Video of 17 year old teen girl shot in police station

[bigdarryl]

And guess what she's Caucasian https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422503916&x-yt-cl=85027636&v=oGIS1Knpvs0

[bigdarryl]

1. This cop started the confrontation

The very first thing I see in this video is the stupid cop puts his hands on this girl.That is the start of this unfortunate confrontation

[zebonaut]

10. then she not surprisingly freaks; two more cops enter the scene and think she is somehow 'disturbed'

[marble falls]

2. How the Marble Falls cops handled a person with a knife - who actually tried to use it!

[Ed Suspicious]

3. It just doesn't end. I'm so, so tired of it.

[Exultant Democracy]

4. We need to take most of their guns away,

Those three asshole could have literally walked outside locked the doors and waited for her to calm down. The fact is that the guy who shot her was just to fucking stupid to understand that his metal dick isn't the right tool for every job.

I know the people from my high school who became cops all the dumbest people you could ever meet. I've gotten into the mix with the police union on testing on occasion too in two major cities. Are their smart competent cops, sure, one of the smartest men I have ever met was a police chief. However the smart ones are far outnumbered by the meat heads, being a meat head doesn't make you a bad person, but it make you a bad person to give a gun too. Only give the guns to the rare cop who has above average intelligence and judgment, not the average joe cop whose intelligence is only slightly above moron. http://politicalblindspot.com/police-officially-refuse-to-hire-applicants-with-high-iq-scores/

We also need a lot less cops, most places in the US the crime rate has only been dropping consistently as police hiring and militarization has ramped up.

[MrMickeysMom]

5. Hello… Does this register ANYTHING with ANYONE?

I saw this early this morning on break when at work. My co-worker and i watched after our jaws dropped to the floor. I come back to check DU tonight and I can NOT believe this received such a NON response.

[markpkessinger]

6. It might if I couid see clearly what is going on . . .

. . . but it is so dark, and so distant, it is hard for me to tell exactly what is happening, or even exactly when the girl gets shot.

[MrMickeysMom]

8. I could see..

She is first wrestled to the far area (right) for a while, and after more police come in to the lobby, you can see that she is cuffed while shot. What you don't see is how many times, nor how long they let her lay on the floor without checking calling for any medical assistance.

The fact that any teenager who comes to the police area, tries to communicate, then when confronted, backs away, "resists" any aggressive take over (she was about 100 pounds), then is shot, and way too late, "resuscitated" should horrify anyone.

Dark and distant?

[Kingofalldems]

7. Who is the guy with the cutoff t shirt?

[MrMickeysMom]

9. Unknown.

What was reported in the paper was the fact all of these officers were put on leave.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

11. The video is quite disturbing...

... as is the lack of response here at DU. Are people becoming numb to execution by thugs posing as cops? Seems so.

Are we having a national collective nervous breakdown? It's happened before... The Easy Slide Into Fascism:

by Bernard Weiner

....Haffner laments that the crimes of the Hitler administration, given this collective nervous breakdown, have very little impact on the population, which seems to accept everything done in its name with a shrug of the shoulders. "It is one of the uncanny aspects of events in Germany that the deeds have no doers, the suffering has no martyrs. Everything takes place under a kind of anesthesia. Objectively dreadful deeds produce a thin, puny emotional response. Murders are committed like schoolboy pranks. Humiliation and moral decay are accepted like minor incidents. Even death under torture only produces the response 'Bad luck'."....

Link: http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/germany-1933.htm

[DeSwiss]

13. History is trying to repeat (can you say: TPP?), but we're not having any of it!

An excerpt from:

They Thought They Were Free

The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer

But Then It Was Too Late

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

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[DeSwiss]

12. K&R

- ''If we don't fight now, I guess we'll have to be kicked as Orwell predicted.....''
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