Here again is the overly aggressive police tactics being used in a domestic dispute call. One problem may be that ideology has slipped into the police forces because they are filling their ranks with people back from all of these endless wars so in calls for help they are seeing their potential victims that may need help as the enemy and treat them as such. This reminds one of the White Plains New York incident where they got a medical alert call and ended up shooting the old man dead. The refusal over the years to hold these departments accountable via a code of silence, refusal to prosecute, and refusal to convict, has resulted in an obvious moral and legal crisis as well as the public relations disaster now under way. Obviously the American system of policing and incarceration should not be followed in the rest of the world. These are defective models in desperate need of reform. What the people suffering under this system as well as other equally defective systems of justice around the world need is solidarity while we all struggle to expose and fix the problems. 

Only seventy grand? They should get a million! I grew up in Portland, and watched a guy I went to high school turn into a thug when he joined the PPD. Prior to that, he had been the nicest possibe guy. Something about giving a man a badge and a gun, and giving him the unrestricted power to do whatever he wants, turns him into a animal.

usa.....Big City Cops, along the East and West coast and Chicago have always had a high element of corruption and abuse for all my 73 years.  But small cities and town police were great.  It was the 1970s with regulations and policies coming from State Capitals and Fed. Govt. that started taking down our People's Law Enforcement and local people lost control (gave up?) and police had almost no power left to be the citozen's friend.  After 9/11 the police started becoming 'militerized' and paranoid or trigger happy.  It's bad out there.  They are no longer the citizen's friend.  Scary.