Becoming a police state? I honestly thought that was a fact more or less. If not, you're definately a prime example of such a state.

Most likely the truth is somewhere in between in these cases, for example, the russian guy might have been a bit smart mouthed and the officers became frustrated and abused their badge to excessively beat the guy up. Either way, it makes me angry, because in my world such beating should not ever be needed by 2 police officer when cuffing a man, because with some will it can be made without anyone getting hurt...