[dirtboy]

Anyone who challenges the status quo will be attacked, you know that. Challenging law enforcement will only be met with the usual smears of paranoid, black helicopter etc. etc.

I don't think they'll be able to pull that off here. Shooting the family pooch resonates with mainstream America. The goal here should be to use this matter as a springboard to tone down the hardass level of current law enforcement - because if we simply go after the cop, the system can ditch him as a scapegoat and escape scrutiny.

[Stew Padasso]

"Shooting the family pooch resonates with mainstream America."

This is what I am talking about as a cultural problem. This story will resonate, but incompetents like Louis Freeh will go on with there lives with their retirement benefits intact.

[SerpentDove]

>>The goal here should be to use this matter as a springboard to tone down the hardass level of
current law enforcement - because if we simply go after the cop, the system can ditch him as a scapegoat and escape scrutiny.<<

A well-reasoned post (not that your others haven't been).

Thanks.