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[pgil]

Lack of punishment!?? But they get suspended!!....



..with pay.

[PGGB]

I'm surprised you have a seemingly high opinion of German police. If I was told correctly, the ground-level officers come from Hauptschule, and thus feel like society has treated them as part of the lowest caste and they have an axe to grind. Maybe it's just the person who told me this.

That'd be the Bundeswehr.

[Edmund]

im confused... wasnt this just an accident? i dont think the cop intentionally ment to slam the guy down against the wall. he was just taking him down, that what happens when cops think you are a bad guy and you run from them.

i mean its horrible that the guy got hurt so bad, but dont think the cop intended on hurting him like that, he was just trying to take him down and the guy landed weird against the wall. if there was no wall there the guy would have just have been pushed to the ground.

i think theres a difference between cops beating the shit out of some guy for no reason and a cop trying to do his job and the guy on the other end accidentally getting his neck snapped against a wall.

still sucks though, honestly id hate to be both of them.

[skaldicpoet9]

The point that I was tying to make was the fact that the cop and the "suspect" crossed paths and the cop decided to plow him into the wall rather than grab the guy's arm and spin him around and cuff him. They say that the guy was running in the official report but if you look at that video I find it hard to believe that he really was. He looks more like he was sauntering than anything else. The guy was not moving so fast that the cop couldn't have just wrapped him up rather than push him headfirst into a wall.

[Curseman]

It looks like quite a bit of excessive and unnecessary force to me.

Personally I wish that both sides would drop the hyperbole though.  At that police site the comments are all "Yeah, he showed that bad guy!" and then you have the youtube video where it's full of "All cops are pigs!  The police are the real criminals!" types of things.

Can't it be that some police (perhaps including this one?) are bad, but that does not mean that most or all of them are bad?

And of course, I don't know the particulars of this incident, so I'm not going to give any opinions on it besides what my first impression of what it looks like is.

[Shade Jackrabbit]

I think that what both sides really need is a lot less prejudice. "Judge people for themselves" and all..

[OEP]

A loong time ago when I was but an age of four, my brother went on a field trip to see what a prison looks like (some field trip, huh!). My mother was going to be a chaperon so I ended up having to go. I don't remember actually going through the prison blocks or anything (now that would be a really bad idea), but I do remember this guy in dreadlocks (a policeman) who would always say "If you do something bad, you're gonna come here and I'm going to deal with you."

Being so young, I was under the illusion that all police were going to go out of their way to harm me if I ran into another one. I would get really squeamish when we would run into one out in the public.

This about sums up my problems with police. I really haven't had much. In fact, I've heard stories of kids who get caught with loads of drugs (probably light stuff like weed) in their cars but the cops let them go on because they appear to be from the ritzy part of town. So, there are rumors that the police around here are soft.

Locally, however, there isn't much problem with the police. I live in a town with little violent crime. There are only a few murders a year so you definitely hear about it when it happens. I think I live in a town that it's not so big that it's too hard to keep safe and not so small that the police department has very little internal checks.

[Smithy]

Every night and every morn,
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night,
Some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.