5 Ala. officers fired for beating caught on tape

[Missin21]

Originally Posted by jsarno

It AMAZES me how some people instantly blame cops for everything! This is a classic case of a person NOT FOLLOWING THE LAWS and being chased by police, and when the Police do something (which has been deemed as FOLLOWING TRAINING) people are up in arms???? WTF??? People should be upset at the man trying to EVADE POLICE and WRECKLESS DRIVING, not the people that were trying to stop it. What that man that evaded police did, could be thought of as attempted murder!!!! Yet the cop is on trial???? That is wrong!
Do you people that have a problem with this have any idea what it takes to be a police officer???

Yes, there are SOME cops that abuse power, 99% do not! They have one of the toughest jobs on the planet. If you do what they ask, you have no problem.

I couldn't read any further then this. OBVIOUSLY, every experience you have had with the police has been rainbows & kittens. I would go the other way & say that 99% of all police ABUSE their power in some form. Be it speeding or running red lights to get the freshest donuts or beating someone near death & then claiming "he was trying to get up." Other then a court that says otherwise, who's going to argue with them? Another cop isn't going to pull over one of his own & site him for speeding or running that red light. If anything, he'll get behind him in hopes that he knows where the fresh donuts are.

I have had cops pull me over on a technicality & use that to have my car towed & leave me & my then disabled wife on the side of the road to walk thru several different gang infested neighborhoods at 4 in the morning. Why? Because he could. Because he was the police.

Pardon my expression, but F*** the police. They are just as crooked as politicians & are just as willing to break the very laws they are paid to enforce as the criminals they put away. I have been abused by them, I've had friends put in the hospital because of them, using similar excuses "he was trying to attack us." Puh-lease.

With the overwhelming belief that cops are on the up & up 99% of the time, no matter what anyone says AGAINST them, people like you won't believe it & you will take whatever the cop says at face value because...well, because he's a cop. Of COURSE he had to beat him that bad. He MUST have done something wrong. Forgetting that cops are still people and just as capable of losing their tempers or abusing someone because they have an agenda as anyone else.

Take a look at your boss. Take a look at his/her boss. EVERYONE in a position of authority abuses their power. To believe that cops are the exception to this rule is just plain ridiculous. Maybe every experience you have had has been a good one. Good for you. I have had few good experiences with these badge wielding pricks & I don't trust them as far as I can throw them.

I don't know all the details of this case particularly, but based on my experiences alone with the police, I will ALWAYS take the side of the person they are beating on first until I see reason to believe the cops. Which is to say I would have to see video or real life evidence that the cops were in the right. I haven't seen much of that...ever.