fix articles 267910, forcequot
LAPD officer got violent only after spotlight was removed. (tags)
1> Yesterday's "excessive force" incident occurs after the helicopter stops shining the light on the scene indicating likely guilt.. 2> How is LAPD handling unpublicized "excessive force" incidents?
More Vietnam Atrocities (tags)
Nick Turse has done a great job in proving that the My Lai and Tiger Force atrocities were not isolated incidents, but he misses something important. For a guerrilla war to be successful against a superior military, popular support is necessary. Disappearances, hideous methods of torture, mutilations, severed heads on pikes, leftists pushed out of airplanes over the ocean and chainsaw dismemberments are a US counterinsurgency strategy to diminish popular support by mind-numbing brutality and intimidation-shock and awe.