This story? Yeah I’d heard of it, but not the brother part. Lots of people commented on how he was treated nicely by the cops and treated them like buddies. That helps explain why.
Given the choice, which would flatten the tires while causing the least damage: cutting the valve stems or slashing the tires?
The replacement of all the tires should be paid for by the city and taken out of the police department’s budget.
San Jose police fired a rubber bullet at their own bias trainer, rupturing his testicle.
Not even cutting: I recall doing some tire work in a service station (an ancient mythical place where you could get fuel and, if needed, get your vehicle repaired) where we had a handy little valve stem tool that could just pop that thing right out of the rim. Or the valve core tool that could turn the core out of the valve.
Just saw an image of a MinneapolisPD car door, marked “To Protect with Courage, to Serve with Compassion”.
No irony there, no, not at all.
The guy was shocked to think that all of his work was for nothing.
Let me tell you: I have stood in front of and given periods of instruction to a total of hundreds, if not >1,000 cops, and most cops don’t give a shit about anything that isn’t cop shit. And what I was training wasn’t cop shit, and bias training isn’t cop shit.
Time and again police officers are shown to have bias, and yet they need a bias trainer?!
Um.
Hey, according to Sean Hannity, even Trump has been the victim of corrupt police!
Hannity: “Even the president himself – it’s not the same thing as what happened to George Floyd, but it’s horrific. He was a victim of crooked cops. Now, again, not the same circumstances, I’m not making any comparison,”
As he makes a comparison…
Well, gee, Sean. Are you sure it’s not the same thing as what happened to Floyd? I mean I’m not actually sure that cretin you worship is actually evidencing any signs of life.
Cars with tire pressure monitors (the kind that actually use a sensor inside the tire) typically have metal valve stems, which don’t lend themselves to expeditious cutting.
Actually, ‘control’ is what my cerebellum and fingers produced when my higher brain, if any, thought it was typing ‘culture.’ (I caught this after the 5-minute edit window.)
I need to start an IMHO thread on my weird typing aphasia.
LAPD officer charged with assault after video shows him punching suspect in Boyle Heights
Actually, it shows him beating the shit out of him. If it was in the ring, the ref would stepped in to stop the ass-kicking.
Well, the injury to his hand didn’t affect his swing any.
And again, this was business as usual. This one just happened to be caught on a cell phone video.
Heh. Go all MMA on the poor dude, then say, “never mind”.
Absolutely. Things have not changed. Police are not more violent. There are just more cameras around,and it’s harder for the police to confiscate and smash them all.
It’s really hard for a cop to lie on his official statement these days, when there is video evidence of him assaulting an unarmed person. The police still seem to be stupidly oblivious to the fact they are being filmed committing crimes, and simply keep on doing things the way they always have; beat the suspect to a pulp and then claim that the suspect was"resisting arrest" and charge the victim. Hell, many times, they are not a “suspect” at all, just someone on the street. Courts never used to question the word of the criminal cop.
Several years ago, a Vancouver Cop was walking down a sidewalk with his partner. He shoved (for no reason whatsoever) a person with MS walking with a cane. Pushed her down and injured her. Then walked right past. Both cops. Of course, he denied that he had ever done such a thing. Outrageous! His union stood up for him, of course! Then a video surfaced from a business nearby. It was given to the press, since the police investigation never even asked for it for some mysterious reason. It showed the assault by the police in glorious colour and fine detail.
And the police wonder why they are not respected - when some of their members are simply criminals who deliberately injure vulnerable citizens for no reason, and their fellow officers who witness this do nothing - and their superiors cover up evidence.
Are they schrader valves? Because a valve core remover would take care of those in just a few seconds. Take the core along with you and the driver is kind of screwed.
Of course, if they are those run-flat tires, you might have to put more effort into it.
You forgot the icing on the cake.
He received a six-day suspension, and the adjudicator cited the lengthy delay between the event and the adjudication as a reason to reduce the sentence - a delay that was caused by the cop’s own union and his lawyers.
That’s probably part of it, but police departments have also gotten much more aggressive with regards to training. In addition, the doctrine of Qualified Immunity has turned many rules regarding officer behavior, or even outright laws, into complete jokes. (QI goes beyond just police, but it has a big effect there.) Police unions have also turned themselves into almost complete bulwarks ensuring misconduct is rarely or never punished, and politicians just-as-rarely risk crossing them. Of course it’s impossible to say what they were once getting away with, but there are at least a few obvious reasons to suspect that police officers have gotten worse, not better, and this may be a response to the availability to video cameras.
Not knowing any details of the New Brunswick PD, I can’t specifically say they are perfectly clean. However, in this particular case it seems as though they did things correctly. It was the DA’s office which acted improperly, and the individual responsible is being investigated for several improper actions.
President of Chicago Police Review board hit by cop batons.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/501713-president-of-chicago-police-board-hit-with-batons-during?
New Mexico cop charged with manslaughter after telling the victim he was going to choke him out.
<sarcasm> Well, the dude was running away, and not respecting the Authoritah! Naturally, the cop was afraid for his life, and it was self-defense. </sarcasm> He’ll probably get a 5 day suspension (with pay)