On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
American LEA have been heavily militarized, for sure. And they've increasingly been trained to escalate confrontations and dominate.
Still, I find it hard to imagine how a middle-aged, upper-middle-class white guy would have been beaten down like that.
"The police are uneducated, evil, and sadistic. Do not trust them. … The rest of my life is to fight against the police. … they are NOT friends, so don’t ever ever believe otherwise.” Anyhow... Reddit seems to think it's some combination of pressure, health / medication, philosophy, etc yielding yet another unraveling. Reiser, Schwartz, Murdock... others... Learning from such things, were it to be, is a lucky priviledge and moment of insight.