But it seems you’re fine with blacks and other minorities getting fucked with by the police without sufficient evidence.
At least the cop could have watched South Park:
If only he’d complied with the cops’ orders!
Oh, wait…
IIRC, this isn’t the first time a cop has said that when asked “why did you shoot me”?
Not just “kind of.”
They need clown guns that fire flowers out the end.
Complete fucking laughing stock.
Meh.
It’s Florida.
The guy was black.
He’s not dead.
I’d be surprised if they ever even released the officer’s name, much less held him accountable.
To be fair, most of the guys they shoot don’t ask anything.
It would not surprise me if the police bodycam or dashcam never surfaces. It seems like they “malfunction” or “unexpectedly” get turned off in so many of these incidents.
It seems like the consensus on the interwebs is that this is a quintessential “bad shoot”. So yay.
But you know what bothers me? What if that guy hadn’t whipped out his phone? What if we didn’t have any video? How many people would be coming out of the woodworks to defend the cops’ actions? A shitload, that’s how many. People will only side with their fellow citizens when they have concrete, unassailable proof. Only “blue lives” are given the automatic benefit of the doubt, it seems. Everyone else is a violent criminal until proven otherwise.
Did no one notice the aggressive manner in which that guy was lying on the ground, hands to the sky, and letting the cops know that the kid had no gun?? While the cop was standing. His ground?
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I found the “violent tendencies” comment video here but I haven’t seen one yet where they throw her to the ground. In that linked video she is in being transported in the back of a patrol car and she and the officer driving are having a calm conversation (where the cop displays his racism).
Everyone has the same AP story on their website but no one has any video.
Found it, courtesy of the website that posted the video on YouTube, mystatesman.com
Direct link to video piece which includes dashcam footage.
So it was one officer who assaulted her and another officer who transported her and told her that black people have violent tendencies. Nice; way to go Austin PD.
The comments in that article are literally making me sick.
This was posted without any sarcasm.
This happened a few years ago, but it’s still quite horrible.
These cops are still patrolling the streets, folks.
Er, no. What’s that got to do with what I said though? The cop hasn’t be proven guilty of a crime, and yet you want him punished, and indeed find the fact that he hasn’t been abhorrent.
What is abhorrent is wanting to remove the protection of the law from any group of people, and that includes cops.
Nope. You do realise that the standard at which you can act in self defence is much lower than that at which you can be convicted of a crime, right? The two situations are not comparable.
If, for example, people are calling for extrajudicial punishment of the people who have recently been killing cops, they are equally disgusting.
This is what really terrifies me. It seems like every week we get a new video of cops doing something blatantly illegal. Recording cops on video appears to be the only way a person can protect themselves, and often not even then. So how many violent incidents happened before the invention of cell phones and were never discovered?
Steophan: I don’t think that any of us want to remove the protection of the law from any group of people. Nobody has called for that, at least that I have seen. What many of us believe is that police are above the law. That they can intimidate, assault, even kill without facing any consequences beyond a couple of weeks of paid leave. Take the case of Thomas Webster IV, a police officer in Dover, DE that kicked a black man in the face and broke his jaw as he was following the officer’s orders. The officer was charged (two years after the event when video was released to the public) but was acquitted. From the video (here’s one) it seems clear that the suspect is unarmed, is not resisting, and is obeying the officers commands, but the officer kicks him in the face, claiming he was afraid (even though two officers had guns drawn and the man had his hands up) and that he was trying to kick him in the body (like this really makes a difference). If I, or another citizen kicked somebody in the face without provocation and broke their jaw, I would face criminal penalties. What happened to the officer? The community exerted a lot of pressure on the department to fire him after he was acquitted and so he resigned and go a quarter of a million dollars in a separation agreement.
This is just one. There are police killing unarmed citizens, many of them black, and their are no consequences to their actions. It is obvious that black lives don’t matter to the criminal justice department as (unless their is video footage), police can brutalize our fellow citizens with impunity. This is abhorrent; but obviously you don’t think there is a problem.
My lord, those comments. I can’t even.