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Fake.

I guess they didn't know his uncle was white.

And we'll see the right-wing hypocrisy kick in .. it's ok to tase so long as it's not one of “us”. The law is for us little people, perks and passes are only for the “right kind of people”.

They should have tasered his uncle after that last corporatist/Fascist decision!

Hey, if the police did it then it was totally justified…they are the LAW and create ORDER
for the nation…plus he was Black so its totally okay. I am sure a good Conservative Judge would totally agree. In fact I am sure the guards would have been justified in putting a cap on his dredlocks.

Was he on drugs? Let's know the whole truth, not some tid bits and spin. After all, he was on suicide watch. Having Thomas ans an uncle would/could make a person suicidal especially someone with dreds and having a chillum.

RE: Clarence Thomas is reportedly “outraged” after security guards…were accused of punching and tasing his epileptic nephew
MY COMMENT: But…but…but…that's just a symptom of “Clarence Thomas' America”!

oh go fuck yourself Clarence, with your situational outrage.

this is exactly the type of behavior you have encouraged, enabled and reinforced throughout your sorry ass excuse career as a 'supreme' courtist.

and yet, this is exactly the sort of treatment that Justice Thomas supports when he performs his activist duties for the Republican Party by voting against the Constitution

I am OUTRAGED!
Why wasnt he handcuffed before he was beaten and tasered?
I understand why Clarence Thomas is mad…. his nephew should not be shown special treatment.

AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Maybe he was being an uppity negro?

“Was he on drugs?”, spin? I think that the history of brutality at the hands of the police pretty much answers that question; it wouldn't matter one either way the police would still attack. Even if he was, last I checked, this did not justify abuse. Go Thomas, finally someone other then nobody USA is the victim of police brutality. Maybe, finally, this epidemic will get the attention so desperately needed. The cops are out of control and we the citizens are suffering for it. This police state is becoming accepted, look at the post above. People your freedom is being taken away and individuals like gypski seem all to willing to let them take it.

Has Clarence EVER expressed outrage at Police Brutality in the past?

Maybe Judicial Fascist Clarence needs to be reminded that the law is always right….Fat Tony Scalia should whisper him ” might is right”…..& dissent cannot be tolerated

Oh, man, Clarence Thomas finally hears about an episode of police brutality he doesn't condone. Talk aobut your poetic justice . . . except I feel bad for the poor kid unlucky enough to be Clarence's nephew/

Uh, yeah, Clarence…I think you'd better just SHUT THE FUCK UP about this one….LOLOLOL!

HA! NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE MOTHER FUCKER!

HOW BOUT SOME MORE????

You just keep doin what Scalia tells you asshole!

I think he is going to congratulate the security guards for finally getting their facist techniques right.

Dreadlocks? They better test him for the mary jane, then throw him in jail like all the other hippy scum.

All this typing has made me thirsty, time for a beer run.

;)

You sound stupid

Where do you live? Must be the south you ignorant Probably religious bigot nasty person.

move along…nothing to see here..just another dirty dread hippy causing problems…OH WAIT!..he's related to Clarence Thomas of supreme court fame!…oh!…thats different… those cops are gonna fry…

How about a good ol' American body-cavity-strip-search of ol' uncle Clarence before he's allowed to visit his unfortunate nephew in the hospital?

Don't expect Clarence Thomas to ask any questions.

Hey Clarence? How's that working for the man thing working out? Watch out now. You don't want to be caught driving while black by some oinker who has never heard of you or…your good work on the “high court.”

I'm sick of hearing about Uncle Thomas and his damned family. His wife is a founder of a tea party chapter – in clear violation of federal law. Now his nephew thinks he can act any way he wants, can treat people as badly as he wants.

Just ask the hospital staff how many times they've been beaten and/or otherwise been injured by a psychiatric patient. But, because he's a nephew of a SCOTUS judge, he expects preferential treatment?

Who ARE these goddamned people?

If Clarence was my uncle I would attempt suicide as well for the good of the world.

Man, if this is healthcare in this country, I'm glad I'm uninsured (and white!).

Are you listening, Clarence – or are you still voting down the poor and oppressed for your glorious corporate state?

