This case might be a bad case to use as an example of how we are becoming like a third-world country, but often the not-so-stellar underclass is the canary in the coal mine of increasing police abuse and violation of rights. While at the same time the police and security apparatus becomes a protected class. And it’s not individual cops, but the system. A system which has been put on steroids due to big government and increasing misplaced deference. You know you have a problem when a lot of cops make more money than a lot of medical doctors. But alas, the former are public sector and the latter mostly private sector and self-employed.
I see us at a Brazil in 1975 stage of third worldization, heading toward a 2016 Brazil. After yesterday’s events, maybe Brazil in 1985?