A simple arrest in cuffs and the dude can't do nothing yet 5 cops decided to literally beat a young man to death. It's insane. https://news.yahoo.com/heinous-tyre-nicholss-family-crump-view-police-footage-of-arrest-after-nicholss-death-220813595.html
Expect riots again if these cops don't get arrested and convicted once the footage is released to the public.
The police chief already saw the video and called it "egregious" which let's me know abused and murder happened.
Poor training is one of the main issues, as well as low standards for hiring. Here in Japan, all police are under the jurisdiction of the government. There is one standard for all. Our police must have a college degree. Before they are hired, they are given a psychological test. Training is ten times longer than the average training in the USA. They also have to take training in public relations and civility. In the entire history of our police force, since the 1800's no policeman has shot and killed a person. This is how it should be.
Many have become brainwashed into compliance in place of using their own heads. They follow the system to the letter of the law without ever even questioning what they are following rather it's the right thing or the wrong thing. And look at where things are in today's time many men afraid to speak out or to get get involved in anything so they want to get involved in anything they know if did then they would looked at as suspect and turned on they know that instead of them investigating what was reported they would come for the one that reported it. In other words men in general aren't viewed as good or innocent.
do an inside investigation by becomming a cop in Baltimore and let us know how that goes.
I'll reserve judegement. It looks awful and probably is.
The link provided had Rodney King in it. That video was terrible to watch, but then again, Rodney was speeding and resisted arrest. That pisses cops off... don't piss off cops.
It really depends on what department, the tribal police suck rocks... but the local Sheriff and deputies are awesome and wonderful.
In the big cities though, those police suck... they will stop or arrest me simply because I'm not white.
They don't care if your doing anything wrong, or if your guilty or not, they just have a system, arrest people and let the others sort it out.
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Innocent until proven guilty…. unless cops decide you aren’t compliant enough and just give you the death penalty on the spot. Just a crazy system we have going. Very sad.
1. American police have been militarized for decades. There was book I read some years ago ( the title escapes me now) that spoke about how the government intentionally militarized the police in the US with the express purpose of intimidating the population. This goes back to the war on drugs. Police are trained to see the people as the enemy and often see the communities they police as battle grounds. This also leads to American cops being hyper-over the top aggressive. The number of Americans that have been killed , abused by cops in US is legion. The ones we see on the news or on you tube are the ones caught on film. Most Americans are scared of the police not because of any illegal activity but because they are aware that most cops in the US are a bit off in the head. I have been pulled over a few times in the past years for some minor traffic violations - when this happens I change my behavior for the few minutes that I interact with the cop ; I speak in a polite even tone of voice, I don't make any sudden movements - I don't start mouthing off to them. I have never been arrested before and if you see me you would probably think I am an accountant or some kind of book nerd. I have two degrees and have never been arrested and I still don't trust the cops.
2. The type of people they recruit are not always the sharpest tools in the shed. There was a guy some years ago that sued one police dept because he as disqualified for the academy due to having very high test scores. I have read that police academies veer away from people that are too smart or educated. Also , a lot of cops are just high strung people that have authoritarian tendencies - "obey me or else" . Many cops also have violent tendencies in general - a huge number of them have domestic violence issues.
This is not a good combination and tends to lead to a lot of violence against citizens.
There is evil everywhere! We used to say "going postal" after a postal worker shot up a post office.. Today those words mean nothing. There are 661,000 officers in the USA, and 5 represents only 0.0001 percent of the officers in the USA, there are Evil teachers, and evil farm workers, yet not all are bad, there are Evil illegal immigrants, yet we label everyone as evil.. There are a majority, well trained, compassionate fair officers out there. Everyone complains about the police until they need some to respond to their doorstep.. - spoken from a person who has police officers in my extended family
What are "American Cops"? There is no such thing there are 600+ thousand LEO's in uniforms working for 15,000+ different elected local or State officials.
Institutionally speaking there is no such thing as an "American cop". The concept itself is unconstitutional and still very unusual with 90%+ of all such LEO being local or State employees.
The cops that did this worked for the city of Memphis, Tennessee.
A city that has been run exclusively by democrats (mostly black) for 30-40+ years or longer. So If those officers are indeed to blame for said incident then it was democrats who poorly hired, commanded, trained, and disciplined them.
Democrats elected by an outright majority black electorate for the last 30+ years.
Cops don't receive enough de-escalation training, they have the blinders on to other methods to calm the situation. All the training funnels them towards arrest.
I understand wanting to get home safely and there are some unsavory people out there, but you can't assume someone is bad just because they are nervous. It's totally natural to be nervous when police start asking questions because your put in a defensive situation. Then it tends to go downhill from that point on...
Here's a tip: don't break any laws and you won't get stopped by the police. If you are stopped by the police, do not get confrontational with them and make them feel threatened. If you need a lawyer, call a lawyer. I have zero sympathy for people like this man. And it's disgusting you disparage the men who are out there protecting you from him.
You would think someone like this would have to be a Pure Asshole to get his ass beat like that. Still, maybe he wasn't being a punk at all and these cops are more evil then I think. Good thing they have video now of days of what occurred, but you have to wonder "Did they delete any of the clips their showing to the public?"
They're not. I mean there are some bad ones but the vast majority of good cops and good people. It's not fair or accurate to say they are constantly unprofessional, bad and evil. That's just not reality.
I agree it horrible and I don’t understand the comments saying “but the cops were black” the point is nobody should be beaten to death by the cops regardless of race.
Poor training and poor screening out of bad seeds. We don't have that problem locally, but some of the County Sheriff Deputies can be obnoxious and ignorant of the law.
Put yourself in their shoes. Do it. Try to be a cop in this day and age. How many times do we need to tell people? Stop being stupid? Me and you aren't stupid? We don't put ourselves in this situation. It's moronic.
I'm not a cop. But it does seem like a stressful job dealing with assholes every day. But some of them are obviously overzealous.
Bad people exist in all professions. There are doctors that kill people on purpose every year but nobody ever seems to say we shouldn’t have doctors
u proper and constant training is not a priority for most police departments
I didn't want to comment until I watched the video.
Then I couldn't even make to the end.
Because, in America, the police is a government agency, as opposed to private companies like the UK.
Simples...
As soon as I heard of this the first thing I said was that now everyone will say all cops are killers.
Think about the hall monitors in school who get drunk on the power and think they are above everyone else, it’s the same mentality except on a larger scale and with people that are able to beat and kill you
maybe join the police force and show them how it should be done?
All the cops were black so there probably won't be a riot. They have been fired and there will likely be a lawsuit too. There are so many cops you can't control all of them.
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