The Sun editorial board exposed a situation where guards were going around awakening inmates at all hours of the night and harassing them. In the specific instance, a group of officers proceeded to beat an inmate ultimately killing him, saying that he attacked them. He did only after the guards started beating on him. He lay handcuffed on the floor as guards beat him, hit him with barons and radios, and ultimately crushed his larynx.
That the awards reflected wrongdoing by police is not “attacking cops”, it is reporting about what actually goes on. With the prevalence of cell phone cameras and security cameras, what used to go unseen and unreported is now being revealed in all its ugliness.
Well the idea of some stratospheric echelon of social guardians that deals with all this stuff is a “liberal” idea anyhow. Where are the posses? Where are even the chaplains?