Watching your husband die at the hands of police (Warning: graphic video)

[MrScorpio]

78. I have good reason to suspect that cops operate on a predatory instinct in most of these incidents

Especially, if a group of them is involved. It was particularly chilling to read early on that many cops go out their way to incite behavior in the people that they're detaining to create an excuse for them to assault and arrest the detainees. Or, how people who are beaten to an inch of their lives, while offering nothing more than a protective/defensive posture are charged with assaulting a police officer. Or how cops routinely shout things like "Stop resisting!" to people who either aren't resisting at all. or who are reflexly reacting to being beaten with fists, batons or are being Tasered.

Resistance is highly subjective… Tell that to the young boy who was arrested for giving a top "dehumanizing looks" while being detained.

Think about the epidemic of cops shooting pets to death that aren't posing any kind of danger towards them at all.

Many cops don't give a tinker's damn about the well-being of people they detain or arrest, and are no more than a hair's breadth away from beating someone to a pulp, if not shooting them. Most cops are paranoid and any one of them could find themselves using lethal force against someone posing a minimal threat. Especially, if they know that there aren't any camera rolling around them. Which is why I'm a fierce advocate of having cops under surveillance at all times while on duty. Personal cameras, dash cams, citizen footage and the whole nine.

Only a complete fool would trust anyone with that kind of power, especially when they are empowered to detain, arrest, lie, steal, (using asset forfeiture), assault and kill at will.