Pork comes first

The advent of police brutality in America comes to our notice through the use of Video footage which is available to anyone to shoot with a mobile phone. The film showing the man running away from a policeman and the policeman firing 8 shots into the fleeing man has forced the police to charge the policeman with murder. Without the Video footage it is very doubtful whether the policeman would have been charged let alone cautioned. There are many videos showing police brutality, the attendant comment from the police officer that he feared for his life is enough in a society awash with guns.

Of course we never see the brutality of the Russian authorities or those in Pakistan, Iran, Burma, Colombia or Brazil. Across the world authoritative power corrupts and only now, when there is positive proof will the authorities take any self restraining action.
Don't get me wrong the police officers lot is a difficult one. He spends much of his time confronting the cities low life who instinctively are dangerous and who would lease off a shot or more in his direction if given the chance !
The Wild West epitomised the sharp shooter, getting his shot in first or dying in the process. With so many of the criminal and rowdy sections of the population high on drugs, momentarily at least they are mentally unstable and the police officer is continually exposed to serious harm, if not death, with only his gun between him and the unknown. The police are between a rock and a hard place.
Yet still there are unacceptable actions such as shooting someone in the back whilst they were running away or repeatedly punching a pregnant women while cuffing her. These are the result of a poorly trained police force who have forgotten that,in general, the public are not the enemy.
The gun and the uniform should not be seen as a privilege to use excessive force when and where ever but in countries where the criminal has equal access to enough weaponry to start a war the police never know when a situation will turn nasty.
The root cause of every killing lies not only with the perpetrator but with the Politicians who are are persuaded or bought by the lucrative gun lobby in Congress. Even limited attempts to rein in the use and ownership of guns by the current President was thwarted. Even after the mass murder of children in school which shocked the nation didn't affect the policy makers, there was too much "pork" at stake. What sort of a society puts money before children's lives. An American on apparently !!!