Bae, something I learned my sophomore year in high school - often the only way to effect change in America - at least as far as laws and institutions go - is to affect lasting economic damage. I would not say this is the case 100% of the time but I believe this holds true more often than not. Sad but life has taught me this is true. But I also agree I'd love to see the officer thrown into prison for assault and battery ON TOP OF a huge settlement, too. RobOriginally Posted by bae
As far as where does the money come from - I'm hoping the community in question has insurance for such. If not, I guess bankruptcy with a great deal of nastiness ensuing that could have been avoided had the police not acted as if above the law in the first place. This nastiness of course will entail more negative publicity and quite likely more litigation - my hope is that the terror of bankruptcy would spread throughout American communities putting more pressure on creating real and much needed reforms needed to flatten the police - by flatten I mean make them behave as if not above the law via fear of some kind of loss. I can't come up with anything else that might work - at least not in this country. Rob
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