Comments on: Baited and Switched

By: pascal

pascal — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:33:19 +0000

One standard deviation down….but, of course, that is on average. The Indianapolis area might be closer to two?

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:24:05 +0000

Cops fight crime, it doesn't need more study.

What they demonstrated is violence, not thoughtful discussion and conflict resolution.

By: Taifp

Taifp — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:46:00 +0000

So everybody is wrong, huh? Black people should be able to do as they please and good folks like you will justify it. Is that correct? They should change the name of their church to the Mt. Vernon Lying Bastards for the Good of the Black Children”. What they are doing there has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity. If someone had gotten seriously injured you would be blaming the cop you set up. You are worse than the members that go to this theme park for losers. All they have to do now is pray to their God, Obama, and get him to make this go away. Sounds like a beer summit coming and from what I read about the members of this church they evidently wouldn't have any qualms about alcohol abuse. The father of all lies is Satan so who are they really worshipping there?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:45:37 +0000

IR: Why borrow the divisive terminology (“black community”)? There's but one community & shootings within its jurisdiction are OUR community's problem.

Uncle Rushbo just mentioned the “Baited & switched” story on his show; an exercise in stupidity, not education.

By: Indyracer57

Indyracer57 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:16:19 +0000

Black racists? Many will not like this reply but here it is. Most blacks I have talk to are racists as any whites I have ever met. I once was kidding a person in high office in Indianapolis local government and ask him he should get me a job with the city. I was only kidding but you know what his reply was. He was black and very well known in this town. He lean over and whispered into my ear, so no one could hear him except me, and said that he thought I was the wrong color for that work. How much more racist can you get. But being who I am, I did not make a big deal of it. People are getting tired of hearing about race in this town. Lets fact facts. The last two shootings was a black community problem. Nothing to do with race between white or black. But some keep wanting it to be a race issue.

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:13:55 +0000

For the same reason that the Star put coverage of the Expo shooting on pg. 14 of the paper. They have a phobia about being accused of racism, even beyond their journalistic duty to report events that involve the safety of the general public.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:22:06 +0000

Abdul, thank you for this report. Indianapolis has a few remaining black racists in town, many of whom are hiding in churches. We need to expose black racists in the same way that we expose white racists. The violence that they are creating in this city must stop.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:10:41 +0000

Excuses,Excuses,Excuses……..

This is a clear pattern with old school leadership combined with extremely low expectations.

They call this “Leadership”???

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:11:26 +0000

No one wants to even imagine if the officers response was wrong to the dispute. Let us agree there could have been a better approach to this. Was the officer's response correct or incorrect. Also if the officer knew of the skit was his reaction going to be what it would be in an actual situation. Also the question that should be asked to the Reverend is what was the lesson he wanted to teach. Once we think and ask these questions then we can know how to handle this situation. Because the large issue that know one looks at is the incidents where individuals are perceived to be a threat and they are not and they are injured at the hand of an officer due to inappropriate dispute resolution techniques

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:04:35 +0000

I think everyone looks at this from the wrong point of view. If you want to show a room full of youth why violence is wrong and what could happen when violence occurs this did just that. There is no baiting that truly occured. Youth have incidents like that all the time and the youth and police need to understand what the reaction is of an officer when that occurs. Instead of trying to penalize the people who orchestrated this, lets try to find a resolution to why there is not a more diplomatic way to resolve a dispute.