and AG and the gov't don't like it.
Btw, you don't have to give them your ID, you just have to show it.

And we are all Black Lives Matter.

What happens to one happens to all.

However, not a surprising video. Law enforcement is here to protect the 1% - this is not news, although it has been somewhat "hidden" in the last several decades. I'm thrilled it is being exposed more and more every day, much to the chagrin of law enforcement. They should no longer be able to hide, which is why I'm grateful for the video.

As for the feed lots - living in New Mexico and traveling to see in-laws in TX, I've been exposed to many feed lots. Raggedy Andy worked for a dairy farm, which is equally as bad. Give up meat, folks. Give up dairy. It is the only way to stop the madness of these feed lots and you'll get much healthier, as a side benefit!

level by the essential industries clause:

Even on the smallest humdrum level, great numbers of cops do not "serve and protect" the people, but are instead waging war against the citizenry on behalf of the oligarchs, acting as enforcers, lackeys, toadies and gofers for the latter.

This isn't a problem with one cop, one force, one county, or one state. This is a national problem that permeates the entire country, and it will take concerted national action to try to re-establish some semblance the rule of law. Currently, we have the rule of the cops, who far too often make and enforce their own laws and rules and follow no others, and the rule of the oligarchs the whims and desires of which are enforced by the very same cops.

Well, OK, not "justified," but "legalized."

Most malleable of folks, cops are purposefully picked for their lower iq's. The low standards are bad enough, then to think of the State equip these young, naive, susceptible to racism and not very intelligent people with badges and guns to roam our streets with impunity.

What really gets me is that almost all policing is arbitrary. Why doesn't an older white lady with a mink on not get ticketed for not putting her directional on while driving or not stopped for trespassing but a young black or brown male will every time? I think all policing should be limited to responding to crises and potentially dangerous situations, no more patrolling. They should be at the precinct house and on call for emergencies only. Responding to domestic disputes? What a joke. Most of these guys are totally unqualified for such a job. Send marriage social workers.

They're basically enforcers for the 1%. Employed by local municipalities to raise money for their "austerity-strapped" towns (see Ferguson or Flint for the most glaring examples), they keep the poor and working class embroiled in a fetid stew of small debts and little frauds that keep

When they get out (if they're good little boys and girls) they get cush jobs working for the 1% in security. Trump's bonehead goon security guards are but one example. A New Yorker piece last year described former NYPD Commissioner Bratton as someone who could be seen dining around town with the 1%.

It's a protectionist racket, with countless examples of legions of cops on the take. Serpico put his life on the line to expose this.

As usual James Baldwin gets to the truth like few others:

...the police are simply the hired enemies of this population. They are present to keep the Negro in his place and to protect white business interests, and they have no other function. They are, moreover—even in a country which makes the very grave error of equating ignorance with simplicity—quite stunningly ignorant; and, since they know that they are hated, they are always afraid. One cannot possibly arrive at a more surefire formula for cruelty.

This is why those pious calls to “respect the law,” always to be heard from prominent citizens each time the ghetto explodes, are so obscene. The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer. To respect the law, in the context in which the American Negro finds himself, is simply to surrender his self-respect.

This is something that every citizen should be highly concerned about. The perversion of justice simply to protect profits. It is not going to get better unless the people stand up to the system.

I was given a ticket for patronizing a chain tire store instead of the independent tire guy next door. It was on the independent's lot that the cop hid until he could spring upon the unsuspecting. No one who went to the independent's store was bothered by him in the slightest, even though many committed the same traffic violation I had to get my citation.