I have mentioned a couple of times that if I didn’t get into sports media I would have probably study forensics. Even while studying at The Ohio State University, I took a lot of classes not necessarily on the forensics side, but more about the human mind and how people think.
That is a big part of solving crimes, just using your brain and separate the BS from what probably happened. Read this story about Nicole Boyd and the Philadelphia police and then I will tell you what I think really happened.
Philadelphia police are being investigated after a 20-year old college student was beaten when a potted plant fell off of her windowsill during a police interrogation. Nicole Boyd, who’d won a full scholarship to play basketball for The University of Maine, won’t be playing again for a while, after officers used her own lamp to beat her.
A dozen Philadelphia police officers had stopped a partially-blind man on Boyd’s block, which led to an altercation. Boyd, who was in her apartment above, says that strong winds blew a plastic flower pot off the balcony. That’s when she got the attention of police officers below.
Here is the first thing that is pretty obvious, the flower pot didn’t just accidentally fall. It is more likely (and early reports back this up) that Boyd or someone in her home were throwing things, including a flower pot at the police while they were hassling a blind man.
With that being said, for the 100,000th time the police overreacted in handling the situation. No need to beat up a 20 year old flower pot throwing girl. Especially if there are 20 police running in the house. Did they think Boyd was Lara Croft? You have to be pretty pissed off to beat someone with their own lamp.
In the end the police will get away with it, because that is what happens, but also throwing flower pots at officers who have itchy trigger fingers isn’t a good idea as well.
SMARTEN UP NAS