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Another show of over the top excessive force by the boys in blue....

And (color me shocked!) the officers involved have past accusations of excessive force and the city/dept settled out of court while admitting no wrong doing....

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/08/us/indiana-police-taser-window-smash/


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The police response was not appropriate, and they should have handled it differently.

But the two adults in the car are idiots. On the CNN discussion panel, the legal analyst Sunny Hostin says that the two adults were "completely complying," which is absolutely false.

Think everyone a bit burn out from the Ferguson thread

She did get remarkably calm sounding after it actually happened. Still, they sounded more hysterical than uncompliant.

 daedalus wrote:
She did get remarkably calm sounding after it actually happened. Still, they sounded more hysterical than uncompliant.

Yeah, that did strike me as strange, how calm she was, after making such a big deal of being scared before.

Shock comes to mind. Of course, so does agenda.

I don't understand humanity though, so it's not my place to say.