svelte wrote: …but once a

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[quote=svelte]
…but once a person is in submission, the beating should not continue. Secure him and haul him in. End of story.[/quote]

[quote=briansd1]

Yes. There is no justification for the police to act like savages.

After all, as ca renter likes to say, aren’t the police highly qualified “professionals” who have extensive training in law enforcement?

Technology can be an invasion of privacy… but Technology such as video surveillance is making things more transparent.

Without the camera, the killers in this case might have gotten off:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/mississippi-teen-deryl-dedmon-hate-crime-video_n_922357.html%5B/quote%5D

Are you sure he was “in submission?” Easy to say, as he didn’t get up again once the video started (the part they showed over and over again on tv, anyway). But he had gotten up at least once after he appeared to be secured. Would you be willing to bet your life (and that of the father of your children’s) that he was “in submission?” I wouldn’t. My point isn’t that the cops weren’t without fault. My point is that it isn’t a clear cut case and that the parts of the video most often shown leave out crucial evidence, and that events occurred before the video that we can’t be sure of.