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To: John Jorsett
Criticize a cop, no matter how justified, and you're anti-police. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect police not to brutalize people. Knee-jerk defense of cops no matter what is far more damaging than wanting to see the bad ones off the force.

I don't think it's decent to jump to conclusions about whether this cop was "brutalizing" someone. Kneejerk condemnation of cops no matter what is more the norm than "kneejerk defense" of them---thanks to 30+ years of politically correct media, education and politics. And yeah, I do think that's justly characterized as "anti-cop."

58 posted on 07/11/2002 6:01:27 PM PDT by Map Kernow
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To: Map Kernow
MSNBC's Chip Reed.....

......the video tape of blah blah blah blah showing the hand cuffed suspect having the "you-know-what" beaten out of him.

Now he's flirting with Waters......


64 posted on 07/11/2002 6:08:54 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Map Kernow
Kneejerk condemnation of cops no matter what is more the norm than "kneejerk defense" of them---thanks to 30+ years of politically correct media, education and politics. And yeah, I do think that's justly characterized as "anti-cop."

There's nothing kneejerk or conclusion jumping about my criticism. In a finger-pointing contest, I'll generally give the benefit of the doubt to the cops, since most of the people they deal with aren't the most truthful individuals. However, when presented with videotaped evidence, I'm not going to deny my own eyes, nor my sense of what constitutes unnecessary force. If you want to go on thinking that expecting a peace officer to live up to a code of behavior that doesn't include roughing people up is anti-cop, that's your choice.

72 posted on 07/11/2002 6:14:18 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: Map Kernow
I don't think it's decent to jump to conclusions about whether this cop was "brutalizing" someone. Kneejerk condemnation of cops no matter what is more the norm than "kneejerk defense" of them---thanks to 30+ years of politically correct media, education and politics.

No need bubba. I have eyes. I saw the tape. That donut eating bully needs to be in jail. Find a friend with TiVo and watch it frame by frame.

My father is a retired police officer. He would have arrested that jerk (the bully cop) on the spot and done his best to make him go to jail.

108 posted on 07/11/2002 7:02:27 PM PDT by noRinoforme
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