{"id":23952,"date":"2016-10-02T08:33:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23952"},"modified":"2016-10-02T08:33:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:33:53","slug":"wapo-the-watch-do-not-resist-a-chilling-look-at-the-normalization-of-warrior-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23952","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The Watch: \u2018Do Not Resist&#8217;: A chilling look at the normalization of warrior cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2016\/09\/30\/do-not-resist-a-chilling-look-at-the-normalization-of-warrior-cops\/?utm_term=.f51f60c1bd91\">\u2018Do Not Resist&#8217;: A chilling look at the normalization of warrior cops<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The haunting thing about the new policing documentary \u201cDo Not Resist\u201d is what it doesn\u2019t show. There are no images of cops beating people. No viral videos of horrifying shootings. Sure, there are scenes from the Ferguson protests in which riot cops deploy tear gas. But there\u2019s no blood, no Tasings, no death. Yet when it was over, I had to force myself to exhale.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this movie so powerful is its terrifying portrayal of the mundanities of modern policing. I watched the movie weeks ago, but there are scenes that still flicker in my head. We all remember the clashes between police and protesters in Ferguson. We\u2019ve seen the photos. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Watch: \u2018Do Not Resist&#8217;: A chilling look at the normalization of warrior cops by Radley Balko: The haunting thing about the new policing documentary \u201cDo Not Resist\u201d is what it doesn\u2019t show. There are no images of cops &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23952\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23953,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952\/revisions\/23953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}