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People in this thread continue to talk about laws and blah blah. I want to state 2 things: 1) The kid is not going to win a prize for his IQ, no one is denying

• Udik 12y ago
  Well said. It's not about the law, the law itself might be part of the problem. This looks more like a cultural problem. The level of hostility and distrust on both sides are appalling and the police officers are blindly applying a procedure that would be fit for dealing with the most dangerous criminals and situations. The escalation of the confrontation and the outburst of violence are extremely rapid and totally unjustified by the actual scenario (the fact that it might not be that exceptionally uncommon for a police officer in the USA to face somebody who is actually carrying a weapon and willing to use it is, to me, part of the same cultural problem). In the end, the result is the following: four police cars involved in what should be a completely routine check; three young people psychologically and physically wounded; one of them, underage, in jail for months at the expense of society; endless time and resources spent in filling papers, in courts, with lawyers. It might look like the dead simple pragmatic approach to things, and yet it's completely deranged and immensely inefficient.
  • jacquesm 12y ago
    And last but not least the gap between civilians and the police force widened rather than narrowed. That's the real cost in my opinion.