Police in Belarus are literally kidnapping and torturing protestors [1] so yes, that's pretty much exactly right.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-17/belarus-torture-prote...

Be as hyperbolic as you like, at the end of the day you are the one defending cops we have video evidence of beating people with sticks.

The parent's rather obvious point is that some police officers are bad, but police in general aren't behaving this way. If you disagree, then fine, but at least disagree with the parent and not some straw man of your own making.

To the comment of "Yes, the person who brings the baton down on your head is an oppressor." - bringing up 'well other police are not bad' is just itself a weird strawman.

It's not a straw man so much as a clarification, because the original assertion is ambiguous about whether we're talking literally about a single person or if "person bringing the baton down on your head" is a metaphor for police in general (especially given the surrounding context of talking about the police in a general, plural sense, and the fact that no one disputes that no one disputes that individual bad police officers should be held responsible).

There's a third option - effective policing.

I sincerely wish we could have good faith discussions without false dichotomies.

The comment I respond to discusses drinking blood, I think you might find the good faith comment misplaced.

No sale hobs.

He posed a question asking if the cop is spending all day beating people and drinking blood.

I'm convinced you aren't engaging in good faith discussion. Moving on with my life.

Pretty much yes. Locals used to reply to bemused foreigners with "It's Belarus, baby" when questioned on police brutality and state-sanctioned killings.

Do you think murderers are killing people all day? No, they only do it sometimes, that doesn't make it ok.

Straw man arguments are not conducive to discussion and insult the people they are directed towards.

Other than that last one... Yeah.