Policing in America is a public menace.

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A husband and wife are asleep at home in their trailer. The police get a report of gunshots in the area, and decide to raid the home.

In the video, it's very clear that the couple were sleeping as these events unfold.

The police throw a small camera-robot into the house. The thud of the device landing on their floor wakes the couple, and they walk out of their bedroom to investigate. It's at this time that they hear the police outside their door shouting at them to come out of the trailer with their hands up.

Remember that these people were sound asleep 15 or 20 seconds ago. The husband picks up the camera device in his right hand, opens the door with both hands raised clearly over his head, and is met with an immediate barrage of gunfire without warning.

Before someone claims "they thought he had a gun!!", (1) his hands were clearly raised over his head and (2) the cops saw him pick up the camera on their video feed and knew it was a camera in his hand.

In the police report, the police claimed they shot him because they had been engaged in a verbal confrontation with him. The officer who wrote the report was obviously unaware that there was a home security camera in the trailer that caught them in a blatant and obvious lie.

None of these cops are going to go to prison.

At 5:19 in the video you can see the cops walk back into the trailer, notice the cameras on the wall and say out loud "Fuck, bro... fuck... there's a camera".

And none of these people are going to end up in prison for that attempted murder.

Policing in America, as an institution, is a public menace, little different than the street gangs they do battle with. If you watch this video and don't realize how easily this could happen to you or your loved ones, you are delusional.

The plural of "bad apple" is "precinct".

But "Back the Blue", I guess.

(The police charged the man with resisting arrest and obstruction. There is very clear security camera footage of the entire incident. It's perfectly clear that the only thing the wounded man did to "resist" or "obstruct" was to bleed on them after they shot him)