A Tazy Shade of Winter

Call me odd, but if the cops story about the Arab-American kid at UCLA is true, that he wouldn't show his identification after being politely asked for it at 11 p.m. in a campus library like everybody else was, then I have little sympathy for him. That policy has been in effect for sometime and he wasn't singled out.

Yeah, the police may have gone a little overboard. But the fact of the matter is that in this world, as much of a liberal as I am, the only thing some people will understand is a good old fashioned ass kicking. Or in this case, tasing.

Listen pal, you may not have intended to do it, but the practical effect is that you attempted to use your ethnicity as a shield from a rule everybody had to follow in order to protect the folks who have a legitimate reason to be there. For that, I extend you a hardy medial unidigital salute.
As far as his civil attorney, Steven Yagman, who is, in my opinion, a vexatious litigator, goes, his showing up in a courtroom ought to illicit the same reaction that major league general managers have when a player they were interested in has hired Scott Boras to represent him: a roll of the eyes and a "no dice."

Of course, I could change my mind when more about all this is disclosed. If one of the cops threatened a bystander with being tased, though, he has to be fired. That would tend to incite a crowd and could have resulted in something truly horrendous.