You seem to have forgotten the rules on FR when it comes to any discussion regarding law enforcement.
Rule 1, the most important, is that you must take the media reports, and whatever story is being told by the local “activits”, lawyers, etc. at face value. This is tricky, as this is the exact opposite of how every other story is discussed.
Rule 2, a close corollary of rule 1, is that we must always assume the male fides of the police. Context does not matter: start with the presumption that the local copper dealing with whatever call or observational stop he’s working is a “JBT”, or at least incompetent.
Rule 3, in any use of force situation, we must never hold the suspect, er, citizen to any standard of civilized behavior. In other words, resisting arrest is a perfectly reasonable course of action for an individual to take if, in that person’s sole judgement, the arrest is unreasonable or unwarranted.
Rule 4 is the simplest. Any use of force by the police is either excessive, illegal, or unreasonable. In other words, if it looks bad, it is bad, and no other information or investigation is needed.
Good post.
And who would have ever believed it:
Rule 5: Al Sharpton is right.