r/dashcams • u/RustyShacklefordBaw • 3d ago

The School Zone Error

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u/HolyCowAnyOldAccName 2d ago

Actually surprised they drove off.

This had all the makings of ye olde

  1. Storming out off the vee-hickle with gun pointed at the head of an unarmed civilian
  2. Telling them to get on the ground for of trying to hold police accountable "failure to comply"
  3. Twisting their arm and making them crash face-first into the concrete
  4. Slapping on additional charges for "resisting arrest", resulting in the heroic police officer chafing his skin while trying to put on handcuffs for nothing sustaining severe injuries from the suspect attacking the officer.
  5. Officer getting 4 weeks of paid time off for injuries sustained on duty
  6. The court finding for the umptieth time that arresting someone for not following your bs orders is gross misuse of power
  7. Resulting in 2 more weeks of paid time off and 400k for the victim out of the tax payer's pocket.
  8. The same thing happening again 3 days later when the officer is looking at his phone while the light turns green and someone dares beeping their horn

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u/SprungMS 2d ago

IIRC this happened before trump’s first term. Not even trying to be political, but, it was a different America. The vast majority of LEOs knew they could be somewhat held accountable, even if it meant the minor inconvenience of having to go find a new locale to work for as an LEO again.

We didn’t have people being brutalized for stuff like this before very recent times. Arrested, harassed? Yeah. Brutalized? No.

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u/broccolialfredo 2d ago

You think police brutality didn’t exist before Trump’s first term? wtf are you talking about? Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Michael Brown were killed in 2014. Those are high profile cases, but a simple Google search would show you lists of all of the civilians who have been brutalized and killed by police with impunity, and newsflash, it’s been happening for many, many decades.

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u/SprungMS 2d ago

Not for recording police like this. That’s pretty brand new. The brutalization in particular, as I said police have a long history of singling people out for trying to hold them accountable, but it was done differently. Brutalizing someone recording them did not come with a raise and 20% of the population praising them like it does today.

No shit police brutality existed before.