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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The smaller the force, the likelier for abuse.
Less prying eyes, closer knit 'team' unit.
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Good old boys taking care of good old boys. Without dash cams to show the true story, it's all too easy for police to fudge the story enough to get out of any real punishment, regardless of how awful their actions were.
This is why small towns terrify me. When everyone knows everyone else, they're usually more than happy to take care of their own.
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Originally Posted by AcGold
The positive thing here, despite the looting and general lunacy of the event, is that there is a significant amount of people protesting the killing of an unarmed civilian. Despite your philosophical and moral stance people standing up to the police in such a way has to be better than doing nothing and turning a blind eye. It lets everyone in the country know that you can stand up to the police and that abuse of power is unacceptable, whether you agree with their methodologies or not.
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The sad thing is that the looting got a ton of attention--but looting only happened on Sunday night, a small number of people/stores involved, but that's what's drawn so much attention. The last few nights have been unarmed, peaceful demonstrations, and the police have responded with heavily excessive force.
There wasn't this much reaction for the Bundy ranch standoff, and those psychos were actually pointing loaded firearms at the the officers responding.