I'll say it again. Rodney King.

Didn't they revise (or are in the process of revising) that policy? I was hearing a lot about it on NPR a while ago, but I don't think I heard about the conclusion to the issue.

Notice how Deni said countries "close to you". gb2/reading/

I'm sorry if I want to try and inject humor into the thread.

Last I checked capital punishment was still a pretty standard procedure in China, but it's been about a while since I last heard of someone actually getting executed.

I hope that kid sues for a lot

Looking at a name like that, cops must have thought he was working for terrorists.

Good work cops. You're doing our country PROUD! BEAT THOSE TERRORISTS![/sarcasm]

Actually, nobody does. That shit is stupid and petty and nobody honestly cares.

Oh god, so many of the assholes from my High School go to USC, it's not even funny.

Yeah, but USC is nothing BUT assholes. :/

I know a few people who've mysterously vanished from society after an altercation with Humboldt county sheriffs and their infamous night raids. I dare your ass to travel to garberville and fuck with the police there. I've even had a friend tazed and arrested at Folsom street Fair by a chick cop simply because he yelled at a dude getting arrested by that cop that his " situation sucked ".

My opinion on police forces are based on personal experience and i've been to HK and mainland china and the cops didn't seem half that bad. Yes, i know that the Chinese have mobile death vehicles and trample over peoples civil rights all the time, but i've never experienced it and you also have to take into account that China has nearly 4 times the amount of people then america does.

Wait, so because China has more people, it's ok for them to have "mobile death vehicles and trample over people's civil rights?" And dude, just cause you haven't experienced it, doesn't mean that it's ok.

How is Deni right about everything in this thread?! Unbelievable.

You've never experienced police brutality in China.

You've experience police brutality in America.

Therefore, police are more brutal in America.

QED.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

I never said it was ok or good for what they are doing. I'm vehemently opposed to all forms of capital punishment. I'm simply saying that before you use China as an example for police brutality, you need to take into account that they have 1 billion more people then america. As it is guranteed that if America had the population of China, they would have equal capital punishment and police violence rates as China does nowadays.

It isn't a fair argument to say one country is far more brutal then another when the countrys in question have a population gap that nearly exceeds the 1 billion mark.

So, Iwata, since you obviously know... How high does the population have to be in order to justify the type of police violence that the Chinese use?

I fail to see how the level of population is a factor in the ethical question of police brutality.

The vid is disgusting. Nothing more than a bunch of cops pissed off that they didn't go to college. Why couldn't they be elsewhere fighting some crime... I'm sure there's a meth lab somewhere that they could be busting up.

Don't you mean "blowing up?" After all, after this incident, that's probably an equivalent amount of police force required for breaking up a meth lab.

Too true! If it requires 8 guys tazering the hell out of a kid to get him to leave the library, I'd hate to see what happens if you get pulled over for a speeding ticket.

I'd bet if you keep books overdue from that library, those dudes will give you the chair.

When someone tries to use china's use of capital punishment as a reason why china's police force is more brutal then america's. Population is a huge factor to take into account when discussing such things like capital punishment and using it to gauge the brutality of the police force.

That video disturbed me. And I felt so bad for the students, who were visibly upset. And I can't believe when that one guy in the white shirt was talking to the police officer and trying to reason with him (albeit angrily, which is understandable) and ask for his badge number, the officer threatened to tazer him.

What IS tazering, exactly? Clearly it hurts a lot... That was such a disturbing video. Though... why the HECK would the student not leave after being put through that much pain? Was he not physically able to? And weren't some people offering to carry him out and the police refused?

So disturbing. But it's almost kind of cool how the students got together into a mob and a few stepped forward and started yelling at the cops. Clearly they couldn't jump them or anything, or all of 'em would get tazered.

A Taser is a "less-lethal" weapon which delivers a minor electric shock to someone through a dart or pair of darts (small suckers) attached to wires. They have a trigger to allow the user to deliver the shock, which is usually just enough to incapacitate ("stun") the victim.

A tazer is a gun-like apparatus that fires dart-like electrodes that basically elecrocute the reciever of these darts with a certain amount of voltage that incapacitates the victim for a period of time.

Having talked to various victims of tazers, getting tazed takes away all your sense of balance. So you really can't stand up at all for at least 5-10 minutes after the last voltage charge you're body recieved.

It's actually the amperage that does the trick, not the voltage.

Yeah I was being sarcastic. Cops like this are the worst, and the main reason people hate the police.

Also.
In 2004, China performed 3400 executions, accounting for 90% of executions worldwide. Last I checked, China didn't account for 90% of the world's population.