Thomas hasn't spoken to his family in many many years. Thomas even dumped his own son for the rich world. He spoke about it in his book and has only a close selection of friends. He admitted he sees his dead mother and grandfather who aren't happen with his life. In other words Clarence Thomas is insane and is a puppet Justice for the Republican Party.

I'm not sure they should do anything without a psychiatric hold…. but let him go of his own free will…

Thomas' rulings have always affirmed the right of law enforcement, both public and private, to beat the crap out of black people as they see fit, with no redress for the victims.

It's sad what happened to his nephew, but Clarence Thomas has been in need of a reality check since his early days when he first discovered how much hatred he felt for his fellow African Americans and what a sadistic delight he took in their suffering from the effects of institutional racism.

Clarence Thomas is a judicial sadist, a perjurer, a hypocrite and one of the sickest individuals I have ever laid eyes on. A vicious narcissist who can arguably be called not just one of the worst black men in America, but the worst man in the country period.

I am sure that the staff exercised minimum force to control the young man. After all we must have order in our institutions and having a disability is not reason enough to depart from this order. Perhaps he would be better off at home, perhaps the family and friends can pass the plate or maybe trade some chickens for health care.

were the security guards white? not that it would make a difference here.

No chance. Rush Limbaugh and the vast majority of the Conservative faithful show themselves to be just and bad as Clarence Thomas.

What makes you think he is a psychiatric patient anywhere? Don't blame the nephew for the sins of his uncle. Years back when I tried to get a job as a Correctional Officer, we were told that we had to list all of our relatives who were or had served time. At the time, the CO telling us this said “you don't choose your family, so we don't blame you, but we do need to know abut them”.

Not Uncle Thomas! No! ;-)

Hmmm, it just occurred to me. This idiot really is the kid's Uncle Thomas! Too funny. Thomas better be careful what he does down in Looziana. I don't think they understand he's an oreo.

Thomas should be pleased. Judging by their behavior, this is obviously a conservative hospital.

Maybe he's positioning himself for a break with Scalia? Well, I can dream can't I?

This IS a bit out of character, isn't it?

Let me take this opportunity to digress from the tragic story of a young man apparently suffering from epilepsy and suicidal tendencies to chastise his uncle for being an un-American, right-wing pig who should die of natural causes as quickly as possible.

They were just getting at Clarence by proxy!

They were just getting at Clarence by proxy!

Fat chance. Clarence Thomas has no eyes to open.

If it wouldn't make a difference, why mention it?

I appreciate your insight and advice regarding a situation you know almost nothing about.

Clarence “Police Can Do No Wrong” Thomas is outraged to learn that police can, in fact, do wrong.

Unkle Thomas has an epileptic Rastafarian nephew?

Are you on drugs? I don’t care if the kid was shooting PCP and huffing 93 octane Sunoco, The fact that Thomas has the fucking gall to be OUTRAGED is both the irony and the story.

Well, your optimism does help cheer me a bit, until I’m brought up short by the fact that Unparalleled Human Achievement is a dying art, particularly among the ignorant and pliable American conservative movement, who seem to find thinking and intelligence repulsive.

Spot on, spot on. Clarence thought that as long as he said the right things and looked the part he and his family would be safe from being labeled an ordinary African American causing trouble. But it shows that they didn't care or know how this kid was and did what happens all the time to minorities and also whites in the US. This is a clear cut example of what happens in a police state, eventually the forces that he protected and stood behind in his rulings will eventually come back on him. Today it was his nephew, tomorrow it may be him. All those fancy degrees and position doesn't mean anything, and he needs to know that. Here he is saying that he's outraged that this happened to his nephew but in much of his rulings against the small guy and for the police he didn't blink to say they where in the right.

Welcome Uncle Thomas to the world that many of us live in. You just got a taste of you and your cohorts naive rulings, eventually you will see that history does repeat itself and that power unchecked is power unlimited (until something stops it that is much bigger).

Some say this may become his “come to Jesus moment”. It would be an unparalleled human achievement if Justice Thomas could look at this happen so close to home and still play patty cakes with the lunatic fringe right wing that has lead him by the nose for so long

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awww. poor little Uncle Clarence Thomas… however, once he realizes that it's a private, for-profit Corporate hospital, he let it all go because he knows that the private sector can do no wrong.

