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 Originally Posted by kfaess
lol these are really the kind of cops you guys want?
I might be going against the grain here but I'd prefer having cops in my community who aren't afraid to exercise force. I mean, these guys just stood around basically doing nothing and let this guy arm himself.
Yea you might see videos of american cops handling situations differently than these guys and using more force, but what do all of these situations have in common? The person was doing what the cop asked them to do!
No offense to boost or anyone else, but it annoys me a little bit when people say things like "american cops on power trips". Yes, you're going to get some people like that, but the majority are hard working decent people nothing like that generalization.
If this guy tried to pull this shit in the US he'd have his ass thrown on the ground by two (non pussy) american cops pretty quickly. And if the guy was injured in the process of the cops exercising force, well, I've really got no sympathy for someone who needs the cops called on them in the first place/fights with cops.
This is mostly how I feel. I bet it would be pretty laughable if the bozos in the video actually had to diffuse a serious situation.
Personally, I've never had a truly bad experience with cops (one might qualify, but in the grand scheme of things, it wasn't a big deal). Here's why:
1) I avoid major trouble and confrontations
2) I'm always respectful to police, and that's verbal as well as physical (e.g. no sudden hand movements, reaching behind your back, etc)
3) I do what I'm told
I'm not so naive to say that if you do those 3 things you will never have a bad encounter with cops, but I bet it would eliminate the large majority of them. I also won't deny that there are a lot of cases of excessive force in the USA, but still, if you're not only resisting arrest but also grab a large object and swing it in a way as if to hit the police then yeah, it seems to me that you're lucky if you just get your ass beat.
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