Also, if you re-read that quote, it states "showing up to help". If they shoot you in the face they didn't show up to help did they?
It’s one of those things that’s upsetting, so our brains exaggerate the actual relevance.
the Institute for Justice ;
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Just because you've never seen it advertised doesn't mean it isn't happening. And there's 3300 counties in the US, and fifty state police entities, plus however many municipalities with police forces. Also, if you AAL, "qualified immunity" makes it difficult to "go after" individual police, so most suits are filed against the city and the department for having "bad policy" - because proving civil rights violations is quite difficult, even if it seems like a cut and dry case.
A couple of times in my first five years or so, someone called and had a story that sounded plausible, and I got the video - either from the car or the venue. After watching them, I basically stopped taking those calls.
Oh, the naivety. It's hard to hear someone hating cops who showed up to help after the cops who showed up to help shot them in the face to death. For example.
"If you have a problem, and call the cops, now you have two problems".