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[quote="Sgt Stryker":5d569]

Originally Posted by Hogman74

Shouldn't be jacking cars... Fuck him, he deserves to get the shit kicked out of him

that's not the point, I'm all for corporal punishment, provided that there is a trial first. It says so in our Constitution and frankly the field officers don't have the authority or know the "big picture" well enough to convict on the spot.

I've read about an incident where a guy left his wallet on the roof of his car on accident and drove off, some moron thought he was stealing the car (God knows why oOo: ) and called the cops. Good thing they had the sense to ask for license and registration rather than beating him up first and asking questions later.

Maybe in this case he was caught red handed, but in the future the abuse-happy LA cops could beat up a guy like the wallet incident guy; what would you say if that happened to you?
(waits for the guys that support authority no matter what it does to say "you shouldn't have left your wallet", etc.)[/quote:5d569]

Not only that, but what if the cops beat one guy up real bad, and then don't even harm another guy comitting the same crime or worse....You can't just have police beating up anyone....