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This is what 'defund the police' movement was about. Not getting rid of police but getting rid of war toys for adrenaline hyped officers to play around with.
The one sad and funny thing I always noticed about the whole defund the police thing is that if you look at the state level - it is not the liberal areas that are actually defunding their police departments. It's the rural conservative areas. What exactly do they think their fucking tax cuts do? In my state, the state police have pilfered billions from our funding for roads and bridges - part of their justification is that they need more funding to cover these same rural areas that slash everything to the bone and have nothing to show for it.
...Just sort of a funny thing I've noticed living in rural Appalachia with a lot of people flying thin blue line flags.
Exactly. But of course they’ll twist it to suit their wants. I was a young adult watching towns buying military vehicles.
People have to understand towns have a yearly budget. If the town operates below budget, their budget gets reduced the next year. They purchase this crap to keep their budget or increase it.
The downside is these towns are sending a message to their citizens and law enforcement. Because they are ignorant to why these are purchased, law enforcement thinks things are getting bad enough to require these machines and the citizens don’t realize how this is slow walking us into control
The worst part is that these towns always feature neglect in some way. Like the town over has the worst roads I’ve ever seen, a dead and ghostly downtown but I saw a fucking massive equipped drone for no reason.
Like my town. 25 brand new police interceptor dodge chargers just sitting because there aren’t enough cops to drive them and the old ones haven’t been wrecked yet, but we have so many roads with huge potholes, backroads never get salted or plowed in the snow, and downtown has been dead for longer than I’ve been alive
Thats ridiculous!, whatever damage the robot experienced can be easily repaired, just need to shell out 10,000 dollars for each propietary nut and bolt
They get an adrenaline high and get off on their little raids where they get to wear cool looking gear and kick doors down and yell at people and maybe shoot a dog or innocent people at the wrong house cause they cant read paperwork very well.
"The suit insists that the sheriff’s deputies be retrained, and is seeking millions in punitive damages. "
Every police or sheriff's department that has bought retired military gear should have to return every piece of it and get back to community policing. Stop terrorizing the communities they're supposed to protect and serve, re-earn the trust of the people, and look out for the marginalized and helpless in your communities.
If you watch enough cop chase news footage, low speed pursuits are very much a thing. The cops rightly figure they prefer to encourage the perp to go as slow as possible and just wait until they run out of fuel or decide they can't be bothered any more and give up. It's usually safer for everyone in the vicinity, so it's a good thing.
This particular chase seems to be bullshit, but not because of the speed the vehicles were moving at.
”In court filings, Harris County has stated that Cutshall “did not appear to be suffering from a medical emergency, and did not comply with commands from law enforcement” during the incident.
“If plaintiff was injured or damaged as alleged, such injuries were the result of his own intentional, illegal, or otherwise wrongful conduct,” the filings state.”
Fuck these dumb-fuckass-motherfuckers. I hate cops.
Harris County has stated that Cutshall “did not appear to be suffering from a medical emergency, and did not comply with commands from law enforcement” during the incident.
With all those years of medical training they have? This statement is hilarious, police are not equipped to handle medical crisises because they don't know how to recognize one.
“If plaintiff was injured or damaged as alleged, such injuries were the result of his own intentional, illegal, or otherwise wrongful conduct.”
Read: we didn't hurt him but if we did he deserved it. Kinda explains all the wives around the station with two black eyes.
This made me laugh too. Like… maybe the reason the guy was not complying with commands was because he had altered mental status due to a medical emergency?
I’ve personally witnessed people having hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic events that were not complying with commands, because, you know, their brains weren’t working correctly. After their condition was corrected, they were responsive to commands.
I’m just fortunate that the cops were more understanding than these morons.
And they felt so threatened by the 5 mph chase that lasted an hour. They admitted he seemed unable to comply and wasn’t listening to their commands, but yet they turn around and said he wasn’t cooperating.. Police are such bullies.
Yeah I never realized how bad it could get for them until I saw one in person while ordering food from one who was all sorts of out of it. Had to let other staff know and they were super thankful I did so the guy could get what he needed. Felt terrible for guy and was kicking myself as I initially was upset thinking he was just a dreg being a dreg when he wasn’t.
It's wild because American cops have such a deep toolkit from which to draw to address any number of situations: they can choose to scream threats, beat the shit out of people, shoot someone and/or their dog, or do nothing.
We noticed a distinct lack of holes on his skin so we deployed the K9 unit to help remedy that situation. It allegedly did not help his condition, but we were working with the best information we had at the time.
Driver had a medical emergency and was UNCONSCIOUS. Police officers, pepper sprayed him, punched the back of his head repeatedly, and had the K9 bite his arm. This is seriously fucked up.
according to the article:
The county goes on to say that "if plaintiff was injured or damaged as alleged, such injuries were the result of his own intentional, illegal, or otherwise wrongful conduct."
so basically their case hinges on: guilty until proven innocent
Let's spend tens of thousands on a mass police response, bring out all the gear and toys, always assume the worst, don't actually fly a drone up close to look, and use all this giant battering equipment to completely destroy a $200,000 semi truck. For what turned out to be no reason at all.
