Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests

Post by TouchyJoe » Fri, Jul 03, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

imtringued wrote: post #167

SpelingBeeChamp wrote: post #156

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Currently, and historically as far as I know, part of a police officer's job is to hurt people, when certain conditions present themselves. Every day police officers respond to DV assaults that are in progress. Oftentimes the perpetrator fights the police. Any time an arrestee is not fully cooperative with the police taking them into custody, the arrest is not going to be pleasant to watch. Someone is having their fr…

That doesn't explain why police violence happens against unarmed and vulnerable people.

Post by TouchyJoe » Fri, Jul 03, 2020, 5:34 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #83

monocasa wrote: post #66

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At least in my city, for the protests I attended, this is about the right level of context. The ordering went 1) Peaceful protest 2) Police decide that they need to use extreme amounts of force to break up the peaceful protest 3) Unsavory elements use the cover of the ensuing chaos to loot/burn/tag/etc.

In the Swedish BLM protests it was: 1) Peaceful protest 2) Unsavory elements started throwing things at the police 3) The police didn't respond with violence even though clearly attacked and provoked We have problems with race profiling and other issues but I think the big focus on de-escalation in police training helps a lot to avoid the situation we see in the US.

Post by downandout » Mon, Jul 06, 2020, 5:34 AM UTC

klyrs wrote: post #179

downandout wrote: post #119

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Missing context implies that their failure to provide it was an oversight. There was not even an attempt at providing context here, because doing so would be unpopular.

With cops wearing body cams, that evidence should be abundant. Its absence is telling. Collecting evidence is pretty much job #1 for the police. Without that, they can't establish guilt of the accused. When dozens of cops were involved in a beatdown and not a single one can produce a shred of evidence, we assume that the protesters were innocent.