Those guys are dressed as gladiators.
I am disgusted by what my government has become.
Maine is a very violent state.
"Meanwhile, the Department of Corrections in the state has assigned an investigator to figure out how the video of the incident got leaked."
IOW, find out who ratted us out and fix them good.
Thugs, so brave when it is several of them on one.
Where is the mistreatment?
Methinks this PD is going to be in trouble.
Disturbing. Looks like he is known to the police:
A Standish man’s Thursday morning crime spree, which included trying to steal an ambulance from Maine Medical Center and three armed robberies, came to a messy end when a McDonald’s worker doused the man with hot coffee as he stole a cash register, police said.
Officers descended on St. John Street at 6 a.m., and Paul Schlosser tried to escape by climbing into the passenger side of a car stopped at a nearby ATM. He ordered the motorist to drive off, but the man refused, and moments later police took Schlosser into custody.
Chief James Craig said Schlosser’s spate of armed robberies was driven by his need for drugs, and investigators are exploring whether he may be responsible for a series of unsolved crimes in the West End.
Craig declined to release photographs of Schlosser, a baby-faced 25-year-old with short blond hair, because police may ask victims if they can identify him in a lineup.
Officers had been on the lookout for Schlosser ever since a reported knifepoint robbery at Cumberland Farms on Pine Street shortly after midnight.
A man had entered the store, threatened the clerk with a knife and fled with cash in a red Subaru that had been reported stolen a few days earlier, Craig said at a news conference. He said officers recognized Schlosser on the store’s security video.
“It should be noted that Schlosser over the past five years has been arrested 30 times for crimes (such as) burglary, theft, possession of drugs, probation violation and driving offenses,” Craig said. “We got a bad guy off the street.” [snip]
The story does not offer any justification of fitting him with the spit mask, which leaves prolonging the pain of the OC pepper as the only reason I can think of. That is not torture, exactly how?
That which is done to “criminals” today will be done to “conservatives”, “Christians” and “Freepers” tomorrow.
Those who defend this should mentally picture themselves, their spouses, their children in the victim’s place.
When you desensitize people to torture, they are far less likely to have moral scruples about torturing women, children, and the innocent.