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Originally Posted by Masque
The officer was filmed and the woman bled so if a similar incident happened to a man the is no reason that it should not be reported as well because gender does not give anyone the right to abuse a prisoner.
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I agree. Nothing gives an officer the legal right to abuse a prisoner. If the same event happened where only the gender of the detainee was altered it still might have been reported to the media. I wonder how often something like that happens in a cell without CCTV, in a police station where the officers socialize with each other off hours. We'll never know.
My comment was aimed at a more generic quality of our culture that condones male on male violence relative to male on female violence. Which I think is a fair observation. It is also disgusting to me.
However, I think it's a fair assumption to make that difficult detainees are usually treated with reasonable force. Usually.