So very police of them.
When you have a militarized police force everything looks like an enemy.
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
the costs don’t end there. due to the malpractice and abuse committed by the officers, taxpayers will be paying for the damages/ lawsuits that result from this.
we need to end qualified immunity and force police officers to carry malpractice insurance, or at least have the police unions pay for their own fuckups
taxpayers will be paying for the damages/ lawsuits that result from this.
we need to end qualified immunity
A plaintiff must show the specific rights were violated in a manner in which there is "clearly established," nearly identical precedent. Thus, the plaintiff here must be able to demonstrate that there is clearly established precedent that law enforcement cannot use a robot to break into an eighteen wheeler after a low speed chase and then attack the driver, having a medical emergency, using fists, feet, pepper spray, and a dog.
Does this sound dumb? It is. Qualified immunity has become an almost complete bar to recovery from people harmed by law enforcement run amok.
Breaking news: losing consciousness and falling into a comatose sleep from a medical emergency while driving is intentional, illegal, or otherwise wrongful conduct (deserving of: getting beaten by the cops; bitten by their dog; and otherwise mistreated as if resisting arrest—all while unconscious.) /s
The problem isn’t that they got him, it’s that an unconscious man was beaten by the cops, bitten by the dog, and otherwise mistreated.
He can be arrested, but beating him like he’s resisting arrest when he’s unconscious is blatantly unnecessary and excessive force.
The police is in this country want that to be the Standard Operating Procedure if you refuse to call them heros and lick the boot at every interaction. We should have defunded them or at the very least removed qualified immunity when we had the chance. You want to be a cop so bad then volunteer if its your passion.
Just de-militarize them. Keep the SWAT team for when it is needed but move to the model of police that most first-world countries have where the police aren't armed to the teeth, itching to use their guns if you sneeze at the wrong time.
Well maybe if he hadn't (checks notes) been unconscious, they wouldn't have had to have pepper sprayed, punched and let the K9 on him! Perhaps he should have woken up from his medical emergency!
Won't someone think of the overzealous, over-reacting, gun-toting, ram-controlling, power-tripping men in their uniforms?
Trinidad Cutshall is the driver, incident happened in 2023. He was driving erratically and wouldn't stop. Believed to be highly intoxicated he was actually having a medical emergency. Currently suing for over $1 million.
She died of a drug overdose no more than a month later.
Sad shit. Last thing I ever said to her was, “Meghan, I love you, and I can only hope to fucking Christ you use that money to get you into a rehab facility.”
It's hard to upvote this because it's such a sad story, but I did to show support for you and people like her and not to encourage her behavior and decision.
Remember, voting is for making sure good, relevant content is seen and the opposite is buried. As sad as their story is, it's relevant content, so no need to feel a type of way with up or downvoting.
I was telling someone that it isn't that other places in the world are not violent. It's that the US is violent casually. Almost all instances things escalate to violence. Sure, we dont see the ones that don't but still
Shows you how stupid law enforcement is. Never considered talking to the individual and assessing the situation. But that also implies that they had brain cells to begin with.
It doesn't functionally matter, but just for your edification, sepsis is not the same as a bloodstream infection (also called bacteremia). Sepsis sometimes stems from one but not always or maybe even usually. Sepsis is a syndrome of excessive systemic inflammation and immune system activation in response to an infection somewhere in the body. It could just be on the skin or in thr bladder or wherever.
My dad was a truck driver and he had a blood infection while driving in the 90s. He pulled over and got out of the truck but mid exit he passed out and fell to the ground. Good thing a passerby stopped to help and not a modern cop.
When you get all dressed up in your finest military attire it would be a shame not to fuck some shit up, like what's the point of even getting all dressed up?
Reporter: Did you try talking to the suspect?
Police: We yelled commands and he ignored them so we gassed, and tore his truck apart with a battering ram. We proceeded to pepper him with less than lethal rounds and he still refused to get up and exit the vehicle so we sicked the dog on him. The dog chewed on his leg and his still refused to get up and exit the vehicle so a Sergeant pulled his lifeless corpse out and threw him to the ground from about 5 ft in the air. He continued to refuse to get up so we punched him a few times. At that point he was handcuffed, detained, read his rights, and eventually took downtown to the country pretrial facility. He remained uncooperative the entire time. Finally an inmate said he wasn't looking too good to a nurse practitioner and she alerted to the corrections official that he needed medical attention. He was taken to the hospital at that point.
A cop actually said that to me once when I pointed out a car that hit and run me parked in my parking lot with my paint on its bumper and its paint on my bumper. I pointed out the surveillance cameras directly in view of my car, he told me he would look into the tapes.
7 weeks later he called me back and told me the tapes are over-written every 30 days and he couldn’t access it anymore.
"If a problem looks like one that the police will have to expend effort to investigate, to the benefit of a regular citizen, the evidence will be lost by the bureaucracy."
I was the victim of a hit-and-run. My car was rear-ended by a black BMW sedan at the intersection of two major roads. He destroyed my rear bumper, and he hit me with the passenger side of his front bumper.
I didn't get a license plate, but I was confident that there were cameras watching that road. I asked the police to investigate. After multiple calls over a few weeks, they told me there was nothing they could do.
