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White man curses police in a physically threatening manner..turns his back and disregards cops orders,gets in his vehicle...
AND DOESNT GET SHOT in the back 7 times.
This is White Privilege too
I thought all you had to do was comply and you wouldnt be shot or brutalized by police.
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MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,816 posts)c-rational
(2,593 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)SamKnause
(13,107 posts)I fucking hate them !!!
When did arrests require people being on the ground ???
Why didn't they cuff the man who was cooperating with his hands up ???
Why did they feel the need to force him to the ground ???
Both videos are disgusting.
If the man in the first video was black, he would be dead.
He threatened to kill the officer.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)These cops and the way they act is NOT accidental and it is NOT ok. The fact is most police calls are REACTIVE, AFTER THE CRIME REPORTING...they stop very few crimes from being committed, period. They terrorize the people and bark orders with a dog-trainer or military drill instructor's expectation of full, immediate and total compliance.
It was true in '88 and it's true in '20...FUCK THA POLICE!
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)So, obviously, he's, like, some kind of winter soldier mutant or something, and all those cops had to gang up on him and go after the woman in the car who was recording it because, uh, well, it's cop stuff, you civilians wouldn't understand. There will be a thorough review of this footage, and Internal Affairs will clear all the boys in blue.
Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)I have participated in some of these activities personally, others are ones I either witnessed personally or heard officers brag about openly. Very, very occasionally, I knew an officer who was disciplined or fired for one of these things.
Police officers will lie about the law, about whats illegal, or about what they can legally do to you in order to manipulate you into doing what they want.
Police officers will lie about feeling afraid for their life to justify a use of force after the fact.
Police officers will lie and tell you theyll file a police report just to get you off their back.
Police officers will lie that your cooperation will look good for you in court, or that they will put in a good word for you with the DA. The police will never help you look good in court.
Police officers will lie about what they see and hear to access private property to conduct unlawful searches.
Police officers will lie and say your friend already ratted you out, so you might as well rat them back out. This is almost never true.
Police officers will lie and say youre not in trouble in order to get you to exit a location or otherwise make an arrest more convenient for them.
Police officers will lie and say that they wont arrest you if youll just be honest with them so they know what really happened.
Police officers will lie about their ability to seize the property of friends and family members to coerce a confession.
Police officers will write obviously bullshit tickets so that they get time-and-a-half overtime fighting them in court.
Police officers will search places and containers you didnt consent to and later claim they were open or smelled like marijuana.
Police officers will threaten you with a more serious crime they cant prove in order to convince you to confess to the lesser crime they really want you for.
Police officers will employ zero tolerance on races and ethnicities they dislike and show favor and lenience to members of their own group.
Police officers will use intentionally extra-painful maneuvers and holds during an arrest to provoke resistance so they can further assault the suspect.
Some police officers will plant drugs and weapons on you, sometimes to teach you a lesson, sometimes if they kill you somewhere away from public view.
Some police officers will assault you to intimidate you and threaten to arrest you if you tell anyone.
A non-trivial number of police officers will steal from your house or vehicle during a search.
A non-trivial number of police officers commit intimate partner violence and use their status to get away with it.
A non-trivial number of police officers use their position to entice, coerce, or force sexual favors from vulnerable people.
Please go this article via the link and READ it in its entirety. We NEED to rethink policing in general, but we must END the abusive nature of current minority-policing 'norms' NOW.
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)dissecting who gets shot while unarmed and who doesn't. 400+ years of this shit for African-americans specifically.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)These so-called dirty cops are just cops as long as ANY 'good' cop sees this, and stays silent in the face of the systemic rot in policing in general. I feel no sympathy for silent cops watching in complicity while racists among them abuse, assault and kill minorities at rates several time those of the same abuse being heaped on white citizens as well, if disproportionally less than everyone else.
Police need to lose the qualified immunity they are granted.
Police need to carry malpractice insurance for they potential misdeeds.
Police need to be doing far less of public safety and far more community outreach with an EMPTY hand, NOT one with a gun and the other on the radio signaling that a shooting is about to go down to the other officers listening in...
Until I start seeing more "good" cops being drummed out of the force and put at personal risk for having the courage to be a true public servant...the they are ALL guilty, period.
Yep
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,826 posts)Take a guess - Which one led to gun control legislation, which one won't?