Alabama cop beating suspect video.
Offline According to the news it happened last January. If you havent seen it. It was a car chase on a higway. The suspect runs over the foot of a cop knocking over. OK, I get the rush and anger of the persuing cops.
BUT, when they did the PIT manuver the van flipped, the suspect was ejected and knocked out face down on the ground. Several cops rushed the unconcious man PUNCHING AND KICKING HIM.
The law is clear that cops cannot use unessarry force. Whatever the suspect did, once he was down and surrounded, there was no call for what they did, every single cop involved in the final contact of the suspect was rightfully fired.
It is appauling that this still goes on today.
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Have you seen that recent video of a police officer running up to a man that was laying on his stomach and kicking that man in the head? The best part of it was that the officer's station defended the officer kicking someone in the head by saying that they train their officers to use disorienting head blows on prone suspects before cuffing them. So apparently, if a police officer runs at you and kicks your head while you are on the groud, the officer is in the right and will not be disciplined for doing that.
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I believe a lot of people that have a need to bully or take out their violent urges become cops or prision guards(Abu Ghriab) to get away with this behavior legally. Many pyromaniacs become fire-fighters. Kind of like a lot of pedophiles become priests, coaches, teachers, etc.. so they can have access to children.
The system needs to screen out candidates with these conditions.
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I assume everyone's also seen the one of the cop throwing th 14 year old girl against the wall because she kicked-off her shoe in his direction (no, you don't understand unless you've seen the video. Like, you know how you might 'kick' off one of your slippers before heading for bed? It was that kind of kick, and the shoe didn't hit the officer at all. Even if it had, it would've landed with the devastating force of a dried-up leaf blown in a slight breeze). As far as I'm aware, that guy also had no serious repercussion brought against him.
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