Police in the US have a much looser set of "rules of engagement" than US armed forces do overseas. The police will draw and point their guns for a huge variety

Police in the US have a much looser set of "rules of engagement" than US armed forces do overseas. The police will draw and point their guns for a huge variety of reasons, because they feel afraid, because of the skin color of someone they're approaching, or simply because they want to encourage compliance. And the police are often quite free with using non-lethal forms of violence, from tazers to pepper spray. It's really rather shocking that these things alone are tolerated, but of course in a country where hundreds are killed by police every year it's obvious that the line is well past where it should be.