Interesting what a journalist had to say about this thug/police officer:
http://www.examiner.com/x-536-Civil-...-girl-on-video
And I quote:
While it's encouraging that Schene has been criminally charged, he faces a maximum of a year in prison for assaulting a prisoner -- a teenage girl -- who was under his power as an officer of the law. Can you imagine that the charges and potential penalty would be so lenient if a random Seattle resident had locked Schene in a room and given the deputy a beating?
I would suggest that a police officer should be punished more harshly for committing a crime in the course of his duties. That uniform and badge have to come with a heightened -- not a lessened -- degree of responsibility or they're just a license to commit mayhem.