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Originally Posted by V_RocKs
Only 40 short years ago this type of behavior would warrant an immediate suicide by cop and most people realized that. Are you people really going to listen to the NAACP?
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You don't think that the police were far more brutal 40 or 50 years ago than they are today? Back then everyone on the planet didn't have a phone with video recorder and there wasn't an internet where overnight your actions could become worldwide news. I hear stories from some cops I know that have been on the job a long time that even 20's years ago it was common place to beat the shit out of the people they arrested then just tell anyone who asked that they resisted.
These days the level of sensitivity training cops gets is through the roof compared to then. Most departments now have all kinds of classes on how to "compassionately" deal with the public in just about any situation.
I think 40 years ago the cop may be just plowed the kid over with his car then slapped the shit out of anyone who might have questioned his actions.