Police abuses

[Tellos Athenaios]

You're being a sucker for the propaganda

The strategy is to provoke the police into retaliating, and then get it on youtube. They want you to think "The hippie wasn't cowering in fear like the worthless peasant he is. Of course the police officer had to correct that immediately." like CR said.

Obviously. But that doesn't negate the fact that the guy has every right to go out and about and record his day on camera, and that his doing so does not constitute a threat or act of violence towards those cops. Hence it remains highly unprofessional. Not to mention stupid in a don't-feed-the-trolls sort of way.

And you do...you do.

Nope. He's holding a camera walking quite freely and calmly a few metres from the line of policemen. So obviously not a cowering peasant. He's still not up for target practice, though.

It has the counterproductive effect of raising the standards of evidence for actually calling something abuse sky high. The fact that this is the best they've gotten so far is pretty telling.

VVV watch the video/interview. Proves exactly what I said. Unprofessional, but the guy is sooooo shootable that I forgive the police officer instantly.

Which is where I beg to differ. I think this example is not necessarily symptomatic of abuse, but certainly unprofessional to the point that I wouldn't raise eyebrows if it ended up an dishonourable discharge. (Actually, I might, given the examples of the exact opposite in police HR being posted in this thread, but you get the idea.)