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.

Bananas are $10

Don't worry, we still have Pinkertons as well.

SCOTUS: processing, processing, processing…..

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

No no no, the cashier wasn't the one who followed him around the store.

Wow. Non American here. My kid regularly eats while I shop. I just bring empty packets to register for them to scan and they normally throw them out for me. No problem. Like zero problem.

I don't even think our police would show up if they were called. They take 3hrs to turn up to a home invasion, so I doubt they'd show up for a banana. This is a crazy level of policing.

Every time. Every. Single. Time. For real.

They are hoping that by then people will forget about it and not notice when its dumped so theres no outrage.

We need a national oversight agency where all this footage should be sent to so it is managed by a neutral 3rd party. Why the fuck would we allow criminals to manage the evidence against themselves?

...presumably because it's damning.

I the rules for body cam requests in the city I work for. It can only be denied for the following reasons:

1. The video was taken in a private home and the homeowner does not consent to the release.

2. The video is of a non-jailtime citation/interaction and the principal civilian captured on film doesn't consent to the release.

The second one is because the city is a tiny enclave for the super-rich (average new home is about 6 million dollars), and there's celebrities and stuff getting pulled over pretty often. We had tons of ORRs from paparazzi for all incidents.

Police in the US escalate situations instead of de-escalating them. In any country this would have been solved after a short conversation.

Isn't Florida that state that releases everything?

Reminder that the IDF trains US cops. Palestinians are used as guinea pigs for policing techniques.

He wasn't even stealing anything. It has nothing to do with theft and everything to do with his skin color I guarantee it.

Well bananas are like $0.53 a pound, $.065 for the organic ones. So it is a pretty clear case.

To answer your question on what the cops did:

Anjelica Lee said. “My dad said to me: ‘Don’t get out of the car until they can fully see you, because they’re going to shoot.’ And after he said that, nine or 10 of them jumped on him, and then they slammed him on the car.”

She said she could hear her father screaming: “You’re hurting me. I can’t breathe.”

This is all from the woman's perspective. But it sure seems suspicious that he had chest pains that the police's story can't explain.

She said she feared for her father’s safety, so she got a bat from her car, approached the woman and told her to “pick on someone her own size, someone able-bodied.” She said she did not threaten the woman with the bat. Still, she said, the woman called police.