re: JPSO releases longer version of cop-teen altercation

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You can take one look at that kid and tell he is a douchebag. Probably deserved the beating.

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All of this may very well be true.

The problem is, police are not paid to hand out beatings, whether deserved or not. In the course of doing their jobs, they may occasionally have to get physical with someone...but it immediately goes over the line when it goes beyond subduing and into retaliation or, as what you suggest, handing out punishment for bad behavior.

I'll never understand why anyone, law abiding or not, would be ok with police becoming judge and jury and in a position to levy street justice as they see fit. I guess it's the belief that if/when the mess up it only effects THOSE GUYS over there and never yourself...until it does.