Jasnah KholinMar 30, 2024
Gigi 🍄‍🟫

Ho lee shit.
The AP has found that the number of deaths caused by the police in the US is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than thought because they're not always reported as being "officer-involved."

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The investigation found that between 2012 and 2021, more than a thousand people died after police use physical force that was not intended to be lethal. That includes batons, stun guns, physical restraints, and chemical agents. The oldest victim was 95 and the youngest 15.

Only 28 of the officers were charged.

The Police role was only cited in about half of the cases, meaning that many more Americans have died at the hands of the police than was previously known.
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Watch the PBS segment here
https://youtu.be/5rrMUfbGVlM?feature=shared

#PoliceBrutality #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #FuckThePolice #DefundDisarmDismantle

Police tactics meant to stop people often ends up killing them, investigation reveals

YouTube
Mar 30, 2024 at 12:20amWeb
Show threadTopKnotMar 30, 2024

@Gigi

If we as a nation won't or cannot hold the #police accountable for killing citizens, how the hell do we expect to hold authoritarian elected official accountable for their illegal behavior?

Let's just say, police murdering citizens has become normalized. Next it's President killing their political rivals that might become the norm? Obviously, no POTUS would ever consider killing their rivals in this day and age, right? Right???????

Show threadLisPiMar 30, 2024
@TopKnot @Gigi > Obviously, no POTUS would ever consider killing their rivals in this day and age, right? Right???????

Some of them do seem fond of immitating Russian ways...
Show threadGrumbleMar 30, 2024

@Gigi Is the story here that cops kill a lot of people, or is the story that the press doesn't typically tell the rest of us that the cops kill a lot of people?

I'm pretty sure that the cops who killed those people and the surviving families of the dead knew this was happening.

Show threadJustin MyersMar 30, 2024

@grumble209 @Gigi
The story here [1] is that cops' actions are directly responsible for a lot more deaths than police departments, prosecutors or even medical examiners let on.

Sometimes there's intent there. Sometimes there's ignorance. Sometimes there's indifference. But the result is the same.

[1] I was an editor at AP with some involvement while this project was in the works, but I left the organization several months ago and haven't had insight into how this all came together at the end.

Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsMar 30, 2024
@Gigi and here's the AP article, for those who prefer that to a video: https://apnews.com/article/associated-press-investigation-deaths-police-encounters-02881a2bd3fbeb1fc31af9208bb0e310
Over 1,000 people have died after police encounters: AP investigation

Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death — as happened with George Floyd in 2020. An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. Medical officials cited the force in about half the cases. In others, officers didn’t follow best safety practices, creating a recipe for death. These deadly encounters happened in nearly every state and the deceased came from all walks of life. The toll, however, disproportionately fell on Black Americans.

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Show threadHavyhh2Mar 30, 2024
@Gigi ...this really society should step up & fix....this more tragic, of course, but reminds me a bit of how we've allowed more & more dark, dirty money into politics, allowed more & more tax & social policy to feed wealthy of society at expense of working class. Both caused mostly by Republican policy, often just to blocking doing the right things as proposed by Democrats. Guns, abortion, climate, likewise minority just murdering us whistling us all into the grave....
Show threadPeachMcDMar 30, 2024

@Gigi

Perfect #BreakingNews for #GoodFriday
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Show threadBlueintheSouthMar 30, 2024
@Gigi anyone that surprised??
Show threadJW prince of CPHMar 30, 2024
@Gigi - and there's your explanation as to why TFG wants to be friends with cops. He correctly sees them as stormtroopers for the dictatorship he's going to install the second he's elected.
Show threadPedestrianError  Mar 30, 2024
@Gigi And this still doesn’t include people police kill with their cars, whether by reckless/negligent driving or intentional ramming.
Show threadenmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉Mar 30, 2024

@Gigi they always get to fall back on that precedent that protects them from liability when doing their duties. I forget what it is called but whatever it is they claim that they have to have it otherwise they couldn't do their job.

I would say if your job involves shooting people without cause because you were afraid maybe you shouldn't be doing that job? And if they can't sue officers then citizens should be suing cities who don't train and regulate their cops sufficiently.

Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Mar 30, 2024

@enmodo @Gigi

I believe the term for which you're looking is 'Qualified Immunity'.

In theory it's a legal practice intended to keep police from being bogged down by spurious complaints, with genuine ones enforced by internal affairs. In practice it becomes a keep-your-job card and fosters rampant violence against anyone the officer in question just doesn't like -- which, as always, tends to be anyone who's not part of the dominant social milieu.

Show threadenmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉Mar 30, 2024
@theogrin @Gigi yes, that's it Jennifer, thank you. As you noted it has become unqualified immunity. It is shocking how hard police unions work to cover up and protect so many bad apples. There is no esprit de corps in any police force that I know of.
Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Mar 30, 2024

@enmodo @Gigi

Oh, there's plenty of that. Officers are typically proud of their work, some justifiably, others just glad that they can happily murder people without consequence. And when it comes down to it, the Thin Blue Line is a very real thing, and they will always close ranks to protect their own. Except for whistleblowers. Those get quietly let go -- sometimes in a more permanent method than others.

Apologists for the police will constantly use that phrase, 'bad apples', without actually alluding to the truth: one bad apple spoils the bunch, as rot spreads quickly. And every time the police protect a rapist or a murderer amongst their ranks, they're happily letting the rot propagate.

Show threadYetAnotherGeekGuy Mar 30, 2024

@Gigi
I used to doubt ACAB. But if one is a Cop who doesn’t actively restrain, stop, and get rid of bad Cops - one IS a bad cop.

It’s just 99% of them that ruin it for the rest. ACAB. QED

Show threadcultdevApr 5, 2024
@Gigi well duh, but it’s nice to see some mainstream media reporting it