Police Officer: "Trust Me, Ferguson Changed Everything"

[tod evans]

If there were good cops, there would not be any bad cops.

If there were good citizens there would not be any bad kops either....

 

[fisharmor]

There is no possible way in which the act could be assessed an accident because "accident" assumes both the presence of factors beyond one's control and that absent those factors, one has proceeded with all reasonable and due care, diligence, and mindfulness. Neither of those last three factors are in evidence. Those monsters, in an apparent fit of pig-macho, went willy-nilly without an apparent regard for the safety of the "scumbags" they were presumed to have been raiding. In the process the child was maimed horribly. Every single last cop with the least fragment of a finger print on that "operation" should swing publicly from a rope. No exceptions. No mercy.

I'm surprised it hasn't been pointed out that this entire episode happened in one of the southeastern states which navy-vet claims are so much better when it comes to police.

No state is immune. Not even New Hampshire. It happens everywhere, and it always has. If you can't find examples of police brutality and cover-up prior to the militarization efforts, you just aren't looking.

If there were good cops, there would not be any bad cops.

I agree, let's cut out the good cop/bad cop false dichotomy.
I like "cop" and "guy who thinks he's doing good for society but if he ever made a stand on that he'd get the police equivalent of a blanket party".

 

[sparebulb]

.... should one not be able to obtain justice through the system, because it is corrupt or even inept....

Juries, grand juries, prosecutors, the vetted mass media and SWLOD's ensure that this has not, and will never, happen in America.