• @[email protected]
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    2111 months ago

    So this article mentions absolutely nothing about this man being a “financier”, but it does mention that the woman is his FIANCÉ. Did this tweet seriously mix those two words up? And then OP read the story, read this tweet, and still went ahead and screenshotted it?

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    17411 months ago

    California Cops Tased a Man Having a Seizure, Then Booked Him on Bogus Charges To Cover Their Mistake

    Booked Him on Bogus Charges To Cover Their Mistake

    To Cover Their Mistake

    Mistake

    Never has a word done so much heavy lifting.

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    Ok let’s also assume he was intoxicated. Even then why the fuck would you tase him? Should’ve waited for the medical personnel. Then man was in his own goddamned house. WTF!

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      7811 months ago

      Even then why the fuck would you tase him?

      IIRC the thought the seizure induced thrashing was him resisting arrest. Of course that begs the question, why were they trying to arrest someone having a seizure (that they’d been sent to help BTW) in the first place?

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      Oh! I actually know the answer to this one!

      Cuz the perpetrator was experiencing excited delirium which, to the untrained eye (and the trained eye and the doctor’s eye and any eye that doesn’t belong to a police officer), can LOOK like a seizure. According to numerous completely un-ridiculous lawsuits, the lawyers and doctors paid off by Axon have determined that repeatedly applying the electric shocks of a taser actually CURE excited delirium!

      So, the fact that this man survived PROVES that the assaulting responding officer actually saved his life from an episode of excited delirium! Had the man died, it would have meant that the officer did everything within his incompetence power to rescue the man, but he simply succumbed to the grip of excited delirium. Also, had the man weighed the same as a duck, they would have had to burn him.

      THIS OFFICER IS A MORON HERO!!!

      In case I was too subtle:

      /s

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      1711 months ago

      Cops in a town arrested a woman for drinking at home because she was rude to them when they asked her about a unrelated hit and run that happened in front of her home.

      She was watching a baseball game minding her own business and they left, then came back and arrested her.

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      He was seizing right at them and they were afraid for their lives, they really had no other choice! Also, he didn’t stop when they told him to, which is an egregious crime in the US it seems - when a cop tells you to do something you do it, or risk getting tazed and/or shot, even if the order is to turn green, fly, crawl with your arms in the air or stop having a grand mal seizure…

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      maybe when they heard that he was going through a seizure, they assumed he was orchestrating a drugs bust.

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    Even if they didn’t knew what to expect, a patient having a grand mal is lying on the floor unable to control his movements or communications.

    How can that person possibly be percieved as a threat that has to be teasered?!?

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      711 months ago

      Cops “For starters when we showed up with our guns waiting to start blasting, maybe the accused should have listened to us. You all should be thankfully, that we took a minute to decide to taser and beat someone would be far more beneficial for us.”

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    County Jail on charges of resisting arrest and battery. Afterward, he was released “still wearing nothing but his underwear and a disposable hospital outfit; he had no wallet, phone or money,” the complaint states. “He did not remember Alice’s phone number in the jail and they would not help him contact her, so he walked in his hospital slippers about a half mile to a gas station,” where workers helped him call a taxi.

    I’m familiar with the case but not this detail. Seriously, fuck these thugs.

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    1311 months ago

    “Mal” is Latin for “bad” sounds like the cops are educated about who the bad guys are.

    I once saw two cops have a shootout with a mall because they stopped reading after the first L and I THANKED them for their SERVICE.

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    Why the fuck were the cops even dispatched? Any dispatcher should know that cops are fucking morons. And should not be send to a medical emergency. If an ambulance is not available you send firefighters. This is almost criminal negligence on the dispatcher’s part.

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      Even in a perfect world, where cops actually protect and serve the people, if you’re going to send cops to a medical emergency they should only be there as a helping hand to paramedics. If the paramedic tells the cops to fuck off, they should comply. Cops aren’t medics, they’re not trained to properly handle really any medical emergency any more than the average person who’s watched greys anatomy. They have no business being there and if they are they should be the bitch boy to the actual trained professional.

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      811 months ago

      poor country they live in. seems that country needs external help to develop a minimum bit of civilisation. 🤷‍♀️

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        511 months ago

        I’ve had a seizure in public before, fortunately around my friends. No cops, just a couple of EMT’s. I guess Portland has its priorities a little more in order? They are short staffed.

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      In a lot of places the police show up to any EMT/Fire response they can, as a safety thing. So it is likely the police got there before the EMTs could. So, that sucks.

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    I read an article like this years ago, I’d fine the link if search didn’t suck everywhere.

    A guy had a heart attack and his wife called emergency services. Police were the first to arrive and did what police do.

    This guy was in his underwear leaning against the wall and because he didn’t respond immediately to the police shouting at him they threw him to the ground and broke his back.

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      111 months ago

      Why were the police even there? Is it common in the US for them to also come to medical emergencies?

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        I think they came because the wife sounded really upset on the phone. Police do just like to turn up to things though.

        Here in Australia I called emergency services one time because a woman locked her kid and her keys in her car and the police were the first to turn up. They couldn’t do anything so they just stood around until the fire brigade arrived who were the ones that could actually pick the lock to the car. It just makes you wonder why the police bothered at all.

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    My father has grand Mal seizures, these cops did not think that man was intoxicated. Anyone who’s seen someone have a grand Mal would immediately know something was up with their brain

    The first time my dad ever had one I was awoken at 1am to my mom screeching and my dad spasming on his bed spewing blood from his mouth (bit his tongue) and even I knew immediately it was a fucking seizure (I was 15 at the time and entirely untrained), these cops wanted to hurt someone

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      A psychosis on heavy drugs can look like you’re being possessed by a demon. I’m not saying their actions are in any way justified, but there is some room for them to simply be ignorant towards the common people because of their prejudice. (Which in my opinion should be punished equally as hard.)

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    While the Marin County District Attorney’s office eventually refused to formally file charges against Frankel, he has still suffered lasting harm from his treatment by police. In addition to the physical injuries he sustained from Sinnott’s use of force, Frankel spent over $10,000 fighting the police’s attempts to have him prosecuted.

    “Man who was not formally charged with a crime forced to spend $10 000 defending himself”

    Officers “submitted the false reports or caused them to be submitted in an effort to smear [Frankel’s] reputation, preoccupy him with a criminal case, intimidate him, and prevent him from pursuing claims against them for improper and excessive use of force,” the complaint states, adding that police “acted willfully with the wrongful intention of injuring [Frankel] and for an improper and evil motive amounting to malice.”

    So they collasally fucked up, then fucked up more trying to cover up the initial fuck up. Don’t suppose there were any actual consequences for the police officers blatantly lying to incriminate an innocent man?

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      All police officers involved in this, and thwir direct superiors should all be fired, be put on a national “no hire” list, and face prison time for their crimes

      Edit: fixed typos

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        and face prison time for their crimes

        Police falsifying reports should be a criminal offense. I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this.