In 1991, we had Rodney King; in 2005, we have Robert Davis: Are they cases of police brutality?

The police officers delivered on their threats, "I will kick your ass." What they ended up doing to beat, knee and push the hell out of Robert Davis, a retired Elementary school teacher. Ah! this Black senior citizen had some credentials. He is most likely a College graduate. He came back to town to check on his property in the 9th Ward. He approaced a police officer to inquire about the curfew. Another officer intervened and stopped his conversation with horse-mounted officer. "This is rude to interrupt an on-going conversation. You should not stop us." In fact, the three police officers got down to kicking his ass, head, eyes and stomach.

It appears that if one is from a minority group in this group, he/she may be scheduled to get a beating or some type of mistreatment. But this case is different. The victim did not get up from his pool of blood to start saying this is a racial beating or race-motivated incident. Maybe Mr. Davis knows better than that. He does not want to incite any reactions to his beating. Since he is not a hot-headed man, he chooses to fight his case in a court of law. The only common denominator between the two cases was the presence of video cameras. The beating of Mr. Robert Davis was captured on two sets of video. What a brave new world! This may be a good thing for minority people and specially African-Americans or Black people. What if there was a camera capturing every single blow and the use of the plunger in the rectum of the Haitian immigrant in New York? Sometimes, there are no cameras. The police officers can make up reasons.

In Mr. Robert Davis's case, there was no resistance. He was not drunk either. In fact, he has not drunk for 25 years. He could not fight three police officers. Now even the new New Orleans police chief is saying that excessive force may have been used. Now, the officers had to drum up some charges against Mr. Davis. By then, he was vegetating in his own blood. His shirt was already soaked. In this hell, he only heard the voice of a woman crying, "He did not do anything. Leave him alone."

In this destroyed city, the voice of reason was heard. It belonged to a woman. She had to stand up for the man she may have not known before. With courage, she stood up. So did the camera crew who were filming the whole altercation. When the journalist did not want to stop capturing these images, one of the officers went to the journalist and gave a taste of some medicine. He shoved him against the hood of a car.

Retired school teacher, Robert Davis, displayed some wisdom. He also talked about his love for the Big Easy that was also called Big Sleazy depending on the mindset.