ACAB
That’ll teach him to… checks notes turn off his headlights in between rain downpours… such a wanton criminal.
Once they’re done rounding up all the brown people, I’m guessing black is next.
Cops casually assaulting people for no real reason has become the norm. 30 years ago that would have been a crime.
Boy do I have some
goodterrible news for you…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
It’s getting better but it’s still horrible, we need to reform policing as a whole in this country (USA).
30 years ago it would have happened more frequently and simply wouldn’t have been reported on. The BIPOC community has known for generations that cops are oppressors who use violence as their primary form of communication. The advent of phone cameras has simply allowed it to be recorded and broadcast often enough to enter white peoples’ zeitgeist.
This is nothing new, and 30 years ago nothing would have been done about it. Hell, 60-70 years ago, the cops would have been joined by an angry mob, and the dude would have been lynched just because the crowd wanted some entertainment. The 1950s and ‘60s weren’t that long ago. Trump’s entire generation was born and raised when segregation was still the norm, and Jim Crowism was expected.
30 years ago…? 30 years ago they wouldn’t have been on camera doing it, you’d just never know it happened.
Ehhh… kinda…. Maybe. Depends on if they’re white or not…
I saw the body cam footage. While they definitely used excessive force when they beat him up, he resisted arrest and was being overall combative. When the cop asked him for his ids he says no and slams the door closed and locks it. (His window was broken so he was communicating by opening the door)
The cop showed amazing composure by not immediately breaking the window and pulling him out. If that would have happened imo it would have been justified.
my lord you are a fucking muppet
was being overall combative
He was not being combative, you fascist peace of shit.
They may have been in the right to remove him from the vehicle. All the remaining beating is absolutely criminal.
First of all you probably aren’t even a real person so take your 4day old account and shove it up your ass.
Second go watch the body cam footage. If you can’t be objective then go back to Reddit. They’ll love you over there
How’s that boot polish taste ?
The original intent of the stop was a headlight violation.
The problem with that is that it wasn’t raining, invalidating the reason for the stop.
From that point forward, the interaction should have immediately stopped. Without PC for the headlight violation, the police had no authority to demand ID. Since they couldn’t demand ID, they didn’t have a reason to arrest. That invalidates the resisting charge.
Start to finish this was a crazy interaction and I hope every cop involved has a very happy get lynched in front of their families. :)
I am not arguing that point at all. His rights were 100% violated. But you and everyone else fail to make decisions based on reality.
Everyone knows police abuse is a problem. Would you rather be right or dead? Instead of complying and filing suit later, he decided to make a bad situation 100x worse. As I said based on his reaction in slamming the door it is 100% reasonable that the officer making the stop would fear for his life. Regardless that the stop was illegal, IN THAT MOMENT, the cop would have been justified in drawing his weapon. Thankfully he didn’t and the young man is alive.
How exactly would an officer fear for his life when a door was slammed specifically to put distance between the victim and the officer?
Go watch the tape bro. You don’t have to take my word for it. There is a reason you’re only seeing the perspective from inside the car on social media.
I mean, police officers get scared from acorns falling on their cars. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone closing their door causes an officer to fear for their life.
Is there a video from source not built by one of these Florida cop’s retarded nephews?
stop using “retarded” as a slur.
This was downvoted for some odd reason. I corrected the issue.
It is a slur if used as a pejorative.
Presumably the video is shot from a dashcam?
Well, why was he black?
He was clearly guilty of a DWB.
Talk about a bunch of dudes with fragile egos getting their feelings hurt because the man has the gaul to question their authority and demand their supervisor. That’s such limp dick behavior and is a fucking disgrace. Even if the cops were in the right for pulling him over (not having your headlights on? Really?) that’s just ridiculous.
Gall*, Gaul would be the region of Western Europe conquered by Rome (to put it simply).
I’m sorry, I just used to type it like this too. Carry on.
Headlights off at 4pm on an overcast day. Not raining, not even misty. Just overcast.
People saying the victim deserved it because her didn’t act like a “perfect victim” are soft between the ears
It’s also in the middle of summer too rn when the sun doesn’t set until 9pm.
This happened in February, but it is clearly still light out. Cop said they should be on because of the weather anyways (that he must’ve been imagining), not because it was dark.
Well, they’re racists
Cameras “can only capture what can be seen and heard,” the sheriff added.
Don’t believe your lying eyes.
Meaning they get to lie their asses off.
And ears.
Dudes gonna make bank when this goes to trial. But I hope those bitch ass pigs go to jail and get fired.
Nope, as usual, tax payers will pay and cops face no repercussions.
How does having your headlights off in the rain justify forcing a motorist out of their vehicle?
This is why cops in my region have body cams; and “my cam wasn’t on” or “my cam broke at just the right time” is a very bad look.
But they don’t use it to make sure they don’t mess up: they’re using it to show they did everything right, so someone was advised of their rights, the state of everything is known, etc.
But, not in America. American Cops Are (I’m guessing) Bastards.
Body/Dash cams not being on/conveniently blocked/pointed the wrong way should be criminal offenses warranting at least 5 years in prison.
because there is zero reason to play games with body/dash cams unless you are planning to do something malicious you dont want evidence of.
Well, you see, it was a combination of him being black.
Prior events shouldn’t matter. There’s zero cause to punch a suspect that isn’t an immediate threat.
Someone grab the Family Guy meme so we can show how much of a threat he was.
I feel we need to update it though. Like at top should be " He was a great father and loved god!"
The bottom should be “STOP RESISTING AND PUT THE GUN DOWN!”
They try to claim he reached for a knife on the floor, the video is pretty clear in the fact that he is no threat and isn’t reaching for anything from before the window is broken till after he is dragged out.
In fact, it’s very clear his entire intent is to try to make it impossible for them to claim he was reaching for something. And they still claimed it… like, if he had complied and reached to take off his seatbelt, they probably would have shot him…
Yea but did you notice he’s black? What are they supposed to do? Not brutalize him?
The sheriff said the cellphone camera footage from inside the car “does not comprehensively capture the circumstances surrounding the incident.”
Bullshit.
As always, ACAB.
That and the following quotes are just over the top. The cop states it so plainly I can just hear how he actually believes this. It’s not the same reality I live in.
And they punch like a bitch.
Lol.
Guy was calm as could be and bitchcop suckers him for absolutely no reason.
Guy took it like it was a kiss from bitchcops’ mom.
Dude handled it like an absolute champ, but the sad thing is, he knows being black it’s his only option. You saw how they treated him for absolutely nothing, now imagine how much they would’ve escalated had he done a single damn thing more …
Almost like they wanted him to make any kind of move so they could escalate it…
Which is why I don’t understand where the fucking 2025 equivalent to the black Panthers are. This was the whole point, follow cops with guns and make them uncomfortable abusing black citizens.
The CIA took care of that with drugs and gangs.
reagan did the most damage, he was the reason for amssive gun control in california, he was scared of the black panthers, being the racist he is.
Its difficult to not feel chills watching this scene from Panther.
But yeah the US was very happy to violently put down any form of organized black resistance. (fun fact: the bodies of the children who died in the MOVE bombing were donated to universities, without their families’ knowledge or consent)
