It's another case of American overkill. It seems to me these guys just look for any excuse to destroy property and humiliate people. They think by doing this type of behaviour somehow it makes them more important in the eyes of others and themselves, but in most cases when people see this they are disgusted. After this, you can almost imagine the police congradulating each other, hitting each others hands and saying "yah, we are the man, oh yah, ock, ock, ock" more matcho bullshit, from a police state mentality. With each passing day, I think the Americian people are seeing more and more of their freedoms being eroded by big bother the government under the guise of "war on terror". The average American just doesn't get it, maybe too caught up on pride. Soon it may become as on "Blade Runner" You are either one of us or you are one of "The Little People".
I can think of a half dozen different non destructive ways they could have got this guy they were looking for.
How be they just wait outside in a plain cars have a smoke, and wait for him to come out and then arrest him? Or, one of the police goes in for a massage, look around to see if the guy is there, and ask about prices, and then leaves and waits outside? Turns out the only guys in there was the owner and the security guard and 9 women. Talk about stupidity.
This action is all about making the police feel important, the other is just the aftermath of the action. A disgusting display.
One can only hope that our police in Canada, are more attuned to the needs of the people and not the other way around. It's not the police uniform that gets the respect, but the actions taken by the people within the uniform. Time will tell how it will work out here in Canada.
Sorry, I just got a little carried away! Please forgive me.