Taylor Rogers said her 2021 arrest "underscores ... the absence of empathy and human compassion" among some law enforcement officers.
    • mozz
      -6•16 days ago

      I don’t need to; I’m already a connoisseur of Youtube videos with titles like “When entitled suspects attack” or whatever. My observation is that the wrist lock usually converts an angry and struggling person yelling “grahgabgbabrbrae” into an angry and struggling person yelling “grahbcdsbfsdhfbYOURE BREAKING MY ARMsdfkjsdflsdf”

      Like I say, this might make me some kind of asshole in Lemmy-world but I am usually not on team suspect. I think if you drive away from the police, or start struggling when they try to put handcuffs on you, the police getting physical with you isn’t automatically a sign that they’re terrible people and ACAB. That is literally their job at that point, and you’re definitely still going to get arrested, just with everyone’s day including yours getting worse as a result, and more charges now maybe a felony. I feel like the whole ACAB mentality has blown up the few times a year that one cop somewhere in the country does something really fucked up into this idea that 100% of cops are terrible people and any situation that goes wrong in any way where they’re involved is 100% their fault; I don’t think that’s true. But definitely I do feel like a cop approaching someone who’s not on board with what’s going on by punishing them and expecting them to get more on board with it as a result is weird.

      (One guy had a series called “Verbal Judo” which I liked quite a lot)

      • @PriorityMotif
        5•16 days ago

        Police are taught to escalate situations and have a chip on their shoulder.

        • mozz
          -2•16 days ago

          Some of them. In my direct experience, the number who’ve behaved that way is 0, though.

          I think taking the worst of the police that are findable in a whole country’s worth of bodycam footage, and then assigning blame to every single police person based on those people, makes about as much sense as a policeman putting on an “ASAB” patch for “all suspects are bastards,” because a certain subset of the people he encounters are pieces of shit, and then deciding that every single person on the “other side” that he interacts with is the enemy.

          I mean, some police do do that. I don’t think they should. I don’t think either that every single person who chooses to do a vitally necessary job for a living becomes the enemy the instant they decide to do that.