tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5347647072759243617..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: How it went down for Thabo: NYPD chokeslam, broken leg, plain sight perpwalk show -- American dream glass half full?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70415141777527843792015-04-18T01:15:21.177-07:002015-04-18T01:15:21.177-07:00(By the by, Thabo has now had surgery, is experien...(By the by, Thabo has now had surgery, is experiencing "significant pain," and is not expected to be able to work at his livelihood again for at least six months, if ever.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5262639142814110192015-04-18T01:12:03.283-07:002015-04-18T01:12:03.283-07:00In case anyone's interested, new witness and v...In case anyone's interested, new witness and video evidence helps clarify what happened.<br /><br />The violence occurs a block away from the nightclub.<br /><br />Sefolosha has said the police followed him down the block, and that he made so bold as to ask why.<br /><br />That's a no-no. They're cops. He's a black man in a hoodie. <br /><br />Sefolosha is heard on the available videos to say to police, "Just relax" and "Calm down". <br /><br />The cops however do just the opposite, pushing and pulling him in opposite directions.<br /><br />The new video shows the rogue cop with the nightstick breaking Thabo's leg at 0:18. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2015/04/10/thabo-sefolosha-arrest-video-nypd-officer-swing-baton/" rel="nofollow">Sefolosha beating by NYPD</a><br /><br />The new American Dream is a nightmare.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73295316223918637482015-04-11T23:01:11.626-07:002015-04-11T23:01:11.626-07:00A second video of the arrest incident now comes ou...A second video of the arrest incident now comes out. At c. twenty seconds in, you can see the punk cop swing his baton, and there's that pop, and Sefolosha is down,... and then is led away, limping.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xc8SAZyvKw" rel="nofollow">Second Sefolosha video -- the nightstick blow that breaks his leg</a><br /><br />I once fell on some anti-vehicle spikes, crossing a parking lot on foot. One of the spikes went into my leg. Compound fracture of the fibula. It's not an injury you'd want to have.<br /><br />That kid doing the "video analysis" shows how seriously routine police brutality is taken in this country.<br /><br />Of course I don't know Sefolosha personally. The family history -- father a South African musician, mother a Swiss artist, the parents having left Pretoria due to harassment as a mixed couple under apartheid -- would, one supposes, affect Sefolosha's understanding of life and the world, somewhat.<br /><br />He and his wife have contributed significantly to charitable causes in South Africa. At one event, they raised $70,000 for this purpose, and added to that another $30,000 of their own money.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51473296172448251322015-04-11T01:37:49.302-07:002015-04-11T01:37:49.302-07:00It makes me think of the phrase that did the round...It makes me think of the phrase that did the rounds over here through the eighties, "Innocent until proven Irish".<br /><br /><br />I have no words for the idiot boy.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80496506523754601092015-04-10T07:21:12.603-07:002015-04-10T07:21:12.603-07:00Thabo Sefolosha: Video of Brutal Clash with Cops.....<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THLMPHTDd-U" rel="nofollow">Thabo Sefolosha: Video of Brutal Clash with Cops... Headlocked & Taken Down (9 April 2015)</a><br /><br />"Jesus Whitey... bullshit, bullshit..." "Oh my God..." -- and one hard pop. <br /><br />Nightstick on bone?<br /><br />"Encule le flic"<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6o0XnFRjZQ" rel="nofollow">Public Reaction to Thabo Sefolosha Leg Fracture Suffered at Hands of NYPD</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com