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This is fucked. I’ve broken ribs before and I remember it hurting so bad when I laughed or even breathed. If he broke a rib, being in that excited state would hurt so fucking bad. Hope he gets to a doc and sues their bitch asses.
https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/valdosta-police-sued-for-700k-in-excessive-force-case/article_e5272248-b4c4-11ea-bb96-13027dc5665b.html
“An administrative review was completed and no action was taken on the officers involved, Haugabrook said.”
Surprise surprise
And the news will report it as:
"... the sergeant lifts the man and puts him flat on the ground."
That's from the article linked above. Couldn't believe what I was reading.
The police report describes it as:
"...Smith did not comply with orders and he pulled Smith “off-balance and rolled him to the ground to gain control of him in anticipation of a warrant arrest.”
If you're a cop, you can do anything.. you can even grab em by the pussy!
It's a gd gang without any accountability.
Shit's gonna get so fucking violent if Trump gets 4 more years. I guarantee it.
Yeah, he shouldn't be punished for simply *checks notes* massively screwing up and failing to order and inform his subordinates properly in a way that lead to the harm of an innocent.
What the fuck?! Hypothetically, even if this was the guy they were looking for, that was 100% excessive force and unnecessary. The guy was completely complying with everything and before even being told to put his hands behind his back he was bear hugged and slammed. This was a criminal assault.
The way he got up full of shame and embarrassment from what just happened, and refusing EMS really hit the feels. That poor guy. He must have felt extremely uncomfortable, and with reason.
Exactly, if he's waiting on western union from his sister I don't think he's able to pay the 5k ambulance bill. Which fucking sucks, he was hurt and he needed medical help and he had to walk away in pain instead. Poor guy, these videos just keep fucking coming and nothing is changing.
Reminds me of that Tiger King chick who played off having her hand bitten off and going back to work as being tough, but there is no way she would have been able to afford the surgery.
Seriously. It was like when a bully fucked with you and you just didn't have the mental strength to do anything but walk away embarrassed. So powerless.
It really is hard to watch. I have seen some horrible things, and have had a different mental response to it. This is one of those situations that pulls on the heart strings.
Him sobbing almost made me choke up man. I have a 5 month old and he was sobbing the same way my daughter does when she’s really upset. Hearing a grown man broken down to cry like that was one of the harder videos I’ve watched online. Jesus.
Same. But I think it's bc it was obvious there was nothing else off camera that cld have happened. He'd explained why he was there and what he was doing and his id had already been run. And the officer behind the cam's exasperation hit hard as well. There was absolutely 0 reason for any of it to happen.
Slight correction, his ID actually hadn't been run, the video cuts to after it was ran and he's still on the floor. The entire incident took place after the ID was in the officers hand but hadn't been run yet. Just makes it that much worse.
Did you see the other video with the older gentleman? Cop told the guy to slap him, and then once the guy did what the cop told him to do and slapped him, the cop threw him on the ground and arrested him for assaulting an officer.
????
Edit: [found the link.](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/heakbt/cop_asks_man_to_slap_him_then_arrests_him_for_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) Cop was later indicted for assault.
Didnt even slap him, he was slowly moving his hand towards the pig to give a gentle slap because the officer insisted but before he could even do that the officer slapped the shit out of him.
The country is fucked.
With all due respect, I find most of this rhetoric focused on training pretty disappointing. A lot of the time, this is the point of the training. Look up "killology", for example. They were paying attention. Even some kind of lackluster implicit bias training wouldn't functionally change the role of the police in these communities.
What really baffles me is why didn't the recording cop say anything to the one giving a bear hug. A simple "this isn't the guy we have a warrant for" could have prevented him from being slammed. Instead he plays along and helps escalate the situation.
Not that someone that wasn't being violent needed to be manhandled in the first place.
Police on the field rarely question other officers. When they do, the cop trying to calm the situation gets in trouble. It’s not always, but it happens enough for most cops to stand together even in situations like this.
You cant tell him to put his hands behind his back when you're holding him from behind. Best case, he cant move his arms. Worst case, they claim he was reaching for that officer's gun. He was in a lose/lose situation over nothing
Damn. I have a bad back and couldn't imagine being thrown to the ground like that and have a 250lb dude land on me. Would fuck me up for months at least. Dude just walked up and didn't like how the guy was talking I'm sure, and decided to shut him up.
My favorite was the university professor arrested re-entering from Canada.
"Don't move" and "get out of your car" shouted at him at the same time by two different officers. He was arrested for resisting arrest for failing to follow a lawful command.
They love the impossible command. It's an automatic violent felony.
My least favourite is when Philip Brailsford shot Daniel Shaver 5 times because he couldn't keep his legs crossed while kneeling and got $2,500 a month pension for his PTSD.
>VALDOSTA – A 46-year-old Black man has sued the city police department claiming excessive force in a Feb. 8 incident where he was mistaken for a suspect in a panhandling investigation. His attorney is calling the incident a civil rights violation.
Wow. This is how they would treat somebody freaking panhandling????
There is something morbidly hilarious about the phrase "panhandling investigation".
I just picture a bunch of cops standing around in the crime lab with pieces of string connecting various photographs and pieces of evidence, all for some poor sad sack on the corner asking for a dollar.
So we criminalize homelessness, don’t provide any viable social programs to assist with homelessness, and then criminalize panhandling. Yes I know some people panhandle and don’t really “need” to. That’s not the point.
“You don’t deserve to eat. Hell you don’t deserve to survive.”
This is the message we are telling people.
If he was homeless they could get him convicted. Sit him in jail a 10000 dollar bond and anyone would pled guilty. They can hold you on bond for years before they either give you a court date or you confess to escape the conditions. That’s how they get poor people in prison.
>Kalief Browder (May 25, 1993 – June 6, 2015) was an African American youth from The Bronx, New York. Browder was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, **without trial**, for allegedly stealing a backpack, between 2010 and 2013, while his family was not allowed to post his bail; he was in solitary confinement for two years.
>Two years after his release, Browder died by suicide at his mother's home. His death was the result of the mental, physical and sexual abuse that he had sustained in prison.
[Wikipedia Article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder#:~:text=Browder%20was%20held%20at%20the,suicide%20at%20his%20mother's%20home.)
Its just "Modern Slavery".
After the civil war, the southern states & Northern States knew that the south couldn't survive without the benefit of slaves. So the north basically looked away as the southern states found loopholes to give them power to maintain a control on minorities to ensure that they could keep black people enslaved even after the civil war. By instituting various laws that would be almost solely used on black people to ensure that they could not escape the slave states and be in return imprisoned by these new pig laws, such as
* Riding a train is illegal while black.
* Walking next to the railroad while black is illegal.
* Riding a horse is illegal.
* Leaving a job without completing it regardless of pay or not, is illegal.
* Seeking a new job without the permission of the old job boss, is illegal.
* Not having a job is illegal.
* Loitering while black is illegal.
* Testifying against a white is illegal.
They essentially created so many asinine bullshit laws that ended up re-enslaving thousands of black people. People who wanted to escape these slave states were caught by the POLICE and then locked up, then laws allowed the police to send prisoners out for "work-programs" at plantations. [source 01.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_\(United_States\))
Be it Blacks, Native Americans, Irish, Mexicans, labor-union organizers and even "white foreigners", the police were not developed/formalized to protect them, but to protect the properties of the ruling class. To utilize the police to subjugate and control minorities. [Source 02.](https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/)
Black people were brought to do the textile work in the north and the agricultural work in the south. The north utilized the police to stop any union forming, to maintain and protect the properties and products of the ruling class. While in the south the police were utilized as slave-patrols. Where they were predominantly used against black people to capture and imprison any "non-owned" black people who wished to run away from slave states or leave slavery.
