I also did not say it was OK what the cops ended up doing. I stated that SEVERAL times.
But ultimately it's Kings fault.
He set the whole thing in motion with his own actions.
And like i also said, had he obeyed the cops after the chase and got down on the ground, he probably would have been arrested without getting hit.

The cops over did it.....no doubt. I'm NOT agreeing with theur actions.

For every instance like this, there are probably thousands where the cops have self control and don't over react. Of course no one puts THOSE on youtube.
Or the ones where cops get hurt or killed by punks because they didn't use enough force to stop them.

Of course i've never taken cops on a high speed chase.........so i really have no idea if they would beat me down or not.

Oh....and i am not trying to turn it around on you. I agree with you the cops were out of line. I'm just looking at the whole situation. I never think it's right to beat a person if it can be avoided. The tazers SHOULD have ended it before it got to that point.
The cops were wrong. I agree 100%. I just don't see King as innocent in this mess.
My Uncle was a Milwaukee cop, then detective. He used to tell me stories of what bad guys used to pull. Sometimes they would go after the cops on purpose, so that the cop WOULD hit them, then yell "Police brutality!" and then sue the cops. And back then there were no video cameras in the cop cars, and no one on the street had video cameras. So the cop would have to try to "prove" he used necesary force.

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Yes, Driver the senior is by all accounts, a deadbeat.

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It's amazing Driver turned out as good as he is. Of course he has admitted he committed crimes in his younger years. It's harder for a kid that grows up in that kind of atmosphere to turn out to be a good citizen.
It was probably best that he didn't get raised by his father.

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A drunk and abusive father is far better than a domineering Mother.

Just ask anyone who has studied Serial Killers and Rapists.

Donald is a shining example of what can be. He is a brilliant example of human capabilites.

R.P.

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My wife had a father like that........i seriously don't know HOW she survived. I don't know if i would have survived in the daily terror she lived in.

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This is a profound statement that is backed up by tons of research.

Research actually shows that outcomes are far better when a child remains in an abusive household with his own parents -- even in cases of sexual abuse -- than when he is removed from his home and placed in foster care. That's why social work agencies have become far less trigger happy in the past decade. Thank God we're past the 1980s and 1990s, era of the terrorist CPS.

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Funny how this thread turned out, with the jumping on the evil nazi police officers without any proof, trusting the words of a deadbeat criminal. Then people got mad the cops remained on duty(if all cops got benched when people cried foul, there would be 0 cops on the street. People don't like being arrested or policed. They complain.)

Now the truth comes out and I stand by my first post in this thread.

Entertaining to me, but hopefully the piece of crap gets his life together, but not at the expense of suing a local police department. Earn your money like your son does.

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HEY!!!
Not ALL of the people jumped on the cops!!! :ramboface:

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This thread has been beat on more than any cop could.

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That's because it won't lie down and be quiet...

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