Its the same in the UK. Since the so called 'war on terror' began the police have been given unprecedented powers. Even our basic right to protest has been inpinged (did any pictures of the G10 protests in London get out showing peaceful protestestors corralled like cattle and beaten to the ground by the Police - with one inocent bystander killed?).

is this article a joke....again no real representation of reality,...every article every day is anti american....are russians really that upset with America and this far from reality or is this paper working a agenda.....PS....I like your President and I pray that he defends your democracy which seems to be fading fast.......

I personally know the group Rebeldiaz. They are the brothers Venegas, Rory and Gonzalo, that one of them born in England and has British Citizenship. A great Hip-hop trio, they sing with a girld from Puerto Rico. They are loved and admired by the great majority of people that live in the Broxn area and New York. The crime that they commit, in the eyes of the USA authorities, is the lyrics of their songs denounce the brutality and represion that exist in USA mainly against the so call 'inducumentados'. Well done Rebeldiaz, we need young people like you with a clear conscience of a fair society.

James, stop falling for the divide and conquer, this isn't about Russia being upset with America, it is about reporting a worrying epidemic of police violence. Did you happen to see any G20 videos? I would sooner watch Russia Today than any UK or US news channel and I'm from the UK. It's the BBCs, Fox News, CNNs that have an agenda. They make out like the resent anti-Obama movements and G20 protests were by right wing racists. Yeah right! more like people that don't want their freedom taken away by wallstreet.

Well, to be fair, that chimp that got shot had just ripped someones face off...I know a nurse who saw the aforementioned victim. It was horrible. At any rate, I agree that this article is overly anecdotal, and the people who provide the anecdotes don't seem necessarily impartial, but I am sure this is a real problem to some extent. Like the article says however, the problem isn't thoroughly documented; it should be. High profile cases have gone to court, for instance in some cases of excess tasering; but I think that to a large extent the problem is that too few people know their rights well enough to know they should go to court over these things. This is especially true in the poor undereducated areas where crime rates are the worst, and where as a consequence so is police brutality. Therein it is an instance of corruption provoked, I presume, in large part by fear. And then of course you have produced an antagonistic relationship between the police and the local general public who are justifiably afraid of one another. It's a tough situation, and it isn't surprising that things often get out of hand. I suspect greater awareness and dialogue between the police the communities they patrol could reduce the problem.

I live in a north east coastal town when visiting my local shops today a police man was getting out of his vehicle and strapped to his belt along with his body armor and other paraphernalia was a gun. I was shocked, I asked this police man if it was a gun, and he confirmed yes, I said that is disgraceful we are not a gun culture society he stated that this is what the majority of the people wanted. Then his side kick got out of the vehicle and started to discuss with him my comments and started to smile as if I was stupid, I went on to state that I did not find it amusing weapons are for killing and I have never found killing funny. I was so shocked I did no shopping I came home had a cup of tea and phoned a friend. Apart from a time during the the miners strike when riot police sited themselves up for a scab bus passing my street have I been so concerned about my country becoming a police state. I am an intelligent woman who has worked as a professional social worker for over thirty years, my training trained me in negotiation and resolving difficulties, I encountered violence on a number of occasions and I would say that most people who work directly with the public will have encountered some form of violence, therefore will social workers,hospital staff, fire services etc be carrying some form of weapon. Prover cation I have seen the consequence of, as in my roll I often picked up the pieces of other peoples actions. I live in a street with a number of teenage males who are sometimes a bit daft, I am a mother and grandmother my feelings today are in turmoil and fear, having already a negative view of police today has disturbed me so much that I have cried,

James calm yourself, I live in the US and it is not the great country you want to believe it is. If you're upset by the truth then only browse US news sites and that way you may keep the blinders on.

Freedom in the USA, expressed as a term, reminds of the prose in Greek Mythology because it is a myth. I even feel afraid to write in the United States. Is there in reality the freedom of speech and press? Try it and see what happens.