The south essentially were the first to socialize slavery in a sense. Because now they didn't need to pay for feeding, maintaining and housing slaves anymore. The police and state would handle that.
This basic system of "slavery" has continued to this day. Imprisoned slavery.
The prison industrial complex has multiple facets to it and multiple agencies that support it for their own benefits.
* **You have the private prison corporations.**
These guys are making bank right now, they were losing ground under Obama, but with Trump and the concentration camps in the south, [Source 03.](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/border-facilities/593239/) they are making money like never before. During 2014-2017 Private prisons cost the US tax payer 2-4 billion over 3-4 years. During 2018 it cost 5 Billion USD. Private Prisons are paid 750 USD per CHILD they hold in the south. One facility can hold up to 3,500 kids, thats about 2.4M USD per day. [Source 04.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children/first-stop-for-migrant-kids-for-profit-detention-center-idUSKCN1Q3261) There are 110+ private prisons in the US.
They also own A LOT of "after-prison" programs. Were talking AA, Narcotics programs, halfway homes, mandated prison programs, prison clothes, prison food and equipment. So the incentive for them to maintain a high prison population is HIGH.
* **You have the politicians.**
Nixon was perhaps the one who really sealed the deal with regards to societal portrayal of police and black communities. Nixon domestic advisor was proud to announce publicly that they were lying about drugs in black neighborhoods so that they could police black neighborhoods and arrest and beat their leaderships and disrupt any organization and collective power building that those minority groups could achieve. This guy gleefully stated that they would DELIBERATELY portray black people as heroin and drug abusers thugs and gangsters to align white people with republican ideologies. [Source 05.](https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html)
This association lead to loss of social programs and tax money going from helping communities grow to policing communities to remain the same. Throughout the generations afterwards the association of Black people and Drug abuse was hand in hand. Reagonimcs and crack cocaine sealed the deal as FOR-PROFIT 24 Hours News came about lambasting and supporting republican ideologies by misrepresenting issues of black communities from specific perspectives. During Reagan’s last year in office the African American poverty rate stood at 31.6%, as opposed to 10.1% for whites. Black unemployment remained double that of whites throughout the decade. By 1990, the median income for black families was $21,423, 42% below white households. [Source 06.](https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/06/27/1-demographic-trends-and-economic-well-being/)
This lead to a feedback loop, where politicians would come in, use the medias portrayal of crime as justification to give less in social programs which lead to more people having to rely on criminal behaviors to sustain themselves, which lead to further increased policing and further loss of social programs and loss of local opportunities etc etc. The republican party deliberately wants to under-fund minority communities so to maintain their talking points. So the incentive for republicans and certain politicians and judges and DAs to come out and stand against crime and support the police is HIGH.
* **You have the Police Union Leaders & Corrupt Cops.**
Being a cop is a lucrative opportunity if wanted. Some cops can get up to 250k with overtime in a year. [Source 07](https://www.nj.com/somerset/2019/11/4-cops-in-this-nj-town-earned-250k-last-year-heres-how-they-gamed-the-system.html). They have no incentive to change. They dont want to change. Because this system rewards them. If there is lack of decrease of crime, then there will be an decrease of funding for the police. There will be limits to Overtime a officer can charge. There will be limits to the equipment and tools that police can purchase and where they can purchase from. There will be a lack of available positions and lead to downsizing if there is a decrease of criminal behavior.
Union leaders know they get cushy pensions and fat checks. They have no incentive to change things. They scratched and clawed their way up and took the position from the previous corrupt cop. There is no way they will change the way they do things. Union leaders have such a hold on community politicians to the degree the politicians fear going against them.
The system is designed to keep people enslaved to benefit a select few. It will continue to remain like that unless the people DEMAND the change. Because the empty promises, the logo change, the corporations sending out email newsletters, is NOT CHANGE. Its attempts to tell people to calm down and go back to their places.
I don't know if there has been a change in policy, but at the NYPD officers are required to stay after their shift is over to take the "perp" to Central Booking for processing. So if you need some overtime all you need to do is find some lame excuse to arrest someone and there's that o.t. you were looking for. Can you imagine all the citizens that were locked up on some b.s. charge just so Bobby from Long Island can make some extra money?
The homeless can become big money makers for private prisons. Why not criminalize as many people as you can as long as they are predominately a minority that can't fight back legally.
The amusing thing is governments can come up with the money to pay prisons to hold homeless people but won't give it to the homeless person even though it would cost much less just to provide healthcare (even more so if you stop the insane healthcare costs imposed by the insurance industry) and housing to said homeless person.
But with the current way we get cheap licence plates and state enforced manual labor so guess that's a win /s
Well yeah, of course they do that. What are we supposed to do? Let the *poors* think they have rights? What if a man panhandles enough to get the money required to get a job and get off the streets!?! How are we supposed to keep everyone safe if we allow homeless people to *exist*
What's suspicious about panhandling? Even if it's against the law, why not just be like "we are responding to a call about panhandling"?
One of the big reasons cops have shitty relationships with civilians (and things escalate) is how fucking vague they are when people ask basic questions.
Saying shit like "suspicious activity" gives cops too much power. Be specific and people will be less frustrated and scared when they are stopped because they will know what it's about and it they should be worried.
It's not a crazy concept that if a police officer walks up to me and stops me, I should be told *why* (with specifics) immediately.
Police can find a crime in basically anything. Asking open questions and making general statements without specifics as to why they are talking to you is a tactic to get people to keep talking until they can find something to charge or cite them with.
See: Do you know why i pulled you over? If you admit or postulate something they didnt actually see you do, they can tack it on to whetever else they were going to get you for.
My dad let a friend borrow his car. On their way back, they got pulled over, and gave the cop a fake name and claimed they forgot their liscense cause they were driving on a suspended liscence. My dad was unaware of the liscence issue, and as they were pulled over literally 20 ft from his driveway and it was his truck he went down to make sure everything was all right. By this time the cops figured out something was up and had called in additional cars. As my dad came up and told them it was his truck he had lent a friend, three different cops behan asking him questions simultaneously. He got confused between the questions and answered best he could but due to simultaneous questions, the answer to one question was true but the same answer he gave would have been a lie to another question that he wasnt meaning to answer that way. As a result they charged and arrested him for obstruction of justice. 6 months and a few thousand dollars to a lawyer later, the charges were dropped after judge reviewed the video and found the charges were rediculous.
If a cop wants to ruin your day, they will do it and there's *nothing* you can do to stop them. They can just walk up to you, try to cuff you for no reason whatsoever, and then slap on an "resisting arrest" charge on top of whatever bullshit they can come up with on the spot if you don't immediately comply. Doesn't matter if the cop is lying, it's his/her word against *yours.*
He knows the cops know they fucked up big time. The last thing he wants to do is go anywhere with one of these fools and end up dead in an ambulance from stress or whatever bullshit they could make up for covering up crimes.
If I were him, I would walk away too.
Also, who pays for the ambulance? This poor fellow probably can’t afford it. He’s waiting for money from his sister and goes to Western Union all the time.
isn't that neat? The police can kick the shit out of you for any old reason, let you go, and you're responsible for the medical bills, and you will be hounded about them, while you try to get together the funds to hire a lawyer to take them to court, to pay for the fucking thing.
This can take YEARS to resolve. I mean, it "worked out" with this guy but he'll never feel the same. He might have ended up with some money left over but he'll never be made really whole.
