14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black Man Outside Twitter HQ

Re:14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black ... by rm_-rf_slash on Monday August 17, 2015 @01:16PM (#10074543)

It is worth taking a step back and recalling how long the problem of police brutality existed BEFORE it became a hot-button issue. For the longest time, raising such issues would incite accusations that one is either sympathetic to criminals or naively on the track to "Escape from NY" levels of crime.

Theodore Roosevelt regretted not having reformed American health care in his time in office. It took this long to get the imperfect ACA. Police brutality as a national issue is no different. Unless there is serious, sustained momentum for change, it simply won't come. This video should be such a reminder.

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Re:14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black ... by tsotha on Monday August 17, 2015 @08:08PM (#10076905)

Police brutality is in the headlines a lot recently because there are factions that benefit from it politically. When that's no longer true it'll drop out of the headlines regardless of what gets done.

I hope people who are sympathetic to doing something about it realize this. They don't have an unlimited amount of time to come up with reasonable proposals.

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Re:14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black ... by rm_-rf_slash on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:42PM (#10077159)

Correct, and fans of the Voting Rights Act should be there as a reminder that "rights" can be hard lost as they are hard won. There is no inevitably in humanity. The best we can expect is reproduction.

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