Originally Posted by AngryMiller

Law Dawg, I used to work with a guy who was on the reserve police officer force of Mesquite, Tx. One Monday, he came to work and said that he'd given a beating to a lippy hippy. I asked him what he'd attempted to do in the course of that beating and his response was "teach him a lesson." My reply to that was, "all you've succeeded in doing is to forever make him, his friends, and family distrust/hate all police officers." He pretty much stopped talking to me after that. Some police officers do commit excesses in real life that would be better left to Hollywood fantasy.