"manhandled these elderly people are free from responsibility"
Manhandled at 3am in a dark house. I am quite sure that once it was known they were elderly ( in the light after the chaos of entry ), they were treated a bit easier. No matter what you think not all officers are uncaring goons. I'll bet the lights were not on in the house so I challenge anyone here to make a snap judgement on the run in the dark about what person you cannot see anything about ( except a body shape ) gets put down on the floor or which ones get asked to "rise and shine".
I like to think I was good, but by some of the standards I see here I was a Gestapo drone.
Let's see, they busted in the door but it was so quiet that the kids didn't wake up. Someone isn't telling the truth.
"Manhandled at 3am in a dark house".
The police have extremely bright flashlights attached to their weapons so that their weapons point where the light shines.
"I'll bet the lights were not on in the house so I challenge anyone here to make a snap judgement on the run in the dark about what person you cannot see anything about"
So, at a distance of a few feet, the police couldn't make out that they were dealing with very elderly people even though they had bright lights shining on them? Totally dark house? Would you have us believe that the police were in that house stumbling around in the dark? How stupid do you think we are?
I think not. I think they got off on man-handling people because they can.
That is the mentality of the jackbooted storm trooper and that is all these people are and all they will ever be.
Stop making excuses for these thugs.
I don't personally think of you as anything but a good guy. I just don't think that this behavior is wise. And, I'm tired of beating this horse, so let's just agree that we see it differently. Hopefully, we can get the laws changed and stop this stupid crap from happening.
In America, we're supposed to accept that bad guys sometimes get away because we don't want to risk the innocent.