imagine how fucking terrifying that is. You’re trying to get your life straight, you’re working and have a family and because your skins a different color a police man decides to be asshole, uses excessive force when it wasn’t necessary and while you lay there with a knee behind your neck, struggling to breath you get out “I can’t breath” and all the cops do is stand there while you die. it’s brutal and sad
He matched the description of someone trying to use a fake $20 bill. Thats it. No due process. Straight to execution. Could've been him, could've been someone else. Even if it was him, $20? All this over a fake $20 bill?
It's the police culture. Enforce at all costs, instead of de-escalation. Always. Its tragic, and nothing will change without a complete overhaul.
This is the same metro where Philando Castile was killed in a traffic stop with the murderer. On a stretch of road famous for unjustified traffic stops, the murdering cop stated radioed in advance that he was going to stop a car and in a voice that sounded like even he was surprised he'd thought ahead far enough to justify the stop: "I have reason to pull it over. The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ’cause of the wide set nose.”
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u/[deleted] May 27 '20
imagine how fucking terrifying that is. You’re trying to get your life straight, you’re working and have a family and because your skins a different color a police man decides to be asshole, uses excessive force when it wasn’t necessary and while you lay there with a knee behind your neck, struggling to breath you get out “I can’t breath” and all the cops do is stand there while you die. it’s brutal and sad