The Police Brutality Thread

[smokymountainrain]

Nothing to see here... Tony was on drugs and stuff.

more egregious than floyd, imo.

[SeattleUte]

Chicago cops may be required to get permission before chasing a criminal...


https://nypost.com/2021/04/21/chicag...on-foot-mayor/

Hey, maybe the Chicago police should just let Captain 'Rona Destroyer' catch the criminals!

As I said before, I agree with this. Cops shouldn't chase criminals on foot or by car unless someone is in imminent danger. E.g., Dirty Harry pursuing the worst bad guy of all time with a kidnapped girl in the final sequence would be permissible.

[smokymountainrain]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...tm_term=nvihcz

[falafel]

Sheeeeeesh.

[BigPiney]

I am really starting to hate the police.

[old_gregg]

glad we're empowering morons like this all over the country

[Bo Diddley]

Yeah, they'll settle.

[Northwestcoug]

Yeah, they'll settle.

And unfortunately he'll still have a job, either in the same department or somewhere else.

How is this even a thing? Why not just follow the car, and then call for help if it then escalates?

[falafel]

And unfortunately he'll still have a job, either in the same department or somewhere else.

How is this even a thing? Why not just follow the car, and then call for help if it then escalates?

Eh. I know it is incredibly hard to remove a police officer from their job (is there a more powerful and less challenged union than the police officer's union?), but they can still be fired for doing incredibly stupid and unsafe things. This is coming from someone who often has to deal with police officers and their actions and their unions.

[Uncle Ted]

I hear that Portland businesses will be having huge fire sales (like "five finger discounts") in the near future...

Officers, sergeants resign en masse from Portland’s Rapid Response Team crowd control unit

Officers who serve on the Portland Police Bureau’s specialized crowd control unit, known as the Rapid Response Team, voted to resign from the team during a meeting Wednesday night.

The unprecedented move by about 50 officers, detectives and sergeants to disband their own team came a day after a team member, Officer Corey Budworth, was indicted, accused of fourth-degree assault stemming from a baton strike against a protester last summer.

A team lieutenant called Chief Chuck Lovell to inform him Wednesday night after members of the team, who volunteer for the assignment, voted to resign due to perceived lack of support from City Hall and from the district attorney over the past year during more than 100 consecutive nights of protest coverage. The indictment of one of the team’s officers appeared to be the last straw.

“Have I ever seen anything like this in my career? No, I don’t think any of us have,” said Deputy Chief Chris Davis, serving Thursday as acting chief while Lovell is out of state for a week in St. Augustine, Florida, for training.
[...]

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/202...trol-unit.html

Portland might become a vacation "hot spot" this summer just for its "shopping".

[Bo Diddley]

Deputy in Moab demonstrating poor judgement. For about 35 minutes, she was twirling a lasso while looking for a homeless black man suspected of shoplifting. So embarrassing and boneheaded.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50503813...accountability

[Non Sequitur]

Deputy in Moab demonstrating poor judgement. For about 35 minutes, she was twirling a lasso while looking for a homeless black man suspected of shoplifting. So embarrassing and boneheaded.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50503813...accountability

Obviously someone who has watched too many episodes of Yellowstone.

[smokymountainrain]

Deputy in Moab demonstrating poor judgement. For about 35 minutes, she was twirling a lasso while looking for a homeless black man suspected of shoplifting. So embarrassing and boneheaded.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50503813...accountability

fake news. no racists in rural utah towns.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Deputy in Moab demonstrating poor judgement. For about 35 minutes, she was twirling a lasso while looking for a homeless black man suspected of shoplifting. So embarrassing and boneheaded.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50503813...accountability

What's the big deal? Haven't you heard that the only racism that exists anymore is against white people?

[wuapinmon]

Not brutal, but fuel for the ACAB. https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...tm_name=iossmf