Officer convicted for repeatedly beating motorist with a metal baton in his driveway

america does have alot of problems but the cops up in canada are just as messed up

http://current.com/news/93103927_cop-charged-with-kicking-a-suspect-in-the-face-...

The sad thing is, this guy will probably never see jail time, police and prosecutors tend to look out for each other more often than not, that kind of thing goes on all the time here in Austin, it's become no big deal, as a matter of fact, last year, a cop shot (nine times) and killed an unarmed kid, he was put on administrative leave for a year, and is now back out on the street, how's that for justice.

But first, I think we should abolish blog posters who make idiotic comments.

Or, maybe beat them with a nightstick?

Hemmmm......

The way things are going, I wonder how long it'll be before just walking down the street will be considered "acting aggressively" fucking SS trooper.

That will depend on the future President. The one right now doesn't care much about what happens to the people that voted him in and if he stays on, we probably won't see much of a change...

KSirys

A lot of people mistakenly believe that I'm a-the glass is half empty all the time person-I'm not, I'm a realist, and I firmly believe that it doesn't matter what President we have an office, the same draconian "leadership" is going to continue until the game is fundamentally changed.

A choice between an extreme right storm trooper reactionary government, and a more moderate so-called left-wing or Democrat controlled regime doesn't matter that much, because as I'm sure you and many other people have noticed, where the so-called left is now, has moved so far to the right in the past 30 years, that if someone from 30 years ago came out of a time travel chamber, most politicians that we call Democrats or lefties, (with a few possible exceptions being Bernie Sanders, Alan Grayson, Dennis Kucinich and Peter DeFazio) would be considered moderate conservatives to them, and they would be correct.

That is why I don't believe (amongst other reasons) that the elected president really matters very much as far as truly relevant bread and butter issues are concerned, the well-established plutocratic system demands now more than ever, that our "representatives" do everything in their power to protect and support the interest of their corporate owners (their reelection campaign bankroller's) first and foremost, the interest of the American public always comes last, and anything that is done in the public interest, is usually relatively small, and a token offering, crumbs from the table designed for appeasement and not the kind of sweeping radical reform that is so desperately needed in our society, can you see where I'm coming from?

I can see where you're coming from and thank you for explaining, but you have your hopes in one system, while I have mine.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you, but you said that I have hopes in one system while you have yours.... okay what's the rest? what is yours? I would like to know.

Please don't be, i just woke up and wrote the least possible.

You ask what system? A system for the people created by one man/woman, our President. As politicians continue to bend over for corporations and try to fuck us without lube, the changes you hope and seek are not going to happen until one man/woman steps up and decides that real changes are needed because this country was based on principals, not corruption.

I see 95% of our politicians corrupted and only caring for the rich and corporations, but there will be one day, when one of them will change and bring the justice and freedom back to this country.

The system i'm looking forward too is where we are all treated like equals, which doesn't happen today.

if I understand what you're saying correctly, you are believing that there was a much better time with greater freedom and liberty in America, that that was the intention of our founding fathers, and that it's just been a fairly recent phenomenon that we've become so corrupt, sorry, but those beliefs simply did not hold up to historical fact.

The late scholar, (who passed on two years ago) who was also a bombardier in World War II, wrote one of the best books ever written about the history of America, its title-not surprisingly- is: a People's history of the United States 1492 to present-by Howard Zinn, this guy, who was always very plainspoken and didn't come across as some kind of intellectual asshole speaking from an ivory tower, was brilliant, and everything in this book, is 100% verifiable and true, if you read this book, you will end up knowing more than 80 or 90% of the American population about what the hell is really going on, I consider it one of the greatest books ever written, and in my world, it would be mandatory reading for all high school seniors, and undergraduate college students.

The founding fathers, as this book makes abundantly and overwhelmingly clear, where plutocrats who believed and supported class stratification, and wanted nothing to do with democracy, again made abundantly clear not just through the historical record of the laws and their actions as individuals, but from the very own words of the founding fathers themselves.if you have any other questions, feel free to send me a message, take care.

Violence is a specially okay if you're a cop, remember, these are the people hired to maintain a plutocracy, they would beat their own mother to death if they are told to.

I agree, fuck the police.

To give you some idea of how much things have changed, I grew up in the heart of a big city, me and some other10 to 12-year-old boys used to play a game called guns, that's right guns, we picked two teams, four or five boys and each team, one team was the hunter the other was the hunted, it was a variation on hide and seek, anyway, we each had these cool very realistic looking 38 caliber cap Guns, one team went off to hide, you were given a five or 10 minute head start (if you were the hiding team, your strategy was to set up a place for ambush) and then the hunting team started trying to find you, if he were found you could still run away, but of course they would be shooting at you, I have no idea how we work out the rules for what constituted a hit or a kill, but the point is, in the heart of the city, UA groups of boys running their ass off with something that looked like 38 caliber pistols going bang bang bang, and we did this for hours! I can imagine if kids tried to do something like that today, cops would probably come from all directions with guns drawn in a paramilitary stance screaming at the top of their Lungs for us to drop the weapon and get down to ground! probably shooting some of of the kids in the process, Jesus Christ this country has become crazy!

True , he was totally docile .