Only “many”?
Well in York County, PA, they don’t just kill you; they take your organs.:eek:
A Sheriff’s Deputy Allegedly Filmed A Mother Sexually Abusing Her 1-Year-Old Son As Part Of His “Fantasy”
Can we please just use two bullets and be done with this? WTF is wrong with people?
Not a single incident, true, but let’s go to Missouri anyway:
In the video, you see the two goons standing near the man, who is fully restrained to a chair, with his mouth covered. One of the goons turns off his body camera. Then, for no reason that’s apparent in the video, the goon just starts punching the prisoner’s head. The second goon then comes over and gets in a whack. There’s a pause, then more punches.
Here’s a tweet with the video: https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/1138448145359167488
We live in a police state.
How many things like this never get reported or detected?
I was just watching that horrific video again. The victim not only had his mouth covered; he was totally blindfolded. Two “officers” beating a completely helpless victim. This is America.
That was exactly my first thought, and I bet the answer is, a shit ton. What’s even more stunning is that they did this while knowing that there are cameras in the facility. It tells me that they’re used to getting away with this shit. They’ve done this before. This is a cultural thing. And it wouldn’t surprise me to know that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of police cultures just like it. And now that the current administration is peeling back the civil rights division in the DoJ, they’re probably just feeling as emboldened as ever.
Yesterday in Memphis, US Marshals trued to capture 20-year-old Brandon Webber, wanted on felony warrants. The Marshals reported that Webber tried to flee in a vehicle, collided with Marshals’ vehicles, and then produced a weapon and tried to flee on foot. Webber was reportedly shot 16 to 20 times.
Soon, a crowd started to gather near the scene of the shooting. The Marshals called Memphis PD for assistance. The situation escalated, with the crowd eventually hurling rocks and bricks and smashing police cars and some buildings. 24 police were injured. No one in the crowd was reported injured.
On the one hand, I’m happy and amazed that the cops didn’t kill anyone in the crowd. So, a tip of the hat to them for not acting like cops in a police state.
On the other hand, I have to agree with the County Commissioner who said (paraphrasing) that the cops don’t get the benefit of the doubt, and the community is justified in assuming the killing was unjustified until they get answers. I don’t generally condone violence, but it’s increasingly difficult for me to see nonviolence as effective.
Police fired 55 shots at man in 3.5 seconds. Report finds it ‘reasonable.’
It was objectively reasonable and necessary for 6 officers to unload the magazines into a parked car in 3.5 seconds???
How fast were they firing? How many times can you say ‘blam’ in 3.5 seconds? Probably less that then the number office Eaton fired off.
I am a reasonable man and can see different sides, but I cannot see this as ANYTHING but either officers firing in a blind panic or with a desire to kill.
Holy fuck.
The guys that shot Bonnie and Clyde would tip their hats to these guys.
Mr. McCoy was scaring them to death? :dubious::rolleyes:
How’d the cops know he did not have a legal right to carry a gun?
He was black.
That’s one of the things that drives me crazy about cops shooting people with guns: guns are legal to have. What a stupid situation we’ve allowed our country to get into: guns are okay to have BUT you might get shot because you have one, EVEN THO it’s perfectly fine to have one AND it’s perfectly fine that you got shot, even tho you did nothing wrong.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
You know how I can tell it’s stupid? Because no one, not even a lunatic, would have designed the system we have now on purpose.
If you watch the video, at no time do they issue commands to McCoy. The officer stands there with a weapon drawn. He communicates with other officers telling them multiple times that there’s a gun in his lap. Meanwhile, the officer also tells them that the magazine is out so that he only has one shot - one shot. At no time are they communicating with McCoy, who may be simply frozen with fear, or maybe drunk or high (who knows). They empty probably 50 rounds in the guy’s car…and they wanna see his hands? What the ever living fuck?
There’s a serious police training crisis in this country.
I don’t see that “the system” is the problem, although I know what you mean. It isn’t “the system”, it is faulty interpretation of what is reasonable on the part of police.
Guns are legal to own by the vast majority of people. Guns are legal to carry by many people, certainly a majority of people in states that don’t require a carry permit or employ a “shall issue” structure for carry permits. Ergo, police shouldn’t shoot at people just because they have a gun. Or because they *think *they have a gun.
The fly in the ointment is that police get away with shooting people when it is not reasonable from a “reasonable man” standpoint. Police brass, prosecutors, grand juries and regular old juries all give too much credence to the “I was scared” excuse proffered by cops. An excuse that they wouldn’t grant to Joe Blow under the same circumstances, even though it is assumed that Joe Blow doesn’t have the same training and “professionalism”. Add in the fact that shooting 55 rounds in 3.5 seconds is somehow defined as reasonable under any circumstances, and it’s easy to see why cops have a “shoot first, ask questions later” attitude.
It’s the same old, same old. Police need better training, they need to drum out those who are unreasonably frightened, they need to stop circling the wagons and covering up wrongdoing, and there needs to be more accountability. Not holding my breath.
Guns drawn, threatening to shoot a pregnant mother holding her child, Arizona cops dislocate a 1-year-old’s arm. Over a Barbie doll.
Maybe the kid was pointing the barbie at the cops? And they got a’scared.
My, my, doesn’t the word “professional” spring to mind?
I lol’ed.