[quote=Blogstar][quote=spdrun]Trials are already public.

Teachers aren’t typically armed and don’t have the power to kill someone essentially at will.

As far as hospitals, most surgery requires the patient’s informed consent. A bunch of cops jumping on someone, not so much.

Police need special oversight. If they don’t like it, they’re free to find another job. Over the top? Maybe. But we’ll have to agree to disagree.[/quote]

I can agree to disagree, However, a bunch of cops NOT jumping someone is the norm. A bunch of cops even when arresting a black man do not jump him or do anything violent if at all possible, that is the norm. Also unfortunately, too often when a mob sees something between a black man and a cop , or cops, they are hysterically mental and ready to go ballistic in favor of the black man when they don’t know a damn thing . It has been proven , when asked after the fact , that large numbers in these mobs lie about what has occurred. No justification for hordes on the backs of crime fighters.[/quote]

“Not the norm” is a pretty low bar to meet. I’ll give you that one …

I know that 20 years ago, if you described some of the things in the tapes here, and asked a random pool of jurors if such a thing were plausible, jurors would say “no way”, or perhaps “possible but EXTREMELY unlikely”. Normal people really believe in the police. Trust can get eroded pretty quick as the official narrative of what a “police officer” is like changes…

think about what the odds were of catching the walter scott killing on tape, or that horesback beatdown . think about how probably it is that many other such situations are not taped. seems like that there are many many many others.

Not the norm. But jeez, if it were the norm, no one would ever run or surrender. they’d just stand and prepare to fight or die.