Cop in America doing a bad job, again

I find it very strange how the american society apparently accept the lunatic abuse of the monopoly of violence by the state. I mean, cops are bad in many countries, they act as the gestapo in my country, but it seems to be contrary to the american ethos to allow agents of the government to punch, shoot and terrorize part of the population.
 


The officer’s punishment? He quit, and was duly rehired by a different police department, but he did ‘two days of training in domestic violence’ so it’s ok.
 
This article stayed with me ever since I first read it. Five years on, little to nothing has changed in terms of ending cash bail, rikers island, solitary confinement and CJ reforms. Our criminal justice system is so broken beyond repair it is disgusting.
 
VorZakone said:
I was reading the thread on r/protectandserve (a police sub) and I just noticed how often the word "justification" was used. As in, "yup this is bad, I can't see a justification".

I mean, it's good that they agree the officer is in the wrong here. But this tendency/inclination to find a "justification" feels...weird? You bet if that guy had resisted just a little bit they would have defended the officer.
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Probably becauae if they really say it as it is there will be riots.

It already past the boiling point. You can't really admit it's a racist attack, you cant ignore it, you cant deny it exist. feck knows what they're going to do with it.

It's just maintaining status quo i think
 
choiboyx012 said:
Doesn’t get any clearer cut than that. Inexplicable, unjustifiable, grossly incompetent on both officers
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It's not inexplicable, they're racist pricks with licence to kill and they enjoy it. Bet they were high-fiving each other later.
 
The "few bad apples" line goes out the window when you realise there are always other cops when these guys commit murder.
 
He has the suspect cuffed and in control, then he can clearly feel the suspect in distress and later flat line, there are people filming him and begging him to take his knee off of the man's neck and the mouth breathing moron is still at it even after the EMT arrives. He must really feel the suspect's life doesn't matter to resort to that level of callousness. I mean a man could go to jail for animal cruelty if he did that to a dog.
 
Carolina Red said:
WaPo just flashed a headline that 4 officers have been fired by Minneapolis PD and the MPD police chief has asked the FBI to investigate the officers and incident.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/26/minneapolis-police-death-custody-fbi/?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_hp-breaking-news:page/breaking-news-bar
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Towards the end of the article.

The officers involved, who have not been publicly identified, were placed on paid administrative leave, the police chief said. The case will be separately investigated by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune investigates most in-custody deaths.
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FireballXL5 said:
It's not inexplicable, they're racist pricks with licence to kill and they enjoy it. Bet they were high-fiving each other later.
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Don't know if we can tell he's a racist just from that clip, although he might well be. Could just have been a shitty person on a fecked up power trip.

Incredibly heinous either way and I hope those police officers are put to trial.
 
arnie_ni said:
Assuming asking the fbi is to keep it impartial or would that be standard practice?
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During Tuesday’s news conference with the mayor, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said he had decided to ask the FBI to investigate after receiving “additional information” on the incident from a community source that “just provided more context than the information I had preliminarily.” He declined to elaborate further.
 
RedTiger said:
What the feck is going on? :lol: I copy pasted that from the page but now it's not there! That's in the space of 20mins!
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Probably because it was initially reported that they were placed on admin leave, as is standard practice, then once more details came out, the MPD decided to fire them.
 
RedTiger said:
Damn. I copied that only 20mins ago. It must be due to the fast pace of information coming out
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Possibly. Like I said, I posted that right as the headline flashed, so the full article might have been getting edited as they flashed the headline.

Either way... they’re fired and the FBI is now involved.
 
The video of the Minneapolis cop choking out the poor man is horrifying. One of the worst police brutality videos I have ever seen. Bystanders were literally begging the cop to stop. Still he continued knowing there are witness around and he is on camera. Its straight up murder, there is no justification at all. I guess he knows killing a person of colour would result in no consequences.
 
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