> The cop’s side of the story went entirely unreported, yet the FR cop haters are rushing to judgment. <
You are correct in that we are, so far, hearing only one side of the story. Yet I see no problem with a discussion now. After all, this is a chat site, not a jury room.
If one side of an argument is wrong here, hopefully polite counter-arguments will be made.
Anyway, two points, please:
1. There is video of the incident. Sure, such video can be manipulated. But I deliberately posted the Fox story, and avoided articles from lefty sites like MSN.
2. A retired detective has already sided with the victim. As I noted earlier, I think that’s significant.
You are correct that we are hearing only one side of the story.
WHY IS THAT?
Two possibilities, It could be that the victim is just looking to make cops look bad in general. The other possibility is that the cop is just a bad cop and the police force and it’s union are looking to bury the story.
This is just yet another “story” of ONE cop gone bad which very quickly nullifies dozens and dozens of stories of good cops.