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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whoever is convinced the officer was justified or that James Blake had it coming or that blacks shouldn't see this incident as a clear indication of just how quickly cops resort to unnecessarily excessive force when dealing with blacks - enjoy your take on things.  The mayor and police commissioner of New York don't share your sentiments nor do the majority of the people in this country - whites and blacks I might add.  You can argue in this thread until you're blue in the face but I guarantee whatever ideal resolution you're hoping for (people switch up and start calling the cop a hero, James Blake has a change of heart and decides to say that he was in the wrong, whatever...) it's not going to happen.[/quote]

+1  In fact, it's only going to get worse for folks like the PP from here on out.  These things are coming to light now, and with the ubiquity of CCTV and citizens with mobile phones, we're not going to stop hearing about police brutality until the brutality stops.  This means that law enforcement is either going to clean up its act and actually deal with the bad apples, or a whole generation of Americans (Black and white) is going to grow up without any trust in the police.  [/quote]

That would be a grotesquely skewed perception.  Out of the hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers in the US, who have millions of positive interactions with citizens each and every day, we allow overhyping and oversensationalizing of the tiny handful of cases of police violence shape perception.   Note, I'm not saying police abuses don't happen, nor do I defend them, but this wholescale, across-the-board mischaracterization and demonization of law enforcement is totally unacceptable.

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