cops and beatings

[John Thornton]

I don't think it's anyones job to decide who 'deserves' to be beaten. I find
the concept that anyone deserves to be beaten by the state bizarre.
Prosecutors work WITH cops to control people. Their jobs are connected. Very
much birds of a feather flocking together I should think. I wouldn't think
cops beat people for smoking pot but rather for not genuflecting at the
altar of the power the cop perceives he has. It's an "I will control you by
force" mentality. Minorities get beaten more because they have less power
and are easier to victimize.
John Thornton

From: "eric dorkin" <eric_dorkin at yahoo.com>wrote


> whose job do you think it is and why do you think they
> do it better?  Seems to me that a black man in better
> off getting beaten up by a cop for smoking dope than
> being brought in front of a judge.
>
> Cops may be pricks, but prosecuters, them's a bird of
> a different feather altogether.
>
> --- John Thornton <jthorn65 at mchsi.com> wrote:
> > You think it's the job of the police to decide who
> > 'Deserves" to be beaten
> > and who doesn't?
> > John Thornton
> >
> >
> >
> > > that those who get the raw treatment are violent
> > males who fully
> > > deserve such treatment.
> > >
> > > wojtek
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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