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This is likely to be a rather open and shut abuse case; dude was already complying and other cops even said 'don't release the dog on someone with their hands up' and who was already beginning to kneel with his hands up.

What exactly could justify harassing Ms. Franklin for 40 fucking years?

Can you actually address the argument I made, instead of as usual making rather absurd and overreaching hypotheticals to justify your views?

That's the price for the power over life and death that people get as cops. The Thin Blue Line lost its support on the Right when they went along with the Wu Flu facism to protect their paychecks, never mind people still remember things like Ruby Ridge and Waco or the Rodney King beating. As...

Well there are body cams, and other ways to record police encounters. If it was a legit arrest for valid reasons, and the cops did not violate policy or training, the cases get tossed and the people who brought the suit pay the cops legal fees.

No, put it on individual officers so good cops are not facing budget cuts to cover malicious actors. Make it so only the most righteous and trustworthy people bother to even try to become cops. Putting in way to prevent 'ghetto lottery' situations is less important than protect the citizenry...

Qualified immunity for cops needs to be reworked, and made for protecting the people, not cop's jobs, if it not scraped entirely. It needs to be made so that what the limits and restrictions on police tactics and methods allow far more accountability and ability to civilly punish unruly or...

Ending qualified immunity for cops, and prosecutoral immunity for DA's, would be massive steps towards rooting out a lot of the bad apples in the US justice system. If people want to be cops and DAs, then they better know any abuse of power could see them in prison, or at minimum be a career ender.