W.F. PRICE: Time to end Domestic Dispute Pretext for Police Assault, Murder.

Three policemen have been suspended pending investigation after Luis Rodriguez, a husband and father, was beaten to death in Moor, Oklahoma for trying to defuse a fight between his wife and daughter.

Nair Rodriguez told KWTV that incident started after she slapped her daughter Lunahi Rodriguez at the Warren Theater in Moore, Okla. early Saturday morning and then stormed away. Her husband, Luis Rodriguez, then chased after her into the theater’s parking lot, where he was confronted by police asking to see his information, the family said.

Nair and Lunahi said Luis tried to bypass the officers and stop his wife before she drove away in anger. That’s when the officers took him down and started beating him, according to the family. . . .

The policeman’s job is to apply force where directed to do so. If cops are told to shoot people for, say, public drunkenness, they will do so. If they are told, over and over again, to apply force to men who are “abusers” that’s what will happen.

VAWA ushered in not only a presumption that men are batterers until proven not to be in court, but a requirement that police apply force (make an arrest) in all cases where any suspicion exists at all — in other crimes an accusation or a simple suspicion would typically warrant further investigation prior to arrest. The police who killed Mr. Rodriguez were doing exactly what feminists have been demanding they do for over 20 years.

Procedures in the US in regards to domestic disputes are the most draconian on earth, and I’m not sure people who are presumably from Latin America would know about them. What would be seen as a simple family argument in all of the rest of the world often can and will become a police killing in America. Poor Luis Rodriguez had no idea that trying to smooth things out with his wife and daughter could get him beaten to death.