Given how many stories, similar videos from other cities, and e.g. the recent federal report on policing in Louisville, this is unarguably happening all over. And although it’s nice to see some actual charges against the cops, they’re almost always lesser charges than are warranted, selective in which cops get prosecuted (the ones standing by and laughing and then lying about it afterwards almost always get a free pass), and inevitably the officers involved had long histories of accusations in which nothing was done and no video released. Which is representative of the issue as a whole - mostly it’s getting ignored, mostly the higher-ups look at what happened and say, “yeah, this is fine” (when it absolutely isn’t). It makes me wonder why some cases get prosecuted (or even made public) and the rest don’t - it seems rather random.
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