We had a very stupid Fairfax County cop once stop a neighbor for having rolled through a stop sign and on into our cull-de-sac.
Happened immediately in front of my house. Cop got the guy to step out of his car and lay on the ground. Then he cuffed him. Then he pulled out his wallet.
I didn't say a word ~ just stood on my porch ~ and the cop turned to me and said "Whatcha' lookin' out" and touched his pistol.
Took about two days to get that idiot fired! But this isn't New Orleans. Still, there are places in this country where I would have been justified drawing down on the officer, or even shooting him dead in the street.
I suspect the way this particular case ends up is that a whole bunch of cops will need to find new employment, preferably not with Fairfax County, and no, I don't want the FBI guy, or the Customs agent moving in around here to work at their new "staff jobs". You can keep 'em. Send the DOJ your address and tell them that these guys are welcome next door!
There's another thing that gets me, everybody has their "bad cop" story. They once saw a cop do this and that so therefore all cops are bad.
Sounds like the democrats when they talk about the "scandal ridden Bush administration."
Your right, I did see a different tape than you did. The media has now released a few more minutes of the tape.
Doesn't it bother you that they didn't release the whole thing to begin with? Doesn't it make you think that there might be more to the story?
Reminds me of the Rodney King tape. The media only showed King attacking officers one time, then they only showed the beating.