gAlienLifeform‘I can’t die like this’: Video shows trans man beaten by LA County Sheriff's deputy during stop
BlamemetaFinally trans men are being treated equally, beaten by the LAPD
Can always count on conservatives to find a way to celebrate police violence.
I assume it was a joke in poor taste. A conservative would have said it was a deep state plant or that they had it coming for smoking weed or something.
I’m actually a conservative. I just also think cops are fucking bastards too.
I assume it was a joke in poor taste.
I mean, every time conservatives get pushback for something they mean in earnest, it’s retroactively a joke.
Nah, this is just you not getting a joke.
Jokes can celebrate police violence.
Dark humor is a thing even if you personally don’t find it funny…
Just because you find police violence against trans people to be hilarious, that doesn’t mean everyone must.
I never said I found it to be hilarious. Any other words you’d like to put in my mouth for me?
Actually, trans people have been more likely to be brutalized by police for a long time
It’s a joke, at the LAPD’s expense.
If you say so.
Are air fresheners illegal in LA?
Technically yes, in the same way window tint or requiring a front license plate is.
The law is applied selectively to groups of people they don’t like and used as a justification to pull you over for doing nothing wrong.
exohumanOne of those witnesses claimed that Brock punched the deputy, which camera footage does not show and the deputy did not allege.
I fucking hate people.
WxnzxnTo play devil’s advocate, it is perfectly possible that person genuinely saw it as that. Eyewitnesses in chaotic situations are inherently untrustworthy and prone to misinterpret things and even create false memories when questioned. Especially if it was someone that, naively, still trusted in cops for some reason, it’s easy for the mind to create some assumed aggression by the victim, because only that way their worldview can remain intact (“a police officer wouldn’t have been that brutal without good cause” as an assumption, basically.)
Still, I agree, it is wild. Especially since even the bastard assaulting the driver here didn’t claim that. And I agree, it is also very much possible it was an overzealous fascist that just wanted to cover for the cops in a way more zealous than the cops themselves by consciously lying.
Eyewitnesses in chaotic situations are inherently untrustworthy and prone to misinterpret things and even create false memories when questioned
The general public has no idea how bad and unreliable eyewittnesses are. It’s probably for the better.
Agreed, but also eye-witness testimony is notoriously inaccurate.
This is why police shout “stop resisting!”
Chaotic EntropyWhat a hero citizen, out there making up crimes that no one asked them to.
The Sheriff’s Department has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks for two other use-of-force incidents caught on camera, including one in which a deputy punched a woman in the face while trying to take her child.
This doesn't sounds like a case of anti-trans hate, which I was actually expecting
While the incident of the violence itself could have happened with the deputy unaware of brutalising a trans man, with the article not showing indications of this being the primary motivation, his treatment while in custody clearly shows further relevant mistreatment.
HybridSarcasmFor those that would bother to read the article, the ‘victim’ flipped off the cop while driving. Sure, maybe the cop is an angry asshole, but the excessive force is just as likely to come from being flipped off as the cop seeing a transgender person.
For those that would bother to read the article, the ‘victim’ flipped off the cop while driving.
Flipping off a cop is perfectly legal. The person you hate because and only because he’s trans is a victim of police brutality.
but the excessive force is just as likely to come from being flipped off
The excessive force is because a pig was abusing his little piggy authority.
Imagine thinking that almost beating someone to death is a rational, normal consequence of flipping someone off. I couldn’t.
I’m sure some conservative will be along in a few minutes to insist that the beating was just a joke.
goslingBeating? You mean aggressive tickling? God, the liberals are so soft these days /s
back in my day the police murdered us for not working, or not working enough, or working too much, or wanting to work, for relaxing, not relaxing, relaxing too much, not relaxing enough, sleeping, not sleeping, sleeping too much, not sleeping enough and walking around existing and we liked it that way
girlfreddyACAB always and forever.
No quotes around victim there buddy
AphoticDevFuck cops, and fuck you for victim blaming. He has a constitutional right to flip off any cop, any time he wants for any reason, per the Supreme Court.
Fuck you too. Dumbass performs an act of aggression and is surprised when the favor is returned. Cop or not, that’s fucking stupid.
You seriously think flipping a person off is an act of aggression worthy is being beaten?
Like those are the two things being equated by you. That somehow a person who raises a middle finger at distance from another person might expect to be followed and beaten, that those two things make sense in this context.
It’s that really how you think, or did someone trigger you in the comments and this is your version of being personally butthurt?
Didn’t say the reaction was equal to the action. Just saying that you shouldn’t be surprised when you FAFO.
That is not how any police should react.
ACAB
And upstanding school teachers probably shouldn’t be driving around flipping off cops. Everyone is an asshole.
So you’re saying those uppity folk need to know their place.
Dumbass performs an act of aggression and is surprised when the favor is returned.
Pigs are trained professionals. If they cannot control their little piggy feelings, they should seek less porcine employment.
Perhaps. Still, you really wanna fuck with the guy with the gun? That’s incredibly foolish.
I want that pig to lose his job and go to jail. You’re just happy that he beat a trans person.
If a cop just acts like some random “guy with a gun” who might shoot you at the slightest provocation they probably shouldn’t have a gun.
Or be a cop.
An honest cop should be keeping a close eye on that guy.
Or be a cop.
An honest cop should be keeping a close eye on that guy.
I don’t disagree. It’s just also stupid to assume that the cop you flip off WON’T flip out. For all the “all cops are bad” messaging that’s going around, you’d think one would want to play it safe. Two things can be true at once: the cop absolutely escalated this beyond what was called for, and the victim was stupid to instigate anything in the first place.
You can’t sympathize and victim blame at the SME time.
If someone flipped me off in public, the worst that would happen is I flip him off back. Why should a cop be any different?
Wow, text book cognitive dissonance.
Keep licking those boots!
The middle finger is a visual that frighted, scared, meager police would see as a threat. Hence their would also see their response in beating… as penance for doing something they don’t like.
Tldr: fearfully weak cops care about only themselves.
You’re a real piece of shit, you know that?
lol you think it’s justifiable to get your ass beat for flipping someone off huh?
This guy trollin
Wait so you think a hand gesture justifies violence?
DasnapThe cop did this because he got flipped off. Even from a cynical point of view of this, this is a lot of effort for something so small.
Right, now imagine that you have an incredibly fragile ego, you peaked in highschool, and you perceive yourself as being above others because of your station in the police force.
I’m not shocked it happened. Just disgusted. He’s the animal that should be behind bars, not enforcing the law.
Dangerous animals aren’t generally afforded the privilege of being locked away. Just sayin’.