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still twitching...
Nov. 21st, 2011 08:29 amWil Wheaton is outraged.
So am I. The thing that caught me was the offhand quote from a police officer who wrote a set of use-of-force guidelines: "Bodies don't have handles on them." He was defending the use of pepper spray as a "compliance tool” to be used on subjects who do not resist, preferable to simply lifting protesters....
He's talking about people. Conscious, alert, non-violent people, people who happen to not be "compliant" ....
If the citizenry that I thought the police were to protect and serve are merely bodies, then the photo (from Portland, I think) captioned "Protect and Serve" showing 20+ officers in riot gear arrayed outside a building displaying the Chase logo is utterly correct and property is more important than "bodies".
So am I. The thing that caught me was the offhand quote from a police officer who wrote a set of use-of-force guidelines: "Bodies don't have handles on them." He was defending the use of pepper spray as a "compliance tool” to be used on subjects who do not resist, preferable to simply lifting protesters....
He's talking about people. Conscious, alert, non-violent people, people who happen to not be "compliant" ....
Bodies don't have handles on them.
Citizens don't have handles on them?
Taxpayers don't have handles on them?
Voters don't have handles on them??
If the citizenry that I thought the police were to protect and serve are merely bodies, then the photo (from Portland, I think) captioned "Protect and Serve" showing 20+ officers in riot gear arrayed outside a building displaying the Chase logo is utterly correct and property is more important than "bodies".