Well, I have outrage fatigue practically every day, so today I had it again when a friend pointed out a story I had missed the other day: police brutality in the arrest of a minister and peace activist who was trying to get into the Petreus hearing.
The original video was diaried here and here.
From the sounds of things, it looks like one racist cop was at fault here. The Reverend's comment, that he was "...beaten in the halls of Congress like it was 1967" will stay with me for a long time, and is perhaps befitting of our times under this administration.
For those of you who missed the original diaries, here is the original video of the Reverend being arrested. The cops broke his leg and he had to be hospitalized.
Here is the new video of him explaining the incident. Basically, he had to get out of the line to do a radio interview, and did so with police consent. The other cops were fine with him coming back, except for one. Check out the video.
As if all of this weren't galling enough, he's now being charged with assaulting a police officer.
I thought you'd like to see Yearwood's version of the events. He was definitely a victim of police brutality, and more particularly, it seems, by one cop who was determined to deny him his right to free speech.
I wonder whether our Presidential candidates who happen to also be members of the Senate will have the courage to speak out in his defense.