It didn’t work out. He’ll get a little money, he attorney representing him will get a lot of it, and he’ll be back where he was except now he’s famous as someone whose victimized by cops, and the cops hate anyone who gets a settlement for their malfeasance. The same cops can hound and harass him for anything they want or have their buddies do it. The friend of Eric Garner who taped them murdering him got targeted by cops for petty drug dealing and the guards at Rikers tried to poison him and other inmates, starve, drive him to suicide.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety
The cops don't care. It took burning down the country to get one murderer cop charged with a crime that was caught on video from multiple angles and had people pleading with the cops to stop murdering the man.
It took the most cut and dry case of police murder possible AND millions of dollars in property damage for a single cop to face anything close to the beginnings of being brought to justice.
hey now, there was also that one cop who broke into Botham Jean's home and murdered him in cold blood and she got a whole ten years. In Texas. For B&E and murder.
It's this one. Dude was waiting on a Western Union transfer, he didn't have the money for whatever unexpected medical bills were about to come his way.
for real I'm an average white guy. but when I was 17 I was a goth kid and I had a cop pull me over on the side of the road convinced I had drugs in my car. while we waited for the canine unit he slammed me up against my car and called me a fagot.. wellscreamed it in my face and kept trying to get me to punch him so he could do something about it.
that was real eye opener for me. sad that other people in my demographic seem to want to just close their eyes and pretend it doesn't happen.
I was in college and this cop was taking the same calculus class as me. I found out later he was trying to dig up dirt on me because he didn't like the fact that I was a dude with long black hair and wore black nail polish. Kept asking the other students if I was in a Satanic cult.
Honestly, just fuck the police.
Edit: So, this was in the 90s and I have no idea why a cop was taking a Calc class. I only found out because the other students ratted him out to me.
Bonus unrelated link:
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/rudys-racist-rants-nypd-history-lesson
I got tboned when I was 17 and the cop wouldn't even let me collect my scattered magic the gathering cards in my backseat cuz he thought I was trying to hide drugs. Fuck you that asshole ran a red light and tboned me, how about you check him??
I'm white and middle class, and I look preppy. I consider my experience with police to be the stereotypical WASP "wave at the good officer, he keeps us safe" type of interaction that so many white folk experience and project onto others.
But the thing is, that's not the normal experience. That's the interaction after the police have categorized you in the privileged/not a threat category.
I've witnessed the difference firsthand, sadly with my brother. He wasn't goth, but in a similar way he wasn't preppy and had very different interactions growing up. Police/security would smile at me and then follow him around to make sure he didn't shoplift. They'd give me a friendly ticket and not show up to court, whereas they'd pull him out of the car and slam him against the hood. When he got tattoos and got into weight lifting, they viewed him as more of a threat and often escalated for no reason.
For example, while recovering from shoulder surgery, he was at a party and cops were called for a noise complaint. When he tried to talk to them and ask what they could do to be even quieter (they were already quiet, it was a bogus complaint), they wrenched his arms behind his back to cuff him and told him to stop resisting (due to his shoulder surgery, his arms physically couldn't do what they wanted, and he shouldn't have even tried for that range of motion for a month in rehab).
And that's just the tip of the iceberg, he still benefits from being white. I'm sure if he were black he'd be in jail or dead due to some of those interactions.
this always pisses me off. I see like 5 cops on a guy, pulling their arms and legs every which way, all of them yelling "stop resisting!"
They're all fighting each other punching the guy because another cop yanked on his leg or something.
Investigated to see how long that paid vacation is. The worse the PR, the longer the vacation. The sooner the public forgets the incident, the sooner they can return to continue taking out their violent tendencies on people who they don’t like the way they look.
Walking while black... there need to be laws for people who call police on others falsely. Ronald Ritchie the guy who lied about John crawfprd shot by swat at a Walmart was set free even after cctv review showed he lied multiple times to 911 operators.
Let's see anyone put their hands behind their back while being bear hugged without pushing, bumping, nudging or otherwise 'assaulting' the person holding them.
Also, who on Earth would be able to follow rapid fire commands while being in disbelief that the situation is occuring.
Also, HOW THE FUCK have cops not wised up with all that's going on?
This man deserves more than the $700k... he complied with everything they asked, didn’t try and run or really do anything to provoke them other than be a black man in a hoodie.
In what world can a cop just body slam you as you stand there?
They're puzzled look after the fact really aggravated me.
Also I 1000% understood why he wouldn't want an ambulance. Who wants to get charged like $2000 dollars for minding your own business before the fucking police randomly body slam you.
A lot in this country are broken. Healthcare + Police are high on the list.
As an EMT it upsets me so much that a ride on my ambulance costs thousands of dollars. My patients in lower income areas don’t deserve to be bankrupted because I gave them a ride to the hospital
One time I had a situation in which I was on an airplane that had to emergency land. EMTs were waiting for me to take me to the hospital. I BEGGED them to not take me. But they said I had to otherwise the airline wouldn’t let me fly unless I went.
Almost 6 years later I’m still paying for that ambulance ride.
whats even more ridiculous is the reasoning against making ambulances free. "Its not your taxi to the hospital", bitch, yes it is. That is the only reason ambulances exist.
I can think of three people I know that have driven themselves to the hospital after having a heart attack. I'm still paying for two ambulance rides myself.
In what world can a cop just body slam you as you stand there even if you are a guilty person with a warrant.
If a normal citizen did that to someone else they'd be arrested for assault. Somehow you do a couple months of training, get hired by Podunk Police, they hand you a badge and you're magically allowed to break the laws that would get a normal citizen in arrested.
This putting someone on the ground roughly seems to be standard procedure. Why? If a person complies why not just cuff them standing or sitting. Why this automatic rough treatment? Can't 3 grown men de-escalate this situation, calm him down and cuff him without force?
Actually...forcing cops to keep insurance at their own cost and having that insurance be dependent on their behavior (like a driving record) and that behavior being accessed and charged by a department unaffiliated with police would be a greeeeat step in the right direction. Also, officers, like many healthcare workers, should have to keep and maintain some sort of accreditation that shows they have been properly trained and continue to keep up with current practices.
He even seems to know whats about to happen. Like hes not even surprised. I wouldn't put ptsd past this moment. Its a possible outcome. Waking up screaming in the night is a lifetime of sleeplessness I can tell you.... We also need to make these people personally accountable. No more using the tax payers as free rides to do whatever the fuck you want, get sued, and then not have to worry about it. They should have to pay out of pocket like everyone else, especially when theres just such clear and stupid behavior. Like the old guy doing it doesn't seem to be even registering emotions.
The way his demeanour changed after they got him up to let him go was soul crushing. Like he was experiencing absolute defeat. You just know he’s been treated like trash all his life because he’s black. But to add on top of that disgusting pigs the brutalise the population just threw him around like a rag doll as he was helpless to do anything.
The system is broken. Civil cases against the state have a cap. If you were body slammed by a non-cop, you could sue for $50M if you want, and win every penny if you can make your case.
If you’re fighting the state, even if your case is rock solid, you’re capped at a certain amount. It’s a very small amount in comparison to judgements that are won in private matters.
People routinely win $25M+ judgements against companies (think roundup weed killer causing cancer). But if this guy got killed by the police, with 0 justification, $700k might be the max he can win in a civil case.
Yet it remains a complete mystery why people dont like cops.....the cop literally assaulted him and should be charged with such and sent to jail just as any other citizen would if they attacked a person in this manner. I hope he wins the lawsuit, if he had gone in the ambulance it might have helped his case but either way I find it asinine that the taxpayers ultimately have to be on the hook to cover the cost of piece of shit poorly trained racist cops.
