No games here. I'm just not a sniveling little leftist dreaming of a
utopian world where criminals are treated like victims.
What is overlooked on all of these threads is that the law applies with no less force to the police as it does to the original defendant. When a law enforcement officer breaks the law and assaults or kills the perpetrator of another crime, they become a law breaker and the perpetrator a victim. There are still two sets of perpetrators and victims, they have just switched roles for the first and second offense, but the offense of the officer is much worse than an ordinary assault because (1) the officer has been trained and knows better, (2) we have entrusted the officer with extraordinary powers, (3) the lawless behavior of even a few law enforcement officers destroys the trust society has in law enforcement, and (4) an officer may reasonably expect not to be caught most of the time.
I see a beating like witnessed in this video as no less culpable than if the officers had reached into the man's back pocket and stolen his wallet.