Absolutely.
And thank you don-o, for the sanity you have been bringing to this subject matter, since the incident. Forgive me if you will for having not lent open support to your own comments previously.
If memory serves, everything you've had to say about it --- is entirely within realm of what needed to be said, yourself doing so with decency & restraint, not going things too far.
But that was not enough for a few individuals around here...like one who's initials could be t-g.
I know and see better now who is worthy of respect -- and who has here (at FR) earned nothing less than utter contempt.
You are TOO kind. I have time on my hands these days, so I choose to use a great deal of it in this matter.
We all need to be encouraging each other to think deeply and soberly about what is happening before our eyes.
Trite it may be, but those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
I am happy to say, however, that the TOTAL I've been able to find at this point of voices who buy the LEO spiel, number only 21. Twenty-one individuals so far, in posts covering the past few weeks on this topic, versus EASILY 60 individuals who are like skeeter, me, and don-o, who think this stinks. HAPPILY, it's about the same outside of FR, when you look at reader/consumer comments on posting forums of virtually every MSM (not "conservative," but regular-joe-type local and national) news site.
People who insist on thinking the majority of people (not just FReepers) are "conspiracy theorists" for processing the facts and concluding that the cops were WAY out of line and obviously lying, are ... suspect at best, traitors at worst, and ABSOLUtELY a small minority. A loud, determined, and organized one perhaps, but in real people, a decided minority.