soot
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except you can't take videos shot in different cities, states, and varying circumstances and use them to prove the specific officer who arrested you is lying.
No, you can't.
And nobody is saying that any particular cop is lying.
We're saying that police in general have gotten to the point where they've lost all credibility.
After seeing these videos (of cops abusing their authority, of cops lying, of cops staging evidence) again, and again, and again, multiple times a day, from every sate in the union, whether the "offender" is a white woman, a black teenager, or anything in between, for a number of years now, you begin to lose faith in the police.
I'm a 45-year-old, upper middle class, college educated, home owing, Republican/Libertarian voting, Veteran, and at this point I'm as likely to believe a career felon as I am a police officer.
If, as a cop, you've lost the demographic that I belong to you're doing something very, very wrong.
Is this an indictment of any particular cop?
No.
But I can no longer trust any particular cop because law enforcement in general is rotten to the core.
I don't know who the honest cops are and who the crooked cops are.
And clearly there are so many crooked cops that trusting any of them if foolish.
I've got petit jury duty the 8th of next month.
I have NEVER made an excuse or told some wild tale in order to get out of doing my duty. I've sat on grand juries and I've been selected for and sat on a petit jury in the past. I don't consider it an inconvenience. Like my military service I consider it something that I owe to this great country.
But if it comes up during jury selection and I'm being honest I'd have to say that I don't trust police to tell the truth.
If I'm sat on a jury anyhow and the verdict hinges on a cop's credibility I'd have to discount that cop's testimony and let a potential criminal walk.