(V): Admittedly I don't know much about the case nor am I familiar with the law. Your descriptions rather remind me of the SS and some of their early antics of abuse. Given too much power, people can abuse others. So if this is the case, the officer should be prosecuted.

Czuch does make a good point on the personal responsibility front. If I were to walk into a biker bar, and call all the bikers a bunch of nanny fags, and they beat me to a pulp and then beat me some more, who would be at fault for my injuries? The bikers broke the law, but would I have no guilt in my own injuries? After all, had I simply stayed home or just gone to walmart, I'd be ok. Or say I walk into a biker bar and hand each biker a 100 dollar bill and tell them to have a good day, they might buy me a beer. Or they might beat me to a pulp and see if I had anymore money. Either way, whether I call them fags and get beat, or give them 100 dollars and get beat, I'm still beat up. Maybe dead. And to think I'd be just fine had I simply gone to the zoo instead.