‎"If I find out you're lying I'm going to taze you in the nuts"

[Leftsolidarity]

http://www.pigtube.org/2011/07/officer-chris-hominuk-of-toronto-if-i.html

[Hebrew Hammer]

http://www.pigtube.org/2011/07/officer-chris-hominuk-of-toronto-if-i.html

This is insane.

[Principia Ethica]

Fricking hell. . .this is not for real, is it? That police HAD to have known that he had a dash cam. . .Hebrew Hammer is correct. . .this is INSANE.

[Zav]

Damn.

[Leftsolidarity]

Fricking hell. . .this is not for real, is it? That police HAD to have known that he had a dash cam. . .Hebrew Hammer is correct. . .this is INSANE.

That is something I've never understood. All this pigs that get caught by their dash cams are even more pathetic than the others. They know it is running yet they still go on to beat or threaten someone.

[jake williams]

I had a conversation with a friend shortly after the G20 in Toronto that really stuck with me.

I was suggesting that a lot of the things the police had done seemed totally irrational coming from the perspective of their own interests, and especially, the interests of the class in whose interests they generally act. Yes, the ruling class's police is going to try to prevent democratic disruption of a meeting of finance ministers and heads of state. But things like threatening to gang rape journalists, randomly attacking deaf passersby, and so on were clear oversteps, tactical errors on the part of those directing the police or possibly a simple failure of discipline.

He fairly quick response made an impression. He pointed out that fascistic terror tactics and apparent irrationality are exactly the point. You're supposed to think the police are violent and deranged and irrational. You're supposed to think they're undisciplined and exceed the bounds of sensible bourgeois social maintenance. It's not just tolerated, it's basically encouraged, in some cases pretty explicitly.

[Lynx]

I had a conversation with a friend shortly after the G20 in Toronto that really stuck with me.

I was suggesting that a lot of the things the police had done seemed totally irrational coming from the perspective of their own interests, and especially, the interests of the class in whose interests they generally act. Yes, the ruling class's police is going to try to prevent democratic disruption of a meeting of finance ministers and heads of state. But things like threatening to gang rape journalists, randomly attacking deaf passersby, and so on were clear oversteps, tactical errors on the part of those directing the police or possibly a simple failure of discipline.

He fairly quick response made an impression. He pointed out that fascistic terror tactics and apparent irrationality are exactly the point. You're supposed to think the police are violent and deranged and irrational. You're supposed to think they're undisciplined and exceed the bounds of sensible bourgeois social maintenance. It's not just tolerated, it's basically encouraged, in some cases pretty explicitly.
That message has yet to sink in with the general public, they continue to view the police with reverence. I've seen cops that were in a genuine state of adrenaline rush, its not part of their training (or maybe they are great actors).

[jake williams]

That message has yet to sink in with the general public, they continue to view the police with reverence. I've seen cops that were in a genuine state of adrenaline rush, its not part of their training (or maybe they are great actors).
I'm sure they're not pretending that they're jacked up whack jobs. My point is that they don't recruit people with a natural tendency to be calm, respectful, and rational; they recruit white men with hero complexes. They then put them in an environment where they're taught that most of the people they will be interacting with are dirt, that they should fear for their lives, and that they need to maintain their grip on power at all costs, and so on.

[Jose Gracchus]

He fairly quick response made an impression. He pointed out that fascistic terror tactics and apparent irrationality are exactly the point. You're supposed to think the police are violent and deranged and irrational. You're supposed to think they're undisciplined and exceed the bounds of sensible bourgeois social maintenance. It's not just tolerated, it's basically encouraged, in some cases pretty explicitly.

Its a microcosm of the Nixon Strategy. Just have them think you're so bellicose, so nuts, that they will fear you on that basis alone.

[Lynx]

I'm sure they're not pretending that they're jacked up whack jobs. My point is that they don't recruit people with a natural tendency to be calm, respectful, and rational; they recruit white men with hero complexes. They then put them in an environment where they're taught that most of the people they will be interacting with are dirt, that they should fear for their lives, and that they need to maintain their grip on power at all costs, and so on.
And yet the myth among the general public (Canada) is that they are rational and restrained (using only the minimum amount of force), while having to deal with hooligans and scumbags. As far as John Q. Public is concerned, they are heroes. No amount of video to the contrary seems able to shake this perception.

Yeah, they are supposed to be viewed as intimidating, and the fact they are armed to the teeth is not just for show.

[Meridian]

I'm sure they're not pretending that they're jacked up whack jobs. My point is that they don't recruit people with a natural tendency to be calm, respectful, and rational; they recruit white men with hero complexes. They then put them in an environment where they're taught that most of the people they will be interacting with are dirt, that they should fear for their lives, and that they need to maintain their grip on power at all costs, and so on.
I suppose you are talking about in the US? Because that is certainly not the case everywhere.