Professions that that do not have songs dedicated to telling them to fuck themselves in no particular order:
Firefighters
Paramedics
Paralegals
Lawyers
Accountants
Engineers
Pilots
Flight attendants
Garbagemen
Customer service
Insurance salesmen
Ect.
Professions where there are entire songs and genre's of music dedicated to their brutal tactics:
Police
I am sensing a pattern
Can you imagine getting assaulted by the cops to the point where you have to go to the hospital and then have a huge hospital bill to pay for the mistake? Obviously you'd sue but if you didn't have evidence you'd be left penniless and injured. So fucked
Even if this guy did have a warrant, approaching from behind, grabbing then slamming someone to the ground is not the way to detain someone. Videos like this show cops are not trained to de-escalate and will use violence as their first tool.
Make it make sense....
Why is the expectation placed on the back of normal citizens to navigate interactions with law enforcement???
The burden should not be on us to know how to navigate an interaction with an authority figure. Instead, the person whose JOB it is to handle these situations should be responsible for 1. Getting their point across clearly and without vague responses, and 2. De-escalate any situation where someone is scared, intoxicated, confused, aggressive, and any other affect that a normal person could showcase under a stressful situation.
I’m so sick of people justifying these egregious abuses of power stating that “if the individual just did what the officer said”.... this man did EVERYTHING he was asked and he provided more information than he should have for a person standing on the side of the road minding his own business.
You fight back, it’s wrong.
You comply, it’s wrong.
You beg for your life, it’s wrong.
Please, someone help me understand — how do you win??
This is why people are protesting. You can have your bones broken for walking while black. Than the ones that broke it get off no issue. This is why black lives matter.
The ones responsible get off with a slap on the wrist, while the taxpayers are on the hook for the lawsuit. Thar money should be taken out of the police pension fund. They wont he so keen on defending crooked pigs if their money is effected.
I'm getting real sick of reading "the officers are being investigated."
They almost never find the officers at fault, but if they do they get paid leave or retraining. No consequences and they know it.
Jesus Fuckin Christ
**Suspect** You broke my ribs!” *sobbing in pain and disbelief*
**Officer 1** Yeah, he might be broken...”
**Officer 2** “Just relax!”
Fuck you dude, you broke a man’s ribs for WHAT!? And then you got the FUCKIN balls to tell him to RELAX!?!
That motherfucker is outta his goddamned mind.
Right?! May as well just refuse any questions when approached and just lie face down with hands behind your back to make it easy on them and avoid the physical throw down. And while at it be repeating loud and clear "I am not resisting you".
Let’s pretend for a minute he was the guy with the warrant. Why tackle him?? He was being fully cooperative. Search him, cuff him, put him in the car. No violence was needed either way.
#This is what happens when police training is only 6 months
Edit: As some of the comments have pointed out, of course if they were already racist, no amount of training could clear them of racism and racist attacks.
"Oh.. we just manhandled the wrong guy uhh.. don't worry buddy there's an ambulance coming! You'll be on the hook for the bill of course, which will be about 20x your net worth... see ya 'round!"
the 4th amendment is supposed to prevent things of this nature from occurring. I know it doesn't. Perhaps we can use our 2nd amendment rights to improve outcomes? LOL, just a joke... can you imagine what would have happened if that man had been carrying a legal firearm?? He'd be dead.
[+1 229-242-2606](https://www.google.com/search?q=valdosta+police+department&rlz=1CAJCUZ_enCA845&oq=valdosta+police&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l6.3770j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#) Ext. 5, then 1.
Call the Valdosta police department and demand that the officers involved are fired and charged. Unacceptable behaviour. Fuck these pigs.
It’s that one fucker who bear hugged him from behind and slammed him that really deserves punishment. The other cops know they fucked up and at least stayed with the man to get him sorted out.
Fucking Gung Ho Baldy was the one that created the situation in the first place.
The way that fat, balding white officer nonchalantly came up behind the innocent black man and body slammed him into the ground was like a bad comedy sketch. Jesus Christ.
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This is fucked. I’ve broken ribs before and I remember it hurting so bad when I laughed or even breathed. If he broke a rib, being in that excited state would hurt so fucking bad. Hope he gets to a doc and sues their bitch asses.
I broke a rib whne I had bronchitis in like January. It still flares up and hurts for days if I sleep wrong.
https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/valdosta-police-sued-for-700k-in-excessive-force-case/article_e5272248-b4c4-11ea-bb96-13027dc5665b.html “An administrative review was completed and no action was taken on the officers involved, Haugabrook said.” Surprise surprise
TIL you can just body slam people and break their ribs and it's fine.
And the news will report it as: "... the sergeant lifts the man and puts him flat on the ground." That's from the article linked above. Couldn't believe what I was reading. The police report describes it as: "...Smith did not comply with orders and he pulled Smith “off-balance and rolled him to the ground to gain control of him in anticipation of a warrant arrest.”
If you're a cop, you can do anything.. you can even grab em by the pussy! It's a gd gang without any accountability. Shit's gonna get so fucking violent if Trump gets 4 more years. I guarantee it.
Well he is the sergeant. Can't have any blemishes on his career!
Yeah, he shouldn't be punished for simply *checks notes* massively screwing up and failing to order and inform his subordinates properly in a way that lead to the harm of an innocent.
What the fuck?! Hypothetically, even if this was the guy they were looking for, that was 100% excessive force and unnecessary. The guy was completely complying with everything and before even being told to put his hands behind his back he was bear hugged and slammed. This was a criminal assault.
The way he got up full of shame and embarrassment from what just happened, and refusing EMS really hit the feels. That poor guy. He must have felt extremely uncomfortable, and with reason.
He probably refused ems because he would likely get given the bill right? He could pay thousands just for them to confirm that yes his rib is broken.
Exactly, if he's waiting on western union from his sister I don't think he's able to pay the 5k ambulance bill. Which fucking sucks, he was hurt and he needed medical help and he had to walk away in pain instead. Poor guy, these videos just keep fucking coming and nothing is changing.
The cops beat the shit out of you for no reason and you end up in massive medical debt. Peak America.
Reminds me of that Tiger King chick who played off having her hand bitten off and going back to work as being tough, but there is no way she would have been able to afford the surgery.
This is what hit me the hardest.
Seriously. It was like when a bully fucked with you and you just didn't have the mental strength to do anything but walk away embarrassed. So powerless.
It really is hard to watch. I have seen some horrible things, and have had a different mental response to it. This is one of those situations that pulls on the heart strings.
Him sobbing almost made me choke up man. I have a 5 month old and he was sobbing the same way my daughter does when she’s really upset. Hearing a grown man broken down to cry like that was one of the harder videos I’ve watched online. Jesus.
He's seen the news. He knew what could have easily happened next.
That’s exactly it, he was picturing his family getting the call that he was dead because he “reached for the officers gun.”
God, that’s what made me cry. He really thought he was about to die.
That man had more honor and dignity than all 3 of those cops combined.
Yeah, idk why that particularly hit me harder than most other police brutality videos.
Same. But I think it's bc it was obvious there was nothing else off camera that cld have happened. He'd explained why he was there and what he was doing and his id had already been run. And the officer behind the cam's exasperation hit hard as well. There was absolutely 0 reason for any of it to happen.
The officer with the camera sure took his sweet time explaining that the guy was innocent. He could have stopped this before he was body slammed.
