NYTimes/Opinion by Michelle Alexander February 2, 2013
THOUSANDS of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury’s believing their word over a police officer’s are slim to none. As a juror, whom are you likely to believe: the alleged criminal in an orange jumpsuit or two well-groomed police officers in uniforms who just swore to God they’re telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but? As one of my colleagues recently put it, “Everyone knows you have to be crazy to accuse the police of lying.”
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
At the 27:15 mark, Officer George Bruch, Virginia Beach Police Department comes on and soon says, "And everything he (the law professor) said was true."
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." - Ecclesiastes 10:2
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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