Asshole of the Day Award- Oct. 13

I thought long and hard when I was planning my "Asshole" award. Should I make it on a day-by-day scale, a week-by-week one, or even a month-by-month one for the most serious cases? I finally realized that this Katrina aftermath has brought so many assholes and fuckwads out of the woodwork (where at least they'd been hiding somewhat) that even doing an "Asshole of the Week" award wouldn't give me a chance to cover all of them. Hell, even though I finally settled on the day-by-day "Asshole of the Day" Award, there's still probably enough to make a damn hourly award.

Today's not so bright, kind, generous, and loving winner of the "Asshole of the Day" Award is none other than New Orleans Attorney Frank DeSalvo, who, as noted in the previous post, is defending the brutal beating of 64-YEAR-OLD ROBERT DAVIS by N.O. cops as "reasonable" and "following proper procedure" and other such bullshit. He says all we have to do is watch the video slowly and we'll see the truth. Huh. I did that, and the truth is that a 64-YEAR-OLD MAN was brutally beaten in a dangerous spot (the back of the head and behind the ear) and his face continuously bounced off the brick wall. There were also many more sucker-punches than is required for fucking "standard procedure" or "reasonable force".

In this slo-mo tape that I have also watched, DeSalvo claims, "I see an incident of a man trying to be brought under control who doesn't want to be brought under control."

I wish DeSalvo would hook me up with his crack dealer, because it must be nice to be that high and out of it all the time. What I see is a 64-YEAR OLD MAN being beaten senseless by the cops AND federal agents (still waiting for those charges) who is trying to protect his face and head by putting his arms up around his face. You know, those things called "self-defense" and "self-preservation" and "Please God don't kill me I don't know what the hell is going on, I just don't want to die." That kind of stuff.

So anyway, congratulations to Frank DeSalvo. For giving lawyers, New Orleans police, and the City of New Orleans a bad name; for making a bad situation even tragically and dangerously worse; for being flippant about abuse and blaming the victim; and for being a general jackass-- You win today's "Asshole of the Day" Award. With the possible exception of the previous award winner, I cannot think of anyone MORE deserving of that title.