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Government schools have been extremely destructive, so perhaps this will help dissolve them too.

Well, we also have a clear example of just how TV has affected the public's understanding of reality in the person of a kid who thinks he can't be arrested unless he gets a Miranda warning first. So, I don't know... maybe it's an even push.

"Well, we also have a clear example of just how TV has affected the public's understanding of reality in the person of a kid who thinks he can't be arrested unless he gets a Miranda warning first"

It goes further than that: this generation is a generation that needs discuss things, learn why things are the way they are.

I commanded a battalion a few years ago of about 835 of these kids and leading them was a challenge in that they really needed to know why something was going to happen before they would really get behind it. It took a bit of adjustment to my leadership style, but if there was time to explain things, I found that they were as good as or better than any other Marines I'd known. Their record in Iraq stands on its own and I'm very proud of them.

This young man in this incident was asking for an explanation and he ran into a cop in a hurry to give him a ticket, then in a hurry to hurt him. We can make all the excuses we want to because he's a cop or we can see the situation for what it was - a cop with a lousy attitude that shamed himself and wronged a citizen and his family

I protest against the "them and us" mentality that has shown up among some police officers because we all need each other, cops and civilians.

In 1977 when I was a 1st Lieutenant and I was traveling through the L.A. bus station when I saw an LAPD officer in a hand-to-hand fight with an African-American man and the cop was starting to lose the fight because the suspect was grabbing for his gun. I intervened and helped the cop to subdue the suspect and get him into cuffs - then I got on my bus when the cop's partner arrived.

I am still more than willing to support where I can but officers that see us all as the enemy to be tasered at the smallest excuse make that difficult.

This generation is as good or better than mine - all you gotta do is explain a bit more.

Assuming that you’ve watched all of the video, then you know that the stop and arrest were totally improper. The other officer was visibly dismayed by it.