@Jaybefaunt

Question for the white people: Why didn’t you all show out in massive nationwide protests for Tony Timpa?

"Tony Timpa called the Dallas police in August 2016 to ask for help. The 32-year-old, white, college-educated executive was off the medication he usually took for anxiety and schizophrenia, as he told the police dispatcher.

But when five Dallas police officers arrived on the side of the road where Timpa was, they did not give him the help he needed. Instead, they handcuffed him behind his back, zip-tied his feet, and Officer Dustin Dillard put his knee and bodyweight on Timpa’s back.

The officers’ body cameras recorded Timpa crying for help, pleading with them, saying “you’re gonna kill me!” over and over again. After nine minutes under Officer Dillard’s knee, Timpa stopped moving."

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He died after a cop kneeled on his neck for 14 minutes. Now, his family can finally sue.

Tony Timpa died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for 14 minutes. A court originally denied his family the right to sue.

Joanna C. Schwartz

Published 12:02 p.m. ET Dec. 29, 2021 | Updated 3:58 p.m. ET Sept. 7, 2022

Source: https://x.com/Jaybefaunt/status/1816558348457914398

  • @jimmydoreisaleftyOPM
    -9•7 months ago

    What is your agenda by questioning the intent of the person behind the tweet? Why do people have these diverse ideas vs. having status quo talking points?

    • @saltesc
      3•7 months ago

      “Irony” is a word I seem to use a lot since getting on Lemmy.

      • @jimmydoreisaleftyOPM
        -9•7 months ago

        Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected. It typically figures as a rhetorical device and literary technique. In some philosophical contexts, however, it takes on a larger significance as an entire way of life.

        • @saltesc
          2•7 months ago

          Cool.

          Now do Hans Asperger.

          • @jimmydoreisaleftyOPM
            -3•7 months ago

            Hans Asperger.

            Johann Friedrich Karl Asperger was an Austrian physician. Noted for his early studies on atypical neurology, specifically in children, he is the namesake of the former autism spectrum disorder Asperger syndrome. He wrote more than 300 publications on psychological disorders that posthumously acquired international renown in the 1980s