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Because the prosecutor's office in Shreveport, Louisiana has dropped all charges in the Josh Brolin-Jeffrey Wright bar incident that happened last July (and which was recounted by Brolin during a W. interview last fall), the cell-phone video footage has finally been released.
It's now on TMZ. If anyone can send me an embed code, please do.
The shaky camera work is maddening, but what's been captured is quite intense. Theatrical even. The sight of the teary-eyed Brolin and Wright embracing each other before being cuffed is quite the statement about sticking by your buddy as the wolves circle. And the shots of Brolin kneeling on the sidewalk with his head down -- he's Albert Finney-as-Martin Luther preparing to be lashed. It's almost like Willem Dafoe's last scene in Platoon. Not to mention the bulls holding Wright face-down on the sidewalk and zapping him with a taser gun, and a woman shouting at the cops, "What are you doing!? Why are you doing that!?"
This really would make for a fascinating short film. Seriously. Brolin (a talented man before the camera) needs to do this.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 6, 2009 at 2:47 PM
comment #1
Chicago48
says ...
Embarassing to watch. Obviously the two were having a good time, and Wright can't claim racial discrimination because the officers were black.
Posted by Chicago48
at January 6, 2009 3:23 PM
comment #2
Chicago48
says ...
Another thing: TMZ is on the case again. I don't know where they get their reporters & photogs but they always get the goods.
Posted by Chicago48
at January 6, 2009 3:24 PM
comment #3
DeafBrownTrashPunk
says ...
man, Josh Brolin is so cool.
I hate TMZ.
Posted by DeafBrownTrashPunk
at January 6, 2009 3:45 PM
comment #4
Jonah
says ...
Every single one of these cops deserves a severe ass beating. Hopefully someday they'll get what's coming to them.
Posted by Jonah
at January 6, 2009 3:53 PM
comment #5
Cadavra
says ...
Well, thank God those cops weren't part of the "pussy generation." :-P
Posted by Cadavra
at January 6, 2009 4:14 PM
comment #6
MindlessObamaton
says ...
The only thing more emabarassing than watching this crap is Wells' over the top embrace of it.
Posted by MindlessObamaton
at January 6, 2009 11:09 PM
comment #7
Big Black
says ...
Mindless, you are a transparent jack-ass.
Shit like this needs to be seen and talked about, and no one gives a damn how cowardly and blind to the facts you've decided the rest of us need to be. If you can't pick out who the assholes are in the video, do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.
Posted by Big Black
at January 7, 2009 10:45 AM
comment #8
YRG
says ...
Forget a film-- this would make a better documentary. This is the world in which we live, where you get arrested for asking too many questions, tasered to make it easier for cops to put you in handcuffs (even if you're not resisting), pepper sprayed because you're not compliant. Cops are acting like cornered animals.
Posted by YRG
at January 7, 2009 7:11 PM
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