[talaniman]

I totally agree. I am disgusted at the cops, but it was stupid to even put your kids in that position. Lose/Lose situation.

[Athos]

Speechless - it wasn't over a traffic stop. It was about a woman fighting and resisting the police, and her teenage son assaulting the police. Big difference.

[paraclete]

Irrespective, excessive force, police are trained to deal with these situations not go nuts! it's difficult but not impossible not to use brute force. We have a case here of four wallopers tasering a drug soaked youth of hispanic background to death, why? because he falled to stop when commanded, Ok, he did the wrong thing, stole a packet of biscuits but four brave wallopers each twice his size chased him down the street and tasered him to death. If I came from a repressive regime and had four wallopers chasing me I might fail to stop too, particularly if I didn't understand their commands. We don't call them wallopers for nothing

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[speechlesstx]

I get she resisted, but surely the big bad cops can get them without shooting first.

[talaniman]

There would be no issue if the cops had restrained from shooting. Glad he was fired and hope he stays fired.

[odinn7]

I think there are many good cops that are in it because they want to make a difference. At the same time, I know there are plenty of bad cops as well. They get on ego trips, power trips, whatever you want to call it. I have encountered some of them in my life. 5 years ago, I had to sue the cops because of an incident I had with them.

Abusing power is too easy for cops and too often, it is just their word over yours. Why would they lie? Police would NEVER lie.....

It's really sad that this goes on but I suppose it's human nature. I just learned to never lay down for the police, but sometimes that really isn't an option.