i've posted a comment in the jury award discussion. indulge me one more time for a few personal observations. After twenty-two years of military service that spanned a Cold War, the first Gulf War, and as a UN Weapons Inspection where a twenty something RG bolted and pointed an AK directly at me from 10 feet away as the inspection team I was a part of attempted to gain entry into a suspected WMD facility, something in my country and my heart is amiss. The Constitution, that amazing document of self government balancing the service and powers of government to the sovereignty and nobility of the common people is being shredded or has been shredded. This incident in Canton, Ohio, is just another of a long string (and probably getting longer) of incidents of police abuse caused from what I believe is a serious departure and loss of the concept of "public servant" to a public they serve but now embrace as the enemy. For the record, I can assure all here that my politics are solid conservative and solid Second Amendment. The sovereignty of our people are guaranteed by the right to check a rogue government by force of arms if the situation arises and I TRULY TRULY HOPE it never comes to that. Now retired ten years from military service, I still grieve in sorrow for every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, and their families who return home in a transfer case. Conversely, as i read the stories and see the videos of police officers behaving poorly and outside the spirit and scope of the law, the anger mounts such that as police officers are slain in the line of duty, my sympathy and grief for them is no longer there. It's a heck of thing to state but it is nonetheless honest. And I think the law enforcement community needs to step back and take notice. It's one thing to dismiss the contempt that historically, the radical left has had for domestic law enforcement but if the LEO's are behaving in such a manner that they are losing the "hearts and minds" from folks like me (and I'm not the only one), something is truly truly amiss. The retort I will in all likelihood get back in response is "Officer Safety." A legitimate point to be sure but that point has been used to excess or say it another way, a lot of peanut butter has been made and gone rancid over that one. Police officers ARE NOT military any more than I was a police officer. What is in common however is both acts of service do have the ultimate risk and indemnity clause i.e. one can die in the performance of duty. We can reduce risk but will never completely bring it to nil. LEO's and soldiers are all volunteers. We all signed on the dotted line to have our jobs; NO ONE forced our hands. For 22 years, a big bullseye target was painted on my back and I accepted it. I accepted this OR I found another line of work. At the beginning of this post, I wanted to state that I too have faced some very stark situations where in a fraction of a second it takes to pull a trigger, I'd be going down myself. It's not a good feeling. But like the laws of war as prescribed by the Geneva Convention that I had to follow and comply, there is a Constitution that prescribes the measures and scope on how law and order is maintained and adjudicated. That's the document I swore to protect and defend WITH MY LIFE if need be. It's not too much to ask you LEO's to do the same. Cops behaving badly AND unlawfully. It's approaching critical mass and if things don't turn around, the law enforcement community is going to find itself with solutions imposed upon them that they're not going to like. But like Alexander Hamilton said to the foreign envoy at the infancy of the Republic, "Here sir, the people rule."