Assaulting Quotes

“I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop, incompetent cop, aggressive cop, assaulting cop, corrupt cop, or the worst one of them all, the terminator cop.”
― Steven Magee

“If a police officer does not deescalate the situation after you have informed them that they are harassing you, they may progress to assaulting or killing you.”
― Steven Magee

“Why file a police complaint to a corrupted internal affairs system? To have it documented that the police officers were problematic. It is bad for their careers going forward, particularly if they end up in the media for assaulting or killing someone. It assists in the process of sending them to jail.”
― Steven Magee

“As a police corruption researcher, I encountered a man that was pinned down by two police officers that were hitting him!”
― Steven Magee

“The police will not let a member of the public report a police officer assaulting a person. Instead, they direct you to internal affairs. They will take an assault report on anyone else.”
― Steven Magee