[Nuclear1]

Also: police firing on peaceful protesters, with 'beanbags' (the name makes it sound harmless, but it's not), tear gas, ... etc.

In what context?  I highly doubt seeing officers firing on anybody but those partaking in civil disobedience--in which case, the protesters honestly have no room to cry, given they're knowingly breaking the law in the first place.

Kent State, anyone? (National Guard, I know, but the point stands)

I was asking for a more recent example.

[Colonol Dekker]

Redsniper, you an old squad dog or am i thinking of someone else?
 
On topic. S**t happens jet people deal with it as people need to deal with it

[NGTM-1R]

If anything its the army that's corrupt. Theres around 50 youtube videos of innocent iraqi insurgents civilians, WOUNDED for that matter, getting sniped.

I defy anyone here to, in a split-second judgement in a combat situation, accurately judge the potentional threat of a person every time. The military isn't the cops and using them like the cops will cause this. When faced with a threat they put fire on it until it goes away; that's how they're trained. If you don't like the nature of the beast then you need to get a different one, or if that's not an option, deal with it.

I don't wish to excuse them; they should actively try to do better. But so long as this is the task they're given, then this is what will result.

[Mars]

Agreed

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Did someone say Baltimore?

Here's a VERY profane advertisement that was made back in the eighties, according to the description. If you've got children in the same room, put your fingers in their ears.

[BengalTiger]

If anything its the army that's corrupt. Theres around 50 youtube videos of innocent iraqi insurgents civilians, WOUNDED for that matter, getting sniped.

And over 80 thousand people were killed in Iraq since 2003, mostly due to car bombs and suicide bombers detonating themselves in large groups of people, such as a marketplace, Mosque or filled up bus, with the second main reason being US-Insurgent shootouts and wars among the Shiite and Sunni fractions, or more recently Iraqis vs Iranians (who cross the border in thousands).

And over 40 thousand people are killed in the US alone in car crashes every year, making over 200 000 deaths since the Iraqi war began.

So yup, 50 accidents in selecting targets proves the US Army is made of corrupted, bloodthirsty psychos.

P.S. And about the original vid:
Kid rides skateboard where it ain't allowed, disrespects the cop, calls him a dude, interrupts the cop when he talks to him...
and says "I didn't do anything". Just priceless.

P.P.S http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FedlpshJb4c&feature=related - same cop, guess he does suffer from lack of sense of humor. At least he got suspended.

[Polpolion]

1) Skateboarders are sometimes stupid for occasionally trespassing onto private property to skateboard or skateboarding in places that it is blatantly against town ordinance.
2) Private property owners sometimes overreact to this and are sometimes stupid about it.
3) Police officers are sometimes stupid for occasionally letting their position go to their heads or overreacting to these incidences

And that all adds up to a few isolated incidences where only stupidity is shown. In 99.999% of all cases, the skaters either don't break the rules, the skaters leave when asked, or people don't really care about the skaters. All that is portrayed in these few youtube videos are the outliers.

[Warp Shadow]

 
I think that cop needs to up his Ritalin dosage. Seriously.

However, I'm kind of glad that kid got torn a new asshole. Braindead skater "dudes" who cruise around everywhere they're not allowed, get offended and defensive when someone takes exception to them like skating is their right, disrespect and backsass authority and figure themselves above showing respect to anyone but their fellow wangster preteens deserve pretty much all the stuff they get. Maybe not a headlock but what goes around, comes around. Next time, just give the guy the damn skateboard instead of wrestling him for it. Or even better, just say "okay" and leave.

 

I'd be pissed too though if I had to drive a golfcart around.

[Flipside]

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't have much of a problem with that Video. The Cop did over-react, but then, 90% of being a cop is having respect, for every cop, there are tens of thousands of citizens.

The kid was being stupid, the cop doesn't want a confrontation, he just wants to get back to his job and hopefully not see anything too unpleasant before he goes home that evening. What he does not want is to be given lip in front of members of the public by a kid trying to impress his mates. That would have got him a clip round the ear 20 years ago, and really should do the same now.

So, yeah, they caught the cop on a bad day, but all young animals naturally challenge authority, and authority naturally smacks them round the back of the head, it's part of the great cycle of life.

[castor]

Wouldn't like to see that cop anywhere close a real problem site

[WeatherOp]

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't have much of a problem with that Video. The Cop did over-react, but then, 90% of being a cop is having respect, for every cop, there are tens of thousands of citizens.

The kid was being stupid, the cop doesn't want a confrontation, he just wants to get back to his job and hopefully not see anything too unpleasant before he goes home that evening. What he does not want is to be given lip in front of members of the public by a kid trying to impress his mates. That would have got him a clip round the ear 20 years ago, and really should do the same now.

So, yeah, they caught the cop on a bad day, but all young animals naturally challenge authority, and authority naturally smacks them round the back of the head, it's part of the great cycle of life.

Honestly I agree, there are far too many kids who need their butts kicked.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Honestly I agree, there are far too many kids who need their butts kicked.

This is what happens when child protection goes too far.

[[DW]-Hunter]

And how it ends... it almost sounded like he was about to threaten the guy filming it. That's certainly illegal. The problem is, the police (and the military, too) think they are above the law... and they have what it takes to keep themselves from getting in trouble for serious offenses.

This is disingenious. The military is, for the most part, held to a similar but not exactly the same form of the law, which is if anything stricter than the one the general public is held to. The police do not believe they are above the law; if anything, they believe they must embody the law. This is usually a positive thing since it is interpreted to me that they must not only be the law in the sense of their job but also in the more literal sense of their lives, but occasionally someone misinterprets "embody" to be "I am", and then you have problems.

If anything its the army that's corrupt. Theres around 50 youtube videos of innocent iraqi insurgents civilians, WOUNDED for that matter, getting sniped.

Care to show us these videos? Why would youtube show real battle scenes with people getting killed. I thought that was against the terms of agreement.



ROFL, if only we could do this everytime some asshole cop has a powertrip 

[Mars]

ROFL, if only we could do this everytime some asshole cop has a powertrip 

The "asshole" in this example has every right to be pissed, the idiots can go and skate somewhere else.

[Nuke]

we need bigger wars

[[DW]-Hunter]

ROFL, if only we could do this everytime some asshole cop has a powertrip 

The "asshole" in this example has every right to be pissed, the idiots can go and skate somewhere else.

I never said this guy was an asshole. Nor did I say he didn't have the right to be pissed.

[Mika]

Care to show us these videos? Why would youtube show real battle scenes with people getting killed. I thought that was against the terms of agreement.

Depends on how the title is written:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvupw5aeBkY
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAxmyRau4E
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=k_kv4p65q3s
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=jTBLuBgCzak&feature=related

Mika

[[DW]-Hunter]

Care to show us these videos? Why would youtube show real battle scenes with people getting killed. I thought that was against the terms of agreement.

Depends on how the title is written:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvupw5aeBkY
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAxmyRau4E
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=k_kv4p65q3s
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=jTBLuBgCzak&feature=related

these are insurgents... he said there was a lot of vids on youtube of CIVILIANS getting shot and killed.

[TrashMan]

Kid had it coming.

People should respect the police. If not the laws themselves, at least the people who risk their lives to protect us.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Kid had it coming.

People should respect the police. If not the laws themselves, at least the people who risk their lives to protect us.

Yeah...it's hard to remember this, especially when you start thinking that all the police does is go to the crime scene hours after the event and take notes. I mean, if some guy went crazy in the subway, brandishing a knife at people, and it so happens that two policemen were nearby, the policemen will have little choice but to disable or kill. There was an incident like that in Singapore some months back.