Perhaps something good will come out of this. Sometimes a crisis like this can cause enough cognitive dissonance in an intellectual like Judge Thomas to change his perspective. This nation is becoming by fits and starts more and more authoritarian. In times like these, when even hope-inspiring Barack Obama has fallen to the allure of the “imperial presidency,” the courts are the people's last resort. Unfortunately, recent rulings favoring the corporation as citizen have revealed the Supreme Court itself to be of the new corporatist worldview. Family, if only it is strong enough, may prove to be the tie that breaks against the onset of this mindless corporatocracy we now live under.

Something outraged Clarence Thomas besides the horrifying implication by others that wealthy people should be held accountable like the rest of us? The wonders never cease.

Who the hell needs Miranda Rights, now uncle tom? Maybe you will get your wish and become a whitey. In the mean time just keep being the “lawn jockey” at the neoprene court.

Perfect.

Certainly not for 87 year old women.

Dig this:

http://www.koinlocal6.com/content/news/topstori…

“coming home to roost” comes to mind …
“goes around, comes around” comes to mind …
“karma's a bitch” does too

funny!

Well, considering that this right wing facist cares little for the rights of the common man and more for the rights of law enforcement or the non -breathing corporations yeah I Think I know what I'm talking about! But you numbnuts must surely be a Republican as you simply do not have a sense of humor

Why is Thomas outraged? Did his nephew call one the guards a name? What did the kid do to outrage his uncle like that?

It's nice to see that when security abuses the rights of a young black man with medical problems, there is national media coverage and an instant response from the highest court in the land… as long as the kid has an uncle on the Supreme Court. I wonder what would have happened if this guy didn't have a powerful uncle? For some reason, I'm thinking of Oscar Grant right now…

I disagree. I expect to see the nephew severely punished for embarrassing the family with his little display of anarchy. SEVERELY punished.

God, Jesus, please let it be him tomorrow.

Actually, I think it would be Uncle Clarence. But Dogballs would do, as well.

Yeah, but I'd take the bitch with me.

Nola is a lovely city. There are many nice bridges there, where an unarmed black man can stroll without fear. I hope Clarence has the opportunity to avail himself of such a venue, especially if there's a hurricane while he's in town. Nothin' like NOLA for those lazy, tazey, days of summer, eh, Clarence?

Hey uncle Tom see how the rest of us live?

I don't think dolly lanna got you.

Again, looks like dolly lanna's not getting the sarcasm.

What a bunch of hateful bullshit. Most of you are so hung up on who his uncle is that all you can do is spew your vitriolic rage at him while you totally ignore the story. What a pathetic bunch of losers.

I didn't say the nephew was a psych patient. I used the term *psychiatric patient* as an example of why the ER staff may have been cautious. There are instances on record where a psych patient has injured medical staff before security could intervene. People with head injuries are often combative also.

Any emergency room staff can tell you they have no idea what kind of medical case might come through their door.

If Uncle Thomas gets involved in this by throwing around his position as a SCOTUS judge then I think he should be impeached for misuse of his job. Besides which, an uncle isn't normally considered *immediate family* by the hospital.

The treatment of Derek Thomas by hospital security guards is unconscionable, even sadistic. Hopefully Justice Thomas will find the same lack of compassion and justice for his nephew in the prosecution of a cop as most of us common folk would find.

Gosh, is the nephew a “patient” or a “prisoner”? What's with the “possible” suicide attempt? There sure have been a lot of stories lately about people in positions of authority being way too authoritative. Think twice, people, before you call 911.

Ah, ok, understood.

He should be outraged. Those guards know full well they can hogtie and kick that kid also without it being called punishment by Justice Thomas. So they let him down.

Perhaps the Toadstool is going down to 'nawlins to kiss the cops on the lips!

Maybe he's gong to NOLA to taze the nephew himself.

Karma's a bitch

Maybe he'll meet with the Taser squad and give them all handjobs as a sign of his thanks.

No, if they would have been expressing their feelings about the Toadstool by proxy, they would have fell to their knees and given the kid a helmet polish.

Hey, Dogballs have a use. I call him the Toadstool.

The problem is that, because of the Democrats, we can't buy hand grenades!

it doesn't matter to the elitists if cop brutality happens 3 times a day , everyday to one of the lower less regarded class of people (you know the people in the high tax bracket) but the world will stop if any cop should use their brutality on one of the elitists or their family or friends,

By the noose? You got it all wrong… he was born white but he's had his head up corporate ass so long one would confuse that.

