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The Tyisha Miller shooting: a former RPD cop's perspective

by bill rhetts Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2001 at 10:32 PM

Former Riverside Police Department officer, Bill Rhetts offers his perspective on the Tyisha Miller shooting, and why he made the racist comment: "in L.A. they treat you like a King, In Riverside, it's Miller time."

Cowardly Christians & Courageous Churches

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Let us be gay, for he is a dickweed

by Howard Tracy Thursday, Mar. 15, 2001 at 12:56 AM

The author of the above is described as a "former" Riverside cop.

Thank Heaven for little blessings!

FUCK THE POLICE !

by FUCK THE POLICE ! Friday, Mar. 16, 2001 at 2:07 AM

FUCK THE POLICE !

I will not use your name as you have mine.

by Bill Rhetts Monday, Mar. 19, 2001 at 4:37 PM

A friend just told me about this "independent Media" web page, and that my literature was being posted on it. I find it interesting with the posting of this one. Because it says it was posted by me, and I did not post it. Thanks for sharing my views, whoever did post it.

I value your 1st amendment rights just as I do mine. I will never hate you, as you seem to hate me. I would love to meet any of you, and buy you lunch anytime.

Bill Rhetts

Inland Police Officers Coalition

http://www.linkline.com/personal/billrhetts/

your sad sad story

by Mike Monday, Mar. 19, 2001 at 8:43 PM

Bill....You did not address racism in the RPD. Why are you so ashamed of your views? How were your comments taken out of context? What did you mean to say? Come on Bill, stop all the God jabber and tell us what you really think of Blacks, gays, youth and poor people.

The State saw problems in Riverside; why don't you address those problems? The City Attorney saw a problem with the killing of Tyisha and spent 3 mil. keeping it out of court.

Why don't you address that instead of getting lost in your Bible, Billy?

All the people in the streets want is the truth. Why don't you give us the truth Bill and let us make up our own minds about the kind of person you are and the kind of people you represent?

gee, Bill thanks for sharing!

by don't police my streets! Monday, Mar. 19, 2001 at 9:54 PM

Hi, Bill nice to see you here. Check again to see more of your stuff soon. I don't hate you, Bill, I'm just glad you can't hurt or kill people anymore, or engage in racist humour as a training exercise. I am a christian like yourself, only I don't use myself as an agent to carry out His wrath against gays, blacks, non-christians, even registered sex offenders cowering unarmed in a dog house. That is what is known as a God complex, Bill.

peace and love,





Anyone can post ~ using anyones name

by John Doe Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2001 at 4:01 PM
John Doe@aol.com

See my point... Who knows who's really posting, and who's really responding???

Trust me, all these folks are real

by jane doe Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2001 at 1:10 AM

Hi,

I've ran into nearly all these folk, face, rhetts, mike etc. and trust me, i think the posts here were made by them.

I went to the rallies for Tyisha Miller. Met Mike, great guy. met face, if it is who I think, coool! Even met Bill, not so nice, but always good for a Bible verse. Oh well, you can't have everything.

face, give rhetts a break. he's in the repenting state. He can't help who he is.

Speaking Truth

by walt harrison Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2001 at 1:36 AM
waltharrison@hotmail.com

It's too bad people won't listen to the truth. The City of Riverside lost an excellent officer with excellent character. I am proud of you Bill!

Riverside didn't listen when warned of rhetts

by face in the crowd Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2001 at 10:08 PM

hi, nice to see you all here, even you Walt. No, the truth is, that riverside didn't listen when community members warned the city about rhetts b/f he shot someone else. He wasn't robbed of anything, he gets to live and produce more of his jabberings on a web site paid for by all the citizens. What he no longer has, is a license to kill.

Walt, if you think that using racist jokes is excellent work by an officer, may God help your soul. The Lord Jesus does not believe in using the tragedies of His people as fodder for jokes. To say likewise and promote it is nothing short of blaspemous.

Racist Jokes

by annon Thursday, Mar. 22, 2001 at 4:41 AM

You've only head the medias version. The media wants you all to think his remarks were racist, or a joke. I have no doubt that they were not!!!

A racist joke is not a joke, if its education

by blue streak Saturday, Mar. 24, 2001 at 1:52 AM

hi, just popped into this debate. I did some quick research on the comment in question. I have moles everywhere, who helped. :-) Here it is:

"In L.A., they treat you like a King; In Riverside it's Miller time." --Bill Rhetts, after the tyisha miller shooting while in roll call with several officers.

Let's diagram the statement, shall we folks?

"In L.A., they treat you like a King." King being a double entendre(a rather sophisticated grammar device for a man in blue) of treat you like a king, as in royalty or in this case, King, being Rodney King, who was beaten by three officers, while 14 others including the supervisor watched. L.A. cops have been trading this phrase for years as a joke between the white cops, of how blacks are treated, with the force of a night stick. Bill Rhetts did 11 years in the LAPD.

"In Riverside, it's Miller time," another double entendre. Miller being a beer, and that phrase often used in a beer commercial. Beer drinking is a favorite off-duty pasttime for cops. Bill Rhetts drank a lot of beer when he worked in vice, as one of my moles has told me. Here, it parallels the King comment, by saying that in Riverside, we treat blacks like Tyisha Miller who was shot 12 times in the back, while helpless, ergo we shoot and kill blacks in Riverside. It was intended(according to a blue mole) to one-up the treatment of blacks in L.A. by saying, well, we do you one higher. sick really. and indictative of the reality that racism is an integral part of most law enforcement agencies.

I never met the man, but anyone who would say a comment like this, in joke, knew exactly what he was doing when he made it.

grammar lesson over, folks. Ciao.


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