From: Steyr@yabbs
To: Pele@yabbs
Subject: re: Police
Date: Sat Aug  6 03:00:33 1994
So ... let me get this right ...
 
The police started harrassing you pretty badly, so you beat the crap
out of him.  Then you did the right thing and turned yourself in.
And this time YOU got the crap beaten out of you.  Then they let you
go.  Seems to me the only person who is majorly in the wrong here is
the police officer who started it all.  But from a technical view,
EVERYONE is in the wrong.  He only verbally assaulted you from what
you describe, then you take his weapon and hammer him.  You're no
angel here either.
 
You had your reasons to hit him.  Then, when the police had you,
from their perspective they had someone who had beaten up a fellow
officer.  If you had someone who had beaten the shit out of one of
your friends, I'm sure you would not take kindly to him either.
So they beat you up and turned you loose.  I personally would rather
cop a beating than go up on charges.  Think yourself lucky.
 
I think the beating you copped was fair enough.  Do unto others as ...
The main thing wrong here is the police officer who insulted you in
the first place.  There are bad cops around for sure. You'll get 
pricks in ANY organization, particularly an organization which gives 
the individual certain 'powers'.  But just because you've had a bad
experience with ONE of the police force, doesn't mean ALL police are
bad.
 
I think this whole thing is a vicious circle.  Much of the public
hates the police because the police treat them like shit.  Whereas
some of the police treat the public like shit because thats what they
get from the public.  Respect must work both ways.
 
Although I also think that the vast majority of police come out of
training with good intentions and attitudes, but develop their bad
habits from exposure to all the crap they cop from all you civilian
pieces of shit (no, I'm not a police officer).  OK, so this 
particular officer's racist views are an exception.
 
 
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