Police use combat gauze to save a man's life.

[Savannahmann]

14. Well the Justice Department seems to think it's that bad.

Of course, what do they know.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/opinion/hope-and-anger-at-the-garner-protests.html?_r=1

The Justice Department report describes the Cleveland Police Department as something far closer to an occupying military force than a legitimate law enforcement agency. The officers, for example, seem to take a casual view of the use of deadly force, shooting at people who pose no threat of harm to the police or others. In one case in 2013, for example, they actually fired at a victim who had been held captive in a house — as he escaped, clad only in boxer shorts.
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The report cataloged numerous incidents of wanton violence, with officers beating, pepper-spraying and Tasering people who were unarmed or had already been restrained. Officers escalated encounters with citizens instead of defusing them, making force all but inevitable.

The record in Cleveland is extreme. But aspects of illegal police conduct can be found in cities all over the country, subjecting millions to intimidation and fear that they could be killed for innocent actions.

Eh, whatever right? Just people overreacting to being beaten, pepper sprayed, tasered, shot, and threatened. The cops have the 12th most dangerous job, behind office workers, and delivery drivers, loggers, commercial fishermen, do I really need to continue?