Thugs push old man to the ground during protests // Trump comments

[Smithy]

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Awful

[arista]

Yes The Cops are suspended
even shown as wrong on FoxNewsHD

[armand.kay]

That clip wouldn’t be out of place in a film set in some Dystopian future :worry:

[Kazanne]

Disgusting , anyone know why he approached them ?

[armand.kay]

Videos like this highlight that the issue with police isn’t just “a few bad apples” how many officers were there? why did so many just continue marching? why was some of them’s fist instinct to shoo the media away rather than you know.. check on him?

[Tom4784]

Videos like this highlight that the issue with police isn’t just “a few bad apples” how many officers were there? why did so many just continue marching? why was some of them’s fist instinct to shoo the media away rather than you know.. check on him?

The same people who go on about 'a few bad apples' are always quick to discount the protests because of opportunistic looters, you can't make it up.

[bots]

when asked about it, the police said that he tripped, then they were shown the video ....

[Smithy]

The officers involved tried to report it as him tripping over too to begin with

[Samm]

Videos like this highlight that the issue with police isn’t just “a few bad apples” how many officers were there? why did so many just continue marching? why was some of them’s fist instinct to shoo the media away rather than you know.. check on him?

Exactly. There’s about 20+ of them there and they did nothing.

[armand.kay]

The officers involved tried to report it as him tripping over too to begin with

Jeez imagine what they get away with when cameras aren’t rolling :conf2:

[Niamh.]

The same people who go on about 'a few bad apples' are always quick to discount the protests because of opportunistic looters, you can't make it up.

Meanwhile, low stated, quiet protests like taking the knee are unpatriotic and those partaking deserve to be fired.........

[Tom4784]

Meanwhile, low stated, quiet protests like taking the knee are unpatriotic and those partaking deserve to be fired.........

'You can't protest unless it's peaceful but if you do, we won't let you do that either.'

[Samm]

One of the same officers took the knee yesterday, you can’t make this up.

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[Tom4784]

I have seen stories of police kneeling and then attacking but I've not found anything to corroborate it but this certainly gives it weight.

[Oliver_W]

Awful, really shows how they need better vetting and training.

[Cherie]

Exactly. There’s about 20+ of them there and they did nothing.

One guy did bend down to help but he was pushed off by a colleague/superior, crazy that no one helped him

[*mazedsalv**]

I;m so pissed. I was so angry when I saw this i was up until 4am trying to find the wankers that did this.

Luckily they were named on social media.

They have been suspended... should be charged for manslaughter! There are so many of these things ive seen in the pass week.

[Niamh.]

I;m so pissed. I was so angry when I saw this i was up until 4am trying to find the wankers that did this.

Luckily they were named on social media.

They have been suspended... should be charged for manslaughter! There are so many of these things ive seen in the pass week.

Did he die?

[Smithy]

No he didn’t die

[*mazedsalv**]

when asked about it, the police said that he tripped, then they were shown the video ....

Yep.

1. They stopped the 1 cop who wanted to help
2. Everyone else walked on
3. Had the audacity to say "a man tripped"
4. Then **** themselves when the video was released

The video has around 50 million views already.

[arista]

Disgusting , anyone know why he approached them ?


Giving out leaflets

[*mazedsalv**]

Did he die?

He still could.

He is in critical condition.

If he doesn't then it is aggravated assault at the least.

[Niamh.]

He still could.

He is in critical condition.

If he doesn't then it is aggravated assault at the least.

Fingers crossed he pulls through

[DouglasS]

Terrible. This crisis is showcasing the worst in everyone. I saw a video in the other thread of looters/thugs beating an elderly woman Protecting her shop which made me feel sick. People need to be more compassionate

[*mazedsalv**]

NYPD saying a lot of the officers are being suspended due to their actions across the past week.

[Babayaro.]

****ing sickening. Absolutely no excuse for that. Poor man :sad:

[rusticgal]

Appalling...and then they all walked by bar one who was pushed away. He was bleeding from the back of his head and wasn’t moving...what’s wrong with these people..:shrug:

[Zizu]

Appalling...and then they all walked by bar one who was pushed away. He was bleeding from the back of his head and wasn’t moving...what’s wrong with these people..:shrug:



Interestingly at first I thought one of the cops bent down towards the old guy ( to check on him ) and was moved on by one of his colleagues BUT after watching the clip a few times I actually think that he may have just bent over him to ‘curse’ at him ..

Have a look and see what you think ..


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[rusticgal]

Interestingly at first I thought one of the cops bent down towards the old guy ( to check on him ) and was moved on by one of his colleagues BUT after watching the clip a few times I actually think that he may have just bent over him to ‘curse’ at him ..

Have a look and see what you think ..


