Maybe we should defund the police.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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Let's hope they tase some more rich white guys so we can get them on board finally.
They literally won't go in to those neighborhoods.
I used to think I was going to be a cop, I joined the explorers and hung out with cops, I went on rice alongs. I spent entire shifts following cops around watching them do cop shit my senior year of high school.
They would spend most of their time doing traffic patrols. The "good" cops hung out in more middle class neighborhoods, the shitheads specifically targeted poorer neighborhoods. No one patrols the affluent areas. When a call comes in they argue about who has to go. A domestic disturbance in the trailer park would get every officer not currently arresting someone out to see what's going on, because they're bored.
They know not to pull certain cars over, to look the other way when certain people are caught drunk or high in public. That's just the extent of the stuff I personally saw.
County Jail on charges of resisting arrest and battery. Afterward, he was released "still wearing nothing but his underwear and a disposable hospital outfit; he had no wallet, phone or money," the complaint states. "He did not remember Alice's phone number in the jail and they would not help him contact her, so he walked in his hospital slippers about a half mile to a gas station," where workers helped him call a taxi.
I’m familiar with the case but not this detail. Seriously, fuck these thugs.
California Cops Tased a Man Having a Seizure, Then Booked Him on Bogus Charges To Cover Their Mistake
Booked Him on Bogus Charges To Cover Their Mistake
To Cover Their Mistake
Mistake
Never has a word done so much heavy lifting.
Whoopsie! I done tazed a guy having a medical emergency again!! I'm so kooky!!!
Ok let's also assume he was intoxicated. Even then why the fuck would you tase him? Should've waited for the medical personnel. Then man was in his own goddamned house. WTF!
Even then why the fuck would you tase him?
IIRC the thought the seizure induced thrashing was him resisting arrest. Of course that begs the question, why were they trying to arrest someone having a seizure (that they'd been sent to help BTW) in the first place?
Probably for committing one of the highest crimes of the land - disrespecting a police officer by not following their orders. They don’t care if he was seizing, unconscious, whatever. They will shoot to kill for such an infraction.
Cops in a town arrested a woman for drinking at home because she was rude to them when they asked her about a unrelated hit and run that happened in front of her home.
She was watching a baseball game minding her own business and they left, then came back and arrested her.
Oh! I actually know the answer to this one!
Cuz the perpetrator was experiencing excited delirium which, to the untrained eye (and the trained eye and the doctor's eye and any eye that doesn't belong to a police officer), can LOOK like a seizure. According to numerous completely un-ridiculous lawsuits, the lawyers and doctors paid ~~off~~ by Axon have determined that repeatedly applying the electric shocks of a taser actually CURE excited delirium!
So, the fact that this man survived PROVES that the ~~assaulting~~ responding officer actually saved his life from an episode of excited delirium! Had the man died, it would have meant that the officer did everything within his ~~incompetence~~ power to rescue the man, but he simply succumbed to the grip of excited delirium. Also, had the man weighed the same as a duck, they would have had to burn him.
THIS OFFICER IS A ~~MORON~~ HERO!!!
In case I was too subtle:
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I have a patient who had a seizure and 911 was called. He tends to get agitated, so his wife warned the cops that came to leave him alone to come out of it as sometimes he starts flailing his arms. Well he flailed his arms and the cops decided to handle that by punching him in the head a few times. Cops need seizure training very very badly.
US Police officers need training very badly, period.
Also, don't call them cops anymore. They don't need a "cool" designation, they're people with a job, ans that job is to protect and serve us, not being some cool dude that we need to fear
Cop = Citizen On Patrol. It's derogatory, as it correctly implies they aren't officers, and they absolutely hated being called cops as recently as the early '90s.
Cop is short for copper, which was a reference to the big brass buttons they used to have on their uniforms.
Could be both. Could be neither. I'm just a random person on the internet.
Its like they arrive at the scene without any information at all.
They arrived their first, medical assistance still on the way. They should be to busy coordinating to make sure those can do their job efficiently when they arrive. Maybe performing first aid. They shouldn’t be looking for crimes even if they are present.