UK tyrant used his “handcuffs like a knuckle duster”, breaking a man’s skull in broad daylight.
A police officer used his “handcuffs like a knuckle duster” during the arrest of a man in Manchester, leaving him with serious injuries to his head in broad daylight.
But incidents like this raise a bigger question: what is the main purpose of the police? Are they there to protect and serve the public, as we are told, or can the power given to them sometimes be used against the very people they are supposed to protect?
When you see armed men in uniform violently assaulting a citizen in public, how does that make you feel? Does it make you feel safer, or does it make you question the amount of power we allow the state to have over ordinary people?
Police are given significant powers in the name of public safety. But who watches those given that power, and what happens when that power is abused?
These are uncomfortable questions, but perhaps they are questions worth asking.
Think about it.
