‘Do Not Resist’: A chilling look at the normalization of warrior cops
“The striking thing about the footage is, again, the utter mundanity of the raid. A family was just violently raided over an unmeasurable amount of pot. A man was arrested over that pot. The money he needed for his business was taken from him. Yet there’s no shame or embarrassment from the officers. There’s no panic that the whole thing was captured on video. That’s when it hits you. They don’t think they’ve made a mistake. This is what they do. The lead officers later tells the camera, matter-of-factly, that the raid turned up “a personal use amount of marijuana.” Perhaps realizing that he was also on camera back at the police station promising a much larger stash of drugs, he adds, ‘It happens. Drug warrants are, you know, 50-50.'”
A new documentary finds the best and most frightening way to tell the story of police militarization: Let cops tell it themselves.
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