A police officer in Reform, Alabama, has been placed on administrative leave after a viral video showed her tasing a handcuffed and compliant man during a traffic stop.
  • aelwero@lemmy.world
    811·
    11 months ago

    I read the article, and it quoted her as having said “oh yeah” when he declared a weapon, and I thought “yeah that’s not great, but I kinda get it” because I assumed the context was that she assumed he meant it as a mild threat perhaps and was responding with “oh yeah?” the way one would when being insulted or threatened…

    Then I watch the video, and that’s not the case at all… The tone implies something much more along the lines of “yippee, you got a gun, now I get to develop a sudden fear for my life and do THIS!.. Yeehaw!”

    She ain’t intimidated or threatened, she just mentally busted through a brick wall holding a pitcher in her hand looking to have a tropical punch party, that was a koolade man “OH YEAH!”

    Y’all cops need to come to Jesus and establish some fucking standards and enforce them, because what you got going with the paid vacation and taxpayers funding their own restitution is not gonna be indefinitely sustainable. You’re filling a keg full of powder and one of these evil motherfuckers you keep turning a blind eye to is gonna throw a spark in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not even the bomb squad in their full staypuft costume is gonna qualify for immunity from the explosion it causes.

    I don’t think we need to go down that road, but a lot of people do, and cops like Ms koolade here arent making the opinion shrink…

      • aelwero@lemmy.world
        233·
        11 months ago

        Lol, “come to Jesus” is a very obscure (apologies for that) slang expression for “waking the fuck up to reality”, usually with some tough love style assistance. No religious connotation whatsoever in the context I meant it.

          • aelwero@lemmy.world
            51·
            11 months ago

            It’s not any kind of analogy, it’s an expression… An idiom… A fucking locution… Any of those words help?

            If the expression, as explained, were an analogy, it would imply that when people who believe in Jesus die and go to heaven, Jesus will chew their ass. Fuck, that’s also an expression… I mean… Be angry… Get their face really close to your face and angrily yell words at you…

            I don’t think anyone who believes in Jesus thinks that’s gonna be how the meeting goes… it’s more flowers, hugs, getting drunk as funk… Right?

          • Skeptomatic@lemmy.world
            31·
            11 months ago

            If a rapist and murderer said they woke the fuck up, then reoffended. Does that means saying “wake the fuck up” will then be a bad analogy that shouldn’t be used anymore?

    • systemglitch@lemmy.world
      173·
      11 months ago

      Jesus doesn’t make people better people. Wanting to be a better person makes people a better person.

      The bitch just as likely goes to church as not.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      My guess is she knew he was a felon before the stop. The “oh yea” feels like a cheer for “getting him.” This whole thing feels like preexisting knowledge.

      • aelwero@lemmy.world
        55·
        11 months ago

        Like a habitual troublemaker that never really gets caught with anything solid, and firearm on parole is the long awaited “gotcha”?

        I could see that being the reason for the exuberance actually. That’s plausible. Could also explain the taser, frustrated with dealing with dudes shit for so long maybe…

        You’ve added a shadow of a doubt I didn’t have before. Good discourse :)

        • Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.socialEnglish
          131·
          11 months ago

          And that right there is why thugs with badges always get acquitted. A cop isn’t a judge, jury, or executioner. I don’t care what she thought she knew already, there is no excuse for this kind of violent assault against someone who still holds the legal presumption of innocence. She is a criminal and belongs behind bars.

        • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          Consider this situation:

          She pulls over to check on the disabled motorist see what she can get out of the interaction. She runs his info and sees that he is a felon. This gets her going, as her racism had already decided that her subject victim is guilty of possessing things he legally cannot posses: a gun and drugs. He was minding his own business. She targeted him and successfully used the law crooked set of rules that are meant to further dehumanize people that they deem to be beneath them.

          “Habitual” issues do nothing to provide context as to why she tased him when he was clearly complying with her disgusting abuse of power that we pay for.

          It’s all rotten. Nothing short of radical sorts of change will stop these sorts of interactions and the events that lead up to them, which starts in childhood for the victims of the state.

          Should the law, or anyone for that matter, think of you as guilty of something because of their negative bias about people who look or act like you?

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
    651·
    11 months ago

    I hope this doesn’t count as qualified immunity.

    She stopped him from changing a tire because he was ‘suspicious’. She deserves prison for assault, battery, wrongful arrest (there’s no RAS, regardless of what she found after) and a hate crime.

    • badbytes@lemmy.world
      162·
      11 months ago

      Cruel acts by a human. Makes one wonder all of the atrocious acts that aren’t on video.

      • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world
        21·
        11 months ago

        If you think it’s bad out there now, just imagine all the atrocities they gleefully committed and got away with prior to camera phones being everywhere. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be better. I’m just saying it is likely better than it used to be now that everybody is recording everybody else all the time.

  • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    11 months ago

    They’re going to use his record and the drugs and gun to paint him as a bad guy. She’ll probably keep her job.

    Fucking shame, man. People like that shouldn’t ever make it onto the force to begin with.

    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      123·
      11 months ago

      What force do you imagine the police to be?! The one from your childhood, back when it was Rockwell fairy tale and shiny field trip stickers? They’ve always been a racist gang of corpo fucks; too stupid to make it through boot, and too psycho to hold any other job that doesn’t award them the chance to assault/murder. ACAB. Fuck the police.

    • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world
      52·
      11 months ago

      Well yeah, they put him on a half a million dollar bond for this. They’re throwing the book at his character.

    • Conyak@lemmy.tfEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      Mayberry had no black residents. It was an all white town. Andy and Barney probably would have acted very different if a black man or woman came into town.

  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
    53·
    11 months ago

    I hope she burns in hell, but even the devil rejects such evil people.

    Someone needs to call the witch burners and show them to this woman.

    • cannache@slrpnk.net
      11·
      11 months ago

      I feel like she’s gonna lose her job. There’s not even any drugs in this situation, she’s just pulling him over with a warrant to get one over him, and even if there was I doubt it would be worth much. Some people are just sadistic when given the opportunity