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    One of those witnesses claimed that Brock punched the deputy, which camera footage does not show and the deputy did not allege.

    I fucking hate people.

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      The deputy also claimed that he was punching Brock because Brock was biting him on the hand. The EMTs noted no bite marks, and the only injuries the deputy sustained were fractured knuckles from repeatedly punching Brock in the head. The video also doesn’t show any biting, and the biting claims were quietly dropped when the deputy learned that the whole thing had been captured on security cameras.

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      To play devil’s advocate, it is perfectly possible that person genuinely saw it as that. Eyewitnesses in chaotic situations are inherently untrustworthy and prone to misinterpret things and even create false memories when questioned. Especially if it was someone that, naively, still trusted in cops for some reason, it’s easy for the mind to create some assumed aggression by the victim, because only that way their worldview can remain intact (“a police officer wouldn’t have been that brutal without good cause” as an assumption, basically.)

      Still, I agree, it is wild. Especially since even the bastard assaulting the driver here didn’t claim that. And I agree, it is also very much possible it was an overzealous fascist that just wanted to cover for the cops in a way more zealous than the cops themselves by consciously lying.

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        Eyewitnesses in chaotic situations are inherently untrustworthy and prone to misinterpret things and even create false memories when questioned

        The general public has no idea how bad and unreliable eyewittnesses are. It’s probably for the better.

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    The cop did this because he got flipped off. Even from a cynical point of view of this, this is a lot of effort for something so small.

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      Right, now imagine that you have an incredibly fragile ego, you peaked in highschool, and you perceive yourself as being above others because of your station in the police force.

      I’m not shocked it happened. Just disgusted. He’s the animal that should be behind bars, not enforcing the law.

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      Technically yes, in the same way window tint or requiring a front license plate is.

      The law is applied selectively to groups of people they don’t like and used as a justification to pull you over for doing nothing wrong.

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      For those that would bother to read the article, the ‘victim’ flipped off the cop while driving.

      Flipping off a cop is perfectly legal. The person you hate because and only because he’s trans is a victim of police brutality.

      but the excessive force is just as likely to come from being flipped off

      The excessive force is because a pig was abusing his little piggy authority.

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        Imagine thinking that almost beating someone to death is a rational, normal consequence of flipping someone off. I couldn’t.

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          I’m sure some conservative will be along in a few minutes to insist that the beating was just a joke.

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            Beating? You mean aggressive tickling? God, the liberals are so soft these days /s

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              back in my day the police murdered us for not working, or not working enough, or working too much, or wanting to work, for relaxing, not relaxing, relaxing too much, not relaxing enough, sleeping, not sleeping, sleeping too much, not sleeping enough and walking around existing and we liked it that way

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          Dumbass performs an act of aggression and is surprised when the favor is returned.

          Pigs are trained professionals. If they cannot control their little piggy feelings, they should seek less porcine employment.

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              If a cop just acts like some random “guy with a gun” who might shoot you at the slightest provocation they probably shouldn’t have a gun.
              Or be a cop.
              An honest cop should be keeping a close eye on that guy.

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                I don’t disagree. It’s just also stupid to assume that the cop you flip off WON’T flip out. For all the “all cops are bad” messaging that’s going around, you’d think one would want to play it safe. Two things can be true at once: the cop absolutely escalated this beyond what was called for, and the victim was stupid to instigate anything in the first place.

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              I want that pig to lose his job and go to jail. You’re just happy that he beat a trans person.

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          You seriously think flipping a person off is an act of aggression worthy of being beaten?

          Like those are the two things being equated by you. That somehow a person who raises a middle finger at distance from another person might expect to be followed and beaten, that those two things make sense in this context.

          It’s that really how you think, or did someone trigger you in the comments and this is your version of being personally butthurt?

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          The middle finger is a visual that frighted, scared, meager police would see as a threat. Hence their would also see their response in beating… as penance for doing something they don’t like.

          Tldr: fearfully weak cops care about only themselves.

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          Problem is, when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Cops are constantly letting their spurs jingle-jangle and if they cannot start exhibiting some self-control, they will lose their most prized possession, their guns.