Another armed, world class goon with an inferiority complex patrolling our streets.
Why did he make the kid lay down until somebody else got there? If he was going to arrest him, why didn't he cuff him and put him in the car? Maybe he knew he fucked up...
Cop tases Best Buy shopper for using stolen credit card. At least she thought it was a stolen credit card. Turns out it was her credit card after all. Oops.
Well, even though she wasn't a thief, she shouldn't have been backing up and moving her arms when the cop invaded her personal space. That's clear evidence that she's guilty of something. Innocent people would exhibit normal behavior, such as pushing the cop or spitting in her face, or trying to flee the store.
There are plenty of stories like this these days. I don’t know how many I’ve read where the writer describes some breach of civil liberties by employees of the state, then wraps it all up with a dire warning about what we as a nation are becoming, and how if we don’t put an end to it now, then we’re in for heaps of trouble. Well you know what? Nothing’s going to stop the inevitable. There’s no policy change that’s going to save us. There’s no election that’s going to put a halt to the onslaught of tyranny. It’s here already – this country has changed for the worse and will continue to change for the worse. There is now a division between the citizenry and the state. When that state is used as a tool against me, there is no longer any reason why I should owe any allegiance to that state.
And that’s the first thing that child of ours is going to learn.
The only positive thing I can say about that whole article is that his child will NOT grow up into an authoritarian follower....which is the biggest problem in America and the reason this shit continues.
That may be the most egregious abuse of police power I've seen posted here yet. I'm sure any of the cops would just say that they were doing their jobs too.
