http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Ex-Army-CB-sues-Patti-LaBelle-in-wake-of-injurie?urn=ncaaf-wp2191

Holy over-reaction Batman. They thought the guy was standing too close to Ms. LaBelle's luggage and proceeded to move him away from it. Video doesn't look good for them. Dude is suing.

I saw Ms. LaBelle warm up for Richard Pryor in Seattle in '79. Good show, hot lady. She burned up the stage.

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Wow a cheap entertainer VS an officer, why isn't she in jail?

To bad officers are not allowed to carry their side arms as they should be. The business end of a 92fs would have driven away those hired thugs.

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As long as the officer remembers to take off that infernal safety-decocker first. Pretty sure they're M9's anyhow.

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92FS is an M9, their is no difference.

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Completely out of line all right. Her luggage was in danger?! Jeez, you could see the guy was in his own zone, talking on his cell phone. One amazing part is how West Point demoted him on the word of the star struck Houston police.

I just hope her pockets are deep enough for him to get a good settlement.

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Patti LaWho?

Would anyone even know who she was if they saw her?

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uh, YEAH.

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She was never that big of an item IIRC. When I saw her, I hadn't heard of her before but she put on a hot show, sort of Tina Turner like. Really hot way of dancing while she sang.

But her bodyguards were clearly way, way too much into self-importance, and that part of the police posing with her for pictures was just whack.

Something tells me the young man is going to relieve her of some excess cash and rightly so.

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Yeah, I don't think she ever really hit the big time. Probably on the cusp, though (not my kind of music so not really sure). Without a security detail, she probably wouldn't garner a second look. But that's probably the purpose of the body guards.

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And if I'm not mistaken, a third year west pointer is NOT an officer. Not yet.

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Nope, he's a cadet with the pay grade of E-5 or buck sergeant.

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The cadet was doing nothing but waiting alone for his ride to show up ,the body guards had a zone to work around Miss Labelle and felt this guy needed to be moved ,of course the thugs decided their action to go into gangsta mode .Miss Labelle needs not to hire from the hood but look for better BGs elsewhere . She was smart in hanging around and taking photos with the police and got the report to go her way, but ,the video says different.Maybe she should hire Kevin Costner.

I guess the thugees were lucky that they didn't run into one of Texas's legally armed citizens who could have introduced them to the castle doctrine. Too bad....

I wonder if they would have been as quick to beat the crap out of that kid if he'd been wearing his cadet uniform.

I've a notion of what it takes to get into one of the service academies - I nearly got into Annapolis just out of HS, but got turned down for my eyesight - and you don't get in because mommy and daddy dropped a big wad of cash at the admissions desk - you have to be at the top of your game, academically, extracurricular activities, etc, and be mature enough to put up with all the other hoorah they throw your way while there. To pass this kid off as just another drunk frat boy is totally ignorant.

For my money, Miss LaBelle and her entourage may as well have done the full monty and beat up a vet returning from Iraq or Afghanistan.

When all's said and done, I have a feeling that the LEO's that posed for pictures and took her side of the story at face value may end up having an unpleasant conversation with their superiors.

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Before you Hoo-Rah off into the sunset. I would like to point out that you are downing the black body gaurds who thumped the white kid..yet...you are suggesting here that the bodygaurds should have been shot dead by an armed citizen. BIG differance between beat up and shot.

Nice going killer...you never disapoint.

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