The Jack-Booted Thug of the Week...

... is King County, Washington Sheriff's Deputy Paul Schene, for beating the snot out of a 15-year-old girl in a holding cell for showing disrespect to him by flipping one of her shoes off in his direction after being ordered to remove them.





Amazingly, "Deputy" Schene has only been charged with misdemeanor assault in the incident, so he's facing only a maximum of one year in jail if convicted, and is of course on administrative leave with full pay while his case is being adjudicated. Unions, you know.

"He and the girl exchanged words. [The other deputy who was present, but did absolutely nothing to stop Schene's brutal assault] Brunner said she was 'real lippy' after being informed she was under arrest and called them 'fat pigs.'"

Schene apparently decided the penalty for being "lippy" in his jail is having one's head bashed against the cell wall, getting punched repeatedly while lying helpless on the floor, and then being brutally lifted up by one's hair. Nice. Very nice.

Special kudos have to go to King County Sheriff's Department spokesman bobo Sgt. Jim Laing, who could only manage to offer up the following mealy-mouthed comment on the incident, as seen on the above news clip:

"I'm not going to make any comment on the video... The video's there for people to see and make their own judgments"

Now that's a forceful condemnation of Schene's disgraceful behavior, Sergeant. Way to go. We see why your employer pays you the big bucks, based on that insightful analysis.

Unfortunately, "Sir", your embarrassingly weak pronouncement about the incident only serves to further prove that the "blue wall of silence" still exists, even when practitioners of it are blatantly confronted with irrefutable evidence of official misconduct.

Imagine this - Schene was fully aware that fixed cameras record everything that happens in that facility, yet he still managed to completely and unwarrantingly lose his cool. What was this thug possibly like out on the streets, where he wasn't being so closely monitored?

Of course, the "authorities" in this country are trying their best to record the comings and goings of every citizen of this country, while simultaneously attempting to impose rules preventing the peasants from doing the exact same thing and recording audio and video of the police performing their duties in public, just like England just did in the name of "fighting terror". Hmmm. Now we clearly see just how valuable such surveillance by members of the public can be in documenting police abuses.

I can only echo the sentiments of some people who have also written about this incident, who opine that if this poor girl were their daughter, jail time would be the least of Schene's problems right about now.