> Officer Elliot Palmer is a COWARD. <
He is either a coward or a psychopath. I’d bet on the latter.
> After incidents like this it’s damn hard to have ANY RESPECT for law enforcement. <
Right. And that’s something that police agencies just don’t get. When they excuse even one “bad apple”, we citizens can reasonably assume that the whole barrel is rotten.
This is no small thing! Yes, we need the police. But the police also need us. In the old days it was criminal vs police. But thanks to police overreactions, it’s now criminal vs. police vs. society.
Who can win in such a situation? I’m not sure. But it’s probably not society.
This is not good for a free nation. It’s not good at all.
Seems strange doesn’t it, 40 or 50 years ago a cop would have just pet the dog, or if it was being vicious would have just popped it on the nose with a night stick
Now days they want to full RAMBO wit an M-60 machine gun on Lady or the Tramp.