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Alabama police officer on leave after viral video shows her tasing handcuffed, compliant man (reason.com)

submitted 8 months ago by HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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[-] aelwero@lemmy.world 79 points 8 months ago

I read the article, and it quoted her as having said "oh yeah" when he declared a weapon, and I thought "yeah that's not great, but I kinda get it" because I assumed the context was that she assumed he meant it as a mild threat perhaps and was responding with "oh yeah?" the way one would when being insulted or threatened...

Then I watch the video, and that's not the case at all... The tone implies something much more along the lines of "yippee, you got a gun, now I get to develop a sudden fear for my life and do THIS!... Yeehaw!"

She ain't intimidated or threatened, she just mentally busted through a brick wall holding a pitcher in her hand looking to have a tropical punch party, that was a koolade man "OH YEAH!"

Y'all cops need to come to Jesus and establish some fucking standards and enforce them, because what you got going with the paid vacation and taxpayers funding their own restitution is not gonna be indefinitely sustainable. You're filling a keg full of powder and one of these evil motherfuckers you keep turning a blind eye to is gonna throw a spark in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not even the bomb squad in their full staypuft costume is gonna qualify for immunity from the explosion it causes.

I don't think we need to go down that road, but a lot of people do, and cops like Ms koolade here arent making the opinion shrink...

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

Jesus is part of the problem in that "culture"

[-] aelwero@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Lol, "come to Jesus" is a very obscure (apologies for that) slang expression for "waking the fuck up to reality", usually with some tough love style assistance. No religious connotation whatsoever in the context I meant it.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

Considering how many rapists and murders find Jesus, and reoffend, it's a bad analogy

[-] aelwero@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's not any kind of analogy, it's an expression... An idiom... A fucking locution... Any of those words help?

If the expression, as explained, were an analogy, it would imply that when people who believe in Jesus die and go to heaven, Jesus will chew their ass. Fuck, that's also an expression... I mean... Be angry... Get their face really close to your face and angrily yell words at you...

I don't think anyone who believes in Jesus thinks that's gonna be how the meeting goes.. it's more flowers, hugs, getting drunk as funk... Right?

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Lol okay that was fun

[-] Skeptomatic@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

If a rapist and murderer said they woke the fuck up, then reoffended. Does that means saying "wake the fuck up" will then be a bad analogy that shouldn't be used anymore?

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I would consider that argument a logic fallacy.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Jesus doesn't make people better people. Wanting to be a better person makes people a better person.

The bitch just as likely goes to church as not.

[-] aelwero@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It's just an expression :)

It means someone owes you an ass chewing kinda

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 8 months ago

My guess is she knew he was a felon before the stop. The "oh yea" feels like a cheer for "getting him." This whole thing feels like preexisting knowledge.

[-] aelwero@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Like a habitual troublemaker that never really gets caught with anything solid, and firearm on parole is the long awaited "gotcha"?

I could see that being the reason for the exuberance actually. That's plausible. Could also explain the taser, frustrated with dealing with dudes shit for so long maybe...

You've added a shadow of a doubt I didn't have before. Good discourse :)

[-] docAvid@midwest.social 12 points 8 months ago

And that right there is why thugs with badges always get acquitted. A cop isn't a judge, jury, or executioner. I don't care what she thought she knew already, there is no excuse for this kind of violent assault against someone who still holds the legal presumption of innocence. She is a criminal and belongs behind bars.

[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Consider this situation:

She pulls over to ~~check on the disabled motorist~~ see what she can get out of the interaction. She runs his info and sees that he is a felon. This gets her going, as her racism had already decided that her ~~subject~~ victim is guilty of possessing things he legally cannot posses: a gun and drugs. He was minding his own business. She targeted him and successfully used the ~~law~~ crooked set of rules that are meant to further dehumanize people that they deem to be beneath them.

“Habitual” issues do nothing to provide context as to why she tased him when he was clearly complying with her disgusting abuse of power that we pay for.

It’s all rotten. Nothing short of radical sorts of change will stop these sorts of interactions and the events that lead up to them, which starts in childhood for the victims of the state.

Should the law, or anyone for that matter, think of you as guilty of something because of their negative bias about people who look or act like you?

[-] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 64 points 8 months ago

I hope this doesn't count as qualified immunity.

She stopped him from changing a tire because he was 'suspicious'. She deserves prison for assault, battery, wrongful arrest (there's no RAS, regardless of what she found after) and a hate crime.

[-] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

He’s black. That gives her qualified immunity in the third world country of Alabama.

[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

Shit, I didn’t notice he was black, that’s a lot scarier.

[-] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah, like, instantly she was scared for her life.

[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Cruel acts by a human. Makes one wonder all of the atrocious acts that aren't on video.

[-] Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

If you think it's bad out there now, just imagine all the atrocities they gleefully committed and got away with prior to camera phones being everywhere. I'm not saying it shouldn't be better. I'm just saying it is likely better than it used to be now that everybody is recording everybody else all the time.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

Stupid Cunt. ACAB

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

Oh no! A paid vacation where they'll find the officer did nothing wrong! What ever will she do...

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 8 months ago

What ever will she do…

Find a new job in a different police force for higher pay?

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

On leave?!?!! She should be in a cell!

[-] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

We desperately need a third party review system with legitimate consequences.

[-] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Should be on call for those that want a dominatrix not assaulting innocent civilians

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Dommes care about consent.

[-] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Suspicious side eye

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Direct eye contact

[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

They’re going to use his record and the drugs and gun to paint him as a bad guy. She’ll probably keep her job.

Fucking shame, man. People like that shouldn’t ever make it onto the force to begin with.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

What force do you imagine the police to be?! The one from your childhood, back when it was Rockwell fairy tale and shiny field trip stickers? They've always been a racist gang of corpo fucks; too stupid to make it through boot, and too psycho to hold any other job that doesn't award them the chance to assault/murder. ACAB. Fuck the police.

[-] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Well yeah, they put him on a half a million dollar bond for this. They're throwing the book at his character.

[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Oof. I didn’t see that part. Crazy man.

[-] Darorad@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

Least abusive cop.

[-] pm_me_your_quackers@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Paid leave mind you

[-] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Man. Why can't we just have Andy and Barney.

[-] Conyak@lemmy.tf 3 points 8 months ago

Mayberry had no black residents. It was an all white town. Andy and Barney probably would have acted very different if a black man or woman came into town.

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Also that was a TV show. I real life, small town cops are generally a bunch of power tripping fascists

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

He should have just compl- oh wait...

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

https://youtu.be/zO2272xRzio?si=ST68U6b0QNMT2gi8

[-] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I hope she burns in hell, but even the devil rejects such evil people.

Someone needs to call the witch burners and show them to this woman.

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