Appalling behavior

[unixronin]

Boston police threatened to arrest a traffic flagger at a construction site for doing her job, then later denied it had happened.

The tension has been simmering since October 2008, when Massachusetts became one of the last states in the nation to allow civilian flaggers to work at construction sites.  In the weeks after the law was passed, police in some communities taunted civilian flaggers at construction sites.  In Woburn, for example, where the first civilian flagger was used, 50 off-duty officers shouted down a union-represented civilian flagger, calling him a “scab’’ and “pathetic.’’

And we're expected to respect the police.

Comments

[echristo.livejournal.com]

Did you see the article about the Seattle PD? Think it made the rounds yesterday:

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/418746_video.html

Ugh. Jackbooted Thugs.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. Troubling. There's been quite a few troubling incidents lately.