Inhumane Conditions in Norwegian Prison

[_Kevin Graham]

Yes, EA, that was enough to make me cry.

I swear that I'd never be like that as a police officer.

[_EAllusion]

Yes, EA, that was enough to make me cry.

I swear that I'd never be like that as a police officer.

I just realized the full video is temporarily taken down. It's much worse than what is available. I'm not an emotional person and I was very choked up and angered watching it. I read about police abuse cases and see police abuse videos on a near daily basis, and this one was probably the most affecting thing I've ever seen. I already knew some of the terrible facts surround the case before going in: that the police department did nothing after seeing the video until a bystander video and a well-connected father generated enough outrage to cause them to go on paid administrative leave, that an officer bragged about it afterwards, that they tried to pay off the father a relatively paltry sum to keep quiet, describing him his murdered son as "no rocket scientist," etc. I also had seen disturbing photos of the beating and the bystander cell phone cam recording which is in the middle of the event and has mediocre audio. I still was not prepared for how scarring seeing the full recording was. My god. This one absolutely broke my heart.

Radley Balko, who reports on this kind of thing for a living, had a similar reaction:

http://www.theagitator.com/2012/05/09/i ... e-to-hell/

I'd whistle blow on something like this, but that sort of trait coincides with others that make me an unlikely person to want to be a police officer and make it highly likely I wouldn't last long.