Woody you have to look at stats like these...
The point is when lethal force is used, training, mentality, and when police departments, and police unions defend them after very questionable shootings.
IMHO in the US the police are being militarized. Being trained to shoot first without hesitation. Something only soldiers should do and only in a fire fight.
I only witnessed police using force once. It was them interacting with a man with his family having a picnic in a park. The reason was playing music too loud.
I watched the police escalate the situation. The first to arrive waited in his car until 7 more officers arrived for a group of 3 adults and 4 children under the age of ten. One of the adults was a woman that look to me over 70.
What I watched was two of the officers approach told the man to turn down the music. The man complied. Then one of the officers got really close to man. Telling him not everyone wants to hear his music. After the man said he already turned the music down the officer stepped closer to him and told him to turn off the music.
The man turned away and took a step towards the music player. The cop then said do not try to get away from him. The man said he was just going to turn off the music. The cop then told the man he was done talking with him yet. Then stood a couple of inches from the man. The man stepped back. The cop then said stop resisting. The man said he was not. The cop took a step forward again. The man stepped back. The man displayed signs of becoming more nervous.
I was then approached by another officer telling me to back up to a safe distance. I could not hear what was being said after that. Well at least most of it.
I did hear walking away the cop asking why the man was so nervous. I also heard the officer shout stop resisting just before he threw the man on the ground. What I saw was the man take another step back. Then the rest of the officers joined in. All yelling stop resisting to a man I did not see resisting. Just the man saying he was not resisting. I also saw one officer throw the younger woman on the ground who was shouting for them to leave the man alone. I also saw an officer with his hand on his gun covering the old woman and children after they had the man cuffed which they hit way more than once. A couple of times after he was cuffed.
During that encounter I was detained for interfering with police. I spoke up about what I thought of their actions during the whole incident. I was released with a warning not to interfere with the police.
I of course filed a complaint the result being told the police actions were deemed justified. I inquired further as who reviewed and came up with the conclusion. I was told it was the police union and commanding officer of the police officers.
Here are police officers beating a man to death:
It is hard to see on the video this is the result of that beating:
Did you watch the video of the UK police handling a man armed with a knife and very aggressive towards them?
Did you notice in the video of the homeless man being shot how quickly the police officers used lethal force? They had non-lethal means available, a dog and used the flashbang grenade then did not use other nonlethal options available until after killing the man.
It is down to training and mentality. Cops are being trained to behave this way and cultures in many police departments support this behavior.
The reason the man in the UK was not shot or beaten to death is the training and mentality instilled in the officers there.