I too get quite angered when I see videos of police brutality and my reason is because these people were given power and responsibility in order to protect people and are abusing it.
They didn't feel as to abuse it when they first got this power, but after a while it gets to you. Emotions that you might have had locked away against certain races and styles of living (thug, pants below your waist, however you want to really describe it) tend to come out because you have power to do something about it. Not saying it's all fine and dandy if someone does that. But if a cop has had their child ***** by a black man, they might be prejudice to that race and more likely to pull one over or hell beat them half to death.
I think the right thing to do is to give police enough power needed and not giving them power they don't. Here in the UK the police do not carry guns and despite there being less citizens with guns here the police are able to still dissolve situations here without resorting to them.
Well i would assume that it's different in America, with the ability for everyone to have a gun and everyone to be a threat. That kind of fire power is needed. for a person to taser a man with a gun (i'm just assuming here) but that guy could just fire random shots at that point, being a danger to everyone.
I for one am slightly apprehensive of the introduction of tasers into the UK police force after a video online showed police here tasering a drunk man, already on the ground three times (Why three?) and then one police officer was seen to be kicking the person.
Well i mean i don't think situations would be that horribly drastic ALL the time, just know that things like that happen rarely. For everyone horrid video you see online, there's another police officer handling the situation correctly.
