Excessive force? Or the bastard deserved it?

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in actual practice the pain the kid went through is probably LESS than getting sprayed or tasered but it looks terrible and it makes the job harder for other, more competent cops.

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Yeah this the problem that most of yall dont seem to understand. This sort of behavior doesnt make people fear the cops or behave better, it makes them hate the cops and trust them less and more likely to run/resist.

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Ive had lots of expierences with cops, I dont think Im a bad person. Out of all the expierences with them I think one has been a positive one. This goes the same for pretty much everyone I know, certainly anyone Ive ever talked about it with. Minorities and urban youth, specifically urban youth of color have a general distrust of police, and they have a damn good reason for it. Beatings like this go hand in hand with police planting evidence, shooting unarmed people only to claim later they thought a cell phone was a gun, and a number of other horrible things. Police have way too much power and it is far to common that it ends up being abused. This guy might not be a saint (not to say he isnt, we have no real evidence ot the contrary) but its disgusting that anyone would say that he deserves this.

We have courts(with thier own inherent problems) for a reason people, wake up.