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Disturbing video shows police laughing and fist-bumping after beating a suspect

Video has emerged appearing to show Inkster, Michigan, police officers laughing and mocking the victim of a beating they had administered to an unarmed black man. The video captures officers in the police station as they exchanged fist bumps and laughs while the man they arrested sat a few feet away, bloodied and beaten. Thankfully, the cops may have to face the music.

‘In the Washington Post, former St. Louis Officer Redditt Hudson, who now heads the Ethics Project, wrote, “Even when officers get caught, they know they’ll be investigated by their friends, and put on paid leave. My colleagues would laughingly refer to this as a free vacation. It isn’t a punishment. And excessive force is almost always deemed acceptable in our courts and among our grand juries.“’