Some disturbing video on how not to manage a relationship with the citizens police “serve and protect.”
So what do you think should happen to the officer who touches his gun and says, “One more step forward, and you’ll see what happens. Take one more step forward,” or the officer that threatens to give the citizen a ticket? Personally, I think they should lose their jobs. Period. There’s a follow-up in Part II which results in a whole lotta, “no comment.”
[Via Boing Boing]
Florida: The Nation’s Wang
February 25, 2006 by
Wow that rules!
Cops being dicks? That part doesn’t surprise me.
The media reporting on it – that surprises me.
OMG! That footage is awesome! If cops are going to react to this minimal level of stress w/such irrational and unnecessary aggression, how are they acting when something more serious comes along? I believe cops bully people like this all the time and they get away w/it b/c many of them are perfectly willing to get on a witness stand and lie about their actions and they know that judges believe cops.
To be fair, we don’t see every second of these encounters. Is the investigating citizen doing something we can’t see to piss the cops off more? Still…
Preaching to the Perverted: Florida: The Nation’s Wang
If cops are going to react to this minimal level of stress w/such irrational and unnecessary aggression, how are they acting when something more serious comes along? I believe cops bully people like this all the time and they get away w/it b/c many of…