Units like SCIRPION area trained to make contact with people. They are evaluated, in part, by the number of their encounters. So pulling someone over on a reckless driving pretext is a contact. The problem is that the person being pulled over has no idea what he did or why he is being arrested. That is the problem of proactive police enforcement encounters without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. So, make a nonsense stop performed in a threatening and aggressive manner to begin with. You know a cop is a bad cop when he pulls you over for a traffic issue and is nasty or aggressive. I have had that experience. You have to defuse them. You shouldn’t have to. But that is the way it is. They changed the speed limit on a street and the cop kept asking me if I thought he was stupid. I kept telling him that I didn’t realize the speed limit was reduced. I didn’t get a ticket, but the aggression was unnecessary.
It’s regrettable that you ‘can’t help but think’ that way. You’re obviously not black. Submitting to cops hasn’t necessarily helped blacks throughout the centuries in America.
Whatever bro. Keep clinging to your fairytales and blanky, in the warm cover afforded in your precious snowglobe.
Sickening. 1. No one should be making any excuses for the cops. Their actions were so far over the top, gross, disgusting… no excuse. 2. This may be the worse cop brutality beating I’ve seen since Rodney King.. and this is worse. They freaking fist pump after beating in the kid.. 3. I would be very surprise if those cops did not have something I their systems. Some drug? Some steroid? Something. Humans shouldn’t act that way. 4. Let’s be very careful not to paint all cops with the same brush. Every profession has subhumans. Lawyers, doctors, teachers, preachers, all of them. Cops just happen to be under a microscope because of their role and interaction with citizens. Many are good hard working individuals who are just as disgusted by this as we are.
Of all the people you could have called sh#tbags, you didn't apply it to the folks that beat a man.. to death. Just wow.
What’s truly sickening are your posts on this issue, now the reference to black lawyers. That kind of reveals where you’re really coming from.
Two cops were holding him up, for other cops to beat him with a baton and kick him in the face. Wtf is wrong with you?
I'm all for supporting cops but that was murder on cam no matter how you spin it I don't care if that kid resisted arrest or not
They pulled up, surrounded him, and then bum rushed his car like the lawless thugs that they are…….for “reckless driving”? The Chief of Police seems to indicate they can’t even identify causation for the reckless driving charge. So, your take is just lunacy. That man was never a threat to those cops. And they literally held him up, immobilized him, and beat him to death on a street corner.
This quote is instructive… When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. ~Maya Angelou Remember this because it will happen many times in your life. When people show you who they are the first time believe them. Not the 29th. time. When a man doesn't call you back the first time, when you are mistreated the first time, when someone shows you lack of integrity or dishonesty the first time, know that this will be followed many many other times, that will some point in life come back to haunt or hurt you. Live your life in truth. Don't pretend to be someone you're not. You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.”
Why is it ok for cops to turn off their bodycam? If so then what's the point? When you read articles like the one below it makes you wonder how often police go overboard with an arrest then lie to cover it up On January 8, the police department announced officers pulled over a motorist for reckless driving the previous day. “As officers approached the driver of the vehicle, a confrontation occurred and the suspect fled the scene on foot,” officials said in a statement posted on social media. Officers pursued the suspect and again attempted to take him into custody when another confrontation occurred before the suspect was apprehended, according to police. “Afterward, the suspect complained of having a shortness of breath, at which time an ambulance was called to the scene. The suspect was transported to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition,” officials said. 5 Memphis officers fired after death of man who was hospitalized after his arrest
They are allowed to turn off their body cams when they are interacting with other law enforcement officers only. When dealing with the public, policy is that they are on and recording. Keep reading, it gets worse.
Right. From what I've always understood is that there are 2 reasons you can turn it off: Talking to another officer about investigative techniques, or contact with a civilian that is not suspected of a crime and who requests for the officer to turn it off.
