While its easy for the Globe to play armchair judge, my guess it the editors would have a vastly different view if they had to go out and deal with the drunken, stoned, high, freaked out trash that cops deal with every day. That's to say nothing of the genuine scumbags they keep us safe from.

No I don;t advocate the use of excessive force. If these allegations are true, then maybe the Chicago police should devote more budget to training.

But I would never be so presumptive as to tell a cop what's right or wrong without at least hearing their side of it. Cops face a lot of crap every single day. My feel is they have a better sense of what's appropriate than some newspaper hack sitting in a nice safe office does.