Originally published at: California cop charged with assault for beating woman until she was brain damaged | Boing Boing
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Just in case anyone forgot for a moment, ACAB. Nice of them to keep reminding us.
ACAB, even California ones. Just remember once they pin the badge on, they feel they’re Judge Dredd, arbiters of life and death over everyone else.
This is why we need to turn our clocks back to July 1936, and disarm our beat cops, like the UK did. No one can claim with a straight face that the UK is less free than us because their cops don’t have guns strapped to their hips to walk a beat.
ETA:
I believe that this would be described as an “officer-involved beating”.
Welcome back?
You have to wonder why he came back (and why he wasted his precious time commenting) if he doesn’t like what he’s seeing.
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