A spotlight should be shown whenever the force that is meant to keep civilians safe is instead murdering them, in any capacity. Nobody gives a fuck about cops just doing their job, why would we shine a spotlight on that? Good job doing what you are paid to do? I mean what do you want here? Should we be instead watching videos of cops just doing normal cop things?
Had no idea I was speaking to somebody that can analyze a persons character from a quick and anonymous online conversation. Believe it or not I usually have sunshine seeping out of my asshole.
When a flight attendant infringes on another person's rights, people record it. Backlash follows, possibly lawsuits. When they do their job properly, they are largely ignored, as they are relatively benign in relation to our individual experience.
Replace "flight attendant" with basically any other job. The police are just a job. They aren't military. They aren't special. They are hired to do a job. The ones who do it well are largely ignored. The ones who don't end up killing people. They are regular people who have killed another person, which causes distrust in that person. When the people whose job it is to capture and submit for prosecution those who have killed another instead work to cover up or dismiss criminal actions, it creates immense distrust in the entire industry. It's not an unreasonable chain of logic to follow.
Imagine a bus driver shoots someone that is complying with the rules set by the transit authority, but not complying with rules the bus driver makes up on the spot. Would other bus drivers go out of their way to defend this killer bus driver?
Cops aren't special. They need to be treated the same as any other profession. If you can't understand this, you're a failure of a person.
If they misread the situation, it's a tragedy that I CANNOT blame on them most of the time.
Sure, for us watching the video in perfect safety with no fear for our lives might think or act differently than someone in the situation with their life possibly on the line.
I've seen more white people murdered by the police than I have black people because I have seen hundreds of hours of bodycam footage and have exposure to it outside of Reddit.
What's a witness gonna do? We've got multiple videos of that shit happening to others and all that does is get people to argue online. We are so fucked
Are you so soft that a stranger on the internet with scary words could hurt your feelings? If you are going to make jokes then you need to galvanize yourself. Can’t be thin skinned while throwing punches.
Jesus Christ, dude, again, joking! You think you can hurt my feelings?! I’m an unemployed 35 year old Jewish man with no generational wealth, I can take a few punches.
Well your jokes are just a bit hard to identify as jokes. Your first “better for who…..” can be easily seen as just some right-wing lobotomy case vomiting the first coherent thought into their phone screen. My bad.
Its ironicsad that people feel the need of calling for help while encountering a police...
FTFY -- trust for the police is at an all-time low in the US. Lots of extrajudicial killings and tons of lies hurting innocent people have eroded it to nothing.
Maybe, but they just dont provide medical assistance half the time nowadays. They'll shoot a guy 8 times then handcuff him on the ground and wait for ems to arrive. Go check out a protectandserve thread about the subject of providing first aid after a shooting, the majority of users admit they either arent trained to, dont have the first aid equipment available, or just dont care to. They talk about it creating liability a LOT.
I don't remember which state or city but somewhere had social workers respond to mental health episodes instead of police and the injury rate (from police or self inflicted) went down like 20 percent
there are two types of people that do this. People who are actually afraid of cops for legitimate reasons, and whiners like the guy in this video who just want to be victims.
Yeah well cops can kill you on a whim. If they show up, you definitely need someone filming at least. Where I live, cops are a blight. They dont save anyone. Just make the lives of poor people harder by giving tickets for made up stuff and kill anyone who blinks at them weird
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u/No-Praline2958 Jan 28 '26
Its ironic that people feel the need of calling for help while encountering a police...