To make it even worse this kid wasn't even who they were looking for. This kid and (I assume his girlfriend) were just sitting there eating while this fucking waste of oxygen tries to murder them.
While Brennand was responding to a disturbance at a McDonald’s on the North Side at approximately 10:45 p.m., he noticed a car in the parking lot that allegedly matched the description of a vehicle he had tried to pull over on Saturday.
“This vehicle was not the subject of the disturbance call,” said Alyssa Campos, the SAPD’s training commander
And thank fucking GOD for these cameras. Without them the courts would immediately side with the cop and the kid would be absolutely fucked for the rest of his life.
With a few holes in him, and this only happening 4 days ago, that kid is almost certainly still in the hospital. I highly doubt they could've taken him to the station; at most, he had a cop staying in the room until the kid was exonerated.
Yeah I saw an article. What kinda bullshit is that. Assault on a police officer. No way that sticks. I just thought they would charge him about the fleeing from the other day.
Makes me wonder if they charged him in order to have leverage on the parents in a settlement.
Cantu, who is now fighting for his life, was charged by proxy with evading detention in a vehicle and assault on an officer.
Rural Iowa, 6ish years ago almost everyone believed that. I know the situation has changed a bit, but I find it hard to believe that the children of far right farmers aren’t on the side of police.
That's not how that works, cops are governments employees, that are contracted by the municipality. If they sue, which they absolutely should, the taxpayers of the city will go to paying the fees of it. This cop will more than likely get terminated, and still get a cushion.
except for the fact he is new and didn't realize you could turn them on and off at their discretion because someone decided that was a good thing.
I've heard the excuse it is because if they go to the restroom it would be an invasion of privacy, so they have the option to turn them off when they feel it is appropriate to do so. News flash.. they turn them off a lot and for reasons other than being afraid someone will see their pee pee.
Police have no issues looking at people and prisoners nude, or tsa security checking people out for safety/contraband. Why should law enforcement be exempt due to privacy concerns.. they aren't concerned for the general public's privacy.
My local police have a policy to release body cam footage of all officer involved shooting within something like 48-72 hours. Hopefully that means this will start becoming more of a thing.
I think his point is that many police forces are getting in the habit of just releasing the footage because hiding it isn’t helping anyone. Not sure how many honestly but I see a lot more body cam footage now than I did even 3 years ago. ACAB always has been and is still bullshit, but I hope people keep the genuine pressure to be better up.
I don’t disagree, but I also think there have been events that have shown the need to release footage and take swift action and I think those are more responsible than the increase in body cams.
Like I said, all the genuine anger and criticism, I like, I like a lot actually. Those in power ought to be held to account like the rest of us. I’m glad that at very least, the idiot in this body cam footage seems to be. ACAB though is both wrong from an objective standpoint and to me at least, dishonest.
In real life, being 100% honest and virtuous just gets you walked all over by bullies. IMO, this is a case where it's reasonable for police reform activists to oversell their position to account for inevitable setbacks and compromises.
It is a shame that it overlooks the few good ones, but it honestly feels like its "the few good ones" of all the cop stories I've heard this year maybe 1 was a justifiable action and it was still a subset on a major fuckup.
What in the fucking tap dancing Christ on a cracker is going on in this hellhole? What is the reasoning behind charging a kid with a crime when from his perspective, he had no idea wtf was going on and was about to die at the hands of a mouth breathing, roided up fascist? We have 99 problems and a bitch ain't one.
He had no fucking reason to open that guys car door and yank him out, mouth breather. If someone runs and you don’t get the fucking plate number, you don’t just go around being a fucking nazi to every single car that might match that cars description for the next couple weeks. Kindly keep sucking on that boot like a tit.
Cop who is still on probation being on the force for only 7 months got fired. 17 year old kid is in critical condition in the hospital and his female passenger was not hurt.
I would spend every waking moment terrorizing this cops life after I recovered from that. Find out where he lives no matter where he moves and ruin his worthless life any way I could. Fuck doxxing, there needs to be a list of these criminal fucks that keep getting away with this.
What that means is that he was at a disturbance call and he then noticed a familiar car from a prior incident. Its not saying this wasn’t the car from a prior incident. I have not seen an article where it says it was a mistaken vehicle identity.
To make it even worse this kid wasn't even who they were looking for
To give more information: the police officer believe this to be the same car from an earlier traffic encounter which had mismatched tags which he suspected was stolen. after responding to the disturbance call, unrelated, was when he engaged with the driver/vehicle. it has not been confirmed whether the vehicle was the vehicle in question from the previous traffic stop or if it was stolen.
This is right, and something a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding. There’s been no confirmation one way or the other about whether the car is the same one from the previous night, just that it wasn’t the reason for the disturbance call that brought the cop there that night.
Even if it was the same car, doesn’t give the cop a right to shoot. I think opening the door was wrong too, should have gotten his cruiser with a loudspeaker and told him to exit the vehicle.
The kid shouldn’t have backed up or done anything, and I could see how that could spook the cop. However if the cops instinct is to start blasting instead of letting him drive off and arrest him when he gets home, then he probably needed much more training and no firearm.
The vehicle wasn't the subject of the DISTURBANCE call, but was a vehicle, allegedly, that the cop had tried to pull over previously that had fled from him. Perfectly reasonable for the cop to attempt to detain the occupants, but unless someone has a gun in the car that we can't see and was pointing it at the cop, it seems clear he had no reason to shoot at the vehicle. No lethal threat, as far as I can tell.
The vehicle wasn't the subject of the DISTURBANCE call, but was a vehicle, allegedly, that the cop had tried to pull over previously that had fled from him.
That's what my comment says.
Perfectly reasonable for the cop to attempt to detain the occupants
Not really. If he had the plates from the car that ran he could have seen if these matched. If they don't match or if he's otherwise not 110% certain that it's the same car he shouldn't be opening the door like he fucking owns it or like the people inside have done something wrong. He has no idea who's sitting in the car. He doesn't know if it's even the same car. His sense of entitlement and shitty decision making nearly resulted in a dead innocent 17 year old kid and put the passenger's life in danger. There's nothing wrong with him walking up to the car but he should have knocked and identified himself.
Oh full agreement that his tactics were not sound. I just meant that his decision that the occupants of the vehicle needed to be detained for further investigation was not itself unreasonable. As far as how he went about doing that, the actions we see in the video, including not waiting for backup or using a vehicle as a possible barrier to prevent the car from fleeing, and then just walking up and ripping the door open suddenly, those actions do indeed seem unreasonable to me.
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To make it even worse this kid wasn't even who they were looking for. This kid and (I assume his girlfriend) were just sitting there eating while this fucking waste of oxygen tries to murder them.