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Posted by: Obi Wan Stevobi
Seriously for a minute, I can imagine this playing out like the typical ones you see on youtube. Probably in a less than great part of town, where a crowd of onlookers forms, intimidating the officer, so he feels an overly-zealous show of force is necessary. It seems that gathering crowds are a common factor in similar incidents.
But that is what bugs me. The article clearly states there is a crowd. What the officer is doing is clearly terribly wrong. Yet an entire crowd just sits and gawks at it? Why does no one come to the aid of the little handicapped guy. Are police officers held on such a god-like pedestal that no-one dares try to stop them?
That's what is the saddest to me. You have an avoidable tragedy unfolding before your very eyes and no one will act to stop it, even when the onlookers easily outnumber the offenders. Reminds me of the video of those gangster wannabe kids beating up that special needs kid. In the video, you see other kids watching like it is a show, and grow-ups walking by acting like they see nothing. I'd like to think that if I saw an obviously handicapped person, child, or woman getting beat, by a grown man, I'd intervene as best I can. How do people not have an instinct to stop something like that?
Maybe its because that even though what the officer did is abhorrent, assaulting an officer will land you in jail for quite a while. All they could do is yell and plead for the beating to stop. The minute a bystander intervenes, he'd probably get tased or shot, the arrested for interferring with a police officer, assaulting a peace officer, and a whole slew of other BS chqrges the cop can throw on there. Then he can be assured a nice long jail sentence.
I believe a citizen should have the right to intervene in someone elses self defense, even if an officer is the assailant, but we know that the judges tend to side with the officers all the time.