Philadelphia Police Beating

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I am amazed that the police are guilty of a beating when all you have is some video and no audio and no statements from the people on the scene. If it is found out later that the police were acting in an appropriate manner no one will believe them. I have dealt with out of control children and one of the techniques is to use your foot to stop some one from kicking you. If you see a tape of it and don't know what is happening it looks like you are kicking them because your foot moves to block a kick before they kick. What is not stressed enough is that the police had just witnessed people in the car shoot 3 people and police were in pursuit of the car. Also a police officer was shot and killer earlier in the week. If you can't see the hands you have to treat them like they were armed. The problem I see here is that the focus is on what the police did and you have the mothers condemning the police while ignoring the shooting their sons were involved in. When dealing with criminals today you don't know if they are on drugs or not. One police officer I knew told me that he witnessed a shooting where the victim charged the police with a knife and was shot four times and was still able to stab one of the officers. It was later determined that the man was high on drugs and unless you shot him with enough fire power to knock him down he is still a danger to you. Maybe the news media wants to challenge Chicago for the most killings in the shortest amount of time to get national attention. These people had shot three people and were trying to escape from the police. Lets concentrate on that and not muddy up the water with the alleged beating of the criminals. The other option is to let the gangs run wild and see how many innocent men, women, and children are killed in the gangs pursuit of money, drugs and power.