[mystery-ak]

Please pick me up....Im begining to think it's time for vigilante justice.....how do the cops restrain themselves?

[luckodeirish]

They have to, otherwise someone yells "police brutality" and they lose their job and are sued in civil court.

[landerwy]

Some don't! I would have trouble in this case. I have a five year old daughter and don't think I could handle it. I couldn't watch Samantha's funeral at all.

[Timesink]

how do the cops restrain themselves?

Because they know that if they do anything, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will decend upon St. Louis and bring their rent-a-mob along to insure the cops get at least twice the sentence this child rapist-murderer will get.

For the life of me, I have no idea why the police put up with all the hate and lawsuits and false charges against them. The day is going to come when some activist, some court, goes way too far in blaming the cop for doing his job, and the next day half the country's going to wake up to discover Blue Flu has spread across the country overnight. Let's see how well the left-wing haters like it when their calls to 911 result in the response, "Sorry, no cops on duty today!" All of us, of course, will have our own protection....