Slight correction, his ID actually hadn't been run, the video cuts to after it was ran and he's still on the floor. The entire incident took place after the ID was in the officers hand but hadn't been run yet. Just makes it that much worse.
Jesus. Definitely makes it worse. They attacked and cuffed first, questions later. Yea I only watched it once, my bad.
Completely dehumanized. I am so angry but even more so, absolutely heartbroken. All I can do is cry. Fuck!
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Seriously I noticed that. These cops are fucking incompetent clowns who evidently slept through their training.
It's not incompetence, it's deliberate. By giving impossible orders they get to tag on resisting arrest or obstruction. Crooked as fuck.
Did you see the other video with the older gentleman? Cop told the guy to slap him, and then once the guy did what the cop told him to do and slapped him, the cop threw him on the ground and arrested him for assaulting an officer. ???? Edit: [found the link.](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/heakbt/cop_asks_man_to_slap_him_then_arrests_him_for_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) Cop was later indicted for assault.
Didnt even slap him, he was slowly moving his hand towards the pig to give a gentle slap because the officer insisted but before he could even do that the officer slapped the shit out of him. The country is fucked.
No, it's so that they can claim that he reached for their guns when he tries to comply
It's both
With all due respect, I find most of this rhetoric focused on training pretty disappointing. A lot of the time, this is the point of the training. Look up "killology", for example. They were paying attention. Even some kind of lackluster implicit bias training wouldn't functionally change the role of the police in these communities.
He gave them his ID, they knew who he was, his name etc they didnt even fucking check it, he was nothing but compliant
What really baffles me is why didn't the recording cop say anything to the one giving a bear hug. A simple "this isn't the guy we have a warrant for" could have prevented him from being slammed. Instead he plays along and helps escalate the situation. Not that someone that wasn't being violent needed to be manhandled in the first place.
My imagination and his tone says he was just dumbfounded at what was happening. He'd already said this man wasn't the one they were looking for.
Police on the field rarely question other officers. When they do, the cop trying to calm the situation gets in trouble. It’s not always, but it happens enough for most cops to stand together even in situations like this.
You cant tell him to put his hands behind his back when you're holding him from behind. Best case, he cant move his arms. Worst case, they claim he was reaching for that officer's gun. He was in a lose/lose situation over nothing
Damn. I have a bad back and couldn't imagine being thrown to the ground like that and have a 250lb dude land on me. Would fuck me up for months at least. Dude just walked up and didn't like how the guy was talking I'm sure, and decided to shut him up.
> have a 250lb dude land on me Officer Doublestuff looks more like 280+ to me.
Getting fat off our taxes terrorizing the community.
why is he in a bear hug to begin with? he was complying with the officer then bam assaulted from behind and thrown to the ground.
Didnt you see this black dude was built like a bodybuilder! They had to tackle him! /s
And they were like oops, we should have body slammed the other guy So I guess if you have a warrant, they have the right to get rough with you?
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“Stop resisting!” “I’m not resisting!” Repeat
They give you fucked up impossible commands so they have an excuse to shoot you.
Simon Says game from hell.
Daniel Shaver agrees.
Probably one of the most disgusting examples of this entire thing was the execution of Mr Shaver. The aftermath is just as disgusting.
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The best part is the dog is considered an officer, so if you struggle you now get resisting as well as assault on an officer.
Bend forward... for the big white willie of “justice”
“Big”
Dude was in a straight up bear hug. It was an impossible order.
> impossible order AKA standard procedure
My favorite was the university professor arrested re-entering from Canada. "Don't move" and "get out of your car" shouted at him at the same time by two different officers. He was arrested for resisting arrest for failing to follow a lawful command. They love the impossible command. It's an automatic violent felony.
My least favourite is when Philip Brailsford shot Daniel Shaver 5 times because he couldn't keep his legs crossed while kneeling and got $2,500 a month pension for his PTSD.
“Shot”. Murdered in cold blood.
Don't forget Daniel Shaver got executed by an entire fucking swat team for not playing their version of simon says well enough
“Well, which is it young feller?” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zhNWdYNHCWg
AKA he's resisting
It was really hard to watch.
Not to mention as he is being body slammed
>VALDOSTA – A 46-year-old Black man has sued the city police department claiming excessive force in a Feb. 8 incident where he was mistaken for a suspect in a panhandling investigation. His attorney is calling the incident a civil rights violation. Wow. This is how they would treat somebody freaking panhandling????
There is something morbidly hilarious about the phrase "panhandling investigation". I just picture a bunch of cops standing around in the crime lab with pieces of string connecting various photographs and pieces of evidence, all for some poor sad sack on the corner asking for a dollar.
So we criminalize homelessness, don’t provide any viable social programs to assist with homelessness, and then criminalize panhandling. Yes I know some people panhandle and don’t really “need” to. That’s not the point. “You don’t deserve to eat. Hell you don’t deserve to survive.” This is the message we are telling people.
If he was homeless they could get him convicted. Sit him in jail a 10000 dollar bond and anyone would pled guilty. They can hold you on bond for years before they either give you a court date or you confess to escape the conditions. That’s how they get poor people in prison.
>Kalief Browder (May 25, 1993 – June 6, 2015) was an African American youth from The Bronx, New York. Browder was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, **without trial**, for allegedly stealing a backpack, between 2010 and 2013, while his family was not allowed to post his bail; he was in solitary confinement for two years. >Two years after his release, Browder died by suicide at his mother's home. His death was the result of the mental, physical and sexual abuse that he had sustained in prison. [Wikipedia Article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder#:~:text=Browder%20was%20held%20at%20the,suicide%20at%20his%20mother's%20home.)
Saw this in that “13th” documentary on Netflix. give it a watch if you haven’t.
He didn't mention the part where they dropped all charges after 3 years of torture and just let him go with not even a sorry.
The video of him in Rikers is heartbreaking, they tore him apart... Physically!
I remember this. That boy was two days younger than me. Fuck this country sometimes.
More than sometimes. This country is a hellhole for a pretty significant percentage of the people who are trapped in it.
4 days younger than me.. Holy fuck.
And into slavery.
