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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Film The Confusion

Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:58 PM

The stars of W., Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, were tased, pepper-sprayed, and arrested by cops.

TMZhas released the incredible video of Josh Brolin's arrest outside of a Shreveport bar last summer, along with his "W" costar Jeffrey Wright.

In the video, viewers see Brolin and Wright standing hugging as they are sprayed with pepper spray and then separated by cops. Brolin is made to kneel and is handcuffed while Wright gets laid out on the street and repeatedly tasered, as the cellphone camerawoman screams in protests.

Maybe the cops confused the actors with these criminals:

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Two weeks and counting ...

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 6, 2009 at 5:11 PM

you really need to learn how to do hotlinks on appropriate words.

Posted by Uncle Jesse on January 6, 2009 at 5:15 PM

I'm still trying to figure out what the police are good for.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on January 6, 2009 at 6:00 PM

Charles, perhaps they suffer the same confusion you suffer when you imagine that the Black American slave experience is the only slave experience.

"How on earth can you be the daughter of slaves and at the same time still be alive?" (Next Up to Death)

Posted by Ignorance on January 6, 2009 at 7:04 PM

Uh, wow. They were repeatedly tasering a prone, handcuffed man. And when the onlookers were like, hey, what are you doing, that's not right, the cops say "get back or you're going to jail".... Interesting to juxtapose this with all the "the cops are alright right" sentiments on the shooting of the uniformed UW student threads.

Posted by Julie in Chicago on January 6, 2009 at 8:40 PM

If only he had his Dan White haircut at the time, I might derive some sort of misplaced satisfaction from watching that...

Posted by doublegin on January 6, 2009 at 10:37 PM

@Julie...There's a bit of a difference in circumstances between "guy laying on his back" and "guy pointing a gun at you." Sometimes the cops aren't wrong.

Posted by dwight moody on January 7, 2009 at 12:06 PM