Suddenly I realize that a son of a Nazi SS officer is currently the Governor of the California Republic. The people who created Nazi Germany were never brought to trial and have been prosperous ever since: Rockefeller, Dupont etc. If you are brown skin, many cities in the USA are unsafe because of Police terror, and I understand that racist societies exist which practice policies against brown people within all aspects of the governments within the USA. Many "Patriot" groups exist which believe anyone who criticizes the USA and the Christian Faith is a "communist" and should be killed...

Not you too, Russia Today. I'm sick of the directionless paranoia. You know, if they wanted to do this, they could at least do it to us happily and directly. Such as getting youth interested in weapons and the military while flashing commercials with family values in them along with dead reporters like everyone else. Working off the same emotional bait is tiring. I know you're a saint human rights activist yourself, Russia. I'm sure in your country that I would have received multiple phone calls by now, possibly worse, mysterious pregnancy. I definitely would have been thrown into prison when I got delusional and taunted for my bizarre behavior and hording (not that I really value anything). I'm the living dead.

The more predatory humans took possession of the earth in ancient times and developed marketing plans, ideas on how the human "society" was and is to operate as a ManuFactured Reality (MFR). It became an easier agenda with technology. Then, the more predatory became more and more hungry for more. These families amassed greater power and soon, the whole planet was a "Web of Debt," owned by the sickest of the human species and this cannot be argued against since the insanity of earth is more predominant than the sanity of balance in nature. What to do? Good question since the predatory cannibalistic insane of the human species do not intend to become intelligent enough to stop growing flesh and enjoying the killing of it - their own species. They cannot because the separation has become a way of life and herein lies the rub: no brains to discern that harvesting organs of humans can never bring back that which has been destroyed ... .... their souls. Humans with souls must choose to carefully gather all the soulless and insure they do not own the planet or there is no future in looking seven generations ahead -- other than more hell on earth for centuries to come since the lineages of these criminally insane mass murdering do not possess the gene of altruism!

A woman bartender in Chicago was kicked and beaten into unconsciousness by an off-duty cop who outweighed her by about 150 pounds, because he was drunk and she refused to serve him any more booze. The security camera captured pictures of the assault that were shown on television and on the Internet. The cop was acquitted. On the first of January of this year, a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cop shot an unarmed black man in the back in Oakland while he was lying helpless on his stomach, controlled by other cops. This was witnessed by hundreds of people, some of whom took pictures with cell phones that were shown all over the world on the Internet and television. The cop’s trial will be moved out of Oakland because he would not likely receive a “fair” trial, according to his attorney, that is, he would probably be convicted in Oakland, unlike what will almost certainly happen in other jurisdictions. He will walk. In the United States, it is more likely that a six-month old child will be elected to the Presidency than that a cop will be convicted of brutalizing or murdering a black or other minority. What assures this is that most Americans really do not care when minorities are brutalized by cops, in fact they seem to think that as long as criminals kill more minorities than cops do, that it is perfectly justifiable. This happens so often that cops in the United States have long ago supplanted the Ku Klux Klan in committing these atrocities, all with the tacit approval of the citizens and without any requirement for accountability. Anecdotal, indeed!

Californian, "Suddenly I realize that a son of a Nazi SS officer is currently the Governor of the California Republic." Despite the fact that he has been a highly public figure for most of his life, so far there is no compelling evidence Arnold Schwarzenegger is a racist or is a Nazi of any sort. His father did join the SS, as did over a million other people. The denazification process undertaken by the allies proved extremely effective: Germany soon had and as of yet strongly retains a never again mentality. The fact the allies didn't ruin every lowly Nazi cop's life in perpetuity therefore seems practically impertinent. At any rate, the idea that sons should be punished and blamed for the sins of their fathers is ancient, barbaric, and thankfully out-of-fashion.

Yup. In the "Military District of San Bernardino County," CA,we've got our share. Just another this week: Wife of beaten suspect struggling with unanswered questions http://bbvm.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/wife-of-beaten-suspect-struggling-with-unanswered-questions/

It is true that police officers very often neglect human rights in US.

You ain't seen nothing yet. When it comes to cops protecting their paychecks or protecting your civil rights, your civil rights will loose out. The only way the American public will loose the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights is if the state through the police state in which we live is able to convince those doing the policing that we are the enemy and that they, the police, have more to gain than loose by following orders which are patently illegal.