This is terrible and heart-breaking. I pray for justice, not another paid leave of absence, quiet discreet dismissal or show trial and acquittal. This crap has been going on for way too long.
Have you ever heard of the story of Henry Davis? Davis was arrested by the police because they confused him with another wanted man with a similar name. Differing social security numbers and middle revealed that the police had the wrong man, yet this innocent person was tossed into an overcrowded jail cell with nowhere to sleep but on a cement floor. He complied with the police completely. When he pleaded for at least a sleeping mat, his basic human right even as a prisoner, the officers stormed his cell, angry that he woke them up at 3:00 am in the morning and beat him to a bloody pulp. After these thugs put him in the hospital the police sued Davis for bleeding on their uniforms as they stomped him, calling the stains from his blood destruction of their property! Read the sources if you don't believe this can happen in our democracy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-day-ferguson-cops-were-caught-in-a-bloody-lie
I have seen a video of a police officer punch a pregnant woman in the stomach for laughing at him, a teenage girl swung around by the hair like something out of Matilda when a cop thought she had an attitude, a child tasered to the floor in Victoria's Secret because she cried while watching her mother being arrested for an upaid parking ticket. I heard of a little boy shot through the heart for playing with a toy gun in the park, a gay entertainer dogpiled and tortured at a party by drunken off-duty cops because the cops claimed he was a thief with no evidence, a woman ordered on the side of the road one dark night to raise her shirt, lift her bra and shake her breasts when a cop pulled her over for a broken headlight, an immigrant gunned down with 40 bullets by cops for presenting his identification! In every one of these circumstances no serious consequences were faced by the bad apples who were drunken on their own power.
I am not against the police, but when we see brutality like Armaldo's story we can't sweep it under the rug, and must demand punishment. No matter how hard the job of being a cop is, nobody is above the law, especially the people who are supposed to be enforcing it. Its our responsibility not to let the justice system become corrupt. The police have to be treated like everyone else, they are just people, some good and some bad. Accountability and responsibility.