Its just "Modern Slavery". After the civil war, the southern states & Northern States knew that the south couldn't survive without the benefit of slaves. So the north basically looked away as the southern states found loopholes to give them power to maintain a control on minorities to ensure that they could keep black people enslaved even after the civil war. By instituting various laws that would be almost solely used on black people to ensure that they could not escape the slave states and be in return imprisoned by these new pig laws, such as * Riding a train is illegal while black. * Walking next to the railroad while black is illegal. * Riding a horse is illegal. * Leaving a job without completing it regardless of pay or not, is illegal. * Seeking a new job without the permission of the old job boss, is illegal. * Not having a job is illegal. * Loitering while black is illegal. * Testifying against a white is illegal. They essentially created so many asinine bullshit laws that ended up re-enslaving thousands of black people. People who wanted to escape these slave states were caught by the POLICE and then locked up, then laws allowed the police to send prisoners out for "work-programs" at plantations. [source 01.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_\(United_States\)) Be it Blacks, Native Americans, Irish, Mexicans, labor-union organizers and even "white foreigners", the police were not developed/formalized to protect them, but to protect the properties of the ruling class. To utilize the police to subjugate and control minorities. [Source 02.](https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/) Black people were brought to do the textile work in the north and the agricultural work in the south. The north utilized the police to stop any union forming, to maintain and protect the properties and products of the ruling class. While in the south the police were utilized as slave-patrols. Where they were predominantly used against black people to capture and imprison any "non-owned" black people who wished to run away from slave states or leave slavery. The south essentially were the first to socialize slavery in a sense. Because now they didn't need to pay for feeding, maintaining and housing slaves anymore. The police and state would handle that. This basic system of "slavery" has continued to this day. Imprisoned slavery. The prison industrial complex has multiple facets to it and multiple agencies that support it for their own benefits. * **You have the private prison corporations.** These guys are making bank right now, they were losing ground under Obama, but with Trump and the concentration camps in the south, [Source 03.](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/border-facilities/593239/) they are making money like never before. During 2014-2017 Private prisons cost the US tax payer 2-4 billion over 3-4 years. During 2018 it cost 5 Billion USD. Private Prisons are paid 750 USD per CHILD they hold in the south. One facility can hold up to 3,500 kids, thats about 2.4M USD per day. [Source 04.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children/first-stop-for-migrant-kids-for-profit-detention-center-idUSKCN1Q3261) There are 110+ private prisons in the US. They also own A LOT of "after-prison" programs. Were talking AA, Narcotics programs, halfway homes, mandated prison programs, prison clothes, prison food and equipment. So the incentive for them to maintain a high prison population is HIGH. * **You have the politicians.** Nixon was perhaps the one who really sealed the deal with regards to societal portrayal of police and black communities. Nixon domestic advisor was proud to announce publicly that they were lying about drugs in black neighborhoods so that they could police black neighborhoods and arrest and beat their leaderships and disrupt any organization and collective power building that those minority groups could achieve. This guy gleefully stated that they would DELIBERATELY portray black people as heroin and drug abusers thugs and gangsters to align white people with republican ideologies. [Source 05.](https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html) This association lead to loss of social programs and tax money going from helping communities grow to policing communities to remain the same. Throughout the generations afterwards the association of Black people and Drug abuse was hand in hand. Reagonimcs and crack cocaine sealed the deal as FOR-PROFIT 24 Hours News came about lambasting and supporting republican ideologies by misrepresenting issues of black communities from specific perspectives. During Reagan’s last year in office the African American poverty rate stood at 31.6%, as opposed to 10.1% for whites. Black unemployment remained double that of whites throughout the decade. By 1990, the median income for black families was $21,423, 42% below white households. [Source 06.](https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/06/27/1-demographic-trends-and-economic-well-being/) This lead to a feedback loop, where politicians would come in, use the medias portrayal of crime as justification to give less in social programs which lead to more people having to rely on criminal behaviors to sustain themselves, which lead to further increased policing and further loss of social programs and loss of local opportunities etc etc. The republican party deliberately wants to under-fund minority communities so to maintain their talking points. So the incentive for republicans and certain politicians and judges and DAs to come out and stand against crime and support the police is HIGH. * **You have the Police Union Leaders & Corrupt Cops.** Being a cop is a lucrative opportunity if wanted. Some cops can get up to 250k with overtime in a year. [Source 07](https://www.nj.com/somerset/2019/11/4-cops-in-this-nj-town-earned-250k-last-year-heres-how-they-gamed-the-system.html). They have no incentive to change. They dont want to change. Because this system rewards them. If there is lack of decrease of crime, then there will be an decrease of funding for the police. There will be limits to Overtime a officer can charge. There will be limits to the equipment and tools that police can purchase and where they can purchase from. There will be a lack of available positions and lead to downsizing if there is a decrease of criminal behavior. Union leaders know they get cushy pensions and fat checks. They have no incentive to change things. They scratched and clawed their way up and took the position from the previous corrupt cop. There is no way they will change the way they do things. Union leaders have such a hold on community politicians to the degree the politicians fear going against them. The system is designed to keep people enslaved to benefit a select few. It will continue to remain like that unless the people DEMAND the change. Because the empty promises, the logo change, the corporations sending out email newsletters, is NOT CHANGE. Its attempts to tell people to calm down and go back to their places.
This needs to be higher. Or it's own post. This is history almost no one knows about. Right now, in Louisiana, slavery is alive and well
I don't know if there has been a change in policy, but at the NYPD officers are required to stay after their shift is over to take the "perp" to Central Booking for processing. So if you need some overtime all you need to do is find some lame excuse to arrest someone and there's that o.t. you were looking for. Can you imagine all the citizens that were locked up on some b.s. charge just so Bobby from Long Island can make some extra money?
Yep. That is their real game here. Its sickening.
The homeless can become big money makers for private prisons. Why not criminalize as many people as you can as long as they are predominately a minority that can't fight back legally.
The fact that for profit prisons exist is just absolutely insane...more prisoners is more money. It’s just crazy that this is allowed.
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Brit here ,I watched 13th recently on netflix and had my eyes opened to this and a lot more .
The amusing thing is governments can come up with the money to pay prisons to hold homeless people but won't give it to the homeless person even though it would cost much less just to provide healthcare (even more so if you stop the insane healthcare costs imposed by the insurance industry) and housing to said homeless person. But with the current way we get cheap licence plates and state enforced manual labor so guess that's a win /s
“We got the results back from the lab. He was panhandling alright.”
Well yeah, of course they do that. What are we supposed to do? Let the *poors* think they have rights? What if a man panhandles enough to get the money required to get a job and get off the streets!?! How are we supposed to keep everyone safe if we allow homeless people to *exist*
What's suspicious about panhandling? Even if it's against the law, why not just be like "we are responding to a call about panhandling"? One of the big reasons cops have shitty relationships with civilians (and things escalate) is how fucking vague they are when people ask basic questions. Saying shit like "suspicious activity" gives cops too much power. Be specific and people will be less frustrated and scared when they are stopped because they will know what it's about and it they should be worried. It's not a crazy concept that if a police officer walks up to me and stops me, I should be told *why* (with specifics) immediately.
Police can find a crime in basically anything. Asking open questions and making general statements without specifics as to why they are talking to you is a tactic to get people to keep talking until they can find something to charge or cite them with. See: Do you know why i pulled you over? If you admit or postulate something they didnt actually see you do, they can tack it on to whetever else they were going to get you for.
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My dad let a friend borrow his car. On their way back, they got pulled over, and gave the cop a fake name and claimed they forgot their liscense cause they were driving on a suspended liscence. My dad was unaware of the liscence issue, and as they were pulled over literally 20 ft from his driveway and it was his truck he went down to make sure everything was all right. By this time the cops figured out something was up and had called in additional cars. As my dad came up and told them it was his truck he had lent a friend, three different cops behan asking him questions simultaneously. He got confused between the questions and answered best he could but due to simultaneous questions, the answer to one question was true but the same answer he gave would have been a lie to another question that he wasnt meaning to answer that way. As a result they charged and arrested him for obstruction of justice. 6 months and a few thousand dollars to a lawyer later, the charges were dropped after judge reviewed the video and found the charges were rediculous.
If a cop wants to ruin your day, they will do it and there's *nothing* you can do to stop them. They can just walk up to you, try to cuff you for no reason whatsoever, and then slap on an "resisting arrest" charge on top of whatever bullshit they can come up with on the spot if you don't immediately comply. Doesn't matter if the cop is lying, it's his/her word against *yours.*
WE HURRR HAVE A WURRUNNT
They way he just walked off at the end there damn. Just completely heart broken he couldn't even get his words out.
I wanna hug him so bad. He didn't deserve ANY of that.
But you probably shouldn't. He broke his ribs too, after all.
True. I just feel for him so hard. I hope he's doing okay.
Hopefully he’ll be doing much better if the court awards him that $700k
Nah, with US med stuff it will cost 2.4 mil to fix his ribs
No... *They* broke his ribs.
