The Metamorphosis of the NYPD: From Heroes to Pigs
Submitted on September 30, 2011
By DAVE LINDORFF - September 30-October 2, 2011
Back in the late 1960s, the Black Panthers...took to calling the cops pigs...[I]t was an apt description. Police...routinely batter minority people who have already been handcuffed and arrested, using batons, kicks to the groin and head, choke holds, and other methods, as well as tasers, mace and pepper spray. They engage in such sadism not to control subjects in their custody, but simply because they are twisted brutes drunk on their power, and because they can get away with it. Tasers...are particularly popular torture devices, used with increasing frequency.
