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I fear that the high profile cases we’ve seen this past year are just the tip of the iceberg. I read that in the United States on average two people a day are killed by the police. The law of averages suggests that they are not all “righteous.” But, as always, the more they got away with it, the bolder they became. Now, I think abuse is second nature to some of them.
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I just think we can take the record of whoever was on-duty in the jail for the 24-48 hours before he was discovered dead and suspend them all until they come to trial on murder charges, conspiracy, and conspiracy after the fact.
Whoever killed him needs serious prison time.
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So are those nine officers still in the state or did they get just enough time to skip?
Great website! Thanks for the link. Rather sobering, isn’t it?
BTW, your post reminded me, those numbers include only those deaths that are reported as killings. It doesn’t include “suicides,” preexisting conditions," "accidents,’ and “unknown causes.” I’m sure the real number is much, much higher.
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I’m a normal non-violent kinda guy. Sometimes, though, I wonder how I’d react if cops were to try to restrain me with a hold where I couldn’t breathe or was hurting really bad. I’d probably start clawing and biting and scratching any body part I could find. I know I’d probably wind up dead as a result, but it really is human nature to try to escape such circumstances in any way possible. That is why cops need to be trained in methods other than a physical restraint that could cause harm. I just can’t believe that nylon handcuffs wouldn’t prevent more deaths like this.
This young man was killed in early Jan. Cops have been fired - which is not justice, just making the lump of police killings that is being swept under the rug grow ever larger. sigh
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Dead in restraints + blunt force trauma = death by cheap shots. They beat him to death while he could fight back. Disgusting. I hope someone does time for this.
I would surmise if he hadn’t committed an act of domestic violence serious enough to warrant summoning the police he’d be alive today. Drunk drivers die. People playing with guns die. People die every day, the precipitating event being something they did but shouldn’t have. In nature it’s called thinning the herd.
So the Brave, brave police tied him to a chair, and then beat him to death.
Typical.
@steviedee111, you are mitigating on behalf of extra judicial murder.
No, I’m advocating that persons conform to the law and accepted norms of civilized behavior in order that they not unnecessarily put themselves in harm’s way, regardless the form that harm may take. Police brutality is despicable. Putting yourself in a heightened position to suffer that brutality, knowing the propensity for some police to be brutal, isn’t wise. Be wise.
Thug had it coming.
Slut had it coming.
Society does a good enough job enforcing these coping mechanism at the point occurrence. I think time away is better spent chipping at these acts and attitudes that underlie them.
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The kid is reported to have been bipolar, therefore not necessarily able to control the behavior that got him arrested and the actions that caused him to restrained. “Be Wise” does not apply when mental illness is involved.
I’m assuming they don’t have cameras in holding cells. Why not?
Abuse always was second nature to some of them. LE has never monitored itself to protect Black and brown or poor people from the unhinged vengeance some cops pretend is their right.
“LE has never monitored itself…”
You’re too kind. LE has fought ferociously to keep anyone from monitoring any of their behavior. They claim it detracts from, inhibits them from, restricts them from their ability to do their job or some such mumbo jumbo.
The LE unions fight very hard to avoid any kind of transparency and any kind of assessments of mental suitability for LE.
Shining an unyielding light on these mind sets and applying public and political pressure on the miscreants is what is needed.