The Police Brutality Thread

[falafel]

This isn't a new video. It's several months old and has already been discussed in this thread.

I didn't mean it was new, I meant "recent" as in the most recent post in the thread.

[frank ryan]

lol. you are profoundly dumb and unstable.

I don't think he is either of these things. The growing perception is that police don't do a great job of policing themselves and get away with brutal and bullying behavior far too often.

[falafel]

there's no way to know but i would wager these types of things happen no more frequently than ever before. and there is backlash: cops have been shot and attacked, and people have been stopped before they could get away with murdering cops. there are people on this board who have kids and family that are cops. anybody that roots against police, who by and large honorably and effectively do a horrible thankless job for almost no pay, is categorically a whiny piece of shit that needs to get put in a situation where they fear for their life and see how they react. maybe pull your hands out of your pants and stop backing away from a loaded gun pointed at your face and you won't get shot.

I'm sure things like this have always happened, but it seems like the more these things are recorded and posted online, the more people get upset and react, which makes the cops edgy and fearful for their safety, which makes them overreact, and on and on it goes until there's a boiling point. I feel like we are on an upward spiral and its going to get worse before it gets better.

Also, I don't care how little respect cops get or how thankless their jobs are, I'm never going to make a comment like this:

maybe pull your hands out of your pants and stop backing away from a loaded gun pointed at your face and you won't get shot.

[ERCougar]

This isn't a new video. It's several months old and has already been discussed in this thread.

It looks like it's what iman was referring to in #284 of this thread. And ironically I was arguing with him.
Of course, I'm not making any statement over whether he should have shot the guy--I don't have nearly enough information about the context. But this is the first I've seen of the video and my complaint is about the complete lack of effort after he shoots him.

[CardiacCoug]

I'm sure things like this have always happened, but it seems like the more these things are recorded and posted online, the more people get upset and react, which makes the cops edgy and fearful for their safety, which makes them overreact, and on and on it goes until there's a boiling point. I feel like we are on an upward spiral and its going to get worse before it gets better.

Also, I don't care how little respect cops get or how thankless their jobs are, I'm never going to make a comment like this:

Right, maybe the guy was autistic, had a psychiatric disorder, was on drugs, or was just stupid or whatever but the cop is the professional and shouldn't be shooting a dude unless he is armed and dangerous right?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Is police brutality a serious epidemic, or does it just seem that way due to ubiquitous video and social media?

[Non Sequitur]

Is police brutality a serious epidemic, or does it just seem that way due to ubiquitous video and social media?

It's both. There's no doubt that egregious police brutality videos get more airtime, but there was a very long time when there was no accountability for police violence. If it takes ubiquitous videos to make our police forces accountable, I'm all for it.

[Non Sequitur]

lol. you are profoundly dumb and unstable.

Helter Skelter...I'm all in.

[dabrockster]

there's no way to know but i would wager these types of things happen no more frequently than ever before. and there is backlash: cops have been shot and attacked, and people have been stopped before they could get away with murdering cops. there are people on this board who have kids and family that are cops. anybody that roots against police, who by and large honorably and effectively do a horrible thankless job for almost no pay, is categorically a whiny piece of shit that needs to get put in a situation where they fear for their life and see how they react. maybe pull your hands out of your pants and stop backing away from a loaded gun pointed at your face and you won't get shot.

I was with you until you made that dumb fuck statement...

[Uncle Ted]

This isn't a new video. It's several months old and has already been discussed in this thread.

Yeah, it isn't new (happened back in Aug 2014) but the newly released video has been getting a lot of national press lately. e.g...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2248363

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/shocking-...ng-unarmed-man

[Uncle Ted]

Is police brutality a serious epidemic, or does it just seem that way due to ubiquitous video and social media?

I don't think police brutality is something new. Everyone now, it seems, carries a camera so if a cop does something stupid it is going to be recorded. A few years back I witnessed a police take down that was pretty awesome. Shortly after whipping my phone out one of the cops came over and told me to put it away because all the dudes down on the ground were minors. I complied and kept my hands where the cops could see them.

[Donuthole]

Yeah, it isn't new (happened back in Aug 2014) but the newly released video has been getting a lot of national press lately. e.g...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2248363

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/shocking-...ng-unarmed-man

Despite the articles' description, that video is not newly-released; i watched it back when the incident first hit the news ( but was swallowed up by the Ferguson aftermath).

[imanihonjin]

It looks like it's what iman was referring to in #284 of this thread. And ironically I was arguing with him.
Of course, I'm not making any statement over whether he should have shot the guy--I don't have nearly enough information about the context. But this is the first I've seen of the video and my complaint is about the complete lack of effort after he shoots him.

I knew it was only a matter of time before you came around...

[dabrockster]

Additional information on the situation that took place in Texas and leads to the same line of thinking that there is a strong undertone of racial issues vs. cops that is starting to boil over.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/...ckinney-texas/

Radio Hosts speaks out and is threatened
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/...as-about-race/

[TripletDaddy]

Racial issues between cops and minorities? When did this start happening???