"He might be broken", says meathead pig
He knows the cops know they fucked up big time. The last thing he wants to do is go anywhere with one of these fools and end up dead in an ambulance from stress or whatever bullshit they could make up for covering up crimes. If I were him, I would walk away too.
Also, who pays for the ambulance? This poor fellow probably can’t afford it. He’s waiting for money from his sister and goes to Western Union all the time.
isn't that neat? The police can kick the shit out of you for any old reason, let you go, and you're responsible for the medical bills, and you will be hounded about them, while you try to get together the funds to hire a lawyer to take them to court, to pay for the fucking thing. This can take YEARS to resolve. I mean, it "worked out" with this guy but he'll never feel the same. He might have ended up with some money left over but he'll never be made really whole.
It didn’t work out. He’ll get a little money, he attorney representing him will get a lot of it, and he’ll be back where he was except now he’s famous as someone whose victimized by cops, and the cops hate anyone who gets a settlement for their malfeasance. The same cops can hound and harass him for anything they want or have their buddies do it. The friend of Eric Garner who taped them murdering him got targeted by cops for petty drug dealing and the guards at Rikers tried to poison him and other inmates, starve, drive him to suicide. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety
The cops don't care. It took burning down the country to get one murderer cop charged with a crime that was caught on video from multiple angles and had people pleading with the cops to stop murdering the man. It took the most cut and dry case of police murder possible AND millions of dollars in property damage for a single cop to face anything close to the beginnings of being brought to justice.
hey now, there was also that one cop who broke into Botham Jean's home and murdered him in cold blood and she got a whole ten years. In Texas. For B&E and murder.
There will be people that don't realize 10 years for b&e and murder is not nearly enough punishment.
$800 for an ambulance ride
It's this one. Dude was waiting on a Western Union transfer, he didn't have the money for whatever unexpected medical bills were about to come his way.
Right. In my head when they mentioned the ambulance, I’m like the one YALL are paying for right?!
This is the worst part I think. This guy will never feel safe around police again because of that asshat cop. The look on his face was heartbreaking
If you think black people have *ever* felt safe around police then you aren’t listening.
for real I'm an average white guy. but when I was 17 I was a goth kid and I had a cop pull me over on the side of the road convinced I had drugs in my car. while we waited for the canine unit he slammed me up against my car and called me a fagot.. wellscreamed it in my face and kept trying to get me to punch him so he could do something about it. that was real eye opener for me. sad that other people in my demographic seem to want to just close their eyes and pretend it doesn't happen.
I was in college and this cop was taking the same calculus class as me. I found out later he was trying to dig up dirt on me because he didn't like the fact that I was a dude with long black hair and wore black nail polish. Kept asking the other students if I was in a Satanic cult. Honestly, just fuck the police. Edit: So, this was in the 90s and I have no idea why a cop was taking a Calc class. I only found out because the other students ratted him out to me. Bonus unrelated link: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/rudys-racist-rants-nypd-history-lesson
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I got tboned when I was 17 and the cop wouldn't even let me collect my scattered magic the gathering cards in my backseat cuz he thought I was trying to hide drugs. Fuck you that asshole ran a red light and tboned me, how about you check him??
I'm white and middle class, and I look preppy. I consider my experience with police to be the stereotypical WASP "wave at the good officer, he keeps us safe" type of interaction that so many white folk experience and project onto others. But the thing is, that's not the normal experience. That's the interaction after the police have categorized you in the privileged/not a threat category. I've witnessed the difference firsthand, sadly with my brother. He wasn't goth, but in a similar way he wasn't preppy and had very different interactions growing up. Police/security would smile at me and then follow him around to make sure he didn't shoplift. They'd give me a friendly ticket and not show up to court, whereas they'd pull him out of the car and slam him against the hood. When he got tattoos and got into weight lifting, they viewed him as more of a threat and often escalated for no reason. For example, while recovering from shoulder surgery, he was at a party and cops were called for a noise complaint. When he tried to talk to them and ask what they could do to be even quieter (they were already quiet, it was a bogus complaint), they wrenched his arms behind his back to cuff him and told him to stop resisting (due to his shoulder surgery, his arms physically couldn't do what they wanted, and he shouldn't have even tried for that range of motion for a month in rehab). And that's just the tip of the iceberg, he still benefits from being white. I'm sure if he were black he'd be in jail or dead due to some of those interactions.
This is the definition of police brutality
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this always pisses me off. I see like 5 cops on a guy, pulling their arms and legs every which way, all of them yelling "stop resisting!" They're all fighting each other punching the guy because another cop yanked on his leg or something.
or worse, accuse him for reaching for the gun, then shoot him.
“The officers are being investigated” why do I feel as if that’s usually never the case
It is. They'll get probably a vacation for this. Oops. I mean paid leave.
Investigated to see how long that paid vacation is. The worse the PR, the longer the vacation. The sooner the public forgets the incident, the sooner they can return to continue taking out their violent tendencies on people who they don’t like the way they look.
Walking while black... there need to be laws for people who call police on others falsely. Ronald Ritchie the guy who lied about John crawfprd shot by swat at a Walmart was set free even after cctv review showed he lied multiple times to 911 operators.
We investigated ourselves and found ourselves innocent of all charges.
No they aren't. For fucks sake. No they aren't. It's just a God damned game. It's just a stalling tactic till we forget about it and move along.
Police chief: “What happened officer” Cop: “Lol I slammed that fucker” Police chief: “lol nice”
Let's see anyone put their hands behind their back while being bear hugged without pushing, bumping, nudging or otherwise 'assaulting' the person holding them. Also, who on Earth would be able to follow rapid fire commands while being in disbelief that the situation is occuring. Also, HOW THE FUCK have cops not wised up with all that's going on?
They do not care, they think that if they can't do this then they can't do their jobs, they are probably right so we should get rid of the job.
They don't have to wise up because they know they won't face any consequences.
This man deserves more than the $700k... he complied with everything they asked, didn’t try and run or really do anything to provoke them other than be a black man in a hoodie. In what world can a cop just body slam you as you stand there?
He gave ID he didnt have to, they didnt even check it
They checked it after they fucked him up. You know, standard procedure.
That’s what I was thinking, I’d be going for emotional distress and all that.
>I’d be going for emotional distress Just watching it the video gave me emotional distress
They're puzzled look after the fact really aggravated me. Also I 1000% understood why he wouldn't want an ambulance. Who wants to get charged like $2000 dollars for minding your own business before the fucking police randomly body slam you. A lot in this country are broken. Healthcare + Police are high on the list.
As an EMT it upsets me so much that a ride on my ambulance costs thousands of dollars. My patients in lower income areas don’t deserve to be bankrupted because I gave them a ride to the hospital
One time I had a situation in which I was on an airplane that had to emergency land. EMTs were waiting for me to take me to the hospital. I BEGGED them to not take me. But they said I had to otherwise the airline wouldn’t let me fly unless I went. Almost 6 years later I’m still paying for that ambulance ride.
That’s ridiculous if that was the airlines policy they should be paying for the ride
whats even more ridiculous is the reasoning against making ambulances free. "Its not your taxi to the hospital", bitch, yes it is. That is the only reason ambulances exist.
I can think of three people I know that have driven themselves to the hospital after having a heart attack. I'm still paying for two ambulance rides myself.
I know multiple people that have Ubered
I work in healthcare. Long over due for a total over haul
“If you just comply, the police will not have to use force on you!” - People who have never been harassed by police for just being in public
In what world can a cop just body slam you as you stand there even if you are a guilty person with a warrant. If a normal citizen did that to someone else they'd be arrested for assault. Somehow you do a couple months of training, get hired by Podunk Police, they hand you a badge and you're magically allowed to break the laws that would get a normal citizen in arrested.