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....you could be right. It’s hard to tell.

[*mazedsalv**]

The only defence i will give to like 3 cops is from the other side of the road because just 3 out of the around 50 looked concerned and looked like they wanted to go over but told to "hold the line" and look forward. Then 1 kept breaking his glance looking over. HOLD THE LINE FOR WHAT? There wasn't even a protest at that point there?

[Smithy]

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Jfc this is the worst one I’ve seen yet

[Liam-]

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Jfc this is the worst one I’ve seen yet

****ing disgusting.

I was just reading about it and the cop got 5 years in prison, the victim got $4million but sadly killed himself not long after :(

[DouglasS]

It is dangerous that this is turning into a ‘hatred’ of all cops. It’s a small minority of people in the force that are like this. Cops in general (bar the small minority) put themselves In danger to protect us all and get little thanks. Every cop I know is a great person.

The cops in this video are clearly in that minority and are disgusting to allow that man to remain bleeding

[Tom4784]

If there are multiple major incidents of police brutality daily then it's not just 'a few bad apples'. It's happening in multiple states all across the the US. The system is not working and defending the corruption at the heart of it achieves nothing.

It's not just a few bad cops because for every violent officer, there's dozens around him that do nothing to prevent or protect the public from the bad ones. Allowing this **** to happen is just as bad as doing it yourself and hundreds if not thousands of officers over the past few days have shown themselves compliant in brutality.

[Zizu]

It is dangerous that this is turning into a ‘hatred’ of all cops. It’s a small minority of people in the force that are like this. Cops in general (bar the small minority) put themselves In danger to protect us all and get little thanks. Every cop I know is a great person.

The cops in this video are clearly in that minority and are disgusting to allow that man to remain bleeding



Yes .. I agree totally .

I’ve never had one single bad experience with a cop in all my years .


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[Scarlett.]

If you're more offended by someone saying **** the police than you are about the video of a guy being ****ing punched in a hospital bed, you need to sort your priorities.

Obviously not every single cop is bad, but if the good ones let the bad ones get away with the **** they do, they too are bad cops.

[DouglasS]

If you're more offended by someone saying **** the police than you are about the video of a guy being ****ing punched in a hospital bed, you need to sort your priorities.

Obviously not every single cop is bad, but if the good ones let the bad ones get away with the **** they do, they too are bad cops.

People can be offended by the video and also by the generalisation of the cops. I don’t understand why people keep suggesting people can only have one sole stance

[*mazedsalv**]

****ing disgusting.

I was just reading about it and the cop got 5 years in prison, the victim got $4million but sadly killed himself not long after :(

I didn't know he killed himself! I knew the other stuff though

[*mazedsalv**]

It is dangerous that this is turning into a ‘hatred’ of all cops. It’s a small minority of people in the force that are like this. Cops in general (bar the small minority) put themselves In danger to protect us all and get little thanks. Every cop I know is a great person.

The cops in this video are clearly in that minority and are disgusting to allow that man to remain bleeding

Sorry but you can't even have 1 bad cop. It ruins the batch and rightfully so.

Can you imagine having a bad pilot? A pilot deliberately crashing a plane killing all on board, "oh it's only one pilot"

NO.

Ive followed cases like this since 2010 and I have seen over 200 deaths in front of me and over 1000 uses of force that were unacceptable. and the huge majority of cops get away with it.

I have no time for these disease ridden thugs. Even the cops who knelt later pepper sprayed peaceful protesters.
So if I lived in the US I wouldalways be scared for my life when I see an officer. If you are scared, they'll just help you by killing you.

Yay

[Denver]

The fact all 60 of the cops are adamant he tripped when we all saw what happened is discussing

[Jigs]

The fact he's bleeding from the head and none of them seem to care is really horrifying. I also cannot believe they filmed themselves beating up the guy in a hospital bed. You have to be a truly twisted sicko to do something like that.

Looks like there will be a lot of cops looking for new jobs soon!

[Denver]

New York seems to be the only State who is wanting reform, their Mayor is not messing and has said he will make sure officers are sacked if they do wrong

[Jigs]

If there are multiple major incidents of police brutality daily then it's not just 'a few bad apples'. It's happening in multiple states all across the the US. The system is not working and defending the corruption at the heart of it achieves nothing.

It's not just a few bad cops because for every violent officer, there's dozens around him that do nothing to prevent or protect the public from the bad ones. Allowing this **** to happen is just as bad as doing it yourself and hundreds if not thousands of officers over the past few days have shown themselves compliant in brutality.

This is all so true. I'm really fed up of hearing people say "not all cops are bad" as a poxy excuse to try to continue to hail them as heroic peacekeepers within communities when the footage shows a drastically different picture.

