There was a reason. They did it to get a hard boner.
Getting beaten to death by two authoritarian pigs for being in a bathroom has to be one of the worst ways to go.
There's so many way that society failed this man.
I was in Coachella (the location not the festival) and a gas station owner called the police on me for pooping in the publicly available customer toilet and being too stinky. Their security dude showed up and was all "take your time dude I don't know why I'm here" so like, using the toilet is not a universal crime. Just there.
These two really show how all cops really are more than just bastards. ACAB.
Hopefully the manager learns from this.
A whole chain of terrible choices over nothing.
I hope the person’s image haunts that manager every night for the rest of their life
Gotta destroy the thought of police's wellbeing for that manager
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
Learns what? That they have the power of life and death at his finger tips? That their little bursts of power hungry arrogance are now even more seductive? The manager is probably thrilled.
Probably thrilled? Did you even watch the video? The manager is probably horrified. She sounded like a normal person who was worried about what someone was doing in a public bathroom for an hour. Like, sure, if you're terminally online you'll say that calling the cops is always a bad idea, but for a low-grade 'manager' (and let's face it, these managers at a fast food restaurant aren't like a manager who's accepting blood money from corporate to make wage slaves of employees, they're basically the $0.25 raised version of an employee who does the time cards and gets all liability dumped on them) who will lose her job if something happens in the restaurant and she didn't call 911.
I guarantee those cops knew how dangerous those rabbit punches were.
Not for "no reason", those cops being pieces of shit humans was the reason.