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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21422219

Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burns

On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city’s police department stopped him.

They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived.

Surveillance footage from across the parking lot, which was viewed by the Guardian, shows the 30-year-old on the pavement soon after, with several officers on top of him and holding him down. Once they lift Kenyon off the ground after roughly four minutes, he appears limp.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21621324

https://www.axios.com/local/phoenix/2024/08/27/free-speech-lawsuit-surprise-city-council-woman-arrested

https://www.yourvalley.net/stories/letters-surprise-mayor-should-resign-attorney-must-go-after-incident,529702

https://surpriseaz.gov/1175/About-the-Mayor

The ending felt somber in the realization that, there is really nothing we can do to save this planet. We're living on borrowed time. The best we can do is help the next apex species realize the mistakes we've made so that they don't repeat them. But maybe I'm just over here dooming. What are your thoughts?

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