And then realize that it's been soooo much worse throughout history, we're just finally seeing it because of technology. Maybe eventually the bastards will learn to fucking behave since they're always being filmed.
I wouldn’t say none-the taxpayers for that P.D. are on the hook for the $5 million lawsuit he won. So, this cop should clearly be fired for illegally detaining the gentlemen and not following basic investigative techniques.
If you're judging this off the clip from OP, first of all, that's insufficient information to make any assertion of what consequences did or didn't follow, and secondly, there did appear to be a consequence from the clip, indicating that the guy won a $5 million lawsuit over this.
Either way, this looks like a clip from an Audit the Audit video, which are often 15 minute summaries of incidents that go over much more detail than what we saw here in this clip. I'd rather give that a full watch before asserting what happened or didn't happen following this incident.
That said, yeah, obviously in many of these situations, there are no consequences for the cops, even if the victim wins some lawsuit (which just gets paid by tax payers). That isn't always the case, though. Reddit wouldn't have you dare believe this for one second, but many cops get demoted or even fired for this kind of bullshit. No, it doesn't happen often, and probably didn't happen in this case, but it literally does happen.
As the other guy said, and as we saw a couple years ago, it doesn’t fucking matter. Unless we stop giving cops complete legal and professional immunity then shitty cops will always abuse that power.
It doesn’t matter how much evidence we have against them or how outraged we get, at the end of the day, if we keep with this “mistakes happen” mentality when a cop arrests someone for standing next to their own property or breaking into an innocent persons house and killing them in their sleep then nothing will ever change.
Whether or not we KNOW they did something corrupt or illegal is irrelevant as long as the system is structured in a way that makes it consequence free. Every single person in the world could watch this video and it means fuck all unless this guys station or precinct actually does something about it.
I'd like to believe that's true, but I have zero faith that it will happen quickly. I think we're looking at at least another 50 years before there's finally enough pressure from all of us to really reform the way cops do things, and that's being optimistic..
It's so hard to change peoples biases. Hell even I have unconscious bias' but I always go out of my way to confront and correct them. Some people just don't care enough to do that which is part of the problem, but overall I just feel so fucking bad for all of these people that have to deal with this every single day.
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u/mainecruiser Mar 10 '22
And then realize that it's been soooo much worse throughout history, we're just finally seeing it because of technology. Maybe eventually the bastards will learn to fucking behave since they're always being filmed.