Reply #70: the point is (as is the point of this entire discussion)

[el_gato]

is that cops routinely beat the shit out of people for merely questioning their erroneous behavior. They feel they can behave with
impunity and most of the time they can. Every once in a while
a cop is held accountable but that is rare. Take the case of Tulia, TX for example, if it were not for the pro-bono work of someone who actually cared a large group of people would to this day still be wrongfully incarcerated. In the case of the protests in NYC and elsewhere the cops felt free to act with impunity and brutalize protestors because they had the blessings of the state behind them.

For those of us who actually question authority rather than worship it, these ideas are not hard to understand. However, the slave mentality takes it's toll on the minds of those who have never been able to break the chains of that mentality.