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Three broken ribs, a lacerated liver, head injuries, and a broken neck and finally death from 'bicycle' exercise.
by slaw 4y ago
Three broken ribs, a lacerated liver, head injuries, and a broken neck and finally death from 'bicycle' exercise.
- birdyrooster 4y agoThe author switches between a bicycle and grappling exercise and it makes it really confusing. Were they grappling people off of bicycles? Like why are people being thrown around and having their spinal cords broken from bicycle use?
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoThe author isn't doing the switching: > According to Gage [the family lawyer]...The training at which he sustained injuries "was supposed to be bicycle training," but somehow wound up entailing the "grappling exercise" that the LAPD says killed him. I think that they article shows that there's confusion as to how bicycle training lead to a grapple exercise. Even the Police Chief is reporting grappling: > "He did grapple with another officer, and both fell to the ground, resulting in a catastrophic injury to his spinal cord."
- vkou 4y agoThis list of injuries seems consistent with falling out of a sixth-story window in Russia. I would have hoped that a sworn officer of the LAPD would have had more sense than that.
- kjeetgill 4y agoThere is no value to sarcasm and joking like this.
- NoGravitas 4y agoThe Onion has an amicus curiae brief that says otherwise.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoI mean that specifically raises a very good question: are they the onion? When you see a legal document the onion made explicitly to make a point about legal documents, you know more or less what to expect, and how you are intended to interpret it. Is that true of a hacker news comment? Every hacker news comment?
- yellowapple 4y agoDoes one need to be the Onion for one's obvious sarcasm to be identified as such?
- vkou 4y agoI'm inclined to disagree. We need to be reminded every once in a while that authoritarian and unaccountable institutions produce authoritarian outcomes, and that there are fewer institutions more authoritarian or unaccountable in this country than the precinct a few blocks up the street from my apartment. This community often directs its ire at abuses by the secret federal police, but as with many other political problems, the biggest problems in your life are often[1] not in Washington - but rather, next door. [1] But not always.
- Hnrobert42 4y agoIt was a grappling exercise meant to simulate a riot. The article unhelpfully offers no explanation for why the training schedule changed.
- slaw 4y agoIt looks like training schedule changed from bicycle to grappling after officer's neck was broken.
- Hnrobert42 4y agoWhere did you see that? Or are you just making that up to be funny?