Yes, think twice- you may save your loved one's life! Ain't that the bitch of it???

Ha ha.

Is Clarence on his way down there to give the guards a medal for aggressiveness on protection or for keeping guard on the very walls of our democracy…

ya_right has it right on the money… Karma's a bitch…

You're right. And Arizona got all the drones.

wrong guy.

i think blood relation has nothing to do with it because the only things that matter are power and money

dolly, it's ok here; most of us have a twisted humor but we actually walk-the-walk in our lives, and bestow the dignity to each person we meet that we all deserve… I'm proud to see you stand up for the injustices, tho sometimes it takes a while to get to know the posters and what they really mean. Lotsa snark and sarcasm to be read here, although many don't find vulgarity particularly amusing. ( I do). Anyway, keep an open mind and say what you think. [Also, beware the Wonkette.]

A blatant disregard of procedure! Are there security tapes of this professional malfeasance?

“The station reported that an “outraged” Justice Thomas is headed to Louisiana to look into his nephew's condition”

LOL, maybe the cops can do us a favor and tazer, restrain, and beat the shit out of Clarence too. I would cherish seeing him placed on a DTO (danger to others) hold.

What's with the “possible” suicide attempt? There sure have been a lot of stories lately about people in positions of authority being way too authoritative

Maybe he's gong to NOLA to taze the nephew himself.

Know what this reminds me of most of all? The day when Nina Totenberg, Judiciary reporter for NPR, who was present for the speech, but was prevented from recording, recalled from memory the words of Sandra Day O'Connor, who was an active, vigorous part of the cabal that illegally put GWBush in office in 2000:

It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.

O'Connor was chafing at Cornyn's suggestion that judges being murdered was their own fault, a part of the Bush Legacy, in my view.

Kind of like, “Be careful what you wish for.”

So maybe, at long last, Clarence Thomas will actually be good for something. Any bets?

Apparently a hospital can hold a patient prisoner and refuse a transfer at family request. I already knew that hospitals can do absolutely anything, totally anything to a person and as long as the patient is under “treatment”, because there is no such thing as an illegal treatment. Your Constitutional rights and status as a human being end at the hospital entrance.

Seeing the other side could turn Clarence Thomas a bit more liberal. Like what it takes to turn a conservative into a liberal is being in jail a few nights under false charges.

While this is WITHOUT excuse, this is the world you wanted Justice Thomas. Welcome to it.

That poor nephew probably tried to commit suicide because his uncle is Satan

Clarence Thomas nephew or not, he is clearly a national security threat to the US, ?. he was admitted after a suicide attempt?. sounds he may have been programmed by Ultra Islamist terrorists to blow up something. probably the Supreme court?. He must be send to GITMO as soon as possible. No one is above the Law…..

Tell Tom to call Obama and convene a 'beer summit'.

Nice photo op and Libs can continue to wear their white sheets inside out.

Your jab at the democratic party was clear but I don't really see how it relates to this story.

In this case, yes.

If you commit yourself as suicidal the hospital assumes the right to hold you until you get approved by a doctor. Although this is apparently excessive and unusual.

If it had been someone completely unrelated to “Justice (sic)” Thomas, had the case come before him at the Supreme Court, he would have voted for the rights of the security guards and against his nephew. Just as right wing sickos like to say that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, this could just as easily have been a case of a liberal being a former conservative judge who had a relative unjustly assaulted by a couple of uniforms. It's all a pipe dream, of course. If Thomas' wife had been raped by a cop for running a red light, he would have voted to convict his wife for assault.

i think i get it praxter … thomas is yours and obama is ours … right?
hilarious, but don't quit your day job (or is this your day job?).
more beer summits and less police state would be kewl too …
but what i don't “get” is the white sheets inside out bit …
is that some kinda ditto code? … splain it to me …

His wife must be white, because I heard there was no such thing as a black teapartier.

I agree. I don't particularly care for Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice, but what allegedly happened to his nephew is horrid, and another example of authoritarian excess.

The incident does, however, point to the value of empathy as a positive quality for a judge/justice to possess.

