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Politics & Government Police Brutality
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Terrible, unacceptable, BUT..
in the US that dude would have literally been full of holes immediately.
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Yeah but we're not in the US
And I'd rather we did something about police brutality before we got there.
We've certainly had enough people die at the hands of cops already, not to mention permanent injuries and everything else they've done over the years
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Fair call.
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the guy was allegedly drunk, it looks like he's holding a bottle in the footage and you can see the cop grabbing for it
the police statement says he was aggressively trying to leave the vehicle and kicking the door at the cop
my question would be why are you punching someone in the head after they've been in a car accident for acting irrationally
drunk or not, cause or not that's for the courts to deal
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This was pretty brutal.
Superb discipline by the cops.
Superb discipline by the cops.
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6 key points from the scathing report on Minneapolis police after George Floyd's killing
The Justice Department has issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd’s killing because of inadequate oversight and an unwieldy process for investigating complaints.
apnews.com
The report into the department responsible for George Floyd's death.
A summary of the report, including descriptions of various acts of brutality the cops were rarely ever disciplined for. Most sent to "retraining" which they often didn't even do.
Previous acts of leaning on the necks of citizens required intubation and other medical treatment.
Restrained 14 year old beaten up.
Unresisting jay-walker slammed into curb, causing brain trauma.
Homeless man pepper sprayed without provocation other than the officer had been called out for the same thing twice.
Unresisting and restrained people tasered multiple times.
Choke holds, now illegal but still used.
Choke holds on people just for talking back.
Kid beaten up for shouting "**** the police", told it was illegal... free speech not a thing any more over there?
Peaceful protesters shoved to the ground, causing brain trauma.
Protester leaving the area shoved in the back, hits the ground, brain trauma.
Rubber bullets shot indiscriminately into crowds, egged on by other officers. Glee at hitting random protesters.
Rubber bullets shot into people's groins as a tactic.
Journalist shot in the eye with a rubber bullet, losing her eye.
Journalist shoved to the ground and beaten, all while holding up their press credentials.
Racist and genocidal talk from officers.
Lies about sequences of events, even while bodycam footage shows police are lying.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in payout just for ONE officer's repeated brutal acts. That officer still has his job.
And much, much more.
But yeah, George Floyd wasn't a nice guy. It was the fentanyl that stopped him breathing...
It's impossible to listen to people gloating about protesters being beaten without imagining that the person doing the gloating would also violently attack peaceful, unresisting, or restrained humans if given the opportunity and the likelihood they would not face any consequences.
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I'm gonna put this police brutality incident in spoiler tags, it's that bad. Where else but in 'Murica?
“...The footage is absolutely horrific,” Green said. “It shows an unprovoked arrest with no probable cause, and then much, much worse, it shows the four deputies decided to body slam Mr. Barrientos face first towards a concrete floor, and what braced his fall and probably kept him from severe facial and spine injuries was his knee...”
The defendants in the lawsuit are Zapata County, Sheriff Del Bosque and deputies Ariel Gonzalez, Jose “Joey” Martinez, Pepe Ramirez and Hector Solis...
...Barrientos sustained the injury in the early hours of Tuesday, April 26, 2022 after Martinez was dispatched to his home in reference to a domestic disturbance. Both the lawsuit and the offense report detail Barrientos being taken to the ground by Martinez and the assisting deputies...
...The lawsuit alleges the four deputies ripped his left leg almost completely off his body. It claims that in body camera footage you can both see and hear the “crunch and crack of bone and popping of burst tendon, muscle, ligament, and skin when the four large, heavily muscled deputies combined their strength and body weight to split Mr. Barrientos’ leg in half as they propelled his head and upper torso with deadly force toward the concrete slab below.”
“His left leg bent backwards in the opposite direction that your leg is supposed to bend so forcefully that his leg, you could hear it on the video, it makes a horrible, crunching, popping sound, and it just splits the leg all the way off except for just a little tissue in the front,” Green said. “The deputies had to apply two tourniquets right away in order to save his life, because quite literally, Mr. Barrientos was bleeding to death on his own carport at his home for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
“This wasn’t like an active shooter situation where someone had to be taken out or it was life or death. They should not have snapped this poor man’s leg completely off his body...”
We entrust our police forces with our safety. We pay their wages through our taxes and hope that they act with the best interests of civil society through enforcing the law.
I have grown through recent events to FIRMLY believe that those officers found to be in horrific breach of that trust should be executed. Over there. Here in Australia. Everywhere.
We entrust them with our wellbeing. When that trust is betrayed, what then??
“...The footage is absolutely horrific,” Green said. “It shows an unprovoked arrest with no probable cause, and then much, much worse, it shows the four deputies decided to body slam Mr. Barrientos face first towards a concrete floor, and what braced his fall and probably kept him from severe facial and spine injuries was his knee...”
The defendants in the lawsuit are Zapata County, Sheriff Del Bosque and deputies Ariel Gonzalez, Jose “Joey” Martinez, Pepe Ramirez and Hector Solis...
...Barrientos sustained the injury in the early hours of Tuesday, April 26, 2022 after Martinez was dispatched to his home in reference to a domestic disturbance. Both the lawsuit and the offense report detail Barrientos being taken to the ground by Martinez and the assisting deputies...
...The lawsuit alleges the four deputies ripped his left leg almost completely off his body. It claims that in body camera footage you can both see and hear the “crunch and crack of bone and popping of burst tendon, muscle, ligament, and skin when the four large, heavily muscled deputies combined their strength and body weight to split Mr. Barrientos’ leg in half as they propelled his head and upper torso with deadly force toward the concrete slab below.”
“His left leg bent backwards in the opposite direction that your leg is supposed to bend so forcefully that his leg, you could hear it on the video, it makes a horrible, crunching, popping sound, and it just splits the leg all the way off except for just a little tissue in the front,” Green said. “The deputies had to apply two tourniquets right away in order to save his life, because quite literally, Mr. Barrientos was bleeding to death on his own carport at his home for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
“This wasn’t like an active shooter situation where someone had to be taken out or it was life or death. They should not have snapped this poor man’s leg completely off his body...”
We entrust our police forces with our safety. We pay their wages through our taxes and hope that they act with the best interests of civil society through enforcing the law.
I have grown through recent events to FIRMLY believe that those officers found to be in horrific breach of that trust should be executed. Over there. Here in Australia. Everywhere.
We entrust them with our wellbeing. When that trust is betrayed, what then??