Did you watch the video?
Oh, wait. Never mind. I momentarily forget your stance on this topic.
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Oh, I get it!
Cops are not just cops, they get to be the judge and jury and apply the punishment! Why let a little thing like ârightsâ get in the way? Especially, since every person arrested in these cases is always 100% guilty.
Hey, why should cops be held to a higher standard of decency than the scum of the earth?
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Yes, I watched it. There was NO beating of this man after he was cuffed. Any beating before that was well deserved since he was armed and resisting arrest. He had already fled once from an attempted arrest seconds before.
Yes, after he was cuffed they grabbed him and called him names. So?
The âtopicâ is what? I am reading an article about an incident, and am commenting on THAT incident. I see no problem with the police on this one, they got a violent criminal who just terrorized a woman and her children by threatening to shoot them. But to you thatâs probably real cool.
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What punishment? Grabbing him and calling him names? I saw no beating after he was cuffed.
Well, in this case the guy was in the car that was carjacked at gunpoint, and he had a gun. He still needs to be tried, but as a cop he is THE suspect and he is ARMED.
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Causeâ Rightie Jeebusâ only really loves you if youâre:
American
Republican
White
Heterosexual
Male
http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/republican-jesus.jpg
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The problem is the Police are there to protect. Whatever the guy did, they are not employed or trained to kick his ass because heâs a bad guy. If you were mistaken for a out-on-parole carjacker, would you be okay with them kicking the crap out of you because they thought you were the bad guy?
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He was in the carjacked car. He then FLED when they approached him to arrest him. Why? So he had already resisted arrest once, AND was known to be armed. Yes, the police need to protect us from armed assholes who point guns at a woman and her kids and threaten to shoot them and steal cars.
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For the most part I agree with your assessment. The linked article provides context missing here. They had good reason to believe the suspect was armed and the force stopped once he was cuffed. The woman filming claims he was beaten after he was cuffed, but the video indicates otherwise. They are shouting for him to give them his arm. He doesnât and they beat him. They get the arm and you can hear the cuffs click into place. Then the use of force stops.
I am sickened however about the cops attitude that the suspect cannot call upon Jesus.
On the other hand, though, I understand it given the adrenaline rush of the moment.
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And I wonder what the whole story is here.
I think what the cop thought was that this guy wanted to tell Jesus the cops were being the âbad guysâ and to save him from them, not that he was calling Jesus for forgiveness, which might have been what he actually meant. But yes, a chase and some physical activity gets the adrenaline going, especially when the suspect is armed.
Yes, what the woman claimed was false, but in fairness to her all she saw was the guy getting busted, likely thinking it was some unarmed vagrant, in which case that beating before the cuffing would indeed be totally unjustified. So she was âcaught up in the momentâ, and I donât blame her for saying that.
What also needs to be kept in mind is that this guy had already fled an arrest attempt a few seconds earlier. So he needed a physical subduing prior to being cuffed.
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Please donât âthink.â You donât know.
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This is your newfangled Bizarro Police at work.
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Whatâs the difference? Being outraged a guy who just committed an armed carjacking wants to call Jesus is now police brutality? The cop is supposed to say âIâm sorry sir, but we canât allow you to call Jesusâ.
And at exactly what point does any of that rationale bestow upon officers of the law the permission to kick the hell out of a handcuffed suspect? Youâre so fucking horrified that the carjacker pointed a gun â and that is admittedly a criminal act â but where is your concern about officers taking the law into their own hands and meting out an illegal beating of a handcuffed suspect?
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I saw no beating after he was cuffed. None. It would not be excusable if he was beat after the cuffing.
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The man is handcuffed on the ground and the cop is kicking him!!! Then kneeing him in the back while beating on his head. Are you blind or just blind to anything that doesnât fit your agenda?
The very first sentence reads: A video posted online this week appeared to show police in Michigan beating a handcuffed man . . .
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Iâd hate to be a police officer in todayâs climate, where people are so incensed at the daily reports of senseless brutality that theyâre ready to take matters into their own hands. IMO the actions of relatively few bullies endanger the lives of all officers. If the police departments donât get these aggressors under control, despite the public outcry against police brutality, they risk the public acting in its own interest in a way that wonât be pretty.
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Why would he even comment at all?
By all means, keep treating them like animals. Thatâs what they all are, right?
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Nope. Once cuffed, one cop grabs him and tells him not to call Jesus. Second cop searches his upper body and took something out of his pocket, but looked pissed he did not find the gun he knew he had based on the car jacking. The cops later found they gun they knew was there in his pants. They had NO idea where it was, but they knew he was ARMED. So until cuffed, he needed his ass kicked while resisting. No beating once cuffed.
I donât care what the headline says, I watched the video.
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Apparently not. The two kicks came as the handcuffs are being applied, and the kneeing in the back and the smack on the head are well after. You watched this video with the same attention to detail that had you insisting Zimmermanâs girlfriend waited days to report the wine bottle incident, or that poor little Georgie didnât stand a chance against the brutish Trayvon Martin. Your attention to detail adds up to seeing things that are not there, dumbass.
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