Notes about police and dissent

Check out this youtube video of a uniformed NYPD police officer violently attacking a cyclist peacefully participating in a Critical Mass bike ride. Then read the various lies the officer told in a sworn statement, detailed in this New York Times article.

In case you think this NYPD brutality of Critical Mass cyclists was an isolated incident, next watch " this youtube video, then start clicking through all of the similar videos that are linked through these pages.

Think about this the next time you hear about the police, and police brutality, and are wondering who to believe, or are inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the police. From professional and personal experience, I quit giving any such benefit a long time ago.