I'm really at a loss as to how things get this out of control.
What I am at a loss to figure out, is why we haven’t heard of these types of things before now. When a department goes this far South, it generally becomes fairly evident.
Perhaps there was a club in the department, that went zonal as party of their identity.
I’d sure hate to think the whole department was this bad.
One grave indicator from my perspective, was the exoneration of the first to officer that zeroes in on the phone. How do you came too the conclusion they did no, or very little wrong?
You and I would do serious time for assaulting a fellow citizen like that. Officers should know better. They have it spelled out to them very clearly. They know the penalties involved. If they do it, then they deserve to get the book thrown at them.
Hickenlooper created a sanctuary city.
When you encourage lawlessness you reap what you sow.
Homeless bums destroying the 16th. St. Mall.
When a fast food restaurant tried to roust out the homeless they were excoriated. As if the business was open to provide shelter for homeless bums. Young men causing endless trouble on the mall.
Hickenlooper is running for Governor now.
Because cops are put on a pedestal. In a courtroom setting they are not treated like a regular citizen, or a party of ill-motive. Yet more and more they are. Of ill-motive, that is.
There’s a reason for that, the same reason that affirmative action creates incompetent brats who also lash out when someone tries to hold them to account.
How did it get this bad? This is what happens in a police state.
This isn’t an escalation of police brutality by any means. Every city that I’ve lived in for the past 60 years has had its “A”hole cop that would handcuff some kid to a tree or something like it and beat them into submission. I saw it in Olean, NY, Houston, Texas, Myrtle Beach, SC, and Charlotte, NC to name a few. In the late 1970s, I had a gun club in Myrtle Beach that was frequented by a few city firemen. At the time there had been three young male tourists hang themselves in the city jail next to the firehouse in the course of two weeks. One of the firemen told me that you could hear the kids screaming as they were being beaten in their cells.
It is all about the power of life and death being given by the government instead of by the people.