Reply #78: Those people who still think it's necessary and right to give police

[Matilda]

and security organisations extra powers need to read this and start
thinking.

Even if all the justifications given by the police had been true,
we were still left with the fact that a man who was under restraint
was then shot seven times in the head. That alone is an over-
reaction, and this is something people should take into account when
they advocate extra powers for police.

Police and even special operators are human and fallible, which
means they're not necessarily smarter than the average bear, and
a little power can go to their heads. They also unfortunately tend
to be predominantly right-wing and pro-establishment, which means
there's often an inbuilt bias towards anybody who appears to them
to be even slightly radical.