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The behaviour of US police officers

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SuburbanTurkey said:
Home surveillance system catches cop beating up 17 year old kid with autism.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preston-adam-wolf-autism-california-police-punch/



There's the professionalism we've come to expect in the US.
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I note that the boss's equivocation is that he can't prove the cop knew the kid was autistic. That, of course, makes slamming people to the ground, punching and threatening them, perfectly OK. I mean the kid didn't sit the way I wanted! Praise me for my restraint in not killing him for that.
 
bruto said:
I note that the boss's equivocation is that he can't prove the cop knew the kid was autistic. That, of course, makes slamming people to the ground, punching and threatening them, perfectly OK. I mean the kid didn't sit the way I wanted! Praise me for my restraint in not killing him for that.
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Hey he failed to respect the authority of the cop, and needed to be put in his place. Policing 101 people.
 
bruto said:
I note that the boss's equivocation is that he can't prove the cop knew the kid was autistic. That, of course, makes slamming people to the ground, punching and threatening them, perfectly OK. I mean the kid didn't sit the way I wanted! Praise me for my restraint in not killing him for that.
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Was there only one cop shouting orders, or six of them shouting different orders all at once, this time?
 
The Don said:
To get to that number you have to include people killed during vehicular pursuits and road traffic accident. Deaths in custody and police shootings account for a little over half that number.

The US number of around 1,000 is only for shootings.
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No, 1135 is the figure for deaths in custody from 1990 to now, so that is 36.6 a year (31 years, I have rounded up this year) and add the 75 deaths from shooting and that is 1210 or 39 a year.
 
Nessie said:
No, 1135 is the figure for deaths in custody from 1990 to now, so that is 36.6 a year (31 years, I have rounded up this year) and add the 75 deaths from shooting and that is 1210 or 39 a year.
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I see, I was looking at recent years, I didn't realise you were averaging over a much longer period. I don't think it's reasonable to trawl back that far to skew the averages.

Something seems to have fundamentally changed in the mid to late 2000s to bring the deaths in custody down to half to a third of their previous levels. Whether it's changes in procedure, or changes in how data is captured is a subject for legitimate debate IMO.


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But that figure over the last 30 years is around the same number just shot by US Police officers.
 
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Follow-up on the case of the cops brutalizing an old woman with dementia.

Two Colorado cops violently arrested a 73-year-old woman who has dementia—then were caught on camera celebrating and laughing when they reviewed their horrific body-cam footage hours later at the police station.

The two officers have been identified as Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali of the Loveland Police Department. They arrested 73-year-old Karen Garner on June 26, 2020, after she left a Walmart with $13 of goods that she hadn’t paid for. Garner’s family says she forgot to pay because of her condition.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/colorado-police-laughed-at-body-cam-of-violent-arrest-of-karen-garner-woman-with-dementia-video-shows?via=twitter_page


“Ready for the pop?” Hopp said to Jalali and another officers while they gathered round to watch the footage of the violent arrest. “What popped?” another officer asked. “I think it was her shoulder,” Hopp replied. These comments can be heard at 48:30 in the below video.
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isn't it funny how badly we hurt this frightened old woman? har har har.
 
I'm sure they are just completely distraught over the fact that their actions are now starting to have consequences.
 
JoeMorgue said:
I'm sure they are just completely distraught over the fact that their actions are now starting to have consequences.
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I can imagine them being total jerks but when enough people point out the woman was 73, weighed 80 pounds and suffered from dementia it might sink in that 1) they should be embarrassed it took two cops to handcuff and detain an 80 pound elderly woman, and 2) it was incredibly cruel and laughing about it made them look like they should get jerk of the year awards.
 
theprestige said:
Pretty sure that's true everywhere, and by definition.

Is it not true in your jurisdiction?
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I live in Florida. My point is that “resisting arrest” is used as a charge instead of being seen as, trying to not die when confronted with violent assault.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I can imagine them being total jerks but when enough people point out the woman was 73, weighed 80 pounds and suffered from dementia it might sink in that 1) they should be embarrassed it took two cops to handcuff and detain an 80 pound elderly woman, and 2) it was incredibly cruel and laughing about it made them look like they should get jerk of the year awards.
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But they got to mess someone up, that is the best kind of humor to all cops.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I can imagine them being total jerks but when enough people point out the woman was 73, weighed 80 pounds and suffered from dementia it might sink in that 1) they should be embarrassed it took two cops to handcuff and detain an 80 pound elderly woman, and 2) it was incredibly cruel and laughing about it made them look like they should get jerk of the year awards.
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Is anything going to happen to them?

I don't really get bent out of shape when I step on ants in the parking lot, and these pigs have no reason to care that they traumatized some vulnerable old woman. They have power and she doesn't, sucks for her, lets all laugh.

Nothing bad will happen to them, why should they give a ***** ?
 
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