The Supreme Court is not responding. They are not in session. Thomas is acting as a private person, and it appears that his status as a Supreme Court Justice didn't really help his nephew when it counted.

They?

You are assuming he committed himself. And no, if you want out they only have a short time to hold you or they have to get a court order.

Hospitals in some instances can restrain patients but by trained people, not by punching, pulling hair and certainly not by tasering.

But they messed with the wrong Black man. And Justice Thomas is learning just a bit of a lesson of life in these United States.

Oh, sorry Raw Douchebags, I meant “black” and not “negro”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTyaIAaqz8

You fucking censormonkeys need to go smoke a bowl and chill the mother fuck out.

“… deputies knew immediately she was unconscious and unresponsive. They performed CPR until paramedics arrived …”

and i hope those cops followed procedures and handcuffed her before starting cpr

i think almost any person in a security position is out of control

That poor kid, being closely related to that vampire incarnation of Steppin' Fetchit. And now everyone's going to know his family's terrible, shameful and hideous secret.

Actually, I just remembered, Steppin' Fetchit's son went completely berserk one day and shot up a whole bunch of people on the freeway before turning the gun on himself.

The Supreme Court has been gutting the 4th,5th and 6th Amendments in favor of police power for 30 years. The police become more drunk with power over time and this incident is a Frankenstein of the court's creation.

Sounds like just another a day in our fascist police state Mr. Thomas so willingly and joyfully created, so, welcome to our world. Resisting and defying hospital officials? Oh my, perhaps they did make a mistake, maybe waterboarding or chaining him like a dog would have been more appropriate, since it is getting a pass at the highest levels of our government and courts. it is apparently okay, under the last and present administration. Torture du'jour, and Mr. Thomas helped bring it on.

While I do feel for the obviously ill and disturbed nephew, wake up and smell the aftereffects of the erosion of our civil rights in general, that Mr. Thomas himself is responsible for propogating.

Many people of all colors have been inappropriately mistreated by “security officials” and law enforcementi at hospitals, peaceful protests, jails, etc.. Get over the outrage sir, we're supposed to, all in the name of homeland (in)security. You reap what you sow, and the despicable and outrageous actions by the Supreme Court have led to the deterioration of all sorts of civil rights, on his watch, have brought us to this point. Can't have it both ways.

Me thinks there is way more to this story than is told. Unky Tom to the rescue (uh, read damage control, how convenient, and now we can watch ad nauseum as the race card plays out. Rule on……No sympathy for the devil here.

Clarence Thomas's “outrage” is hypocritical! For years, the Supreme Court Judges REFUSED to engage in cases about excessive taser use. Most recently, in the Jesse Buckley case:
http://www.fultoncountynews.com/news/2009-06-11…
This refusal to come up wiuth clear cut guidelines for taser use, and to go after violent officers, only encouraged the widespread abuse of that dangerous weapon! Clarence Thomas himself is one of those responsible for all the atrocities like the one on Derek Thomas.

But, of course, there's a difference between tasering some poor guy, without power and good connections, and the nephew of a Supreme Court judge, right? D'oh.

Actually, the Supreme Court refused to take up such cases for years now! Most recently, the Jesse Buckley case:
http://www.fultoncountynews.com/news/2009-06-11…

Obviously, such abuse by the cops is no big deal, as long as no family member gets hurt!

You are correct. She’s white.https://the44diaries.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/j…

http://www.populistdaily.com/politics/impeach-justice-thomas.html

I am really sorry this afflecited individual has fallen in ti such a bad situation at the hospital, maybe Mr Thomas is experiencing a teaching momemt as President Obama often says, a moment that may better guide him on the bench than some of what he has ruled on in the past that the rest of us are not comfortable about.

Blacks and minorities are abused and harassed and beat up by corrupt cops and wannabe cops EVERY DAY! That's why that part of the story is ignored. Go to any of the other abuse stories here on RAW, literally they have one every day, and you can get your basket full of comments decrying police brutality and the systemic abuse of minorities. However the HEADLINE of this story is CLARENCE THOMAS NEPHEW. SO we are not “ignoring the story” we are SPOT on the story. The story isnt that a black person was beat up by secuirty guards, it was that a Supreme Court Justice who has always defended the rights of the abusers is now suddenly outraged and shocked at the treatment of his own family, but when it comes before him in court he gives the police all the powers they ever dreamed of! SO it may be hateful but its Clarence Thomas that is the BULLSHIT!

