[manc]

There are many good cops and there are many bad , arrogant, power driven, and egotistical cops.
There is a ton of bad laws.

[griswold3]

If it’s an arrestable offence the officer is bound by law to affect the arrest, period. The courts decide from that point.
The time to contest bad law is NOT during an arrest.

[dragnet2]

It’s the finger pointing game....

Why would people enforce bad laws, then willingly accept tax paid cash, rewards and benefits to do so?

[driftdiver]

Georgia speed traps are horrendous. I’ve personally witnessed the use of bait cars. Its about revenue and not safety.

[Red Steel]

There are many bad politicians and bad laws.. . and many good politicians. Oh wait.

[NorthMountain]

This is one of these cases where I hope Mr. Chadwick sues and gets generously compensated (and I would want any damages to be financed out of the budgets of the officials who misbehaved).

Assuming that the truth of the matter is as reported ...

Every police officer involved in the raid, their commanders, the judge who approved the raid, and the prosecutors who brought the matter to trial ..

ALL of them ...

Need to spend the rest of their lives in prison. No exceptions.

I predict that none of them will face any personal consequences ... And that makes many good people a lot less sympathetic to the Darren Wilsons of the world than they otherwise would be. The police need to be policed. We, the People ... who are supposed to be superior to the police (our servants) ... rightly have no confidence in them.

[Augie]

The popo is not your friend.

[hecticskeptic]

I heard an interesting line that got me thinking this morning while watching Fox News’s coverage of what was going on in Paris. They were talking about the fact that there is no death penalty in France and in fact, they don’t even have a penalty for life imprisonment (just repeating what I heard and I haven’t verified if this is true). Anyway, one of the hosts stated that there was no death penalty “unless a cop shoots and kills one of the terrorists”…..and it got me wondering about the subtle ways in places with no death penalty that police seem to be acting as if this is now part of their role.

I highly doubt that those against the death penalty ever considered this as an outcome that would gradually become the case.....not thinking so much of the terrorist drama currently unfolding but of many other instances where the MO seems to be more of a 'shoot first and ask questions later' than it ever has been in the past.

[kenmcg]

Disagree, the real problem is black crime. For a so called minority, the blacks are responsible for an overwhelming amount of violent crime. Hence they will have more interactions with police.

[Lexinom]

If “a spotless record” can be so effortlessly besmirched, I would submit that “record” carries no weight then as a measure of one’s character. Jesus Christ was, after all, a “criminal”.

[Cubs Fan]

There’s also a worse ghetto culture filled with criminals and criminal enablers always looking for someone else to blame for the messes their lives are in.

If you want to know why criminal mike brown, who deserved to get shot, became an excuse to riot, rob, burn and loot, look there.