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Cops beat a mentally-ill man to death for no reason
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I don't think they had any ill will calling 911, the number shared by all first responders and seemingly hardcoded into our subconscious. I wonder why there were no one else in the parts of the vid I saw though. It's in their parking lot and nobody is out there.
It’s not really about if they had ill will. If you knowingly leave your baby in a hot car, you’re responsible.
In our society, if you call the cops, you have to know what you’re doing. You’re calling an oppressive, occupying army whose sole job it is is to enact the state’s monopoly of violence upon its slaves/subjects.
That’s the reality. You called a fucking team of violent psychopaths to resolve your issue. You bear responsibility in some shape for the results.
It’s not someone’s fault that they’ve been propagandized and brainwashed by the system as a whole, being indoctrinated from birth in it BUT it is their responsibility to grow out of it.
That manager, in a very real way, has the blood of that person on their hands and I’m with the other commenter. I hope it haunts them forever.
Maybe then they’ll think twice before using a violent state authorized street gang to solve their problems.
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.
They’re getting no slack from me