If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many is a video worth? As the anti-cop protests go on, cops are responding in their usual unhinged, brutal fashion, thus making things worse and winning more support for the protesters. And because video cameras are now ubiquitous, most of the attacks by deranged animals in uniform are caught on video. Criminal defense attorney Greg Doucette started a Twitter thread to collect them; when I wrote this column on Thursday night, there were just over 300, and by the time you read this I wouldn’t be surprised if it had risen to up around 500. A teacher named Jason Miller has taken on the Herculean task of cataloging each one in a Google document, which might give you some sense of an answer to my initial question, if you’re obsessive enough to count. In the great majority of these cases, politicians and boss pigs have first responded with denials and/or prevarications, then after examining the videos closely enough to recognize that the violence is undeniable, they shift to excuse-making or pretended horror (followed by rewarding the attacking pig with a paid vacation until such time as the incident can be swept under the rug). Note that in many if not most of these cases, the cops are fully aware they’re being recorded and carry on anyhow, counting on their riot gear and their covered-up nameplates and badge numbers to protect their anonymity and powerful police unions to protect their jobs. A very small number of these will be prosecuted or fired; the rest will get away with it because the politicians are afraid of them and bootlickers grovel before them. These monsters can no more be “reformed” than a rabid dog can; the only way to deal with them is to utterly remove their power by defunding them, disarming them and then dissolving them entirely. And if that doesn’t happen, expect the next uprising to be far bloodier and far less transitory.
But for Video
June 8, 2020 by Maggie McNeill
While the media has focused almost entirely on gratuitous violence by police aimed at peaceful civilians to include the media itself, little has been made of the constant pattern of lies in official police reports after each violent act that later needs to be revised once video evidence is released. The pattern in consistent; gratuitous violence by police, lies in official reports to cover it up, video evidence, revisions to the original report to account for the now undeniable video evidence exposing the lies in their report.
I understand police have a unique right to lie under oath without consequence since senior police, prosecutors, judges and ultimately the media give them a free pass to do so, but there are currently thousands of people rotting in prison because juries just no a cop would NEVER lie to them under oath.
It would be good to ask prosecutors what they think of this if they were not all hiding under their desks to avoid media scrutiny like the spineless cowards they are. In a world where the media is questioning whether the police should have qualified immunity, the last thing they want is a public conversation about their constant abuse of absolute immunity.
The chief strength of those who do evil is that they all stick together and all elephants hate elephant hunters. It would be nice to think the media and future juries would take this obvious pattern of dishonestly into account, but I don’t see that happening. America’s addiction to incarceration is too great to allow something as small as lying about evidence under oath to get in the way.
Diogenes, that was well said. May I suggest the documentary, No, the Police Don’t Work for You by William Norman Grigg?
Thanks Shane. Really appreciate the recommendation.
Readers, two people apparently can read this blog and still imagine I’d allow long, slurpy, copsucking defenses of pigs callously atacking an old man with “he deserved it!” Presumably, these individual also believe rape is caused by the victims’ clothing. Both comments have been marked as spam, appropriate for something that clearly was made by pig-lovers.