If I Had a Flashlight, . . .

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office decided not to press charges against police officer John Hatfield, who was shown on videotape hitting suspect Stanley Miller eleven times with a 2-pound flashlight.

Rightfully so. For, beating a surrendered man eleven times with a heavy, blunt object doesn't seem to be excessive force. Now, if he hit him twelve times, that might've been excessive. Maybe.

However, if Officer Hatfield decides, after all the unreasonably unfavorable publicity he's received, on a career change, Folly hears that they are looking for a few good men like him in Abu Ghraib.