() On Oct. 24, the San Jose Mercury News released the video of a San Jose State math major getting beaten and tased by the San Jose Police Department in his home on Sept. 3, 2009. Police were called to the scene after 20-year-old Phuong Ho allegedly Full Story »
Posted by Nick Glasowiski - via New America Media
The continued abuses of SJPD are unconscionable and ridiculous - the fact that the city has yet to take this seriously begs for serious revolt from city residents, which this article describes well. A highly relevant issue that's been under-covered by most local media. This is more or less advocacy journalism, but I don't think that makes it any less useful or insightful - just don't read this if you're looking for the standard press release shill-pieces.
. . . 2009 San Jose is mirroring the same combustible tensions that set off the Rodney King riots of 1991 Los Angeles.
The Phuong Ho video has elicited such outrage in San Jose because it comes on the heels of a year-long sequence of various public revelations of police abuse, and a matching series of failures by city leadership to respond to the demands for transparency and accountability that have spanned ethnic communities.
Absolutely true and important context for this situation.
An apt parallel.