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

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**Created:** [October 10, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942 "2014-10-10T07:35:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/303 "2014-12-05T14:31:17Z")

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> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> If the judge finds that a beaten, bleeding, and tazed 50 year old man weighing 130 pounds lying on the sidewalk poses a threat to a half dozen armed men surrounding him, then the judge must have been corrupt, stoned, insane, or stupid.

If he wasn’t a threat, he wouldn’t have been beaten, bleeding, and tazed by the cops in the first place - or if he wasn’t, the judge and grand jury would have found that. If he was still resisting arrest after that, he was most definitely still a threat. Please, just attempt to actually think before you post at least once.

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