[UnderseaLcpl]

Well, you now have one more reason not to come to the deep south TvM. People there don't like being stereotyped anymore than anyone else from anywhere, and I'm sure they would react to such thinking with hostility.

I'm not trying to bash you TvM. God knows I've been just as judgemental, and subsequently wrong, on some issues. All I ask is that you step back for a moment and consider what you are opining. You're equating the behavior of one person with the behaviour of tens of millions of people based upon where they live. Furthermore, you have forgotten that many residents of the deep south once lived in the North and other regions. What you're saying is hardly better than discriminating on the basis of skin color.

In other news, the video itself is questionable in its legal credibility. When I played it, there were sections of audio missing, though that may be due to the fact that I have a poor connection tonight ( it tooke like 5 minutes to load). The woman's belligerent and irrational behaviour, in combination with drunkeness, may well have resulted in injury to herself.

Personally, I think the cop probably did hurt her, but the question remains as to whether or not it was an intentional act. As stupid as that sounds, the legal system works that way. There have been as many cases of alleged police brutality being proven false as there have been convictions of police brutality.

However, no matter what anyone thinks of the article, the video, or the pictures, there is certainly no reason to believe that this kind of incident happens more often in the South. Even if it did, there is even less evidence to corroborate the idea that such incidents are commonplace in the South simply because it is the South, right?