A video that captured the brutal arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers in Florida has led to an investigation and calls for motorists to consider protecting themselves by placing a camera inside their vehicles.
The footage shows that William McNeil Jr., 22, was sitting in the driver’s seat, asking to speak to the Jacksonville deputies’ supervisor, when authorities broke his window, punched him in the face, pulled him from the vehicle, punched him again and threw him to the ground.
Hell, of anything, using one’s position as a sworn elected or appointed government official to “flagrantly [violate] someone’s civil rights” should be further up that list than murder. Again I say, tattoo their badge to their forehead and throw them in with GenPop.
While I strongly agree that they should be held to a higher standard, I’m opposed to the government dealing out the death penalty for any infraction. And to using the prison population as a deterrent as well, satisfying as that would be - that reinforces the idea of prisoners as other than human, I feel.
But I want to emphasize again, we agree they should absolutely be held accountable - we just differ on what the punishment should be!