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Comment by grecy | Hacker News Reader

Thanks for sharing.

When I read stories like this and the original article, I genuinely wonder how long it will be before the people start to fight back. And I mean literally fight.

I'm not for a second suggesting that any individual should fight or even argue with the police, but I can't imagine how an entire society can tolerate this kind of behavior from the police.

As much as I hate to say it, it really only seems like a (short) matter of time before Americans start violently fighting back against this, as we've seen in the Ukraine, Egypt and now Venezuela (obviously all for different reasons)

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Next time you get jury duty, and a cop takes the stand (or even if not), remember how cops treat the citizens they serve.

How often do you get picked for jury duty? I've never been picked. (And given current trends probably never will be - they seem to have gotten too good at weeding out people who have opinions about anything.)

We should at least fight back at the voting booths. Pay attention to local politics!

Pointless, politicians have no control over the police. A guy was elected here as a police reformer, his job was to not resign the current police contract and build a new force that was actually accountable to people who live here instead of federal thugs for hire who had been out of control and corrupt for decades.

Instead he was promptly raided by the same corrupt cops he wanted to disband a week into his term. Slammed with elections funding act violations and dozens of other charges. Didn't matter they were bogus charges, he spent his 4 years in office fighting the allegations and in and out of court, and even though fully vindicated when all charges were dropped and proved to be baseless, it was too late because the political image damage was already done, his party benched him and he soon resigned saying what a sham democracy has become, and how police reform is a pipe dream. The guy who replaced him resigned the contract for another 20 years.

Just because it failed once, doesn't mean it's pointless. The more it happens ("Gee, the last 7 mayors elected promising police reform were raided, none of the others were...") the more obvious it gets, and the harder it will be for police officers to look their friends and family in the eye while not standing up to such blatant corruption. That's not to say it's the only thing we should be doing, but it's something we should be doing.

This happens every day. The police call is resiting arrest.

Usually the police win due to overwhelming force, but in cases where the force is more equal (e.g. during a large scale protest) people who are arrested by police are sometimes forcibly "rescued" by fellow protesters. There are plenty of youtube videos of this happening.

There have been many cases of standoffs between minority groups and the police. Honestly, to say that even mid-high income/status people will do this on a large scale is laughable.

The chance of being shot dead or seriously injured in a situation like this is very real. I know I'm not willing to take that risk. Are you?

The people are bloated on Big Macs and television.

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