Possibly you'd find it less so had you witnessed the effect of such things firsthand, as I did in pre-Castro Cuba in 1958 and the pre-communist Saigon of '68-70.
Increasingly, American police are becoming more and more like Diem's white mice, or Batista's SIM.
Increasingly, American police are becoming more and more like Diem's white mice, or Batista's SIM."
Arch, I share your concern about LEO's operating outside of their mandate. I condemn this strongly. My comments were directed to the conclusions some were drawing from this video(if they actually watched it), i.e. that the man wwas drunk - no evidence of this shown; derisive comments about the daughter - completely unneccessary; shooting people from the roofs - just stupid.
I do not believe he did a damn thing wrong. Except for, rightly in my opinion, refusing to produce an ID, he was very co-operative. The officer was responsible for the escalation of the incident and showed very poor technique. The assault on the daughter was totaly unneccessary and should be legally actionable.