more police state BS.

[littlewolf]

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/05/03/san-antonio-park-police-beat-woman-delete-video-which-is-later-recovered/

San Antonio Park police violently beat a woman who had walked into the wrong room at a gas station, then arrested her brother for trying to video record the altercation.
They also deleted the footage from her brother’s camera while charging the woman with felony assault on a peace officer.

But her brother managed to recover the footage that contradicts the police version of the story.
Christina Oliver, who ended up with a broken nose and black eye, told her story to KENS 5:

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. More thuggish cops. Seems like we have an awful lot of those.

[PDJane]

2. Yes, of course we do. They aren't choir boys, they're the authoritarians in the first place.

The men and women who become police officers, in my experience, aren't the best or the brightest; they're the bullies, the frustrated, the ones who see the opportunity to screw with everything in sight.

[MineralMan]

3. I think you forgot the words "Some of"

at the beginning of your post. Truly, I think you forgot. I'd like to think you forgot.

[PDJane]

4. Let's compromise. Most of, because in my experience, it is a majority. Not all, No.

But more than I'd like to believe is simply possible.

[MineralMan]

5. No, I don't think it's "most of" at all.

Some of.

[PDJane]

6. We all work on our own experience. That has been my experience.

I was married to a man who became a cop. I met too many of his fellows. I also know a number who are not affiliated with his precinct, watched them during the two G8 summits, and I can tell you that it's more than half. That makes a majority.

I am willing to admit that part of the problem is the seige mentality that seems to infect the police, and part of it is the dynamics of crowd thinking. However, that said, there has to be some kind of propensity to authoritarianism and violence in the first place. The really good ones get there almost by accident, but the ones who want to be police officers are the ones who mostly shouldn't be.

[datasuspect]

7. nah, those cops were there to buy milk