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More police brutality than you can shake a stick at.

Some are also pointing out how quickly the perpetrators were arrested and charged, not something that would happen so swiftly had it been white cops. The police unions and the ‘blue lives matter’ crowd are strangely silent about all this.

The footage is said to be horrific, akin to the Rodney King beating. Body-worn camera footage is to be released this evening, after public buildings have closed for the weekend, because they fear these might be targeted by rioters.
 
These cops are scum and they murdered this guy in cold blood but it is, nonetheless, remarkable how they were immediately fired rather than being suspended (with pay) like the George Floyd killers
 
Four are out on bail already though.

This is how the police reported the incident:
On January 7, 2023, at approximately 8:30 p.m., officers in the area of Raines Road and Ross Road attempted to make a traffic stop for reckless driving. As officers approached the driver of the vehicle, confrontation occurred, and the suspect fled the scene on foot. Officers pursued the suspect and again attempted to take the suspect into custody. While attempting to take the suspect into custody, another confrontation occurred; however, the suspect was ultimately apprehended.

Afterward, the suspect complained of having a shortness of breath, at which time an ambulance was called to the scene. The suspect was transported to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition.

Due to the suspect's condition, the District Attorney General's Office was contacted, and it was determined that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation would handle this investigation.
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Flavour said:
These cops are scum and they murdered this guy in cold blood but it is, nonetheless, remarkable how they were immediately fired rather than being suspended (with pay) like the George Floyd killers
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Authorities moved more slowly in this case than the George Floyd case - the four cops involved in Floyd's murder were fired the day after he died and Chauvin was charged with murder four days after the death, the Memphis cops who murdered Tyre Nichols weren't fired until 10 days after his death and they weren't charged until 24th Jan., two weeks after his death.
 
I’ve seen a bit of it in Twitter but couldn’t make out much on what I saw (skipped through quite a bit). They seemed to be pepper spraying him constantly. I had the sound off because the kids are awake, apparently that’s pretty horrific (lots of people recommending watching without sound as it’s traumatising).

People have been posting a nice video of him skating, guy was really good. Don’t think they’ll be able to play the ‘guy was overweight’/ had ‘medical issues’ card based on this.
 
The video is horrific. A pre-release news report I watched compared it to a piñata, and it wasn't far wrong.

He is held down and kicked in the head several times, I mean big lunge kicks, in a manner that suggests he couldn't defend the strikes; a new fourth officer moves in, he's then nightsticked several times, before being held up to receive multiple punches to the face. And the punches are massive blows; his body movement after receiving these strikes is erratic and wild, almost inanimate, but he doesn't fall because he seems to be held up to receive several waves of this before being dropped to the ground. A pile on then occurs before a fifth officer comes along and further kicks resume from two officers present.

How the five officers thought this would eventually play out is beyond me. This wasn't a warning, or a slap on the wrist, it was a pronounced death sentence from the early stages of the beating.
 
RedRedRose said:
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How the five officers thought this would eventually play out is beyond me. This wasn't a warning, or a slap on the wrist, it was a pronounced death sentence from the early stages of the beating.
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It's a kicking from some thugs. There is no attempt to subdue someone resisting arrest. It's assault. It's not even done in some sort frenzy like you would see when someone gets a kicking in the street. They hold him up so they can get better punches to his face.
 
I know people who have endured similar attacks from cops but survived, more by luck than judgement.

But surviving is not the end of it. You have to live out your days seeing your attackers out and about all over the place, smiling at old ladies or whatever. You have to accept that because you didn't die, it didn't make the news so there's no chance the pigs involved will even get a rap on the knuckles for it.

All of them are complicit. All of them are culpable.
 
Somewhat tangentially, i've been thinking some of these US TV Cop reality tv shows, series and movies, which seem deeply embedded in their culture and which seem to be predicated on all manner of assumptions about 'law enforcement' and how it should be both perceived and enforced. Perhaps they serve to some degree to help normalise all those tropes about cops who 'push the boundaries' but ultimately catch the 'bad guys,' inculcating the unspoken understanding that it's necessary to be the biggest shark in the pool, ultimately for the greater good. Makes me wonder if they have to some degree (and not diminishing all the other problems with US cops by any means) exacerbated the day-to-day grim inevitability of cop violence as a means to an end in a (perceived to be) very violent culture. I guess, like debates around other aspects of a culture, they simultaneously reflect and amplify negative aspects. More broadly, one things for sure - US cops need a massive 're-set,' which, amongst other things i suspect is unlikely to happen whilst their 'union' effectively shuts down any criticism of these type of interactions (not to mention police gangs) and also whilst every person they deal with is potentially armed to the teeth.
 
SpookyFrank said:
If the cops ever beat me to death, please nobody put the video of it on fucking twitter.

Just seems like another insult to the man, a further reduction of a person's life to the despicable way it was ended.
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The claim is, is that they released it for 'accountability' but it just ends up looking like a snuff movie.
 
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