Plenty of evidence daily suggests otherwise. Cops are NOY your friends!
>>>>Most cops are good people
>>Plenty of evidence daily suggests otherwise. Cops are NOY your friends!
I would say that the first, “Most cops are good people”, is probably true.
I would not agree with the second, that there is plenty of evidence it is not true.
However, and this is the key point, there is plenty of evidence that a non-negligible percentage of cops are not good people, are not your friend, that you should very much be on your guard in any encounter with law enforcement. The blue-clad peace officer (think Andy of Mayberry) has all too often become the black-clad LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER < dire, threatening music plays here briefly>. There are a lot of reasons for this, which I’m not going to get into now, but it has happened and for anyone to think otherwise is to ignore many stories that show up here week after week.
So after comment on your comments, I’m going to move into general related commentary on this story.
With just the evidence presented, it sounds like we very well might have a case where an a**hole ex-cop went way overboard when told “hey, you cut in front of me.” If you just pepper-sprayed me for next to nothing and said “I got more for you, bro”, how do I know “more” isn’t an escalation of force, that your not about to kick my butt while I’m partially incapacitated by pepper spray? If everything went down like that, then I see a strong case for self-defense.
Hopefully video and witnesses will prove or disprove this scenario. But it is certainly possible, especially given the sort of jerk ex-cop Colorado might very well have been, given his history.