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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Huge difference in a doctor making a human error during a surgery and an officer going out of his way to hurt someone for his own pleasure.
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That's kind of my point, when police screw up, we assume it's for their "own pleasure", because that makes us feel big and defiant against authority.
A surely, sometimes cops do that, and if that can be proven, the consquences should be harsh. But it's assumed that's it's pleasure EVERY time, and that's just not even logical.
There's assumptions that the officer in this case was on a power trip, or racist, and basically doing this for fun. Without a pattern of conduct, maybe we should assume that he screwed up?