Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread #2

First sadistic racist asshole gets 20 years:

First of 6 Mississippi ex-officers sentenced to 20 years for torturing 2 Black men: ‘I’m so sorry … I hate myself for it’

Don’t worry, you’re not alone…we all hate you too.

For Elward and his fellow goons, this was not a crime of passion or impulse: they spent two full hours inflicting horrifying tortures upon their victims, so it was an intentional and sustained effort. In a just world, I think we’d never see or hear from any of these awful, awful people again - but simultaneously, I’m intensely curious as to what they were feeling at the time, why they felt that there was anything at all that was good, right, just, fair, reasonable, or sensible about what they did. I mean goddam, it’s like Lord Of The Flies, except it was real and it involved adults instead of kids.