We all know not all cops are bad, but what we also know is that these videos being plastered very thick and fast all over Twitter clearly show uniformed officers, on duty, abusing their power in the grossest and most inhumane of ways.

There's an awful lot of cops in America, and probably the majority of them are pretty nice do-gooding guys, but that doesn't erase the fact that tens of HUNDREDS of white men within that profession are misusing their power and treating many American citizens like vermin. And the ones that don't? They seem to be bystanding anyway, which is not something to feel noble about at all.

[caprimint]

Likewise nobody is saying "all cops are good". It's those who are saying "**** the cops" as though they are one that's creating the only problem here.

[Marsh.]

The entire system that allows these thugs into positions of power is corrupt and in need of a complete overhaul. So, saying there are "a few bad apples" doesn't mean much as the entire system that allows the "few bad apples" to flourish is the problem.

[Jigs]

Cops deserve to feel lampooned, and they also deserve to be generalized by the stigma of being unfair and unjust. They belong to a fundamentally racist and oppressive institution. If they have a problem with that, why don't they join the movement and demand reform?

Any cop out there tear gassing people and using unnecessary violence deserves every bit of anger and name-calling they get. Any cop bystanding and allowing it to happen deserves the same.

If you have such a problem with the generalization of cops then perhaps you should think whether it is fair that you generalize all black people.

[Josy]

All 57 members of a police tactical unit have resigned from the team in protest at the suspension of two colleagues who were filmed shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground.

From sky news there

[Oliver_W]

All 57 members of a police tactical unit have resigned from the team in protest at the suspension of two colleagues who were filmed shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground.

From sky news there
Jesus.If he wasn't so old I'd wonder if they knew something we didn't,but there's practically no wiggle room in the video...

Likewise nobody is saying "all cops are good". It's those who are saying "**** the cops" as though they are one that's creating the only problem here.
Yeah, I wonder who they'd call if a drug den opened in their street, or someone broke into their house.

[bots]

All 57 members of a police tactical unit have resigned from the team in protest at the suspension of two colleagues who were filmed shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground.

From sky news there

this sort of thing is the big eye opener for me. I get that a lot of the police in the USA are not well trained, so when events occur, they are just not prepared to deal with them correctly and that is certainly a contributory factor in all of this, but the police seem to have been specifically picked for the force because they have undesirable attributes one of which is that they are racist.

I listened to a BLM leader talking earlier in the week and he suggested that the police force should be disbanded because it had been shown they were causing more harm than good. My reaction was you have got to be joking, what could be more ludicrous, but the more I see and hear, the more I think something very fundamental has to change within the police force, it's not just a tweak here and a tweak there

[*mazedsalv**]

Them 57 resigning proves that they don;t care about the public. They resigned from the active role because they wanted to support the two officers.
F OFF!

So basically they are Nazi's. Police commissioner said that they were "doing their jobs", just like the Nazi's.

[Zizu]

All 57 members of a police tactical unit have resigned from the team in protest at the suspension of two colleagues who were filmed shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground.

From sky news there



What a strange response


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[*mazedsalv**]

@WBFO
WBKW-TV reports the two suspended Buffalo police officers will be arraigned in City Court Saturday morning on charges of second-degree assault.

[Smithy]

All 57 members of a police tactical unit have resigned from the team in protest at the suspension of two colleagues who were filmed shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground.

From sky news there

Good, trash can stay unemployed

[*mazedsalv**]

Philadelphia Police inspector suspended for busting open a students head
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1269060528309243904?s=20

The police officer who forcibly pushed a woman over has been suspended
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1269070188839870466?s=20

Officer who pulled down the mask of a protester and pepper sprayed him has been suspended without pay
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1269069177328934915?s=20

Manhattan declines to prosecute protest arrests:
https://twitter.com/TheNewsHam/status/1269004066274893824/photo/1

[*mazedsalv**]

Good, trash can stay unemployed

Sadly they only resigned from the "riot" side of things. They are still normal police officers. Great, 57 more officers conducting traffic stops and killing unnamed people!

[Smithy]

Sadly they only resigned from the "riot" side of things. They are still normal police officers. Great, 57 more officers conducting traffic stops and killing unnamed people!

Oh :bored:

[Oliver_W]

Philadelphia Police inspector suspended for busting open a students head
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1269060528309243904?s=20

The police officer who forcibly pushed a woman over has been suspended
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1269070188839870466?s=20

Officer who pulled down the mask of a protester and pepper sprayed him has been suspended without pay
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1269069177328934915?s=20
Good!

Manhattan declines to prosecute protest arrests:
https://twitter.com/TheNewsHam/status/1269004066274893824/photo/1
lol that'll help things improve

[Cherie]

Sadly they only resigned from the "riot" side of things. They are still normal police officers. Great, 57 more officers conducting traffic stops and killing unnamed people!

