Crime Ridden Memphis

#702
#702
DinkinFlicka said:
Oh **** off. You haven't watched the video.

If 5 armed men violently rip you out of your car for simply asking "what did I do?" and you have the correct instinct to realize you are in a life-threatening situation, let's see if you stay put.

He wasn't running when they had him subdued and cuffed, before they beat him to death. They broke his neck. They ****ed him up so bad that his kidneys failed.
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That’s actually very sad. His family will never get the Justice they deserve.
 
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#703
#703
davethevol said:
That’s actually very sad. His family will never get the Justice they deserve.
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Burhead posted a detail I forgot to include. They propped up his lifeless body and yelled "Stay up, ************!"

I'm shocked that firefighters and paramedics didn't do anything. Does that speak to the inhumane treatment and subhuman outlook on certain socioeconomic statuses and race, or were the FF's and paramedics too scared of the LEOs to do anything?
 
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#705
DinkinFlicka said:
Burhead posted a detail I forgot to include. They propped up his lifeless body and yelled "Stay up, ************!"

I'm shocked that firefighters and paramedics didn't do anything. Does that speak to the inhumane treatment and subhuman outlook on certain socioeconomic statuses and race, or were the FF's and paramedics too scared of the LEOs to do anything?
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I would imagine the firefighters were scared. There are plenty of vids out there of police arresting firefighters/first responders when they’re trying to save people.
 
#709
#709
DinkinFlicka said:
According to Franklin Pierce, this is just going to be huge cost to the taxpayer.

And TNVOLNAVY thinks this is on Nichols for trying to escape an obviously hostile situation.
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Just curious since you had an opp to see the video. No serious detail has been released yet. Any inference from watching as to why they so brutally beat one of their own to death. Pics of the vic would lead one to beleive he was well raised by his parents and didn't have the "appearance" of someone who would have been causing enough trouble to bring this on.
 
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#710
GVF said:
Just curious since you had an opp to see the video. No serious detail has been released yet. Any inference from watching as to why they so brutally beat one of their own to death. Pics of the vic would lead one to beleive he was well raised by his parents and didn't have the "appearance" of someone who would have been causing enough trouble to bring this on.
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Because it's about LEO'S treatment of PoC as a whole, regardless of the LEO'S race.

Some of the worst cops in LA amidst the 90's were black.
 
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#711
Franklin Pierce said:
The local and national news medias are strongly pushing the narrative for riots. Not once have I heard the dude that died was resisting arrest.
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If he was beaten as badly as it appears from the leaks coming out I'm not sure his resisting matters that much. While I agree it makes him to a lesser degree responsible for the violence needed to subdue him there is certainly at point at which the force needed to subdue was exceeded and this became a beat down.

I'll wait for the video to come so I can make an informed decision
 
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#714
#714
davethevol said:
I would imagine the firefighters were scared. There are plenty of vids out there of police arresting firefighters/first responders when they’re trying to save people.
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I could see this. The police are the top dog here. Not many individuals thru history witness a group of men beating another man to death, and decide “I will step in and stop this.”
 
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#716
DinkinFlicka said:
Because it's about LEO'S treatment of PoC as a whole, regardless of the LEO'S race.

Some of the worst cops in LA amidst the 90's were black.
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It goes deeper than that I'm afraid, I never went to college and I'm not remotely intelligent enough to give a detailed breakdown but psychology tells you when you deal with the worst of the worst, people who behave animal like, whether they be white or black you begin to use that as a frame of reference for the public in those areas as a whole. You begin to become animal like in nature, he ran and resisted and their "animal" instincts kicked in. Call it burnout, whatever you want but it is a culture problem. The cultural problem isn't with police, it's society in general of which they are a part. The problem is they are given powers and liberties under the law the rest of the public isn't. We have to find a way to correct the issues that create this problem.


Just my opinion.
 
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#717
DinkinFlicka said:
Because it's about LEO'S treatment of PoC as a whole, regardless of the LEO'S race.

Some of the worst cops in LA amidst the 90's were black.
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So, mostly just a beatdown. No real motive for stopping him? No justifiable reason to gang up on him, or even continue? THey had to do invesitigations and all, but nothing has been released yet to even indicate he did anything wrong from the onset to warrant anything really. Guess that will all come out. There was obviously enough blatant disregard on the officer's parts that they didn't even try to defend any of hte actions. They've already been booted.
 
#718
#718
KB5252 said:
It goes deeper than that I'm afraid, I never went to college and I'm not remotely intelligent enough to give a detailed breakdown but psychology tells you when you deal with the worst of the worst, people who behave animal like, whether they be white or black you begin to use that as a frame of reference for the public in those areas as a whole. You begin to become animal like in nature, he ran and resisted and their "animal" instincts kicked in. Call it burnout, whatever you want but it is a culture problem. The cultural problem isn't with police, it's society in general of which they are a part. The problem is they are given powers and liberties under the law the rest of the public isn't. We have to find a way to correct the issues that create this problem.


Just my opinion.
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Police all over the country have a huge cultural problem and it's getting worse. Police departments are either encouraging or at a minimum turning a blind eye to the gang like behavior on the force. Steroids are a big problem within police forces.
 
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#719
hog88 said:
Police all over the country have a huge cultural problem and it's getting worse. Police departments are either encouraging or at a minimum turning a blind eye to the gang like behavior on the force. Steroids are a big problem within police forces.
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I'm not denying that. But there are cultural issues all over the country. And it just so happens the hotbeds of police and public cultural issues most often overlap, that's the biggest part of my point.
 
#720
#720
DinkinFlicka said:
Burhead posted a detail I forgot to include. They propped up his lifeless body and yelled "Stay up, ************!"

I'm shocked that firefighters and paramedics didn't do anything. Does that speak to the inhumane treatment and subhuman outlook on certain socioeconomic statuses and race, or were the FF's and paramedics too scared of the LEOs to do anything?
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The officers involved had no regard for life, period. Trying to tie it to race or socioeconomic stature is stupid.
 
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#723
#723
I'm reading a story about this situation and reading quotes from the mother, urging people to be peaceful. Asking them not to be violent and destructive, begging people to honor her son by protesting peacefully.

I must say I fear that it is in vain but I sincerely respect and applaud her heartfelt pleas in the midst of her grief, it would be so easy to voice anger. I'm sure she's angry, but to show restraint and urge the public to do the same at this moment in her grief is a huge indicator of what type of person she is.
 
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#724
#724
I know barely anything other than what I’ve seen today about what sounds like a horrific, unnecessary death of a young black guy at the hands of the Memphis PD. The description by the Police Chief was inhumane. If this is the case, why the f*** are they releasing the video on a Friday night ? They’re begging for Memphis to get burned down.
 
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