Originally Posted by
slcbob
Spend a little time in the 3rd world then come back and complain about law enforcement here.
Power corrupts, and there are plenty of police out there who need dose of humility. But neither of the ones in the videos posted here. Measured responses to measured provocations. If you call the cops arrogant bastards you have to, in all fairness, also call the others spoiled, self-indulgent provocateurs. The masked dude whined, who knows what bubble girl finally did (off camera or more likely left on the cutting room floor because it didn't suit the political objective of the "network") to finally consummate the arrest with bubble boy.
Actually slcbob, many people(thousands) were arrested that weekend for doing nothing harmful. I've not seen a statement of anything else regarding the incident involving the bubbles. It is not reasonable to assume she ate a baby after the camera was turned off to justify her arrest. Perhaps she was a provocateur, but really that is doing a disservice to the term when you consider what counts as being a provocateur. Perhaps those citizens are spoiled, but then being spoiled really doesn't enter under the charter of rights.
I'm sure police in third world places are tough, but we're not a third world country. Part of the reason for that is because we complained about authoritarian police tactics.