Assaulted for "jaywalking"... In other news, when will black men ever get around to teaching their sons that bullies feed on emotional response? Frustration. anger. fear. whatever. That's bully 101. Stay cool! If it were crooks instead of cops would he be acting like that? Well, crooks and cops are often one and the same! [YOUTUBE]FEtmhwJuwGo[/YOUTUBE]
It's easy to say 'stay calm' in that situation, but if it's your 2nd, 3rd, 4th run in with the police, it fucks with your head and it's very easy to lose it. Especially if you KNOW you haven't done anything wrong. Was this dude perceived as that much a threat to community and general public he had to harassed like that?? I'm really stuck as to how we reform police culture. Too often they function like a gang.
It has to come individually. The problem is that they are either city or county cops not so much as state or federal. That means you have to vote them out or pass laws on that level. If you are in a city that thinks cops are angels, then good luck because that isn't happening.