Occam's Banana
10-15-2013, 07:14 PM
Will Grigg @ LRC: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/defensive-interposition-against-police-aggression/
Defensive Interposition against Police Aggression
Police are people who consider themselves entitled to use aggressive violence against others, and punish those who defend themselves. When a Mundane dares to resist police aggression — even to the extent of passive non-cooperation — police will not only escalate violence until resistance is subdued, but will continue until punitive damage is inflicted on the victim. This leads to a phenomenon I call a “thugscrum,” in which a pack of feral cops throw themselves on top of a victim and maul him (or her) while one or more of their comrades will face outward to deter intervention on the victim’s behalf.
There are at least two things I like about the encounter recorded in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_WmpcP-QQ). The first was the use of righteous defensive force against an armed aggressor in uniform.
The second was the fact that the individual who interposed (http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2010/02/whos-afraid-of-interposition.html) against the cop’s aggression then intervened to prevent serious injury when someone else decided to pile on once the primary aggressor had been put down. We will never see a “good cop” intervene in similar fashion to prevent a punitive beating of a resisting Mundane. This is why thugscrums coalesce around prone, defenseless victims — and why genuinely decent people like former Officer Regina Tasca (http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/04/officer-regina-tasca-goes-rogue.html), who earnestly want to be peace officers, are purged from the ranks for trying to protect victims of police violence.
The prelude to this altercation wasn’t captured on video, but I don’t consider that matter to be terribly important. The officer wasn’t intervening to prevent a crime, and he deployed a reliably deadly weapon to carry out a punitive strike against an unarmed citizen. The man who intervened showed much greater restraint in responding to a genuine crime of violence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_WmpcP-QQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_WmpcP-QQ
Defensive Interposition against Police Aggression
Police are people who consider themselves entitled to use aggressive violence against others, and punish those who defend themselves. When a Mundane dares to resist police aggression — even to the extent of passive non-cooperation — police will not only escalate violence until resistance is subdued, but will continue until punitive damage is inflicted on the victim. This leads to a phenomenon I call a “thugscrum,” in which a pack of feral cops throw themselves on top of a victim and maul him (or her) while one or more of their comrades will face outward to deter intervention on the victim’s behalf.
There are at least two things I like about the encounter recorded in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_WmpcP-QQ). The first was the use of righteous defensive force against an armed aggressor in uniform.
The second was the fact that the individual who interposed (http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2010/02/whos-afraid-of-interposition.html) against the cop’s aggression then intervened to prevent serious injury when someone else decided to pile on once the primary aggressor had been put down. We will never see a “good cop” intervene in similar fashion to prevent a punitive beating of a resisting Mundane. This is why thugscrums coalesce around prone, defenseless victims — and why genuinely decent people like former Officer Regina Tasca (http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/04/officer-regina-tasca-goes-rogue.html), who earnestly want to be peace officers, are purged from the ranks for trying to protect victims of police violence.
The prelude to this altercation wasn’t captured on video, but I don’t consider that matter to be terribly important. The officer wasn’t intervening to prevent a crime, and he deployed a reliably deadly weapon to carry out a punitive strike against an unarmed citizen. The man who intervened showed much greater restraint in responding to a genuine crime of violence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_WmpcP-QQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_WmpcP-QQ