Video: On loan Chicago cops force protester to kneel for photos at Pittsburgh G:20

Conduct of Chicago cops loaned to Pittsburgh probed:

Chicago police are investigating more than a dozen officers accused of forcing a suspect to kneel in front of them for a photograph while they were on loan in Pittsburgh for last month's G-20 economic summit.

The internal investigation was announced after a video surfaced showing the officers, in riot gear, gathering around a handcuffed college student, Kyle Kramer, and making him kneel spread-eagled on the street. An officer in a white shirt then appears to take a picture of the group.

Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said the department would investigate the alleged conduct of the officers, who he said used their vacation time for the special detail but whose expenses were paid by the city of Pittsburgh.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/10/cops-loaned-to-pittsburgh-pro...

Here's what the arrestee had to say:

While calling the incident "kind of degrading," Mr. Kramer, 21, also said he felt uncomfortable about his status as a poster child for police excess, even though he, like so many of those arrested during those two nights of confrontations, believes he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.

"I don't want to get used," he said Friday. "I don't want to become a symbol, but I can already feel that happening. A couple of times people have compared it to Abu Ghraib. One guy even argued with me about it. But I wasn't wearing a hood and it wasn't as intense."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09277/1003011-482.stm#ixzz0U739uKLQ

Sorry, but this one made me laugh. I know it was untoward of the cop... but it is just sooooo Chicago!

I know. It's like listening to a bad ethnic joke. You know you shouldn't laugh and when you do you get a little embarrassed. And then you still laugh!

See... now THAT wouldn't have been funny at all. And I am no politically correct, guy, but it just wouldn't have been funny.

I guess this is progress...50 years ago it would have been a black man...100 years ago it would have been an Amerindian. Today it's a kid that looks like one of their own sons...sort of.