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Police cripple teen over offroad permit
posted by Hombre on Monday December 08, @02:53PM
from the Brutality-against-men dept.
News Doctor Damage writes "A young man is confined to a wheelchair and his hopes of a career in aviation are more than likely permanently dashed following an incident of police brutality after a misunderstanding over a permit to take his pickup offroad. The article can be found here and it is being discussed at LibertyForum

Anyone think this incident would have been so egregiously mishandled if the young man were a young woman?"

But haven't feminists taught us that men in power treat other men better than they treat women? In this enlightened age, don't we understand that simply because the officer who savagely attacked the boy was a man his actions therefore represent men's interests?

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This is an outrage... but... (Score:1)
by Hunsvotti on Monday December 08, @09:18PM EST (#1)
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This is certainly an outrage, but I do not believe it is a Men's Activism issue. More of a police-abusing-their-power issue. It happened to a man, yes, but that is a somewhat tenuous link. If it could be shown that this particular branch of the BLM was systematically harassing men, or only requiring men to purchase land access permits, I would see the link. However, this appears to be a single, isolated incident.
Re:This is an outrage... but... (Score:1)
by Doctor Damage (scottg [fivefoursixseven] at yahoo dot com dot au) on Tuesday December 09, @09:07PM EST (#2)
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It's not so much a case of a single police department having a bias against men as being symptomatic of a more general and widespread attitude towards the appropriate treatement of men as opposed to women. I find it impossible to imagine an incident like this being perpetrated against a woman, anywhere in the western world.

for this reason, I think that it bears scrutiny in this forum.
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