re: Did the Police use excessive Force?

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I have a feeling this was well deserved. I've never been jabbed with a night stick.

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lol you know he was taunting the cop too all soy like. Poor VOR.

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Something different than how a police officer would be treated since you are not a police officer.

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That's not how our Constitution or legal system is designed. We are all to be treated equally under the law. That's either some foul ignorance or bootlicking on your part.

If you needed a haircut, would you hold someone at a salon with a barber license to a higher standard than your cousin with a pair of scissors?

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The guy with the dog seems like a fricking moron, but so does the driver so whatever. Idiots enjoying each other.

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Yep. That's my take as well.

Lay out your knowledge of police procedures for us.

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Yes, there was simply no reason to put the driver or dog at risk in that situation. The cops used the dog because it was there, not because it was mission critical.

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That’s what the K9 is there for in the first place. A K9 is a non lethal use of force (in most cases). The guy could have had any number of weapons including a knife. Back when I worked as a deputy in the 90’s one of our deputies was in a similar situation. He reached into the car to pull the guy out and bad guy had a straight razor and cut his arm so bad he had to get 70 stitches. He was lucky another deputy was there with a tourniquet or he would have bled to death.

The perfect flag for the faux conservatives around here.

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But a cop, that is supposed to be a trained professional, faces no consequences.

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Yeah, in one case.

In another case a cop was sent to prison for 21 years for the death of a criminal in his charge whom the autopsy proved he didn't kill.

And in both cases, the smoothbrains scream (that's you in this case, in case you have trouble following me there).

You are deliberately missing the point. The point is that there are over 50,000,000 encounters between citizens and police in any given year. Even 1% of them being encounters in which the police "acted like tyrants with no accountability" would statistically represent 500,000 cases. That's 10,000 per year, per state. That's over 27 cases every day in every state in the US.

Now since you apparently do pay attention to bad policing, how many such incidences—ones in which police acted like criminals but were not held accountable—can you name from 2024?

10? 100? Even if you can name 1000, that would represent a whopping .002% of all encounters.

Unfortunately for you, these numbers are known. Just because it makes you really, really mad when you see examples of police misconduct does NOT mean that it is anything except extremely rare. You have no evidence to suggest that it is anything but extremely rare.

You are "thinking" just like the George Floyd rioters that did over a billion dollars worth of damage over something that happens around 9 times a year out of over 50,000,000 encounters.

Again, just because it makes you really mad does not mean it's common.

See, the difference between you and me is that I can praise good police when I see them. I really like the Sheriff in Polk County FL. He's a good guy and is fair. He holds his officers to the same standards as everyone else in his jurisdiction. He has shown that he isn't partisan and has thrown his own in jail. If all law enforcement like Sheriff Grady Judd, you wouldn't hear a peep out of me.

I don't care how "rare" any police misconduct is. It should be called out and prosecuted. You've still got cops out there arresting people for giving them the middle finger. If you don't think that a problem, then you're just really goddamn un-American.

I’d like to see the beginning

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Ah, yes. The standard intellectually lazy argument of "YOU MUST BE A CRIMINAL!" when someone criticizes the government.

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Since you were either too stupid or lazy to quote the statement to which you replied, and since it almost certainly mischaracterizes what I actually said, I don't know what you are talking about.