There aren't even seatbelts in there. Is that van supposed to be used for hand-cuffed people?
Cop in America doing a bad job, again
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Looks similar to the type of van I was in.
What the feck? All of those people need to be prosecuted, but I know they won't be.
That police van was definitely designed to hurt people. Like, explicitly, not being facetious.
When I worked in the police we used vans as for transport / temporary containment during high risk events and such. The first thing on the checklist when we put them in the van was to put on their seatbelts even if we had no intention of driving anywhere, it's not just for their safety but ours as well.
maybe if you stop resisting gravity you wouldn’t have gotten hurt. Millennials.
I have bookmarked this post as it is the first time I have been mistaken for a millennial through any communication medium ever!
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fecking murderers. And this is done in purpose. So many times they have used vans to kill and cripple people.
I'm sorry but if you are a Cop and don't stand up to this shit, you are a cnut piece of shit. No matter if you don't do this type of shit yourself.
That fecking bitch who keeps saying that he's fine and it's all drink
San Fran cut over 130million
Yep, should have referenced SF, but they are definitely an outlier.
not true. the mayor never really followed up on this promise.
https://sfstandard.com/politics/708...police-spending-to-hire-retain-more-officers/
this should be an interesting thread with this being july 4th weekend
Did these not go through then? I know that once the crime wave happened she changed her mind but I wasn't sure if any of these actually went through with it
https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/new...everse-course-and-increase-police-bud/617285/
In 2020, cities across the U.S. slashed police budgets: New York cut $1 billion from its 2021 budget; Los Angeles cut $150 million; Washington, D.C. cut $15 million; San Francisco slashed $120 million from law enforcement, diverting the funds to efforts, including economic opportunities, housing, and health care, aimed at addressing inequities.
But in 2021, each of these cities reversed course and increased its police budget. Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland, Oregon, promised to defund three city police units in June 2020, cutting $15 million; in November 2021, Wheeler announced a $5 million budget increase for the police department. In a press announcement, he pointed to rising crime rates, stating that “Parents are scared to let their children play outside.”
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I will give the cops a pass on anything if they are doing it to people shooting off fireworks
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they never went through with it. the only cities that did were portland and oakland. as far as nypd goes the budget wasn’t cut due to defund the police, it was just reallocated for a different purpose within nypd.
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Can someone describe it so I don't have to watch it?
I can't really see what happened from that camera.
It’s not gruesome due to the blur, but I can’t recall as intense firepower over as short a time frame. There were at least 6 cops & they expended over 90 rounds in a matter of seconds.
Just seen this on the news. WTF.
Apparently a couple of the cops expended their clips, reloaded, & resumed shooting.
Utterly crazy. I just don’t understand it I really don’t
Saw reports that the guy got pulled over and fired a couple of shots at the police officers when they got out of their cars....then the chase happened and he was killed
Yea the media won’t tell you that though, neither will the twitter mob. Focus only on the fact he was black, and how many shots fired at him. That’s more sensationalist.
That’s how the majority of felony stops go, with compliance and without incident.
It was in the first article I clicked on when I was googling this earlier.
Also, I don't think you need to say more than "90 shots fired" for it to be sensational. It doesn't matter if he was guilty of something. Rodney King was guilty too, but that doesn't make his treatment any better.
Do you feel that the number of rounds shot was proportional to the threat or excessive?
if you've ever been shot at with the intent of being killed, you're not worried about shot count or how many rounds you need to fire off to kill the other person
I’ve been shot at, yes.
The shot came while the suspect was driving his car on the highway. From traffic cams it looked like a wildly speculative shot, hardly drawing a bead on the closest pursuing officer. The shot happened roughly six minutes before the (I guess) non excessive use of force shooting, the shooting that happened after two tasers were first deployed poorly.
But you seem to think it’s proportional.
I do, with the luxury of hindsight, feel the number of rounds was excessive. However that isn’t as important as whether the shooting itself was justified based on the facts and events known at the time. Was the decision to shoot proportional and appropriate? If yes, then the number of subsequent shots isn’t that relevant. If I’m pursuing someone and at some point he does something to make me shoot him, I’m solely focused on him, the threat. If there’s 10 other cops in my peripheral view also taking shots, then it’s not inconceivable that 60 rounds can be fired, if say we all take 5-6 shots each.
He was unarmed when he was confronted, so someone fecked up either way.
he wasn't unarmed...they found his gun in the car he was driving
So you're saying the car was armed? He wasn't in it.
but he was driving the car where shots came from so if he's running, how are police to know he's not armed? I mean he shot at them simple as that
Allegedly?
They don't know he's not armed, but they're not supposed to just shoot him because they know that at one point in the past he was armed. In America anyone can be armed, does that mean the police are supposed to just shoot any suspect at will? Obviously not.