Dissecting the Melvin Jones video

by Bill Dusty



wiggum_standingtall For us civilians, the thought of cops fighting crime is often similar to how we view soldiers in combat: We know what they sometimes have to do, but it’s still alarming when we see it happen. And had the cop who swung that flashlight in the Melvin Jones video been anyone other than Officer Asher – perhaps the most distrusted cop in the city’s minority community – then perhaps the incident might not have been as explosive as it has become.

Read my opinion piece on the Melvin Jones III video over at Masslive, here.

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Posted by Bill Dusty on Jan 28th, 2010 and filed under Crime, Latest Posts, Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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