I'm anti- anybody abusing their authority, be it cops or CEOs or scoutmasters or church leaders.
Cops are people. People are flawed. They're in a position of authority, so it's their responsibility to handle that correctly, but they don't always do it. Not that I'm saying that should excuse it (certainly not!) but that people shouldn't make a blanket judgment based on some unfortunately bad apples.
Whatever else the cop in this particular video is, whether or not he is a bad apple otherwise, he did the right thing in this particular situation.
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Date: 2010-06-20 07:56 pm (UTC)Cops are people. People are flawed. They're in a position of authority, so it's their responsibility to handle that correctly, but they don't always do it. Not that I'm saying that should excuse it (certainly not!) but that people shouldn't make a blanket judgment based on some unfortunately bad apples.
Whatever else the cop in this particular video is, whether or not he is a bad apple otherwise, he did the right thing in this particular situation.