How can they resign from one part of their job....might try that on Monday see how it goes down, the system they have in place seems ridiculous

[Oliver_W]

How can they resign from one part of their job....might try that on Monday see how it goes down, the system they have in place seems ridiculous

Maybe working riot shifts is a voluntary thing? I don't mean voluntary as in unpaid, obviously :laugh: maybe it's "extra" and they can choose between normal copping and also sorting out the riots?

[*mazedsalv**]

How can they resign from one part of their job....might try that on Monday see how it goes down, the system they have in place seems ridiculous

Apparently all of the police on the streets were assigned that role specifically with different levels of pay compared to other active duties or admin duties.

[Cherie]

Apparently all of the police on the streets were assigned that role specifically with different levels of pay compared to other active duties or admin duties.

Right, madness how they can resign and still hold onto their job, good to see you back btw :love:

[*mazedsalv**]

Good!


lol that'll help things improve

With the first 3.. i can guarantee these would have been all been brushed under the carpet if only seen by a few people, but those videos garnered massive attention, so the cops are crapping themselves.

As for the protesting one... that implies for protesters in general. I believe if riots happen, then people can be prosecuted. But in the past week we have seen peaceful people being arrested, i d believe they can no longer do that, and if they do and arrive at the station, they will be told to let the people go immediately.

[*mazedsalv**]

Right, madness how they can resign and still hold onto their job, good to see you back btw :love:

True! It's ridiculous. Many people reported that thousands of people went to the scene in Buffalo, put up signs and wrote the elderly mans name in chalk where he fell with "get well soon". And the people said that they saw 1 or 2 police officers standing way back.

Perhaps they didn't want to face the city that had been internationally shown as having a massive problem! I am guessing they were told by the "higher ups" to stay away from protesters.

And thank you Cherie! I hope you are well!

[Oliver_W]

As for the protesting one... that implies for protesters in general. I believe if riots happen, then people can be prosecuted. But in the past week we have seen peaceful people being arrested, i d believe they can no longer do that, and if they do and arrive at the station, they will be told to let the people go immediately.
Well, good. Peaceful protesting should never be criminalised. Maybe they should be more considerate when it comes to social distancing, and being part of a protest shouldn't change that, but peaceful protesting itself is A-okay.

When things like water cannons and gas exist, there's no reason full on riots should happen.

[Zizu]

Sadly they only resigned from the "riot" side of things. They are still normal police officers. Great, 57 more officers conducting traffic stops and killing unnamed people!



So they resigned from from the riot duties ( the real dangerous stuff) .. surely that won’t sit well with their colleagues.
Imagine soldiers doing the training and travelling but avoiding the actual fighting


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[Zizu]

How can they resign from one part of their job....might try that on Monday see how it goes down, the system they have in place seems ridiculous



Agreed


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[Josy]

What a strange response


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ProI'm not sure what you mean by this?

[Tom4784]

All 57 members of a police tactical unit have resigned from the team in protest at the suspension of two colleagues who were filmed shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground.

From sky news there

They should totally commit to being hideous human beings and resign from the force all together.

[Zizu]

Maybe working riot shifts is a voluntary thing? I don't mean voluntary as in unpaid, obviously :laugh: maybe it's "extra" and they can choose between normal copping and also sorting out the riots?



I’d guess that there’d be some that choose to cover the riots but I’d imagine that most would rather not


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[*mazedsalv**]

2 cops plead not guilty to the charge

quell surprise.

[armand.kay]

it’s not a few bad apples the whole tree is rotten
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[Ramsay]

it’s not a few bad apples the whole tree is rotten
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Sickening

[Tony Montana]

it’s not a few bad apples the whole tree is rotten
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Disgraceful.

[Liam-]

it’s not a few bad apples the whole tree is rotten
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Fire them all

[Epic.]

it’s not a few bad apples the whole tree is rotten
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Arrest them all

[armand.kay]

abolish ha!

[Smithy]

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[bots]

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speechless

[The Slim Reaper]

speechless

That's what happens when antifa just becomes a signal for everyone conservatives disagree with.

[Tom4784]

It's depressing how the Right Wing are convincing it's moronic following that anti-facism is a bad thing.

[*mazedsalv**]

OMG Trump.

Monumental *******

[The Slim Reaper]

The Antifa film we all needed

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTsJqoRunQFT0r993B3D2HT0ZIU6XN e_YKaWif5cnKeIt4i-gST&usqp=CAU

[Nicky91]

no excuse to shove an old man to the ground and leaving him bleeding there


just when you think Trump cannot say anything more dumb :o