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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RockHopper" data-source="post: 4359890" data-attributes="member: 49099">This was definitely a massive escalation on the part of the officer. I don't think the problem was a language issue, but rather a cultural one. I hate that the old man got hurt, and I hate that the young cop cost his city what the taxpayers will end up paying.The militarization of the police is a difficult subject to discuss rationally. It isn't just tactics and policies. Many of those young cops out there had just barely been discharged from hot zones on the other side of the world when they joined the academy. Lots of them are so ridiculously young and inexperienced with culture and woefully undereducated in history.</blockquote>