Police brutality has been around as long as there have been police from what I can tell.
What's different now is that so many people have the means and the desire to film the action of the cops.
Thereby making it look like there is more going on than there was in the past.
The stuff in the past we didn't see.
I grew up with a Dad who was always in trouble with the law. They beat the snot out of him a few times in the elevator going up to the jail. Handcuffed. Nothing ever said about it. Just the way it was. They'd say he fell, resisted whatever. But he'd tell us what happened. There were no cameras. No witness's. This was in the 60ties.
But just look at it this way. Those nice folks will get a nice check from the city the police department was supposed to be serving. Or was this the State Police guys? Either way, moneys a coming soon.
What's different now is that so many people have the means and the desire to film the action of the cops.
Thereby making it look like there is more going on than there was in the past.
The stuff in the past we didn't see.
I grew up with a Dad who was always in trouble with the law. They beat the snot out of him a few times in the elevator going up to the jail. Handcuffed. Nothing ever said about it. Just the way it was. They'd say he fell, resisted whatever. But he'd tell us what happened. There were no cameras. No witness's. This was in the 60ties.
But just look at it this way. Those nice folks will get a nice check from the city the police department was supposed to be serving. Or was this the State Police guys? Either way, moneys a coming soon.