a police disciplinary investigation into the incident didn't even begin until last month - a year and a half after the teen was tasered and shot.
And this is why ACAB. If it takes the cops that long to even start looking into a problem, then they don’t see it as a problem.
ACAB, assigned crab at birth?
It means: All Cops are Bad. I know I hate abbreviations too
It's All Cops Are Bastards, not Bad
I prefer ACAC. All Cops Are Criminals. Legally they are. All of them are at bare minimum accomplices to their colleagues crimes.
I'm more of an ACDC guy myself...
Badstards
All Cats Are Beautiful :3
Civil servants are what they used to be.
Nah, it's just what they used to be called.
Not at all. The current police model was created to capture run away slaves. They've always been a method of oppression, you just didn't hear about it as much before the internet.
This just in: Cops turn out to be violent thugs attracted to a job where they face no consequences for being violent thugs.
And now to Skip Johnson with sports
They traumatized a child for what? Those fucking pigs applied pain compliance techniques on a child. Then they shot him. The pig that shot him said that he thought he was using the taser. They thought that using a taser on a child was acceptable.
I cannot say on here what I think should happen. I do like the smell of bacon sizzling in the pan though.
It should be federal law that any police officer who can't tell the difference between a taser and a gun should be fired and never again able to be a cop. That's absolutely horseshit that we TRAIN these people and they can't fucking tell the difference.
They are supposed to be on opposite hips also, so that excuse IMO is bunk anyway
For breaking a window, not assaulting someone with a deadly weapon, a broken window. Why wasn't that a "where do you live? We need to speak with a parent or guardian" situation? Why are cops "arresting" a 14 yr old on hear say evidence from a lady that "has it on tape", but never produced it to officers before they starting trying to cuff him?
Not even for breaking a window. For being in the area where there was a broken windows reported.
And when he ran, they shot him in the back.
Well, in all fairness, it's his fault for being black in the vicinity of a crime /s
We have reviewed the footage and concluded we didn't do anything wrong. The officer is now on paid leave (nice vacation) and any damages caused will be paid for by the tax payers.
We now consider the matter closed.
Huge /s just in case.
ACAB
Jesus what an awkwardly worded headline. Who's being hired as journalists these days?
How about
"They tortured him"; police Tased, then shot a special needs teen who broke a window
Child tortured prior to being executed extrajudicially by police.
This sort of thing terrifies me. I don't think my daughter, despite her various psychological issues, would ever get to a point that we would have to call the police, and she does have the privilege of being white, but it's at least within the realm of possibility.
I can't think of anything that scares me more than the possibility of outliving my daughter. This poor boy's parents....
There needs to be a special needs awareness campaign in the US.
Too many times I've come across people in my adult life who should know better how to address people with special needs and they just don't understand it.
I agree with you 100%
Do you really thing people are “unaware” or simply don’t give a fuck? Because if someone is not aware the world is FULL of people with “special needs”(such a patronizing euphemism.) then their problem is they are a fucking idiot who should not be anywhere near a gun. Fuck pigs soooooo much.
Yeah, lock up those officers to make an example of them. This is unconscionable.
reason # 32,286,232 why cops cannot be trusted with lethal weapons.
disarm the police.
WHY SHOOT SOMEONE AFTER YOU TAZED THEM‽ That shit just immediately stops them doesn't it‽
Read the article. He ran away after being tased, which, according to murderous thugs warrants lethal force .
The way cops run when there's an actual threat we should be shooting these shit cops as well, fucking cowards.
I think we've seen cases where mortal fear and the associated adrenalin causes people to actually get up to save their own lives from this painful threat and try to flee to safety. There's no actual reasoning going on at that point, from what I hear. But the cops are in their own uncontrolled fight/flight mode, albeit the other side of the coin, and the target is still twitching/running and therefore not subdued. Bad cops escalate to another weapon.
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