Why don't we all go find those 5 officers and beat the living daylights out of them?
Pepper spray their faces, kick them in the face with steel toes, bludgeon their nose with a baton while blasting Lil Jon's Get Crunk.
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RocktheHouse · M
@hartfire "never permitted to be officers again...." oh they're going to jail. They murdered a man. It's retribution... what they did is the worst police beating ever caught on video. The man was completely powerless and they continued to pound him. Please stop your nonsense. If someone beat your son that way, I believe you'd want some Revenge, unless you dont love him...., this shit has to stop. I don't want to hear the bullshit about peace and love.
@RocktheHouse
I was so glad to see that Memphis Police disbanded the Scorpion Unit that those officers belonged to.
I'm also glad to see that people are protesting peacefully, mourning in the streets, and demanding Biden use this incident to push through national reform on police culture and attitudes.
Tyre had done nothing wrong. It was nothing but a routine traffic check.
It's beyond comprehensible how it escalated into such a horrific episode.
Who could deny that it was cruelty and murder? -
How could any society accept that?
I wouldn't want [i]anyone[/i] to be treated that way.
And let's praise those who used their phones to film it; thanks to them everyone round the world and those officers won't be able to cover it up as has happened so often in the past.
I accept that you really do crave revenge.
Do you feel that their going to prison will be sufficient punishment?
Do you take into account that in prison they will probably experience rape and worse?
Would you rather be the person taking an eye for an eye?
But that's not how everyone reacts to horror.
I've seen ex-POWs who've forgiven their gaolers and torturers: Australians who endured hard labour and starvation on the Kokoda Trail who, decades later, met with their Japanese abusers and hugged, forgave and cried with them; and I've met Jews who endured Auschwitz who forgave the Nazis.
Yes, these people are rare - but they [i]do[/i] exist.
Personally, I'm not in favour of the punitive approach to dealing with crime because it's ineffective. Not just in the USA but everywhere it's practised. It's only good feature is that it keeps the crims off the streets for a while. It's worst problem is the consistent rate of recidivism - 80%.
Scandinavia and Portugal have systems which start with a process of living apart from society while being re-educated and vocationally trained. India's worst goal (5,000 prisoners convicted for the most heinous crime) offers an optional 30 day Vipassana meditation course. In a recent Australian study, a group of 40 female criminals completed a program of EMDR for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder while in goal, and were tracked afterwards.
In all of these cases, the recidivism rate was 20%, ie, [i]four times fewer[/i] criminals committing further crimes.
And then there's a personal aspect to anger, hate and revenge. It backfires on the one who gives in to it. Living in a state of rage is a form of living in hell.
I was so glad to see that Memphis Police disbanded the Scorpion Unit that those officers belonged to.
I'm also glad to see that people are protesting peacefully, mourning in the streets, and demanding Biden use this incident to push through national reform on police culture and attitudes.
Tyre had done nothing wrong. It was nothing but a routine traffic check.
It's beyond comprehensible how it escalated into such a horrific episode.
Who could deny that it was cruelty and murder? -
How could any society accept that?
I wouldn't want [i]anyone[/i] to be treated that way.
And let's praise those who used their phones to film it; thanks to them everyone round the world and those officers won't be able to cover it up as has happened so often in the past.
I accept that you really do crave revenge.
Do you feel that their going to prison will be sufficient punishment?
Do you take into account that in prison they will probably experience rape and worse?
Would you rather be the person taking an eye for an eye?
But that's not how everyone reacts to horror.
I've seen ex-POWs who've forgiven their gaolers and torturers: Australians who endured hard labour and starvation on the Kokoda Trail who, decades later, met with their Japanese abusers and hugged, forgave and cried with them; and I've met Jews who endured Auschwitz who forgave the Nazis.
Yes, these people are rare - but they [i]do[/i] exist.
Personally, I'm not in favour of the punitive approach to dealing with crime because it's ineffective. Not just in the USA but everywhere it's practised. It's only good feature is that it keeps the crims off the streets for a while. It's worst problem is the consistent rate of recidivism - 80%.
Scandinavia and Portugal have systems which start with a process of living apart from society while being re-educated and vocationally trained. India's worst goal (5,000 prisoners convicted for the most heinous crime) offers an optional 30 day Vipassana meditation course. In a recent Australian study, a group of 40 female criminals completed a program of EMDR for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder while in goal, and were tracked afterwards.
In all of these cases, the recidivism rate was 20%, ie, [i]four times fewer[/i] criminals committing further crimes.
And then there's a personal aspect to anger, hate and revenge. It backfires on the one who gives in to it. Living in a state of rage is a form of living in hell.