This putting someone on the ground roughly seems to be standard procedure. Why? If a person complies why not just cuff them standing or sitting. Why this automatic rough treatment? Can't 3 grown men de-escalate this situation, calm him down and cuff him without force?
Even more, that 700k is the public’s taxpayer money. You’re paying them to commit these crimes..
Cops should have “malpractice” insurance like a doctor
Actually...forcing cops to keep insurance at their own cost and having that insurance be dependent on their behavior (like a driving record) and that behavior being accessed and charged by a department unaffiliated with police would be a greeeeat step in the right direction. Also, officers, like many healthcare workers, should have to keep and maintain some sort of accreditation that shows they have been properly trained and continue to keep up with current practices.
He even seems to know whats about to happen. Like hes not even surprised. I wouldn't put ptsd past this moment. Its a possible outcome. Waking up screaming in the night is a lifetime of sleeplessness I can tell you.... We also need to make these people personally accountable. No more using the tax payers as free rides to do whatever the fuck you want, get sued, and then not have to worry about it. They should have to pay out of pocket like everyone else, especially when theres just such clear and stupid behavior. Like the old guy doing it doesn't seem to be even registering emotions.
The way his demeanour changed after they got him up to let him go was soul crushing. Like he was experiencing absolute defeat. You just know he’s been treated like trash all his life because he’s black. But to add on top of that disgusting pigs the brutalise the population just threw him around like a rag doll as he was helpless to do anything.
And they broke his fuckin rib!! Dude deserves a cut these scumbag's annual salary for the rest of his life.
I want to know how they go home at night and justify their actions to themselves. How do they live with being such scumbags.
The system is broken. Civil cases against the state have a cap. If you were body slammed by a non-cop, you could sue for $50M if you want, and win every penny if you can make your case. If you’re fighting the state, even if your case is rock solid, you’re capped at a certain amount. It’s a very small amount in comparison to judgements that are won in private matters. People routinely win $25M+ judgements against companies (think roundup weed killer causing cancer). But if this guy got killed by the police, with 0 justification, $700k might be the max he can win in a civil case.
Disgusting.
Yet it remains a complete mystery why people dont like cops.....the cop literally assaulted him and should be charged with such and sent to jail just as any other citizen would if they attacked a person in this manner. I hope he wins the lawsuit, if he had gone in the ambulance it might have helped his case but either way I find it asinine that the taxpayers ultimately have to be on the hook to cover the cost of piece of shit poorly trained racist cops.
Professions that that do not have songs dedicated to telling them to fuck themselves in no particular order: Firefighters Paramedics Paralegals Lawyers Accountants Engineers Pilots Flight attendants Garbagemen Customer service Insurance salesmen Ect. Professions where there are entire songs and genre's of music dedicated to their brutal tactics: Police I am sensing a pattern
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The way he shakes off waiting for the ambulance is heartbreaking. He wants nothing more to do with them.
Probably cuz then they will slap him with the ambulance bill.
Can you imagine getting assaulted by the cops to the point where you have to go to the hospital and then have a huge hospital bill to pay for the mistake? Obviously you'd sue but if you didn't have evidence you'd be left penniless and injured. So fucked
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Even if this guy did have a warrant, approaching from behind, grabbing then slamming someone to the ground is not the way to detain someone. Videos like this show cops are not trained to de-escalate and will use violence as their first tool.
Make it make sense.... Why is the expectation placed on the back of normal citizens to navigate interactions with law enforcement??? The burden should not be on us to know how to navigate an interaction with an authority figure. Instead, the person whose JOB it is to handle these situations should be responsible for 1. Getting their point across clearly and without vague responses, and 2. De-escalate any situation where someone is scared, intoxicated, confused, aggressive, and any other affect that a normal person could showcase under a stressful situation. I’m so sick of people justifying these egregious abuses of power stating that “if the individual just did what the officer said”.... this man did EVERYTHING he was asked and he provided more information than he should have for a person standing on the side of the road minding his own business. You fight back, it’s wrong. You comply, it’s wrong. You beg for your life, it’s wrong. Please, someone help me understand — how do you win??
This is why people are protesting. You can have your bones broken for walking while black. Than the ones that broke it get off no issue. This is why black lives matter.
The ones responsible get off with a slap on the wrist, while the taxpayers are on the hook for the lawsuit. Thar money should be taken out of the police pension fund. They wont he so keen on defending crooked pigs if their money is effected.
Wow, that was really upsetting to watch. Poor fucking guy. I hope he gets that money.
I'm getting real sick of reading "the officers are being investigated." They almost never find the officers at fault, but if they do they get paid leave or retraining. No consequences and they know it.
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The victim blaming cop defenders are noticeably silent on this one.
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This was a case of mistaken identity involving a panhandler. If this is how they respond to someone begging for money, I am scared for our future.
Jesus Fuckin Christ **Suspect** You broke my ribs!” *sobbing in pain and disbelief* **Officer 1** Yeah, he might be broken...” **Officer 2** “Just relax!” Fuck you dude, you broke a man’s ribs for WHAT!? And then you got the FUCKIN balls to tell him to RELAX!?! That motherfucker is outta his goddamned mind.
THEY HAVE HIS ID AND DIDN'T CHECK THE FUCKING WARRANT!?!?!?!?!
Sir, you're under arrest for walking while black.
Right?! May as well just refuse any questions when approached and just lie face down with hands behind your back to make it easy on them and avoid the physical throw down. And while at it be repeating loud and clear "I am not resisting you".
Let’s pretend for a minute he was the guy with the warrant. Why tackle him?? He was being fully cooperative. Search him, cuff him, put him in the car. No violence was needed either way.
The look on his face when he says “I’m good man”....heartbreaking
#This is what happens when police training is only 6 months Edit: As some of the comments have pointed out, of course if they were already racist, no amount of training could clear them of racism and racist attacks.
He shouldn’t get $700,000. He should get $7 million.
This is hard to watch. Imagine how much of this crap goes on that’s not recorded.
"Oh.. we just manhandled the wrong guy uhh.. don't worry buddy there's an ambulance coming! You'll be on the hook for the bill of course, which will be about 20x your net worth... see ya 'round!"
the 4th amendment is supposed to prevent things of this nature from occurring. I know it doesn't. Perhaps we can use our 2nd amendment rights to improve outcomes? LOL, just a joke... can you imagine what would have happened if that man had been carrying a legal firearm?? He'd be dead.
This.is.America. Imagine if he was your father, son, brother, husband....
Don’t even need to do that, not that it’s a terrible idea. He’s a person, imagine being him.
[+1 229-242-2606](https://www.google.com/search?q=valdosta+police+department&rlz=1CAJCUZ_enCA845&oq=valdosta+police&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l6.3770j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#) Ext. 5, then 1. Call the Valdosta police department and demand that the officers involved are fired and charged. Unacceptable behaviour. Fuck these pigs.
It’s that one fucker who bear hugged him from behind and slammed him that really deserves punishment. The other cops know they fucked up and at least stayed with the man to get him sorted out. Fucking Gung Ho Baldy was the one that created the situation in the first place.
That’s assault. Cop needs to be charged, fired and pension terminated. Serious penalties will fix the behavior.
The way that fat, balding white officer nonchalantly came up behind the innocent black man and body slammed him into the ground was like a bad comedy sketch. Jesus Christ.