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Originally Posted by Terminal Server
I don't defend excessive and unnecessary force by the police, but often times, I don't feel sorry for the offenders they are running down. I was in the Military Police before in the Philippines. And you would be shocked at the things that happen in the street (totally unprovoked) and the unexplicable behaviors you never see on TV or captured on video.
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And, all that is totally irrelevant to the Philly beatdown. The video clearly shows that the guys in the car were trying like hell to get away from the cops, not trying to attack the cops. The only danger those cops were in was getting kicked by one of their fellow officers.
Keep in mind that the video was taken from a press helicopter. Which means that those cops _KNEW_ they would be on the six o'clock news. They _WANTED_ to send a message, not just to the bad guys, but to the general public that they were pissed and could do any damn thing they pleased, law or no law.
The error in your thinking is that you think if a cop gets attacked by felon A that makes it okay for the cop to attack felon B. That ain't justice, that ain't even sane. It's just mad dog crazy --- the kind of behavior you might expect from a rabid dog but not from a human being.