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L.A. and Cincinatti Tantrums By: Brian Webber on 10/21/2001; 5:52 PM A lot of talk, especially lately, about riots. Los Angeles and Cincinatti in particular. But can you really call them riots? I watched both events on the news as they occured, and it didn't exactly seem like riot was thr right word. The word I would use is 'Tantrum'. You know how when your a child, and you get so mad you break your things? Or when a prisoner gets so mad he burns his own mattress. That's what happened in L.A. and Cincinatti. Years and years of police brutality coming to a head. That is why I expect a tantrum in New York City any time now. I even cancelled a planned vacation there (I was going to go to a showing of The View). Just wait.
RE: L.A. and Cincinatti Tantrums By: Brian Carnell on 4/23/2001; 7:19 PM Brian Webber wrote: That's what happened in L.A. and Cincinatti. Years and years of police brutaality coming to a head. That's what's annoyed me about a lot of the conservative commentary about what happened in Cincinatti. It's not just about whether or not police were justified in killing this or that suspect, it's about the constant low level harassment tactics that seem endemic with police in urban centers. That and the forces at play in most police departments that make it difficult to weed out bad cops.
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