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Originally Posted by molson
Don't judge all police officers, or even an particular one, by the actions of others. That's not fair to do for any group, profession, race, whatever. When it comes to criminal charges it's not just an issue of fairness, it's about constitutional rights too (edit: as in, people commenting on this don't have worry about that angle, but those conducting the investigation certainly do, and I think understanding that is important to understanding the process here). The officer in this case had nothing to do with some traffic stop in Denver. We don't even know that he had anything to do with other activities of the Ferguson police department you take issue with. A lot of people here lecturing others about assumptions when they've been making their own assumptions throughout the thread, both about this individual officer, and officers generally.
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If the department enables this type of behavior (the excessive use of force/perjury) then the burden absolutely is on it to disprove the assumption that it's rotten.
Certainly from a PR standpoint if not from a strictly legalese standpoint.