"W" Wrap Party Fiasco!

[Joe Vinson]

TMZ is reporting that, at the wrap party for Oliver Stone's "W," actors Jeffrey Wright and Josh Brolin got involved in a brawl that ended with Shreveport cops repeatedly tasing and pepper-spraying Wright, while calling him the N-word, and Brolin getting pepper-sprayed for "interfering with a police officer."

http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/16/actors-tased-pepper-sprayed-n-word-used/

Yikes! I hope this isn't true -- or has been exaggerated -- for the sake of Shreveport's burgeoning film industry. Greg, have you heard any details of this?

[Brandon Fraley]

wow... what a great way for this flick to get off the ground :/

have cops always been dicks? I'm only 23 and don't have a whole lot of experience with this, but while the institution is well meaning, and necessary, cops are dicks :/ Has anyone here had a good experience with a cop? Black people have been calling this stuff out for generations, and frankly I'm starting to think it's not hyperbole.

Also, I mean c'mon! How many police are caught on tape saying the N-word!!! If I was a racist asshole, I'd at LEAST not be stupid enough to let slurs fly while I'm kicking the snot out of a black guy! I mean really! They're racist AND retarded???? (well, I suppose the second one probably goes with the first)

[Peter McCully]

Perhaps there's material in there for Oliver Stone's next movie...

[Lucas Wilson]

have cops always been dicks? I'm only 23 and don't have a whole lot of experience with this, but while the institution is well meaning, and necessary, cops are dicks :/ Has anyone here had a good experience with a cop? Black people have been calling this stuff out for generations, and frankly I'm starting to think it's not hyperbole.

Brandon,

Insert a nationality or religion or any other profession where you say <cops> in that first sentence and you may see how impressively offensive it is.

This isn't the place for that kind of talk.

Lucas
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LA, CA, USA

[Steve Sanacore]

Brandon,

Insert a nationality or religion or any other profession where you say <cops> in that first sentence and you may see how impressively offensive it is.

This isn't the place for that kind of talk.

Lucas
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LA, CA, USA

I agree with Lucas.

[fightordie]

Brandon,

Insert a nationality or religion or any other profession where you say <cops> in that first sentence and you may see how impressively offensive it is.

This isn't the place for that kind of talk.

Lucas
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LA, CA, USA

Oh please. Your statement I find more offensive. We're talking cops here. Cops have been know to abuse their power and today tasering seems to be a regular occurrence in the US for any act of civil disobedience.
Questioning whether they're dicks or not in todays climate is valid.
You on the other hand, by changing the context, showed yourself to be one too.

[Ethan Cooper]

I've lived in Louisiana for about 10 years now and I've got to say that this is the most openly racist state I've ever been in. It's accepted and ok for white people not to like black people and to think of them as glorified animals.

I've had several conversations with white co-workers who I didn't know very well in which they just expected that since I was white too that it was perfectly fine to refer to black people with derogatory terms and generally speak badly about "those people" as if they were any different and any of the rest of us. Racism is the rule, not the exception. It comes out of people you'd never expect it to come out of, not just uneducated redneck types.

It's bad down here guys, and if you're living in Cali or some place up North you have no idea how it is, none. It's a completely different world down here and not one that is friendly to black people at all.

This is an area of the country where they proposed joining two high schools to save money and the town just about erupted in a riot because these two schools were in essence a white school and a black school. It was 2005 (or so) and they still had segregated schools (even though they weren't officially called that). Wake up people, this is still happening in America. Your America and our America aren't the same. Welcome to the deep South.

I don't doubt that Shreveport story one bit and they're lucky he wasn't shot.

[Lucas Wilson]

Oh please. Your statement I find more offensive. We're talking cops here. Cops have been know to abuse their power and today tasering seems to be a regular occurrence in the US for any act of civil disobedience.
Questioning whether they're dicks or not in todays climate is valid.
You on the other hand, by changing the context, showed yourself to be one too.

Yes, it is valid. But not on Reduser.