The thread has gone just where I figured it would.
So you take the side of the thug-oriented cops rather than the Nam family? I’m not surprised.
The thread has gone just where I figured it would.
Huh? Surely you're not saying that such cops DON'T deserve what's coming to them?
That somehow they are above the law?
Seesh.
Where else would it go? When cops act like thugs are we supposed to gather around and form a rooting section for them?
Farther down you ask how another poster knows they are guilty. In answer, to the extent the alleged conduct is criminal (and I believe it is), they deserve their day in court - and so do the alleged victims and the public in general. But too often, nobody is called to answer to charges that many of us believe are credible and serious enough to warrant criminal prosecution.
I don't pretend to speak for everybody, but I believe various functions of law, internal policies, politics and personalities have created a system that ignores or even encourages the kind of thuggery described in the subject article and worse. I also believe if lack of enforcement upon the supposed enforcers is allowed to continue it is the right and duty of the people to defend themselves.
Absent intervention through the normal political process, which might sometimes include forceful and lawful exercise of rights, there will come a time when some folks will act preemptively. As it is in parts of Mexico now, a state of war will arrive quickly and it will be difficult to tell if anyone on either side has clean hands.
You must be one of the brave officers who participated in this well executed exercise in brutality. Obviously these people deserved to have their security system destroyed, their shop ransacked, to be robbed at gun point, and kidnapped and held for ransom.
They were selling ziplock bags. Everyone knows that the Glad corporation, maker of ziplock bags is public enemy number one. Grocery stores, which also sell these dangerous contraband bags, are in league with drug cartels to supply these essential tools without which the drug trade would collapse overnight.
Would you like a medal to commemorate your valiant stand against the evil zip lock bag?