tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126825064641092276.post1475124190155695212..comments2023-10-29T09:14:37.832-04:00Comments on Painfully Objective Political Analysis (POPA): Lacey Seizure Should Prompt OutrageChris Wordenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558836541249077077noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126825064641092276.post-26599546552485887232011-01-31T04:39:24.673-05:002011-01-31T04:39:24.673-05:00Marco, your excuses or blindness is overwhelming....Marco, your excuses or blindness is overwhelming.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126825064641092276.post-59575981953527760582011-01-16T11:39:37.674-05:002011-01-16T11:39:37.674-05:00Anonymous:
The reason someone would care about ...Anonymous: <br /><br />The reason someone would care about the follow up is either: (a) they want to hold a police department accountable for potentially rogue behavior; or (b)they want to prove Lacey made the whole thing up. Regular media inquired into IMPD, Avon, and Hendricks County Sheriff's Office, who said they weren't involved, and ISP wouldn't have been doing that kind of investigation (or so an ISP trooper told me). <br /><br />Sorry, but based on what I've seen in the last two years with IMPD, and the insanely disproportionate number of Latinos and black folk in traffic court in Hendricks (and Hamilton) counties, it seems as likely to me that a department with a reputation and careers to protect would be equally likely to lie about its involvement as a Colts player is to concoct such an incredible whopper for absolutely no gain, maximum distraction at the worse possible time, and incredible likelihood of being derided when discovered.<br /><br />What more would you have me do? How do I break the tie? Say that Lacey must be lying because I'm still mad about him getting burned by Braylon Edwards?Chris Wordenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00558836541249077077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126825064641092276.post-32398241410843967882011-01-16T10:30:08.590-05:002011-01-16T10:30:08.590-05:00You plan on updating this article like you said yo...You plan on updating this article like you said you would, or are you just going to assume everything in the article is true? <br /><br />I know the do-nothing and let it all seem sad and suspicious route is easiest, but if you are going to report it and pontificate, let's do some verification.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126825064641092276.post-87534001877417117402011-01-06T04:13:04.661-05:002011-01-06T04:13:04.661-05:00If anybody's going to make an issue out of it,...If anybody's going to make an issue out of it, then they need to go full tilt. I'm not buying.<br /><br />I'm sure it happens. I'm also sure it happens a fraction as much as the hundreds of accusations and complaints made every month. In my experience the truth is always somewhere in the middle. So now the police have to issue apologies and explain the facts of the case to somebody when even at the conclusion of their investigation they aren't absolutely certain to the level of their involvement? My understanding is that the police do NOT have to tell you why they stopped you, and they certainly do NOT have to issue an apology when their dealing with such a fresh crime scene trail they have what sounds like the entire department going around looking for the suspect.<br /><br />Whether or not they should is a whole other question, but it certainly shouldn't be phrased around some gigantic abridgement of somebody's civil rights, IMHO.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02827041556490981486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3126825064641092276.post-42403722920116482762011-01-05T19:27:31.794-05:002011-01-05T19:27:31.794-05:00I've reported on a similiar thing that happene...I've reported on a similiar thing that happened to my niece. She was, white, driving in a black neighborhood, around 30th and Martin Luther King. She got pulled over ... no allegation she did anything wrong driving. He asked why she was in that neighborhood and suggested she must have been there to buy drugs. The IMPD cop took her out of the car and handcuffed at the back of the vehicle. Then he searched the vehcile, found nothing, and let her go. Apparently the term "probable cause" is lost on that police officer. <br /><br />When my niece filed a complaint, the officer claimed he had not handcuffed my niece. I saw the handcuff marks on her wrists.<br /><br />What happened to Lacey sounds plenty fishy. He was black driving in a white neighborhood. If people don't think there's somethign called driving while black, go to the Carmel City Court on Monday morning and watch the parade of brown and black-skinned defendants who have been given tickets in that city.Paul K. Ogdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137003328850866711noreply@blogger.com