your absolutly right Tom , it is happening more and more , some say that its not , thats its jst getting cought on film more often due to the more cameras out their but being in that line of work somtimes i know for a fact that its happening more .
personaly i feel it has more to do with the lower quality of officers joining the force. The pay they make is lousy which in turn reduces the amount of people wanting to go into that line of work.so these departments greatly lower their standards so they can accept people who arnt as mentaly capible of this kind of work and the end result is guys losing their temper and doing shit like this or getting in a high stress situation and choking and ending up getting killed or getting sombody innocent killed. These two guys should both be charged with aggivated assult or aggrivated battery . Their justification of thinking he had a gun is simply stupid. I view these two fucktards just like guys that freak out and have a temper tantrum and blame it on steroids , its give the majority a bad name
now im not saying everytime a cop thumps sombody that their being abusive , i for one will tell you that if you make me run after your ass its gonna hurt when i catch you , and the lesson is 1)dont break the law , 2) dont run from the "po-lease"
their are so many little dickhead cops out their now that think they can hide behind their badge that it turns my stomach. I do a little work as an FTO and help teach officer survival training and im very very strict with how my guys act , you treat everybody like your grandmother at first and scope the situation evaluate the subjects attitude , most of the time a calm kind cop and deescalate a situation.