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This story is fucked. He was wrongfully convicted and then set free, gets $800k compensation in August, then pulled over (looks like they’re still coming up with a reason for pulling him over), threatened I’m sure with more jail (essentially provoked), tased then shot.
~~I think some fucking cops were after him and pissed that the dude got paid.~~
Video link from a comment below. Not a good look for the guy. Hard video to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GrcptVf8Yk
And the alleged 'good cops' are out here confused why no one respects them.
Until I start running across evidence that some police are angrier about the bad cops than they are about everyone else being angry about the bad cops, I refuse to believe they exist.
As someone who knew an actual good cop (grew up with him): They quit. That’s what he did. That’s all they can do. Because speaking up just ruins your career path. So they choose to go along or they change careers entirely.
We had a "good cop" DA in my city. The cops went on strike (though they didn't call it a strike, they just stopped doing their jobs), and started a propaganda campaign. When crime went up, people are stupid and blamed the DA. He got recalled and a police bootlicker got put in instead.
I'll bet the crime rate didn't even go up, it's a really easy number to fabricate because no one's looking for the evidence to back it up.
We had a good DA in my city, he ended up getting killed by some billionaire vigilante who went after the police commissioners family
Man, I don't know why everyone in that city is so serious
I'm still tickled that they have chose the idiom "a few bad apples" to describe the situation.
Like... Y'all aware the full idiom is "A few bad apples spoils the whole bunch."?
Good cops don't exist lmao
paying their union dues, which keep going up because the defense of their fellow cop's actions are expensive... if they get caught and lose qualified immunity.
Ok so this whole story is fucked up beyond belief but I just want to take a minute to say holy shit, because that dollar figure is pretty messed up in and of itself. They gave him $817k. That's $5.82/hr.
Minimum wage plus overtime for his time in prison placed monthly into a mutual fund with 7% return for 16 years would be a little over 2.5 million dollars.
No, you see they subtracted room and board from him, that's why he only got $800k.
Yeah could be better but I do love that Ron desantis had to sign that shit.
Eh. We always like to think that this stuff bothers them. It doesn't. He didn't think twice about it. I'm sorry to paint with a broad brush, but conservatives just do not think on the same level as normal people do. They aren't bothered by this stuff because they don't think about any subject long enough to have deep thoughts on them. Frankly, they wouldn't even be such an angry frothing-at-the-mouth group of people if they didn't have all variations of media avenues telling them what to be mad about every second of every day. If not for conservative media, they'd be relatively pleasant little dipshits doing manual labor and whatever other grunt work, but instead we have this failed experiment of a nation.
It may have also incensed the police doing the slaying that he got any money, let alone out of prison.
Or $51k/yr which is representative of what he could have earned.
Certainly doesn't excuse the wrongful conviction but their math is a little more in tune with reality than $819k divided by (16x24x365) equals OMG.
Until the police departments, or their unions, start paying the settlements, then the amounts don't even matter punitively
Huh?
It doesn't any good to "punish" the police by awarding large sums of money to the wrongly convicted, because the taxpayers pay for it. To really add some justice, the awards should Come from the police pension funds. Then they are Incentivized to do it right. Now they don't care, because there is little downside for them
Isn't this basically what happened with the Making a Murderer guy? He was due a huge settlement from being wrongfully convicted, so they planted a bunch of evidence to put him back in jail instead.
That was my takeaway. The more fucked up part is that they dragged his nephew into it and at each man's trial, told wildly differing stories about how the murder supposedly occurred.
Haven’t seen it but that sounds fucked too
Public execution because of jealousy? And nothing will happen to the cops?
The police will do a full investigation of themselves and find no wrong doing. After that, the murderer will return from his paid vacation, which will allow his wife for some much needed time to recover.
USA! USA!
Best nation in the world baby!
Well of course! If you ask a Yank they'd say that USA is the world...
Only if you're white.
Black and Brown people don't enjoy the same benefits.
Not even then. Maybe if you're white and rich; lots of rich white foreigners settle here, and they could go anywhere they want.
Oh, I see the problem. You've written black and brown people.
You should know by now that they don't count as people unless they go through a very rigorous "personhood" check, with markers such as "will they stay quiet about racism," "will they strive to emulate rich white people in dress, speech and manner, to the detriment of their own culture," "will they lead fully sanitized lives as wage slaves without complaint and never dabble in white collar or petty crimes that would be ignored if their skin was lighter," and "will they silently and happily vote for rich white capitalists in politics, against their best interest". Because clearly if they can't follow these very generous and simple guidelines, they don't want to be considered people, duh.
Fuck I feel dirty having typed that out.
I see you don't understand sarcasm
I really wish Batman was real these days.
Their Reason: Driving While Black
I always joke with my black girlfriend when she driving. I'll say "Be careful you don't want to get pulled over for a DWB". She laughs, I laugh, we both die a little inside.
My local department of family services very openly teaches about the risk of police violence towards black people and those who adopt them, to make up for the education they would receive from black parents on how to avoid being beaten or murdered by cops.
It's so real part of our government formally acknowledges it. While the other part wins "most racist" awards.
When I was younger, I worked under a Black man driving trucks through Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Anywhere rural, it was unofficial company policy that I (a white man) was supposed to drive and pretend to be in charge. Anywhere urban, my actual boss could be himself.
It is so incredibly fucked up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GrcptVf8Yk
Dash and body cam footage of the incident. They didn't need to retroactively come up with a reason for pulling him over, it's right there in the footage - he apparently was speeding at 100 mph.
Edited my comment, thanks. Very difficult to watch. I don’t love the way the interaction was handled by either of the men, though. I understand speeding is dangerous and against the law, but he began the interaction at 11. This could have gone another way, despite the apparent mental health issues the dude was clearly dealing with.
Agreed. The cop started out at 11, and the guy started out openly hostile.
It could have gone another way, but the moment the dude attacked the officer it wasn't going to.
Stop making up shit. This is tragic enough without people fantasising about the how's and what's.
That’s why I said “I think” instead of stating it as fact. Sus is sus.