(about Tyre Nichols death)
For the life of me, I will never understand what is so difficult about COMPLYING w/ police orders. 1) He was high on drugs. 2) He had just done a hit & run. 3) He tried to get into someone else’s vehicle. 4) He RAN from police. 5) He resisted arrest. 6) Officers were black.
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6) Officers were black.
This shows to me, that, to GOPniks, their love for bootlicking is stronger than their hate of non-whites.
Well, I don’t understand how points 1 - 5, even if true, could make those cops think it was justified literally beating the life out of Tyre. And point 6 is totally irrelevant.
Because, Candarse, the police are NOT “Judge, Jury, and Executioner”!!! They do NOT have the legal rights to brutally execute suspects in cold blood(*)!! And in the US it happens ALL THE TIME!!! So no wonder people try to run from them!!
(*)Pretty sure that in many countries, including the US, the police are only authorized to use lethal force when lives are at stake!! Not listening fast enough during a pull-over is NOT endangering lives!!!
The "Judge Dredd" comics & films are not documentaries.
You'd love to be Chief Judge Hershey wouldn't you, eh Candarse...?!
Being high on drugs, committing a hit & run, trying to get into someone else’s vehicle, running from police, and resisting arrest are not offenses worthy of death.
Would you so easily condone Tyre Nichols' murder if he had been white?
For the life of me, I will never understand what is so difficult about COMPLYING w/ police orders.
What orders?
None of those things are death penalty crimes, Canned Ass.
I hate the way conservatives defend this shit.
Generic News Corp: “Police shot and killed an unarmed POC!!”
Liberals and non-tanky lefties: “Police shouldn’t be killing unarmed people. We need police reform.”
Right-wingers: “But they were stealing/high/drunk/speeding/not complying/existing!!!”
Candace, you’re anti abortion.
So, you think everyone has a right to life?
UNLESS: they’re high; guilty of a traffic violation; trespassing; resisting arrest; the abortionist is black?
So we define all unwanted pregnancies as trespassing, or hire black abortionists, it’s all good, right?
I saw the first section of body cam video. They had their guns out shouting threats before getting out of their vehicles, tore the door to his car open and had hands on him *before* telling him to get out, told him to put his hands behind his back while holding his arm up and away from him, told him to get on his stomach while still holding his arm in that position making it physically impossible to comply and pinning him awkwardly on his side so he couldn't do that without struggling against their grips even if his arm popped right off, finally let go of his arms and look to get the cuffs on him but still holding him on his side demanding he get down on the ground where he already was... Then when he was face down I could hear a distinct crackling at which point he bolted up and started running. And the officer who clearly tased him wondered out loud how the prongs missed? Like he didn't even seem to realize he had already discharged the weapon and was electrocuting him before he bolted.
And that was about as much as I could make out. Every third thing the cops said was a threat of physical harm. I imagine this only gets worse.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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