To serve and protect

“The police are too dangerous to be allowed to get away with unsanctioned mistakes.”

“All of the training and retraining in the world are of no moment if officers see the people they are charged to protect and serve as subhuman and dangerous.”

“A complete list for just 2005 to 2012 would have at least 760 killings. I have only 6 percent of those.”

“The case was first brought to light by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report last year showing that McNeal was one of about 100 people who spent at least 2,000 days in jail after police mistakenly arrested them due to clerical errors.”

“It was never meant for a street cop to take a few thousand dollars from a driver by the side of the road.”

“Cellphone video backs up his account of the assault.”

“Witnesses from the scene felt the officer’s actions went too far, but the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident.”

“Activists protesting the fatal shooting of a mentally ill woman by a Phoenix police sergeant last week carried her coffin to City Hall.”

“Baby Bou Bou has been taken out of the medically induced coma and transferred to a new hospital to begin rehabilitation. The hole in his chest has yet to heal, and doctors are still not able to fully assess lasting brain damage.”

“We’re saying to the DA you cannot put anybody in a chokehold, let alone a pregnant woman over barbecuing.”

“Ruff, an eight-year veteran assigned to the 16^th precinct, said the acts of the 35^th District officers ‘were committed willfully, wantonly, maliciously, intentionally, outrageously, deliberately and/or by conduct so egregious as to shock the conscience.'”

“The appeals court said the police responded with unnecessary and inappropriate force and under the circumstances, are not protected by ‘qualified immunity’ from the lawsuits.

“But far worse is the game of ‘we said, he’s dead.’ Sadly, this is too often what we face in police shooting cases like this one.”

“The abuse allegedly included restraining her hands with handcuffs or plastic zip ties and then slamming her head into a wall hard enough to leave a hole and choking her until she blacked out.”

“Wormley suffered abrasions to his face, cuts to the back of his head requiring five staples, three broken ribs, a broken wrist and a collapsed lung.”

“I walked away and Jeremey introduced himself and my dad shot him.”

“The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles has restored the right to carry a gun to a disgraced cop convicted of sexually assaulting a woman who testified he wanted to sodomize her with his gun.”

“I wish someone would pull a Ferguson on them and take them out. I hate looking at those African monkeys at work. … I enjoy arresting those thugs with their saggy pants.”

“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement presented Chief Terry Isaacs with copies of a confidential FBI report … that allegedly identified Deputy Chief David Borst and Officer George Hunnewell as members of the KKK.”

“[Clayton County police Officer Thomas] Sheats has had a run-in with the law before. He was arrested two years ago for domestic violence.”

“They’ve pretty much got power in the palm of their hand. And it’s your word against theirs.”

““No matter my demeanor, how calm I was, they were still like, ‘He’s going to snap,’ … Even though I didn’t snap, they treated me like I did.”

“But the best way to avoid getting your ass kicked and then you get charged or arrested if you weren’t killed, is to treat cops like they’re very dangerous animals. Not because cops are animals, not because all cops are very dangerous ones, but because you just have no way of knowing who you’re dealing with, and any probability greater than zero is bad odds when the end scenario involves you being shot up to hell and then accused of charging the officer because you may or may not have been involved in some kind of robbery or larceny at a local convenience store that the officer may or may not have known about when he began pulling the trigger over and over again.”

“You are safer not being around police you don’t know than you are with them in your presence.”