“Excessive force” is such a strange euphemism. Like it implies that there’s some amount of force that is inherently fine as force just so long as it isn’t “excessive.” But conveniently, who gets to define what is “excessive” is also the entity who has a monopoly on violence. So it’s that sort of “we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong” energy, ya know.

Aware I’m preaching to the choir, but seems like as good a time as any to re-emphasize the point about how liberals tend to believe their thinking can exist outside any predominant model of society, as neutral, when their thinking comes in some significant part from it. And it can take years of active learning just to become aware of those biases, much less try to unlearn them and replace them with something else.