[Niceboy]

Oh well.. injustice happens everyday.. unless someone’s committed to real justice like slicing the cops throats or something execution style this story is done and done

[gymbunnie]

This is absolutely horrific. I want to see the body cam footage like most to actually see what occurred leading up to. However, I did see the released security cam footage of outside when they initially approached and detained but I personally couldn't identify any resistance on his part.

[Necrotic Bowel]

That dude was obviously assaulting the cop’s knee with the back of his neck. Seriously though, this is pretty fucked up.

[jbell0129]

piece of SHIT ex cop straight up murdered the man. total bullshit. i hope he dies. no way he isnt going to jail. the governor and mayor said they want him to fry. its over

[patootie]

Originally Posted by niknik ↗

That cop is going to prison. I don't understand why everyone just assumes its got anything to do with race.

Maybe this cop is just an power happy asshole. Maybe he treats all people who piss him off with excessive force.

Not that it really matters, possibly it makes what he did even worse. But from watching the video i wonder if the people standing there watching, filming, and jawing with the cops. Did play a part in the death unintentionally.

Because that cop is a power happy stubborn asshole. He just kept his knee on that guys neck because they were telling him to stop. And he wasn't going to stop and give them any satisfaction or control over him. I wonder if they would have just walked away if things would have ended differently.

This. Not to deflect blame off the officer but all the people around shouting just made the situation worse. Instead of concentrating on the suspect, they were on the defensive mode against the crowd. Nothing wrong with filming a cop but don’t be combative, let them do their job and be on their way.

[Spiffyfable]

Originally Posted by patootie ↗

This. Not to deflect blame off the officer but all the people around shouting just made the situation worse. Instead of concentrating on the suspect, they were on the defensive mode against the crowd. Nothing wrong with filming a cop but don’t be combative, let them do their job and be on their way.

Yes... I believe Cops are trained to do the Exact Opposite of what aggressive crowds may ask. Helps maintain the illusion of Superiority.

So what the crowd Should Have Done...

"See that... he called your Mom a cheap ass whore, lets get em" or "Perhaps you should pick him up and slap him around some more"

[el_topo]

He pissed himself and cried for his mommy. First he was the big scary gangster now he’s just like a dead rat on the side of he rode, good show

[el_topo]

Road*

[gimlet]

Originally Posted by Niceboy ↗

Oh well.. injustice happens everyday.. unless someone’s committed to real justice like slicing the cops throats or something execution style this story is done and done

I wouldn't be writing a life insurance policy for that police person now. If not for omnipresent video cameras in cell phones, we would never know / hear about this.

[Vedderman]

Originally Posted by niknik ↗

That cop is going to prison. I don't understand why everyone just assumes its got anything to do with race.

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People assume that race is a factor because this shit virtually never happens to white boys who commit non-violent crimes like selling unstamped cigarettes or passing counterfeit Jacksons.

You think for a -second- that if this was a middle-aged white guy that cop was going to flat-out murder him in front of everyone? No. Because that actually pretty much never happens. Even when that Somali cop murdered Justine Ruszczyk in the same city a few years ago, he was just a jumpy dipshit with a hair trigger who shot her out of a window without ever even making an ID. Very different story from the all-too-common instances of black men who are murdered under color of authority during the course of arrests, often cavalierly in front of witnesses.

And no, I'm not even saying that this pig woke up that morning and said to himself, "Today, I'm gonna take a smoke off the streets for good." I don't think that was the case. This wasn't a 'targeted' racial killing. But it WAS a case of this man's life being worth nothing to this pig BECAUSE he was a black suspect. So when push came to shove, piggie said to himself in his little pig brain, "Fuck it, it's just some jungle bunny passing bad bills. No one's gonna give a shit if I lean on him as hard as I want." I don't think he was looking to kill the guy. The guy's life just meant nothing to him and I believe that was largely due to race, as I strongly suspect piggie's behavior would have been different if the perp was white.

The race issue that people keep bringing up is not necessarily racist killer-cops. But institutionalized racism devaluing the lives of black men to such a degree that the pigs barely even register them as human when it comes to how to treat them.