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Cops Beat & Pulls Gun...
This is why #BlackLivesMatter is the most important movement of our time.
I honestly believe that the spectators saved her life.
This has to end!
#Bernie2016
Iggo
(47,549 posts)They're the best!
marym625
(17,997 posts)One story after another. One unarmed person of color after another, beaten relentlessly, often shot, often murdered. And it just won't end.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)I had forgotten all about it. I never read it but now recall reading about it a million years ago.
Scary thought.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)is if they start putting these thugs in prison, and giving them the same sentence a civilian would get for doing the same thing.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Hopefully, Slager and the 6 charged in Freddie Grey's murder will see time. Maybe, just maybe, other prosecutors will follow suit
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)but the way it is now we can't even get them behind bars in the first place.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Government sanctioned, racial genocide
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Even with so much proof. She didn't submit and kiss his feet.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I know cops, I live next to the CoP. I read these stories and wonder 'what the fn f to the f is wrong with these cops???' this towns cops don't act like that. Now the big city close by, YES there have been some horrible cop stories...and I wonder WTF is wrong with that cop?
WTH!?
marym625
(17,997 posts)Never should have been hired. Macho, racist, psychopaths. I suspect, in many cases, there's drug use involved. That includes steroids
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Like he is trying to kill her. He was out of control and in a rage. Of course she grabbed the baton he was beating her with. was she supposed to lie there and take it?
marym625
(17,997 posts)I feel like it's all in a handbook for cops.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)It's absolutely amazing that shit hasn't been bombed by now. Truly amazing. This is nothing less than wicked.