I like it when something in the local news catches my eye and makes me want to write about it. Especially when it has to do with some angry teen and a cop.

I just happened to be browsing the dull katu.com website when I found this great article about a downtown scuffle between a sk8er dude and a cop (http://www.katu.com/news/local/79472442.html). Now before I throw my two cents I headed over to the super sk8er internet headquarters (www.skateboarding.com) and would like to recite and respond to some great quotes from some brilliant people… and I couldn’t help but laugh.

I wan’t to kill those security ****ers ~Hater

Dear Hater, I’m glad you’re getting your anger out for this ordeal that had nothing to do with you. Go kill those security guards, dude!

the thing is no one out of the skaters hit those security with their boards, are you idiots blind( JEFF) And skating that spot is definitely illegal but then again it shouldnt have been dealt with by picking a up a board and hitting the skater with it. No security was ever hit with the a board. I was there the main kid shuved the security guards digital camera out of his face and the dude freaked. Crazy scene but the security guards were definitely in the wrong they didnt even try to stop him when we left cause they knew they ****ked up. ****k all the haterz on here, start rollerblading or being a bitch like jeff. -JEFF doesnt skae

Dear Jeff doesnt skae, I’m sorry you feel this way. I’d like you to please calm down from your bias against security guards and fast forward in the video to around 6 seconds right before the cop hits the kid with the skateboard. You will notice in fact your sk8er dude friend hits the cop with a skateboard, the cop retaliates and bashes your friend harder. Very unfortunate I know.

f*ck da haters n da cops n security they can suck it!!!! skateboarding will never die!!! skaters are rebels!!!! we dont give a damn if u hate or wat u think about us……….=] F**k da laws!!!! ~cts/sk830

Dear cts/sk830, I’m assuming it’s you in the video getting your ass kicked? This kind of outlook is why this happens.

the cop still could have started it. cops are just like any type of modern day gang man they get to roll around in numbers, they can jump people when they feel threatened or one of their fellow cops gets into a fight; but when citizens jump in to help a friend being abused by a cop (which is a normal action of any living thing since the ****ing earth was formed) they get ****ed over for assaulting a cop. it’s all bullshit ~sweet

Dear Sweet, notice your use of ‘could’ and trying to associate it as relevant with a 26 second video. This is you convincing yourself that’s the way it happened, because you want it to happen that way. This is why people get overly into conspiracy theories and will shape any kind of confrontation/argument into what they want it to be and become emotional rhinos about it. May I remind you while you use the word ‘could’ casually as you did, this video is 26 seconds showing what happened after the ordeal. All I saw was a cop who got mad and a couple kids who didn’t want to listen so instead of simply going somewhere else to get their sk8 on, they simply ‘rebelled’ because of this whole ’skateboarding isn’t a crime!’ crap.

We know it’s not a crime (and quite frankly don’t care, I don’t know anyone who hates skateboarding but I know plenty of people who hate stubborn crybaby skateboarders), I wish people would use “skateboarders whine and cry like little babies when they are annoying the shit out of everyone around them.”

**** these security gaurds, the ones at pioneer courthouse square are the worst ever they takes things way out of hand, as exhibited here. I know the kid who got hit and he would have ****ed these dudes up, plus I bet he didnt provoke this because he knows how to peacefully handle security gaurds ~Tristan

Dear emotional teenager crying about this ordeal, we don’t care about what you bet on, and I’m glad you’re sticking up for your friend but it clearly doesn’t show in this 26 second video that your friend knows how to peacefully handle security guards (unless he was drunk or forgot how to).

By the way, pioneer courthouse square security guards are not the worst ever in the USA. It just happens your friend decided to be an emotional kid and try to show the cops they are out of line (no matter what the outcome of this story was, people would still whine about not being allowed to skate in certain areas). Everyone knows you don’t hit cops. A cops job is to simply deal with people all day, telling them what to do. If everyone had the right to just get in fights with cops then what would be the point of having them? You have to remember cops also deal with dirty bums, drunk idiots and creepy pedophiles.

Dear ben, this is exactly what you don’t want to do as it makes things worse. As a person who is trying to make a point you are suppose to be assertive and exploit the cops aggressiveness. That’s why you see peaceful protests where people won’t fight back for a reason. Except your sk8er friends decided to try to be a ‘champ’… except he is not.

Grow up.

**** ALL U STUPID ASS HATERS **** COPS SECURITY AND THE LAW> I WOULD OF BEAT THE ****ING SHIT OUT OF THAT TOY ASS SECURITY GUARD IF HE EVEN TOUCHED ME………. I JUST WISH I WERE THERE……….. AND **** THE DUDE HATING ON SKATERS, SOME WACK ASS ROLLERBLADER BIITCHES……… ~**** A TOY

Dear **** A TOY, ughhhh it hurts to read this.

those guys should ****ing kill those mother****ing securety for shure, bastards! ~***thepolice

This whole thing is a joke to me, how kids just get such an emotional high because they somehow want to think the police are after all the skaters!!! First of all, the video is 26 seconds long and the only thing you see is the actual fight. Second of all, no one actually knows the real reason for the altercation, it could have been anything but all these kids want to believe it happened their way. I do believe there is such a thing as police brutality, I have seen police officers go out of line but I’ve also seen (majority of the case) what can push a police officer over that line.

A lot of kids on that website also fail to realize the kid does swing his skateboard at the cop first. He clearly instigates some kind of fight and makes the mistake by trying to play hero when he doesn’t need to. Most likely the true scenario was the cop told the kid to leave, kid doesn’t leave. Cop then approaches again, kid decides to stand up for himself (when not needed) and gets in an altercation with a cop (his job is to uphold laws, bummer but it’s the reality of the situation. If you don’t agree then go somewhere else). Altercation accelerates to the fight, all sk8er kids blame the police and claim the kid as some kind of saint and hero.

Since the kid didn’t use common sense on how to handle himself, he got what was coming to him (this is purely by my assumption because from my own perspective this is usually how it goes). When a cop pulls you over for speeding and tries to write you a ticket you don’t tell the cop no and punch him in the face and not expect him to react, you let him write you that ticket and then you defend yourself in court.

But no, he decided to be a stupid kid about it. Tough luck but it’s also a dose of reality, you get what you asked for. I understand the concept behind trying to defend the rights of skateboarding (something you love to do). But there are the do’s and the don’ts in every situation. You never hit a cop, especially for something stupid like skateboarding.

I’d like to see the full video because I am confident that it’s the basic rundown of the situation caused by a dumb kid. If it really was the cops fault it seems like it would be more highlighted than it is and would already be in courts. A 26 video does not do justice to determine who was right and wrong.

The end.