Body camera video shows two Phoenix officers violently assaulting Tyron McAlpin, a deaf man with cerebral palsy

  • s38b35M5@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Saw this on the Civil Rights Lawyer (iirc his name) YouTube channel Tuesday. Gross cops laughing at his impairment.

    Edit: glad that his story is receiving widespread attention, at least

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      24 hours ago

      The description in the article sounds horrifying enough. Cops get called because a white guy is causing a disturbance, cops arrive, white guy (possibly the actual suspect?) points to the nearest black guy and they just go after him.

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        I am not 100%, but I think the white dude who pointed him out was the alleged suspect. The bodycam shows the coos going into the Circle K and the employee describes the problem and points to the gut, and answers in the affirmative when asked if they want the guy trespassed.

        So, naturally, they told him to wait while they assaulted his victim.

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      22 hours ago

      i think you might be misusing that acronym. iirc means “if i recall correctly”. it seems like you meant something like “i can’t recall”. is that right?

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        8 hours ago

        “IIR his name C” didn’t have the same ring to it, and I am dumb in my morning hours.

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    23 hours ago

    The police, “he wasn’t listening to our instructions while black!? What were we supposed to do? Not punch and tazer a black man?”

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      7 hours ago

      I apperently clicked the wrong comments section. I thought this was the comments section for a mickey mouse comic about going fishing, and being called a boob.

      Then the first comment is about the police punching and tazering a black man.

      The messed up part is, I could TOTALLY imagine Mickey doing that with a smile on his face…but I was still confused.

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            7 hours ago

            I know the meme response is to say “IN A ROW???”, but I’ve had at length discussions about this fictional woman with people, while we were stoned.

            We came to the conclusion that she is a tortured soul. She has no self respect, and is trying to fill the void of a lack of a father figure in her childhood by rebelling against the concept of a monogomous relationship. Because if she admits to herself that a traditional relationship can be fufilling, and that a man can love her, then it also proves that love is real. And if love IS real, it proves that her father didn’t love her. She’s just not ready to face the question of “WHY NOT???!!”

            Meanwhile, her boyfriend is COMPLETELY oblivious to all of this, and wonders why she’s being such a bitch. So he ends up being a victim. She ends up being a victim. All because some guy 20ish years earlier was an uncaring or maybe absentee father.

            And it’s easy to just say he’s an asshole, but he’s likely got his own reasons too. Maybe financially speaking, he couldn’t even support himself, let alone a family. Maybe he wasn’t even told he had a daughter. Just had a one night stand, and never thought about it again. Maybe he’s dead. Maybe he’s in jail. Theres an unlimited number of reasons why he could be an asshole, and at the root of it all is ANOTHER person or situation making HIM a victim too.

            And so, how far deep do you go? How far do you trace the roots of societies cruelty simply using a joke about a woman committing infidelity 37 times from an independant comedy movie about a group of slacker stoners that came out 30 years ago?

            This is what my brain does to me. It doesn’t lead me down rabbit holes. It CREATES them. This is a fictional woman, whose events never happened, and I’ve logically crafted an emotional backstory dating back to the 1970s, based on a joke about sucking dick in a movie so poorly funded that it’s literally the official last movie released in monochrome, simply because it was cheaper. Not artistic direction.

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              7 hours ago

              Alright. Let’s hear the backstories of the 37 individual dicks