In Mexico the narco terrorists pulled innocent people off of a bus and made them pit fight to the death for their amusement.
http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Mexican-crook...
In the middle ages they would impale you on a spike so that you died slowly over days.
In Rwanda one tribe butchered 5 million people of another tribe with machetes.
An that's just examples I can think of off the top of my head.
And you have trouble believing that a few cops wouldn't let a mother comfort her child?
Until recently America had child labor and would lynch black people. A FEDERAL judge in my hometown of New Orleans is famous for saying "We like to try our niggers before we hang them".
Human nature is human nature.
We live in a 'veneer' of civilization.
Underneath are still the same old animal instincts honed over millions of years of evolution.
Don't ever forget that. Or forget it at your peril.
Yes, they are all members of the same species. "Humanity" is a thin veneer over the top of a very selfish, very violent animal.
It's a very, very sad state of affairs when you have to compare a developed country to undeveloped ones.
United States law enforcement included, as described in the article.
For example, there was a story where a school aged child was suspended for using his hand as a gun and aiming it at other children. I just couldn't comprehend the idea that a principal would think that action justified suspending a child. Perhaps a detention and a stern warning, maybe.
I want to believe that journalists will leave out part of the stories that explains the harsh actions, that makes you say "Ok, I can understand why the principal did that", but when more and more of these stories are published, it becomes harder to believe.
Every police officer on active duty right now begin their career with the idea they are to protect their citizens. This doesn't seem like the case in the original article. To me it sounds like people that have lost the intent of their job.
Granted, there is a chance this one incident might be fake (who knows with the internet), but incidents like this are definitely real. The fact of the matter is, people are not evil, but the organization of people tend to be. What can you do about it? Probably the best thing is stop strengthening centralized organizations, live/work in a small tightly knit communities, and don't lump others into a group. If that's not possible, your next best alternative is not be black / hispanic / south-east asian / male.
These are humans who decided, probably at a young age, that they wanted to do this sort of thing for a living. They then deliberately pursued training for this sort of thing, and got hired to do this sort of thing. Their livelihood likely depends on them continuing to do this sort of thing. It shouldn't be surprising that these people do this sort of thing. What else are they going to do?