Tme will tell wrote:
I have already filled out a witness statement and I was not very favorable in my comments toward the athletes involved. I will have no trouble backing the actions of the police department in a court of law. I even told the detective that when he took my statement.
Then I'll have no trouble contradicting your statements in a court of law. And I've already been in contact with those looking for a statement. The requests are legit. I do not have any connection to the athletes, was not involved in the incident, but I do know what I saw. And I just know that if I was targeted for unprovoked abuse like that, I would want those who witnessed it to stand up and pursue justice.
Tme will tell wrote:
The most peculiar thing was that the guys and gals that ran well and deserved to be partying were well behaved. A clown like this guy who finished well over 200th place screws it up for those of us that had a reason to celebrate.
This is concerning. I understand that there are two sides to every story and that different people see things from different perspectives. But for you to decide that you are the arbitor of who can party based on finish place exposes your bias. I'm not going to start throwing around typical letsrun assumptions of "well you probably got your ass kicked and are just bitter" or "you can't criticize them until you can run faster times than them" but lets be realistic for a second. I highly doubt many of the top athletes here were focusing on this race or even cared about it all that much. Maybe it was the pinnacle of your season, but many of the best were either obliged to do so because of their club affiliation or thought it would be a fun fitness test at best and weren't taking it too seriously. I know many of the "names" were either not fit, training through it, or just there to help a friend's team out. I'm sure there were those who were there to kick ass and take names, but there were surely those who were not. And that mud, although the same for everyone, does different things to different people and always makes for some unexpected results. So what if Nick didn't finish like you expected him to. From what I saw 5 meters away, he was calm, not overly intoxicated (and not even visibly drunk) and unaggresive when he tried to moderate when he saw this young man being tazed unprovoked. Again, I was not close enough to hear the specific words being exchanged, so I could be wrong. But what I witnessed in my book I'll call police brutality and abuse of authority any day.