Authority Abuse

Last week, a group of protesters at the University of California, Davis were pepper sprayed by the Campus's police for no apparent reason. These students were sitting innocently on the sidewalk, not doing anything whatsoever, no violence, no corruption, just sitting there silently. Anyway, the reason why I'm writing about this when it was all over the news and many people are already familiar with it, is because I question authority and our first amendment rights. Freedom of speech is part of the first amendment, so why is it that just because a cop is the authority, he/she has the right to do something like this? Sure there can be a limit of freedom of speech on individuals if they're speeches were provoking danger, but actually using any type of weapon on them is just outrageous. Some students apparently had to go to the hospital because of it. Yes, cops are supposed to have power and authority, but they abuse it. There are so many so-called "crooked" cops out there that it almost makes all cops look bad. The police are supposed to make people feel safe and protected, they're supposed to be the good guys but now it seems everyone is scared of them or despises them, more so the guilty people. But people are always paranoid if there's a cop behind them because they have to be cautious about making any sort of mistake so they don't get pulled over. They don't even have to be doing anything illegal and they'll still be paranoid. Another thing that grinds my gears are people who have such ignorant thinking towards police. They think that just because they are cops, they are right and this and that. I don't think people realize how often cops commit crimes. Whatever, this blog post is pointless and I'm just rambling on now. I was just shocked by the pepper spraying incident...