[Jeff Higgins]

Too bad the videos are already out. It would have been interesting to see what the cops would have said in their official report had they been unaware of the videos. I'm sure it would have been presented as a life and death struggle with an armed lunatic, that they were all lucky to survive. Conflicting statements from the other "armed and dangerous" suspects would be summarily brushed aside.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the wide proliferation of cheap video rcording devices is doing more to expose police missconduct and abuse than anything else in history. It used to be the citizen's word against the cop's (assuming the citizen lived...) and the cop always won. The tide is turning.

I've also mentioned that you will have no better friend than a good cop, and I firmly believe that. In that context, it would have been really interesting to to see if there were any good cops on the scene, who would have done the right thing, not knowing such damning video had been taken. Maybe, maybe not. Now we will never know.