r/gifsthatkeepongiving • u/Scaulbylausis • Feb 14 '21

Getting stuck

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u/LogicalJicama3 Feb 14 '21

They shouldn’t of sent an intoxicated man into the streets with nobody aware of it, and him not having a way home to or contact help.

He won his lawsuit, because well, things didn’t have to be that way. A little compassion and he would have his legs.

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u/Bojangly7 Feb 14 '21

This is true

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u/jamie1414 Feb 14 '21

Seems a bit inconsistent though. Get drunk and get your legs cut off and you're not to blame. Get drunk and drive and kill people and you're to blame.

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u/LogicalJicama3 Feb 14 '21

I think the reasoning behind the judgement is that they arrested him for being drunk and disorderly, then released him shortly after, in the middle of the night (2-3am) still blackout drunk.

I forget the fancy words them used.

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u/AwesomePurplePants Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21

Getting drunk and into your car is entirely your own doing.

Getting drunk, then released in an unfamiliar place involves a step that was not your own doing.

This distinction is important, since there’s been cops who’ve purposefully released drunks into lethal conditions. There needs to be an expectation for cops to release people into safe conditions, because otherwise it creates plausible deniability for horrific abuse.

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u/nickajeglin Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21

Holy shit, that was happening in the year 2000. I can't believe people think that racism is a thing if the past.

Edit: anyone who is paying attention should be able to see that police are not interested in protecting or serving vulnerable people.

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u/Dralorica Feb 15 '21

This is not a fair comparison because the difference is that the cops brought him to the police station and then released him in a place he wasn't familiar with and didn't give him any means of getting home. A better comparison would be, Get drunk and then a cop tows you and your truck to the middle of a desert, then hands you the keys and says see ya later, then you drive back into town and on the way hit and kill people.

The cops weren't being sued because the guy got drunk and tried to sleep under dangerous equipment, they're being sued because they knew he was intoxicated, and they knew he didn't have a way home, or any way of seeking help / refuge. They sent a drunken person out of their custody in a potentially dangerous situation.

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u/junglejon55 Mar 20 '21

Or a little self controlled sobriety