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In reply to the discussion: Rodney King dead at 47 [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)I will always take the side of an average cop over an average murderer or rapist. As for sadistic torture, I am a human being, and I think most cops are human beings too. If I am working say, as a bar bouncer and I ask you to leave the bar, but instead you decide to take a swing at me, then I am going to fight back, and even after I have the upper hand, I might keep hitting you just because I am a little bit jazzed up and pissed off. But in my worldview a person does not become a victim just because they lost a fight that they started, even if they lose badly. To me a victim is a guy who is just there working in a store and then somebody threatens them with an iron bar and then hits them with a pole. That's a victim, if that victim had blocked the swing and then gotten the pole and beat the crap out of the other person, then again, that other person is not a victim.
And thanks for a civil response.