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the police express it better themselves: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56897186 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56897186 "US police office
by trhway 6y ago
the police express it better themselves:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56897186 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56897186
"US police officers are seen mocking a 73-year-old woman with dementia as they watch video of her shoulder going "pop" during her forcible arrest,"
How they enjoy themselves and congratulatory fist-bump each other on achieving that "pop" tells everything one needs to know about police brutality. All that while the woman with all those injuries to her shoulder (and still handcuffed - basically being subjected to medieval torture) was sitting right around the corner - something like for more than 2 hours before getting medical attention.
That psychopathic-level lack of empathy resulting in the culture of total disregard for human life and wellbeing is why other police were standing guard while Chavin was enjoying himself torturing Floyd to death for almost 10 minutes. One can imagine all the fist-bumps and high-fives he got after that.
- Google234 6y agoHere’s a video with a few people In x group doing a horrible thing and celebrating. This proves that x group is terrible.
- trhway 6y agoexactly. If committing horrible things is a business as usual that is the firm basis for getting organizations listed as terrorist, criminal (RICO), etc.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoIt's evidence, not proof. Now, if we saw this kind of thing tens or hundreds of times a year, that would be proof… wait.
- watwut 6y agoI mean, if that behavious is on the job and is not punished or disincentivised by management, civilian companies are blamed for it. Like, Google is blamed for bad copyright enforcement on HN right now.
- bjornsing 6y agoWell, if group x don’t want the stigma then they should expel and denounce the few bad people.
- syops 6y agoIt’s not just one video. It’s just the latest example of many such videos. It’s another example of police committing crimes and getting away with it. For other examples lookup police officers and the domestic violence they routinely get away with. Group X is horrible when there are consistently minor consequences when these things are exposed. In this case the brutality occurred months ago and only came to light through a lawsuit being filed. It was only then that the officers faced some repercussions. This is common and widespread. So called good police routinely coverup and protect the bad ones. Consequences only occur if there is publicly released video and even when there is released video convictions and real consequences are rare. There is widespread usage of extra-judicial punishments by police with little to no consequences. Citizens exercising Constitutional get arrested where the only charge is resisting arrest. There is a policing problem in the U.S. Let’s not pretend that there isn’t one.
- cabaalis 6y ago> Viewing of the video and the conversations about it took place as Garner was 10 feet away in a cell, according to Schielke. [0] It's inhumane behavior, like one would see Roman soldiers in a movie or soldiers in game of thrones. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/us/loveland-police-officers-karen-garner-use-of-force/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/us/loveland-police-officers-k...