And people acting as if a bad attitude should never have a consequence? Try it at a drive-thru window or retail counter, and see what kind of service you get. Heck, try it at your kid's next parent/teacher conference. Then come back to FR and explain to us all that it makes no difference.
I hear you.
I admit that after I watched the video the first time, I started reading the posts, and due to the vicious attacks by posters on the officer, I started arguing back, and...
made some statements about things in the video that I thought I remembered, or that I felt were inferred by facial gestures or actions of the officer and driver.
What I DID NOT DO is watch the video with a CLOSED and already made up mind.
I have seen this many times. Posters will read the article (never the full article, just the part posted at the beginning of the thread), and will read only certain sentences that draw their attention. Also they will take a different interpretation of certain statements differently than say, You or I, based on their preconceived notions about the subject.
It is a human thing. We all have a tendency to do this.
It is very difficult to be impartial, totally open-minded, and get all the evidence before making a judgment.
I can usually tell those who try to remain open-minded vs. those who at totally CLOSED-MINDED and will never change.
The latter will never, ever, admit a mistake, or apologize if caught. (Kinda like the driver this thread is about)
It doesn't work that way anywhere in the world, private or government. Talk nice to anybody anywhere, you'll get different treatment than yelling and screaming. But the cops are one profession on planet earth where that's different? Yeah, right!