Hegemonik

Police brutality on live television

In Commentary on May 8, 2008 at 12:00 pm

[UPDATE: YouTube took down the video from WTXF. Please use link below. Thanks to Freddy for alerting me to YouTube's spinelessness.]
What is most disturbing about the above? this footage?

  • That such beatings happen and are casually excused as “the cops were on edge?”
  • That such events as the Sean Bell verdict have made it clear that “the cops were on edge”
    is viewed as a justification for not just assault but outright murder?
  • That such events are broadcast live as a form of perverse entertainment?

I am unsure.

[My thanks to Faye Bibeau at groundswell for calling attention to this. Groundswell has been added to the links section]