Is anyone not getting the message here?
A Chicago Police officer was found guilty of aggravated battery and official misconduct Thursday after he was caught on surveillance tape repeatedly striking a 19-year-old man whose hands were cuffed behind his back.
Before making his ruling in the two-day trial, Circuit Judge Clayton Crane said the case was an especially difficult one to rule on, given the poor quality of the surveillance tape and having to rule on the limits of police force.
But as a reader pointed out, the judge had no problem dismissing numerous witnesses and evidence of a bunch of drunk sheriffs firing their weapons on the highway, terrorizing a minority couple.
We know we aren't going to persuade anyone to abandon their opinions, just like they aren't going to sway ours. Therefore, we'll keep our own counsel and draw our own conclusions. This one was hard to explain either way.