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Originally Posted by jwoody
You can't say that it's just a few bad apples based on the evidence.
Out of five 'apples', three of them were beating a handcuffed man to a bloody pulp, one 'apple' was on horseback trying to block the camera, and the other 'apple' (who was the boss of the other four) then assaults the cameraman.
Which one was the good apple?
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We're not talking about a few bad apples out of 5, we're talking about a few bad apples out of tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands in North America alone. Or is the logic "These 5 cops suck, ergo, the 100,000 men and women in uniform also suck"?
You know, 60 cops died at the WTC on 9/11 trying to save other people, doing their jobs bravely - maybe all cops are saints, based on that singular incident?
IMO, there's no defense for these guys - 5 cops on an unarmed 60 year old - there is no reason for that level of force. None. And there is no police manual that I know of that would condone it.
But I probably know a dozen cops - they are pretty decent people for the most part, a couple of them I don't think much of as cops, but the other 10 are solid.