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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

Mini-Me
10-16-2013, 12:46 AM
What really worries me is this could get a whole lot worse before it gets any better. Consider ancient and medieval times, when it was an ordinary occurrence for a person to see "authorities" murdering mundanes in front of them for the pettiest slights without intervening. They were conditioned to accept their situation and assume it was natural (and to fear horrific retaliation for any form of intervention), much like we have been. There's a lot less murder-by-authorities these days than there was back then, and few of us see it happen in person, but we're well on our way to that kind of situation, and the fact that it happened and was normalized once before indicates it could easily happen again. We commoners may be better-armed now, but usually not when we need to be...and I suspect many inner-city gun control laws limit legal carrying to the home precisely to discourage any intervention "in the moment."

Origanalist
10-16-2013, 06:48 AM
That clip didn't show much. How did the whole episode play out? And while I love Grigg's work, the time is coming when the attacked are going to show the same "restraint" shown to them.

tod evans
10-16-2013, 06:51 AM
Biggest smile of the day! :D

phill4paul
10-16-2013, 06:58 AM
What we see here is the perfect example of CFC. No weapons were produced. No violence was initiated. Yet, the cop immediately went for his service weapon.


Biggest smile of the day! :D

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