Of course it’s insensitive, thoughtless comments like these just piss them off even more and illustrate how the citizenry doesn’t understand them and thus some steam will have to be blown off and some kid or a homeless guy or pregnant person or mentally ill dude or just some completely random person whatever will have to get a beatdown tomorrow but that’s the thin blue line for ya.

Oh right, 10 or 20 to life. And I must make a correction – the weapon doesn’t always need to be discharged.

Note that the foreclosure unrelated to the plaintiff is 2011, while the civil suit re this post is 2012.

Interesting. I hadn’t heard of any foreclosures in the US lately, at least no questionable ones. Probably the same Rachel Higgins which means she is just a gold digger desperate enough to sue a cop that shoots people he disagrees with. Dammit. Snark withdrawn again.

Sorry, I totally get your point that someone with a foreclosure in 2009 could have ulterior motives if they were lucky enough to have a cop taze their 10 year old. DAMMIT! sorry, did it again. I keep seeing how in the past people view that kind of unrelated correlation, call me cynic.

Then reported on by the officers account by the officer himself to the school administrators, parents and teachers. 

What odds do you give any of these, with the officer present and having provided his account, to ask lil Ryan “Ryan, is that what happened? Tell me what you saw happen, you have nothing to fear despite being tazed earlier, by this man right here who has a gun.”?

Do you think the parent wasn’t potentially stymied in their own mind for having accepted the officer’s account from the beginning, when they were happy to still have a son and intent on getting him proper medical evaluation, not dealing with the officer in the room, the only armed and highest authority present, who needed to provide the account instead of facilitating that medical evaluation?

When the teacher found the boy, recently blacked out if conscious, alone with the officer in the bathroom, when that might normally be a situation to contact the authorities about, who would they call? With the officer right there?

You can be skeptical, but my skepticism of the officer is far better grounded in his account than it is anywhere else.

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Yeah because if someone accuses me of being violent I will beat the shit out of them. That’s why.

You don’t make any sense. Are you saying that cops abuse their power because people are afraid they will abuse their power? Or because people assume they will abuse their power? Or because people believe it when they hear that cops abuse their power?

None of these are excuses for abuse of power.
Society gives cops a monopoly on the legal use of force in return for protecting us. Anything else is wrong. No excuses.If any cops believe their feeling have been hurt to the extent they will be abusing their power in retaliation they should quit or be fired.

Tell that to your sergeant the next time he tells you to do a 250 on an innocent pedestrian.

This is why people don’t trust the police. Even if the majority wouldn’t do something like this, the majority would just put a guy like this on three-day suspension instead of firing him.

If you search for Rachel Higgins there, you get a different foreclosure notice.