The police fabricated witness reports of him brandishing his weapon, THEN discussed what to charge him with given that lie. > there's no indication that anyone

The police fabricated witness reports of him brandishing his weapon, THEN discussed what to charge him with given that lie. > there's no indication that anyone made up any charges, the cops were deciding what to charge him with given the situation. That's what cops do every day. Which is a crime. If the police don't believe you've broken a law before they arrest you, they're doing it wrong. They should never need to discuss it at this point. > That said, I don't know if he was actually breaking any laws. Right, and you know from this article that the police were breaking the law. They assaulted him and tried to break his camera, even if you don't believe the false-arrest aspect. But you're still trying desperately to make it look like the victims fault. > The line between legal/legal and appropriate/inappropriate is really thin. Not really, it's always been massively illegal and massively inappropriate to frame someone and knowingly file false police reports.