It is difficult to fathom the enormous number of situations where the police are out of control in their lust for brutality against the lowly citizen. It is even more difficult for me to understand why the “mundanes” (Will Grigg’s description of the citizen) allow this brutality instead of taking matters into their own hands.
It seems in this day and age that there is always one or several bystanders taking video of the unwarranted beatings and murders committed by police, but none come forward to stop these assaults. Why? Why would they not in mass and with equal or greater force stop the state sponsored cretins from committing such heinous acts? This is as important a reason as any that exist for the people of this country to be heavily armed at all times!
Nine Kern County, California police thugs belonging to the sheriff’s department hogtied a 33 year old man named david Sal Silva while he was sleeping in a yard, and beat him mercilessly until he was unrecognizable and dead. Two of those murderers have done this in the past, but were of course only given paid vacation until they could return to murder again. This incident was fully recorded, but none stepped forward to help him. Now, one of the videos taken that was confiscated by police has mysteriously disappeared. Imagine that. (see the story by Becky Akers of LRC)
There are other stories today about police beatings, maiming, torture and murder. It happens every day in this country. 220 swat raids, (terrorist acts) a day or over 80,000 per year happen in the U.S. That doesn’t count of course the massive criminal and in many cases violent behavior committed by local, state and federal police each and every day.
This police state we’re living in should be abolished immediately. I for one am sick to my stomach of the term “officer safety.” Instead, it should be individual citizen safety, and officers be damned!