Isn't this especially interesting on the heels of the Oakland decision this week?

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This is a two edged sword. While I totally disagree with the Jack Boot mentality of Police and Security Forces these days for their Para-Military mindset, I also realize that what comes around goes around, as was the case here. Thomas has always sided with the Neo-Con ilk in this Country, both Politically and Judicially. It's always the preemptive strike with either missles or tasers. I often tell the Jack Boot defenders that eventually when one of your own is victimized by some Steroid drunken Buffoon with a badge, you won't readily defend that action.
Now Your Honor Thomas is “outraged”……? If so, maybe the next session in the Chambers of Just Us, he and his colleagues can ban this form of corporal punishment by the Tax payer funded thugs we call Law Enforcement. It often is the case, that the punishment is metted out before the accused even gets to court, and more often than not the infraction is something as irrelevant as a J walking ticket. That the Justice has condoned this behavior in the past is the Outrageous part.

I am absolutely positive this had nothing to do with racial profiling, no sir-ee, justice in America is colorblind, just ask anyone in Oakland.

not cooperating with the police will get your ass kicked in all 50 states. CT must be fine with that. not cooperating with uniformed officers who work for a hospital must be up to you or something.

i wonder how many times he threatened to call his 'SC Justice uncle' before he was summarily jacked across the mouth?

i got 5 bucks that he would have left washington for this even if the Court was in session. and really, its not like he actually DOES ANYTHING while he is there. he has not asked a question in cross examination in over 4 years. he drags his feet in getting his papers turned in (when he is in the minority) and makes loads of people wait weeks longer than they should have before his position papers are issued.

but let's look at his history:

Thomas was the only black person at his high school in Savannah, where he was an honor student. he then attended the lily-white College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts on a scholarship. while there, he led a walkout and the priests had to intervene to keep all of the black students from being expelled. Thomas later entered Yale Law School, where he was only an average student. he received a law degree in 1974

CT was appointed (by a white guy) Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. and then, President Ronald Reagan (another white guy) appointed Thomas Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. and then, President George H. W. Bush (another white guy) nominated him for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. and then, HW Bush (same white guy) nominated Thomas to fill the seat on the United States Supreme Court being vacated by Thurgood Marshall

but he was never given a fair shake by white people, especially conservatives. just ask him. he will tell you. and his white wife (and chair of the ultra conservative Heritage Foundation) will agree with him.

I'm back in the U.S.S.R
you don't know how lucky you are boys
back in the U.S.
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In that case, maybe Thomas traveled to New Orleans to chew out his nephew for getting in the way of the cop's taser and fists.

Why was Clarence outraged? Thomas has generally sided with authorities in power in most instances when they treated people in this way. According to Wikipedia:

In Hudson v. McMillian, a prisoner had been beaten, garnering a cracked lip, broken dental plate, loosened teeth, and cuts and bruises. Although these were not “serious injuries,” the Court believed, it held that “[t]he use of excessive physical force against a prisoner may constitute cruel and unusual punishment even though the inmate does not suffer serious injury.”[137] Dissenting, Thomas wrote that, in his view, “a use of force that causes only insignificant harm to a prisoner may be immoral, it may be tortious, it may be criminal, and it may even be remediable under other provisions of the Federal Constitution, but it is not 'cruel and unusual punishment.'

Hopefully Thomas will learn from this experience and perhaps gain some insight into how his poor judgement has affected “the little guy”.

Don't taze me bro!

This wouldn't be news if Clarence Thomas wasn't related to him.

The Clarence Thomas philosophy to the little guy getting wronged: Tough Sh**

This will be the judicial philosophy of the court for at least another 20 years.

I think 'Praxman' is unable to grasp that in most cases, 'wit' is a prerequisite for humor to work… which why his comment most likely goes over quite the 'hoot' down his way…

A lesson in reality for Clarence Thomas.

About time.

You are right. Things have to happen to the powerful before other powerful people notice.

They said she died of “heart disease”. Toxic cops in oregon.

Although I would not wish that kind of treatment on anyone, this must be some kind of divine retribution. Uncle Clarence once famously dissented from a decision that found prisoners to have endured torture by being beaten by guards. Scalia and Thomas didn't that that was so bad.

