[jMyles]

Well, now it seems like we agree in full.

My point all along was that police don't have any statutory authority to use force in any greater measure than anyone else, and yet they seem to get away with it - as you point out, free from both criminal and civil liability.

Shit man, I don't support qualified immunity at all. It has always been a bit of charlatan law IMO.

I understood (and still understand) the original comment as taking the position that this discrimination is somehow based in statute, when, as far as I can tell, it isn't.