Reply #68: Your standards of what is appropriate for a servant of the people,

[sabrina 1]

cops ARE servants of the people, regarding touching without cause people who are exercising their Constitutional rights, are quite different from those of the majority of people.

Not only was there brutality on Saturday, earlier in the week several protesters were attacked by the NYPD and were injured, one lost a tooth, another suffered leg injuries, one was seen bleeding from the head, the photos are available, and another, a woman, was bleeding from the lip or mouth. Why are people willing to allow this kind of brutality in this country?

There was absolutely no cause for any of this. Throwing US Citizens on the ground IS brutality and any cop who behaves this way, needs to be fired. The NYPD doesn't have a great history of restraint when it comes to dealing with the people who pay their salaries.

This was a peaceful protest. The NYPD disgraced themselves. I hope someone reigns them in before someone gets really hurt.

I do not expect to be man-handled by the people who are supposed to be protecting us, nor by anyone for that matter. And just because someone is wearing a uniform does not give them special priviliges to maul and abuse citizens.

I hope this will become one of the reforms demanded by the American people, an end to police brutality. Americans have become so accustomed to it, that they feel there is nothing they can do about it anymore. Well, there is.

This is supposed ot be a civilized society. But the behavior of some police departments in this country says to the world, that we are not. And it's way past time to put a stop the abuse and to make it clear that cops have no special privileges when it comes to abusing peaceful, law-abiding citizens.