Why should Clarence Thomas care? He's got a good job, nice house, a car, and lots of money. Where does this “nephew” think he's living, in a free country?

it's Clarence, not Tom, you dumbass.
Clarence Thomas…

Welcome to BLACK REALITY Uncle Thomas!!

You can correct me if I’m wrong but I think Elim was trying to be snarky and you caught them.

You can correct me if I’m wrong but I think Elim was trying to be snarky and you caught them.

Why is Thomas “outraged”. THIS is the America he's been helping to create since he arrived on the bench.

I wonder if all the irony or poetic justice which so many of us have commented upon has dawned upon Clarence? Does anyone think that perhaps we could encourage his enlightenment or growth by forwarding some of these comments to his office. I don't suppose he'd bestir himself to read them, so I guess it would be nothing but a big waste of time.

“Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is reportedly “outraged” after security guards at a New Orleans-area hospital were accused of punching and tasing his epileptic nephew, a news report states”

omfg imagine being professor Gates At HIS OWN HOME being handcuffed and arrested … back then it was have a beer, photo op now it's moral outrage.

The story says the man was admitted but does not say by whom. It's pretty clear that he was popped in the lip but otherwise it's still a developing story. He seemed to be together enough to know that an overnight stay was going to cost him 500$ and he didn't want to do it. They can't hold the guy hostage if his family wants him out so once again. How did he get into this ?

This proves, that you had better be careful of the rules you make for others, it may eventually affect you, and karma is not a beach.

welcome to the america you helped create through adjudication

Nice dream Kathleen!

I know, Let's ask Anita Hill…..

No, sadly, I doubt he has the ability to connect the dots, and would just think we were donating toilet paper. I'm sure both he and his wife, the Heritage Foundation and her new adopted Tea Party will be able to put a positive spin on this.

Let's see what Faux News does with this! I'd watch but have no television and my browser has a crap-o-meter that blocks stupidity content. I want to see what Olbermann has to say, it should cut through the hype and be entertaining.

Watching the local video on this, it inferred that the hospital knew the nephew was epileptic and mentally ill, and perhaps had dealings with him before, and maybe not so pleasant ones. Much mental illness is now known to be biological and genetic. No need to speculate much on those implications.

I have been on the wrong end of hospital “treatment', punishing me for asserting my rights and while they can do some good, they can do enormous harm and one must realize you are risking your life just walking through the door. You lose your “rights” at that point. If the security doesn't get you, the doctors, drugs and other hospital mistakes are likely to.

Yes, tasering is dangerous and killing many, but who cares unless you are related to the elite and powerful. Again, a corporation created, marketed and defends it's safety, so it must be okay. Mr. Thomas's court (just can't bring myself to call him “The Honorable Justice”) just ruled essentially that corporations are people, In this country, if it's for sale it's safe, and we must allow the hospital/drug/police/military industrial complex to police itself, regulation and safety be damned. Liability and profit margin are the bottom line. Amerikan citizens are just lab rats, collateral damage and acceptable risk.

Wake up, Mr. Thomas. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And the reality he helped create does indeed bite.

i am never on the side of the elitist guards but i am hoping that the lawyer for the security guard pulls every related quote from the big T man and repeats them verbatim at the trial … and we all know there will be a trial, in the media or in the courtroom there will be a trial

you really have to give all those white guys a break … t-man was the only black guy they knew and it was good pr and a political plus which worked well when they were putting together their 'vote for me' propaganda … i also remember reading that wifey wanted to head up a local tea baggin' group (lovingly know as “little sacks on a string”)

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According to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a prisoner who was slammed to a concrete floor and punched and kicked by a guard after asking for a grievance form — but suffered neither serious nor permanent harm — has no claim that his constitutional rights were violated.

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I'm a security guard at a local community hospital. Not knowing the facts, i must assume that
this person was a danger to himself, or perhaps threatening the staff. He obviously needed medical attention, but he was belligerent. Usually, security guards can only use neutralizing force if attacked. They are not allowed to use overpowering force. That's what the police get called in to do. With a person struggling like that, bad things can happen. Without knowing all the facts leading up to the struggle, it's hard to say exactly what happened.

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