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submitted 2 years ago by captainred@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.

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[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 164 points 2 years ago

We don't have police. Just corporate enforcers. Pinkertons in different uniforms. Oh, you are accused of a 17 cent theft and didn't do it? Eat lead I guess. I'm just so tired.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago

If you get your house broken into, or your car stolen the police can't even be bothered to pretend to care. They treat your theft like an inconvenience to them and will tell you there's nothing they can do.

But if you're a corporation, they'll rush right over and cripple a shoplifter for stealing a banana.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Hey now, they also specialize in oppressing minorities.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

No, they specialize in protecting minorities. Minority. You know which one.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

  1. Robbery
  2. Hooliganism
  3. Another protest
[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago
[-] SilverCode@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Lucille, is that you?

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

All this for a misdemeanor.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

There's always money in the banana stand.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 22 points 2 years ago
[-] WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

There seems to be a lot of gaps in that timeline in the 1800s, wonder what they were doing then 🤔

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 15 points 2 years ago

SCOTUS: processing, processing, processing…..

Complete! If you don’t like it then just vote in a different police chief or mayor!

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

then just vote in a different police chief

You can do this?

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

Some police chiefs are elected yes.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Wow. Who can run for police chief?

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

For elected positions technically anybody.

Practically it’s a police officer endorsed by the previous chief and/or police union.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

We don’t have police. Just corporate enforcers.

They're the same thing.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

They really shouldn't be. The US is seriously fucked up.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They always will be because people are inherently evil and domineering, and quite simply can't be trusted with that kind of power.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Blame boomers and genX. Black/brown ppl have been preaching about police brutality for decades. The only reason they weren't beating the shit out of white ppl then was they where middle class. Now that everyone is either rich or poor they're coming for the rest of you.

It took cellphone footage for ppl to start believing and by then it was too late to do anything

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago

Just how they want us. I feel you, but fuck the corporate garbage world those motherfuckers are trying to build.

Time to tear shit down and fix it. The world doesn't have to be like this. We just need to tell the corporations to fuck off and regulate them again.

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