be an Officer Tackleberry-type.

I do know that the standards have de facto changed, from 2019 to 2021, and I'm not trusting that a grand jury in 2021, if it matches the ethnic mix of the 60% Black area, is going to dispassionately evaluate the action of a White police officer whacking a Black man with a Mag-Lite.

Use of force is ugly. Period. That ugliness can cause people to ignore any questions of whether it's a justified use of force or not.

[Ben of Houston]

Thank you for pointing that out. Given how segregated a lot of areas are, if officers are going to be assigned to a certain area, they are going to overwhelmingly interact with one ethnic group or another.

The most important thing isn't even the 23 excessive force complaints (many of which could have been fake to deflect blame from the arrestee's actual cause of arrest). The issue is the trial at hand. Did he brutalize a man with flashlight? It seems fairly straightforward. Convict him of this, get his badge, then let's move on to the next case.

[jimc5499]

"Convict him of this, get his badge, then let’s move on to the next case."

So if they don't convict him? If they find that he was acting within Department rules and guidelines? If that happens I'll bet that there is no push to change the rules or guidelines. Just another White cop getting away with it. It's real easy to blame the Cop, while the Democrat politicians passing policy to suck up to police unions keep getting away with it.

If the cop is in the wrong, by all means punish him. If not look at why he wasn't in the wrong.

[buckleup]

He's perfect for the far left Biden admin, they like those types.

[Earth Skeptic]

Give a man a flashlight, and every problem looks like a nail.

[Chumby]

Give a man a fleshlight and he wants to nail every problem.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

It's pathetic that reason is getting pulled into the racial essentialism game. What the officer did was wrong, it's not more wrong because the victim was black

[Rossami]

More specifically, it's not more wrong because this particular victim was black. Based on the local demographics, this cop seems to be an equal-opportunity abuser.

Now can we please have a proper article looking into all those prior cases and trying to figure out why this abuse was allowed to continue for so long? In particular, what was the role of the local police union in those proceedings?

[Brandybuck]

Reason never claimed it was more wrong. Stop injecting your racism into everything you read.

[Brandybuck]

Sure he got indicted. But let's see a Louisiana jury convict a White trooper for beating a Black man. Call me when it happens.

[Dillinger]

Brown on black crime is the worst.

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