Quote Originally Posted by RedLocks
heh as far as the race thing goes, I was just commenting on this other dude's comment, which i think was silly to bring up, but nowhere near ignorant. unwarranted force and violence by the police is a sad but true and undeniable occurrence

Gotcha, well said.

as far as the main topic, each charge means $$ for the district through fines, each charge and arrest is a feather in the cap of a officer trying to make his way up the ranks and higher pay grade and like you said, meating their quota. Ever been to a municipal court? Pure fund raising, not much justice involved in the ordeal...

I hadn't thought of it that way, that's an interesting argument. I guess you're right, the gov't does make money that way. However, I find it hard to believe that a couple of cops care so much about bringing in more money that they'd jeopardize their career intentionally. They don't get a commission, so why would they care?

As far as running..it is simple and really doesn't require violence, slip your jacket and run, pivot and sprint if they have you facing a wall, etcetc. Only situation in my life i can think of where I could have ran (not got away just ran) where resorting to force or violence would have been my only choice is while laying on the ground with a cops knee in my spine, and even then to use enough force to free yourself you would have to be on PCP..

The point is, he wasn't just running. He was already being detained and in the process of being handcuffed. The get away from police officers at that point, he must have used force. The cops responded accordingly. For all the cops know, he had a gun hidden somewhere (cops don't frisk until after the cuffs are on).

don't know exactly how things went down, for all I know he grabbed the cops baton beat him over the head with it, so I can't say anything besides police don't need a valid reason to use excessive force.

It's unfortunate that there are a lot of cops out there that abuse their power, I agree. But to assume that's what happened is not my way of thinking