Dejuan Yourse found that out the hard way on June 17, when he waited for his mom to meet him at the Greensboro, North Carolina, house he'd intermittently shared with her for years. Because he did not have a current key to the home, Yourse's mother told him to relax on the porch until she arrived.
Officer Travis Cole and an as-yet unidentified female officer, however, pulled up before she got there, and proceeded to harass, intimidate, insult, and ultimately brutalize Yourse — on his own front porch — for literally no reason.
Body camera footage revealed the male officer's unjustified "disturbing" excessive force, and — although far too many similar incidents go unpunished — this time, video led to some semblance of justice.
Although the encounter begins cordially enough — the officers politely ask basic investigatory questions after being summoned to the scene by someone unfamiliar with Yourse who had assumed it was a case of breaking and entering — the tension escalates quickly, thanks to Cole's assumption the man must be lying. Were it not for the costumes and badges of the police, the startling encounter would constitute pure thuggery.
Comment: Seems this story is actually legit. What interests us is the idea that perhaps these "possessions" are largely manifestations of social "games" that in secular areas tend to manifest as hysteria. While we shouldn't rule out the possibility of some serious high strangeness going on, some thought should be given to the myriad of expressions for social distress. Sick behavior mirrors a sick society.