I witnessed other police pepper spray and club students, call them the N-word or bastards, and manhandle them for pictures of tattoos. One day I sat down at a bar in Baltimore and a police officer next to me struck up a conversation. When I told him I was a teacher in Baltimore he bought me a beer, took his gun out of his holster, and said to me while holding his gun, "your job's tougher than mine because you have to go in there with those animals without this, you need this more than I do."