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Man tries exercising his white privilege in fight with police outside a bar; loses
By adamg on Tue, 04/17/2018 - 11:24am
The guy was just not doing well at West End Johnnies on Super Bowl Sunday: The Patriots had lost, the bar wanted him to leave because he'd had too much to drink and then the cops showed up when he refused to leave.
As police escorted him and four friends from the bar, he began to yell at police on the street outside. When they told him it was time to walk away from the Portland Street bar, he yelled he was staying put until he "got to the bottom of this." And then, an officer told the Boston Licensing Board this morning, he upped his verbal ante, yelling:
I'm a white man in 2018 and I'm a federal police officer and this isn't supposed to happen!
Then he advanced towards one of the officers, got in his personal space and then bumped chests. The officer moved back. The man charged him. One of his pals jumped in and grabbed the officer. Two guys charged the officer swinging their arms with clenched fists. A woman jumped into the fray.
The officer sprayed the two charging guys with pepper spray. One stopped fighting, the other ran away. As a large crowd gathered, the jousting continued. Officers pushed the buttons to release more pepper spray - one got sprayed in the face by another officer.
When the spray had cleared, three people were under arrest, including Mr. White Federal Police Officer.
The board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take against West End Johnnie's. Police say the bar did everything right - they cut the guy off when he'd had enough, asked him to leave when he protested and called police when he refused.
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If the bar wanted ...
.... him to leave because he’s had too much to drink “they did their job” IF he got drunk somewhere else. That isn’t clear.
I just reread the article...
... which I should always do before I post.
He was cut off in the bar so he was drinking there. They share some of the responsibility for the incident.
I call bullshit
The bar asked him to leave, and he refused. Bar then does the right thing by calling the cops. 100% on this maroon, 0% on the bar.
If the bar had been serving...
... alcohol responsibly I doubt there would have been a need to call the cops. I recognize that even the most conscientious bartender can slip up sometimes and not recognize the signs of inebriation or miss track of how many drinks a customer has been served, but too often establishments are too happy to take the cash and tips and risk public safety.
Bars' tracking drinks can be unreasonable
What if the Bar has multiple bars? Or what if a patron orders drink from different bartenders? Someone who looks too drunk is one thing, but some people can hold it together for awhile, then boom, they're on the floor drunk.
Bring back billy clubs.
Pepper spray is too difficult to use in a precise manner in a scrum.
So, if he's not really a Federal officer is it possible he ain't even white? Even better, I guess he got his wish of "got to the bottom of this."
A$$hole. Again, the BPD shows its good training and restraint.
Was he a federal officer?
If not, isn't that a crime, too?
Twins
This guy chest bummed a bpd officer, wow I could just imagine what would happen if I got in a bpd officers personal space like that.
White prvilege is getting hit with pepper spray
Instead of bullets. Although BPD cops have shown pretty remarkable restraint in many cases. Although this guy implicitly is stating if he were black, then what he was experiencing would've been ok.
A question I still have never gotten an answer too. First things first, all white people are not racist. But some most definitely are. So for the ones who are, what exactly is it that you hate about everyone else? The hate runs deep with some of them and I never quite understood why.
Fear and Insecurity
When we're raised white, we're implicitly taught that we're supposed to run everything. When that soft power is not there, or not working like we were taught it should, some people can't handle that and freak out. Their whiteness was perceived to be their one sure bet. When that advantage is gone, they realize they've got to fight it out in this world just like everyone else. Which to some white folks, feels like some kind of societal double-cross.
I'd be very interested to
I'd be very interested to know if this individual is,in fact, a member of federal law enforcement (or any federal agency)
The guy probably
thinks he's a member of the Cyber Police.
Ya dun goofed now, Beantown copper! Consequences will never be the same!
Belichick's fault
Not playing Butler started the whole deal.