Did Police chief J. Polanco speak to soon?
BANÍ, Dominican Republic.- The Peravia Province office of the Prosecutor on Wednesday dismissed aggravated assault charges filed by a Police major against former Angels slugger Vladimir Guerrero, when it was learned that the official was under the effects of alcohol when the alleged brawl occurred.
After leavening the Prosecutor’s office, Guerrero only said he’ll hold a press conference to explain the details of the Monday night incident in the disco "El Punto" in nearby Nizao.
For his part, Police major Renato Peña, who allegedly cocked his pistol against the ballplayer, apologized for his part in the incident.
Guerrero’s release on Tuesday came just 30 minutes after being escorted there, accused by Police of assaulting Peña, commander of the Police Precinct at Nizao.
Police chief Jose Polanco on Tuesday said Guerrero, “just because he’s rich and strong, can’t go around doing what he feels like doing.”
From: Mexico
Vladimir Estaba ahumao, el poli tambien, pleitos de borrachos.
From: United States
Ahhhh... the quintessential Dominican authority.
Inbred entitlement mentality so they have a license to intimidate and kill with impunity.
No sense in firing the fool, is there?
I wonder who ties his shoes?
Written by: BASTA, 11 Apr 2012 3:20 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs/Free abortions for all
MONEY TALKS; WHY 4 body gaurds?
From: Dominican Republic
This was another attempt at trying to extort money. I read this story 2 days ago and i know that this was going to turn out this way, god is this place is so predictable.
Written by: RoyStone, 11 Apr 2012 4:04 PM
From: Australia
They were in a bar, under the influence of alcohol - Duh!
Some Dominican machos go in to a fight - Duh!
Every weekend, (especially pay weeks) our local hospital's emergency department is full of guys that have chopped and shot each other up, or ridden into parked cars, and unpaid intern doctors are running around trying to stop the bleeding and to stitch them back up again.
So what's so special about this brawl - it involved a baseball god and a senior police officer?
Give me a break!
From: United States
I agree Roy...whats the difference?
From: United States
What a joke corrupt cop starts fight with famous baseball player and loses then claims assault.Typical here.
From: United States, Washington, DC
la vida dominicano... It never is what they want you to think it is..... And police chief Polanco start begging for mercy.... make that corporal polanco
From: United States
You minus morons do NOT have a clue.
If this behavior is not weeded out of the people who are supposed to help you one day YOU will be the victim of this hubris attitude.
Now grow the f... up and instead of giving minuses (which is easy) do the hard work and fix your pathetic country. Or are you hoping one day you can be as corrupt as this POS.
Fire him ... period.
Written by: RoyStone, 12 Apr 2012 10:18 AM
From: Australia
miller261.
I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Corruption is tolerated since everyone is hoping and praying they will eventually get a turn at a bigger trough. The chain-letter is a valid analogy - people know it's wrong and it will eventually end and many will lose their money, but for those already in it, they don't want it to end just yet, since they will lose more than their shirt.
Corruption is not only a the top. It extends right down to paying someone to move to the front of a long queue at a government office, to using political influence to get a better job, getting a driver's license, steeling electricity, transmission-towers or man-hole covers, boinking the neighbor's daughter, dumping rubbish in the river, avoiding taxes, running red lights or avoiding a parking ticket.
Corrupt to the core. Everyone knows it, but when a foreigner says it, the response is "go home, white-supremacist!"
The "minus morons" know it - that's why "minusing" is their only response.
From: United States
the actions of all are suspect and sounds like the badge fever struck were everyone is above the law. The four body guards has to be a ego thing and the actions of the chief receiving a murder suspect in his office smells like a payoff
From: United States, I dont even live inside a house , I haunt one!
That police officer should be suspended and then fired , who goes to a club with a loaded gun , not only that this fool was drunk , they should removed his badged
Written by: RoyStone, 12 Apr 2012 5:14 PM
From: Australia
hellborn25, asks,
"who goes to a club with a loaded gun?"
When were you last in this country? Guys here go to church with a loaded gun!
From: United States, I dont even live inside a house , I haunt one!
obviously a long time , I live in new jersey now , not the wild west of republica dominicana , damn roy where you lived at the boondocks , you must be a nigga lover .
Written by: RoyStone, 12 Apr 2012 10:37 PM
From: Australia
hellborn25,
The whole island of Hispaniola is in the "Wild West" Indies. I am living in a typical middle-class semi-rural village. There have been a number or armed robberies here, one resulting in a woman being shot in the back and killed.
"Nigga lover"? My wife is a Dominican Negro, (and a qualified doctor) if that's what you mean. I don't know about in New Jersey, but in Australia, "nigga" is a derogatory term, so I don't use it. If you are Dominican then chances are you have some Negro slave ancestry too, whether to admit to it or not. Or perhaps are you a pure white, direct descendent of Christopher Columbus from Northern Italy?
Written by: Nehesy, 13 Apr 2012 8:59 AM
From: France, London / Paris
I'm wondering where the link between being a "nigga-lover" (knowing that at least 85 % of the DR population has some "nigga" blood) and exposing the corruption in the DR ?
Written by: RoyStone, 13 Apr 2012 9:16 AM
From: Australia
Interesting point, Nehesy,
You will need to ask hellborn25 who used the expression.
Dominicans glorify the Spanish component (in some cased negligible) of their ancestry, while ignoring the Negro slave component, while criticizing Haitians for being descendents of black slaves. The expression "pot calling the kettle black" comes to mind. I think it comes with the territory. Trujillo's grandmother was Haitian, which didn't stop him exterminating 20,000 of any that couldn't pronounce "prerjil" properly.
