IMHO I think most of this is a concoction of the media. Not saying that there aren’t bad eggs out there, but I think there’s an agenda in how the media portrays these incidents.
I thought we were supposed not to trust the media. Yet it seems many here believe everything the media says when it comes to cops.
It goes back to Rodney King, all the media showed was the part of the video with the police striking Rodney......what they didn’t show was Rodney attacking the Cops.
I don’t need the media to tell me what I know about cops.
It isn’t the media, people are living in a time when we see police moving through our communities in a coarse, crude, impatient, and deadly manner, like poorly trained and indifferent occupation troops, who shoot first or conduct beat downs, without any serious oversight from their command.
In fact, does anyone here really want to try and describe any real overseeing authority over our local police? The Mayor, the City council members? Some civilian review board that we used to hear about but which never had any effect?
In most major cities, the police union, the Firemens union, the teacher’s union, the city employees union, are the power that controls the government over them, that is how they are looting our city coffers for their pensions and early retirements, and face no true authority greater than their own.
Either we get control of the police, and policing in America, or we don’t, and what we see today is not where it will be 20 or 30 years from now, as their institutional power over our cities grows..