Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "The exploitation of Tyre Nichols | The spiked podcast" video.

I'm white and a military veteran. I was beaten by the police in Kansas City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco on three separate occasions. No, I was not drunk, was not disorderly, did not provoke them. In one case, I was mistaken for someone else; in another case, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time; in the third, I was a witness in a case of excessive force involving one of the cops and he tracked me down to intimidate me into not testifying. Five cops beating Tyre Nichols to death is an extreme example of everyday police misconduct in the US. Our police in most places are roving gangs of armed thugs who enjoy violence and bullying civilians. US police aren't accountable in any meaningful sense to civilian oversight, and the culture is both brutal and deadly. Ironically, these tough guys are the most self-pitying bunch you will ever meet: no one likes them, no one understands what great heroes they are, etc. We're all ungrateful bastards who don't deserve them. That's truly how the cops see themselves. The police cannot fix this with "more training" or "better recruitment". The only three things that have a chance of making this better: 1. Civilian oversight of cops by an elected board; 2. Revoke qualified immunity in most cases; 3. National police licensing board that has the power to issue or revoke a license to be employed as a cop. No license = no job *anywhere*.
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@christophershields6570 An LA County sheriff's deputy put an LA County firefighter in handcuffs on the highway while the firefighter and his crew were working an accident scene on the I-405 highway. The "crime"? Firetruck blocking a lane of traffic. Cops are bullies and control freaks.
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You'll find out when the UK government militarizes your police and hands them all guns. And then it'll be too late. Everything that starts in America eventually bleeds over into the UK, which is our colony in a very real sense.
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