Written by: Nehesy, 13 Apr 2012 9:59 AM
From: France, London / Paris
Roy what you are exposing in your post is my biggest interrogation about the DR.
Spain colonized this country for centuries ; Ferdinand and the following rulers edicted cedulas (royal decrees) or provided asientos to the slave traders, to import african slaves in the DR; took it back from 1861 to 1865 ( during that period the population was fearing to see a new age of slavery because it was not ended in Cuba and PR). Yet there is more hatred towards the Haitians who occupied the country 22 yrs than towards the spaniards.
Hellborn25 should read " La Esclavitud del Negro en Santo Domingo" by Carlos Larrazabal Blanco or "Raza e Historia en Santo Domingo" by Hugo Tolentino Dipp or " La Presencia Negra en Santo Domingo" by Carlos Andujar before speaking sh.t
I visited Spain many times, Africa many times and Dominican Republic a lot of times. I'm surely not confused about their identity
From: United States, I dont even live inside a house , I haunt one!
Actually to clarified nigga lover has other meanings , besides race , like if your one of those people that loves living in the ghetto and knows that you should get out , and refuse to get a education or better yourself , you could call yourself a nigga lover . Or if your one those neo liberals who believes we should open our borders and let all those illegal friendly mexicans in the country , you could call yourself a nigga lover .
From: United States, I dont even live inside a house , I haunt one!
roy you keep giving this dominican history lesson , about race coming from a white man thats rich, heres some history of your austrilian brothers .
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, large numbers of convicts were transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British government. One of the primary reasons for the British settlement of Australia was the establishment of a penal colony to alleviate pressure on their overburdened correctional facilities. Over the 80 years more than 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia.
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Ahhhh... the quintessential Dominican authority.
Inbred entitlement mentality so they have a license to intimidate and kill with impunity.
No sense in firing the fool, is there?
I wonder who ties his shoes?
Some Dominican machos go in to a fight - Duh!
Every weekend, (especially pay weeks) our local hospital's emergency department is full of guys that have chopped and shot each other up, or ridden into parked cars, and unpaid intern doctors are running around trying to stop the bleeding and to stitch them back up again.
So what's so special about this brawl - it involved a baseball god and a senior police officer?
Give me a break!
If this behavior is not weeded out of the people who are supposed to help you one day YOU will be the victim of this hubris attitude.
Now grow the f... up and instead of giving minuses (which is easy) do the hard work and fix your pathetic country. Or are you hoping one day you can be as corrupt as this POS.
Fire him ... period.
I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Corruption is tolerated since everyone is hoping and praying they will eventually get a turn at a bigger trough. The chain-letter is a valid analogy - people know it's wrong and it will eventually end and many will lose their money, but for those already in it, they don't want it to end just yet, since they will lose more than their shirt.
Corruption is not only a the top. It extends right down to paying someone to move to the front of a long queue at a government office, to using political influence to get a better job, getting a driver's license, steeling electricity, transmission-towers or man-hole covers, boinking the neighbor's daughter, dumping rubbish in the river, avoiding taxes, running red lights or avoiding a parking ticket.
Corrupt to the core. Everyone knows it, but when a foreigner says it, the response is "go home, white-supremacist!"
The "minus morons" know it - that's why "minusing" is their only response.
"who goes to a club with a loaded gun?"
When were you last in this country? Guys here go to church with a loaded gun!
The whole island of Hispaniola is in the "Wild West" Indies. I am living in a typical middle-class semi-rural village. There have been a number or armed robberies here, one resulting in a woman being shot in the back and killed.
"Nigga lover"? My wife is a Dominican Negro, (and a qualified doctor) if that's what you mean. I don't know about in New Jersey, but in Australia, "nigga" is a derogatory term, so I don't use it. If you are Dominican then chances are you have some Negro slave ancestry too, whether to admit to it or not. Or perhaps are you a pure white, direct descendent of Christopher Columbus from Northern Italy?
You will need to ask hellborn25 who used the expression.
Dominicans glorify the Spanish component (in some cased negligible) of their ancestry, while ignoring the Negro slave component, while criticizing Haitians for being descendents of black slaves. The expression "pot calling the kettle black" comes to mind. I think it comes with the territory. Trujillo's grandmother was Haitian, which didn't stop him exterminating 20,000 of any that couldn't pronounce "prerjil" properly.
Spain colonized this country for centuries ; Ferdinand and the following rulers edicted cedulas (royal decrees) or provided asientos to the slave traders, to import african slaves in the DR; took it back from 1861 to 1865 ( during that period the population was fearing to see a new age of slavery because it was not ended in Cuba and PR). Yet there is more hatred towards the Haitians who occupied the country 22 yrs than towards the spaniards.
Hellborn25 should read " La Esclavitud del Negro en Santo Domingo" by Carlos Larrazabal Blanco or "Raza e Historia en Santo Domingo" by Hugo Tolentino Dipp or " La Presencia Negra en Santo Domingo" by Carlos Andujar before speaking sh.t
I visited Spain many times, Africa many times and Dominican Republic a lot of times. I'm surely not confused about their identity
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, large numbers of convicts were transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British government. One of the primary reasons for the British settlement of Australia was the establishment of a penal colony to alleviate pressure on their overburdened correctional facilities. Over the 80 years more than 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia.