makes me sick sick sick sick.

I think many of us Latinos have been feeling and thinking the same thing as you describe here in your article.Seeing the news about the Seattle cops beating and taunting that Latino kid with racial slurs and insults is a sobering experience.
Such brutality is totally outrageous!One truly tragic aspect of this story is that this kind of violence occurs every day-all the time-everywhere in America.Most local city and state news reports rarely get national coverage so we most often do not get a feeling of the macro “big picture” on a national scale of the pervasive and constant pattern of violence directed against Latinos both by police authorities as well as groups and individuals carrying out hate crimes.It’s frightening and sobering to have such an ominous epiphany which unmasks the face of racist America revealing the horror and barbarity beneath the grimacing smiling mask that is racist america..
We latinos will never be free to breathe the air of freedom and live a free life in a world without racism and hate.We are all slaves of different degree with different levels of awareness…some of us see the chains and want to smash them,some of us are so deceived, confused and ignorant we see no chains at all,and some of us who have become pathological and insane wear golden chains as freedom but are still slaves in their minds..
Those of us Latinos alive today will never ever see and feel true freedom..our spiritual freedom is found in struggle and fighting back..
We fight for the freedom of our future..for our future generations..
that is why we must never give up the fight and always continue the struggle against laws like SB 1070 which creates racial profiling,police brutality,hate crimes by groups or individuals…and last but nor least STOP WAR against people of color around the world..
..there is no difference between police brutality in Seattle and US military violence in Afghanistan,Guanatanamo or everywhere else in the third world where people of color live ..it’s the same evil ..

If the video were of a group of Latinos stomping on a prone white kid’s head, Fox News would have it on a continuous loop. The local affiliate’s refusal to report the incident (which happened just outside its door) makes me wonder how many other times they’ve had this kind of video & just haven’t deigned to broadcast it.

As it is, Det. Shane Cobane apologized only for what he said to the victim, not for the fact he stomped on his head. Eleven times he said he was sorry for his “comments,” but never once for the physical assault. The other stomper cop, Mary Lynne Woollum, hasn’t even bothered to say that much.

The Latino community in Seattle isn’t large, 6% or 7% of the population. To get justice, this incident has to be nationalized, kept in front of the whole country until these two thugs are locked up.

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This cop would not be apologizing but for the fact that he was caught on video. I
n light of Arizona and the other states’ enthusiastic support for similar measures, this is turning into an all-out conflict, with a great potential for the emergence of a violent struggle. I’m in regardless.

Bryan, i totally agree with the article questionning whether Obama is going to be able to be as tough as necessary in dealing with Arpaio and all the ish that’s going on. i do not, however, understand why anyone expects more out of him than any President is likely capable of. i don’t think Obama is doing enough, i think he is a few steps too far removed from his community activist beginnings. But i don’t think he should be ashamed for having an Ivy League education that he worked his ass off for. And more so, i really take issue with people cracking on a man’s manhood/macho-credentials, especially against a man of color.

Oh, okay, Bryan… i guess i missed the “context”. As long as someone is doing a lot of good work, it’s okay if they are assholes while doing it, and okay for them to perpetuate macho manhood pissing contests, etc. i mean, hey, why was i expecting them to stay ON POINT.

See, there is PLENTY for them to be pissed about, and plenty of value in what they are pointing out. It does not require them making snide comments about his manhood or his education.

Ok, Bryan, you’re missing my point. Probably quite intentionally. Is it “bad” insulting? Who cares? i’m NOT defending Obama. i’m saying i take offense to the way they frame it with insults to manhood (which only leads to posturing to “prove” manhood, and how much more “manly” could he be but to start a few more wars) and snide comments against education. i would say that no matter WHO they were talking about, no matter what the situation. It’s just shitty. Ok, people’s lives are on the line, i get that. And that needs to be spoken up about. It just doesn’t require gender-conforming/gender-questionning/machismo in order to do it.

ha ha, sabina. Perhaps, y’all are right.