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[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not surprising at all, there's been so many cop brutality incidents over the years. Off the top of my head, a cop broke the arm of an elderly woman with dementia and the cops laughed and joked about it. There was another case where the cops make a man crawl on floor before executing him. People don't just become monsters overnight. They've been trained over the years to behave this way.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The job also attracts monsters and that’s who they want to hire

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bodycams are making a lot more of these available now too. Saw a brutal one where cops paralyze a handcuffed guy by breaking his neck, then they sit prop him up in a sitting position and complain that hes uncooperative because won't move.

That was a year ago, the dude is dead and the cops got off scott free.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

It makes it more available to view, but it hardly does anything to prevent it from being done because the cops face no consequences regardless usually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

George Floyd? Iirc one of the officers went to prison for that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

No, sadly most of the abuse never makes widespread news

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6r3ORU6Lx-k