Kaka, you either have a point to make or are just feeling lonely.

Bapu, you’re “points” are nothing but a bunch of unsubstantiated conjecture, generalizations, and overwrought bluster. I’m still waiting for you to explain what you meant in comment 56.

Hyperbole for Harbeer …

Enough hyperbole already, let’s have some hyper boliaan!

(Though I wouldn’t necessarily characterize #79 as hyperbole…it’s more like some kind of lame attempt at being snarky.)

Research how black people have been treated in Texas and this event will seem like the cops where actually very nice.

From chron.com (Houston Chronicle online)- Next sheriff vows Sikh aid: Garcia promises investigation into allegations against Harris deputies The image of Sheriff-elect Garcia putting on a turban with the help of a Sikh gentlemen is most compelling…I hope he is able to transform attitudes during his tenure.

Hate to be pedantic, but the guy is putting on a bandanna. NOT a turban.

Next sheriff vows Sikh aid: Garcia promises investigation into allegations against Harris deputies

The image of Sheriff-elect Garcia putting on a turban with the help of a Sikh gentlemen is most compelling…I hope he is able to transform attitudes during his tenure.

once i was standing in a crowd of spectators after a big sporting event, a fair distance from some commotion and celebratory riots.

Where was this: State College PA? or West Virginia?

So, even if I am not Sikh, even if I am not desi, even if I don’t care about Sikhs or Muslims or social justice, even if I am totally and completely 100% selfish, I still have an interest in seeing the police officers in question disciplined for this incident.

This is a good way to put such incidents in perspective. Even if this was white on white or black on black injustice, it is injustice nevertheless. This part of the equation tends to get lost when religion and ethnicity are discussed. It’s hard to leave these factors out of this discussion of course since they are relevant to the case, but I think it tends to obscure the larger point about the injustice.

Thanks Divya. Although the situation isn’t completely similar, I am thinking of Abhijit Mahato’s murderer, who went on to kill Eve Carson about a month later. Due to typical media bias Eve Carson got more attention – blonde, white, young, and a student body president – and I don’t place one tragedy above the other, but if Mahato’s death had gotten the same urgency and outrage, maybe Carson would still be alive. (Um, and I’m not trying to imply the argument that “we have to stop people who hurt desis before they hurt WHITE PEOPLE!!” – just saying that it is ultimately self-defeating for a society to make excuses when police officers screw up this badly.)