I am inclined to jump in when my children are threatened with bodily harm. But, I would probably do the same for most my relatives. Yes it is stupid, but I can't concieve of just watching.

Michael Brown and Eric Garner show that officers (and DA's) are not concerned with witnesses or video

Filming this stuff is the ONLY way to PERHAPS get justice or at least add to the growing archive of brutality.
I do not think the cops really give a shit anymore about who is surrounding them, they seem to have impunity.
And witnesses? Ha! Evidently eyewitnesses can be disregarded at an almost laughable rate.
When the olice start with the brutality, nothing is going to stop them. Nothing. It is like something clicks or breaks and they go into another zone. Knowing they will be exonerated.

I guess. This can NOT keep going on. There are a lot more of us than them, except a bunch of people in America think the cops are in the right. Can't get the people to distinguish between right and wrong.
It's all over right wing radio that it was not a chokehold. I know for a fact that I am not blind. I seen him with his arm around the mans neck and the man claiming he couldn't breathe. Maybe Hannity will volunteer a show on water boarding AND chokehold procedure to show us how wrong we are.

A Know Your Rights Guide for Law Enforcement Encounters from the National Lawyer's Guild...
"e National Lawyers Guild has a long tradition of
standing up to government repression. The organization itself
was labeled a “subversive” group during the McCarthy Era
and was subject to FBI surveillance and infiltration for many
years. Guild attorneys have defended FBI-targeted members of
the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and
the Puerto Rican independence movement."
http://www.nlg.org/sites/default/files/KYR-English-web1.pdf

At this link, the same material can be found in several languages....

http://www.nlg.org/resource/know-your-rights

...He starts screaming on his radio for backup and all of you go to jail.

There is a video out there of an officer beating the shit out of one man when another man stepped in and tried to pull the officer off. They were both sentenced to 8 years for assault on a police officer.

That's the thing, if you see a police officer beating the shit out of someone, there is nothing you can do except film it and even then they can ask to have your recording device and you have to give it to them or face charges of obstruction of justice, resisting a police officer and so on.

We live in a police state.

and I had access to a weapon, I wouldn't hesitate to draw it and take as many of them with me as possible before i was killed. I could not live with myself knowing that I stood by while a loved one was being murdered.

It would be hard live with and hard to justify NOT taking some kind of action.