Which are you under the influence of?

Damn hippies.

Wheres the link to the parapalegic tossing? All I can find is midget tossing (both sound fun).

If you search the web, you can find justification for almost any paranoid fantasy. We need to step back an examine them with common sense. If, as you say, we  are living under martial law, George Bush would be in charge and would have imposed it. If he has imposed martial law, why have the Democrats in congress, the Democratic candidates for President, and the liberal press (who hate Bush) not complained? Why is he allowing the constant criticism of him to continue? I'm as up for a good conspiracy theory as anyone, this one does not pass the smell test.

I don't agree with the idea of a martial law conspiracy, but I don't agree with AlanF either about the woman in the first video. Perhaps she was drunk (can't quite tell what she was.. she wasn't slurring though), perhaps she was enraged from the situation. In any case, it's obvious that the officer is lying and beat the cr@p out of her--nobody sustains those kinds of injuries and in multiple places from 'falling.' Give me a break. To say that excessive force was used is an obvious understatment.

Look, I'm the first to say that an officer should use any force necessary in a situation against a violent, dangerous criminal. Also, I think that some cops are placed in situations that would make anyone snap. 

But let's look at this situation. There was no danger to the officer's life, the victim was cuffed, and he could have easily taken any number of rational measures to sedate her (maybe even just locking her in a cell and letting her rant to the walls until she calmed down). Instead he lost his cool, causing him to beat the hell out of someone who was in no position to do harm to him and was cuffed with no control over her situation. If that officer had such a lack of control over his temper in such a non-threatening situation, than imagine how out of control he must be dealing with the much more stressful situations that he could face on the street.  The man is obviously unfit to wear the uniform.

But to say that it's a conspiracy is pretty overboard.  It's a situation of a cop losing it and doing something clearly wrong.  The precinct is at fault for placing a greater emphasis on protecting their own (by covering the full truth) than on doing what's right--but this again is not a conspiracy.