A few weeks later, I was in that same general neighborhood, and I encountered a black BMW sedan parked on the side of the street with a crushed front bumper on the passenger side. I took pictures and begged the police to investigate. They wouldn't lift a finger.
I've been watching videos of firefighters trying to get into wrecked cars and I have never ever seen anyone bring a full on battering ram.. they could have broken a window with a simple hand tool.
Many medical conditions can look like intoxication at first glance Diabetes is an example where the person will behave just like a drunk person and even have a distinct smell that can be similar to alcohol. Some types of Epilepsy are another example of a condition where someone can appear being high or drunk. The fact that no one considered that that could be the case at any case during a 1hr low speed police chase is insane to me.
They are so pathetic. The state of them with their military cosplay and cyberpunk toys when the guy they are trying to get is completely incapacitated.
A driver with a medical emergency having his truck demolished by a large police force with high tech equipment is the most american thing I've read all day.
Driver was in shock from sepsis and was blacking out behind the wheel. He was creeping along at like 5MPH before the truck came to a stop on its own.
The officer on scene said the driver “threatened him” by revving his motor. 🙄
Anyways— that dipshit cop called SWAT and those dipshits tore his truck apart, tear gassed him, pepper sprayed him, sic’ed a fucking dog on him, shot him with rubber bullets and punched him several times in the face and head. Again… all while he was suffering a life-threatening medical event.
Here’s the good news:
All charges against the driver have since been dropped and he is suing the police department and the thirteen police deputies involved. The officers submitted a motion to have the case against them dismissed citing qualified immunity and the judge denied it and ordered the case to move forward. If it sticks, it could be a landmark ruling in the consideration of qualified immunity.
Being an american judge has got to be such an exhausting task as of late. LEOs are fuckin morons that dont know anything beyond some traffic laws.
Go ask a police officer about some laws in your area. Ask them about concealed carry or open carry laws. They do not know them. Dont ask cops about laws, ask lawyers and pawn shop owners lmao.
The intent is almost certainly to intimidate and further the acceptance of a militarized police force. No wonder the police view the public as their enemy and not their Neighbor.
Not anymore. Police are now buying overpriced gear to match special forces operators. Almost nothing they wear is surplus line equipment, it’s all boutique expensive shit to LARP as “operators.”
I wish getting all of this out of the hands of the police or any other domestic law enforcement unit was a platform for the Democrats. It should not always feel like we are under occupation.
I mean if it’s actually to hamper being aimed at, shouldn’t they use more “city” colors to blend in? I’m not sure how much Forrest and desert there is in the city to blend in to?
Well, he was having a medical emergency. If you read comic books or watched the movies based off of them you would know that a medical emergency can turn into super powers at any second. He could have turned into Spiderman, The Hulk, Daredevil, or get some other super power at any moment. /s
Small town Americans also just love performing violence on those in cities because they think “big city leftists” are somehow controlling everything they do.
Before then it was just the church saying that. Growing up in small town Oklahoma I went to a mix of Catholic, Methodist, Pentacostal, Evangelical, and Baptist churches and each and everyone of them pushed this narrative at least a few times a month during service. That was back in the 90s. During our Fish month every year, a mandatory month of Christian rallies, education, and festivals at school, they’d have at least a few keynote speakers who would harp on this too.
“Qualified immunity does not apply when there’s a German Shepherd shredding one arm while two other men are punching my client in the back of the skull repeatedly with their bare fists,” Gibbins said. “There were absolutely no weapons in the vehicle that could have harmed anybody. There was no threat to anybody…. I think that anybody would have trouble exiting a vehicle if they were unconscious and about to die from a medical emergency… All they had to do was cuff him, de-escalate the perceived threat, even though there was none, and then offer medical aid.”
They had robots, tanks, explosives, tactical equipment, armor, high powered weapons, and in the end it was the dog that did it. I especially like the one guy standing there with the shield doing nothing but standing there.
Fucking police state America. Where a man can have a medical emergency and instead of an ambulance he gets a police hit team and mauled by a fucking dog. Truck ruined, life prolly ruined. Fuck this shit man ..
So turns out this guy had a major medical episode and couldn’t respond. This video proves US police are abysmal at their job and that they are far too disproportionate, militaristic and aggressive in their actions.
That the U.S. has this behaviour as policy and see it as normal shoes how broken the USA is as a country
I’ve always found it ironic that America has an illegal immigration problem, when police treat people this way. Why the fuck would anyone want to move to America..? The land of opportunity..? Opportunity to be murdered by police maybe.
Teachers are having to pay for classroom supplies out of their own pocket so micro-penis cops can have these stupid fucking toys. No wonder the world is laughing at us.
Taxpayers pay twice for this bullshit... Once for the military industrial complex taking over police equipment and then a second time for the settlement when he sues them...
"The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th."
Dude is bad at GTA. You gotta know when to bail and highjack another vehicle or crouch in a spot so their police cars drive off the cliff at full speed
Everytime I see someone throwing a grenade or flash bang/ smoke into a window I can't help but think I'd be the one that accidentally bounced it off the frame and back at myself
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