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All Cops Are Bastards

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There is a mentally ill man who stays in the toilets for an hour, the manager calls the police, and when arresting the guy the cops punch him in the back of the head for no reason and beat him to death.

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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly, it takes time to get out of the neoliberal everything-is-fine bubble, it takes cases like these to know the real deal about coppers. That's not like this person is selectively blind, it's a systemic issue, and I do not believe I can blame this person at that time that they called 911 (and the dispatcher then sent cops). I'm more frustrated that either facts of cops' handling everything with violence weren't visible enough for them or that they were completely unreachable. I'm angry that they didn't do nearly enough themselves but put onto some thrird party (any party), like they do with trash disposal - as I do think they weren't thinking about exceptional expertise from 911 responders, but rather solving a problem discomforting them at the moment. I'm hostile to the idea they made a scene over a guy just being there in their business hours, at day, with no urgency whatsoever.

But puting up their hat and their probable misinformed mindset/context, I insist that they were arguably almost right in what they did. Implying their failure was obvious is like claiming some historical character got on the completely wrong course, as we can tell now by having results of that on our hands. This manager's scope didn't include any info about what would happen, as it is in the case of most americans, but I do support the idea of them carrying the weight of a dead autistic person on their shoulders and sharing it with everyone, because, although her input wasn't ill-willed, she still got this person killed by cops, and if she wasn't useful at preventing it altogether, she at the very least can serve as a messenger to others about why you wouldn't like to call cops in any giving situation.

It's a rather grim, stupid, belated opportunity, but if there would be one another struggling person who wouldn't be called cops on, that would be something.