I just got to say that this Norwegian, is aghast and disgusted by how these white-cops act in the US. I have lived for a short time in the US, and I got to say that I do find American cops quite scary even if I am white. I cannot imagine how scared black people would be facing these extremely agressive brutes, who frankly don't have the best record.

Honestly I don't get why you put up with this. If I was black living in the US, I think I would have left at first opportunity. Although I can see how many want to stay and fight for their rights.

I know based on the American experience it might be easy to think, this is just how white people are everywhere, but I can promise you this kind of behavior by cops would not have been tolerated in most of Western Europe. Being uncooperative or resisting arrest does not get you beat up or shot. There is a higher tolerance to disobedience.

But that isn't merely down to personality of cops but also that procedures themselves call for de-escalation rather than shock and awe. Immediate compliance is not as valued as it seems in the US. If you need to spend more time on an arrest to calm a suspect down, then that is an accepted tradeoff.

I am not saying this to say we are better, but to hopefully shatter the myth that this is how police work has to be done. No, it doesn't need to be done this way. There are many other strategies and pratices, and I think American citizens deserve to know that there are alternatives. They deserve to know that they can demand more of their police, rather than be led to believe that if you don't allow this brutality, then somehow you open the floodgates to crime. That just isn't true.

Personally I am convinced this kind of behavior makes crime worse. To get citizens to help police catch criminals, they need citizens to trust and cooperate with police, not get terrorized and scared.