• @jeffwOPM
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    6 months ago

    I have spent a couple years badmouthing this dude, but the police bodycam footage is pretty crazy. It’s also crazy to me that a bunch of Miami cops would pull over one of the city’s most well-known athletes and nobody was like “gee, maybe we shouldn’t go so hard on this one, he’s famous”

    • @[email protected]
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      596 months ago

      Thought process might well have been: “This is an uppity black man, we’d better show these types a lesson.”

      • @Cosmonauticus
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        346 months ago

        Nothing makes a a cop more upset than seeing a black man doing better than him. A LOT of poorer white ppl seeing any brown person doing better than them is upsetting. You only got in your position because your a diversity hire or Affirmative Action!

      • @lemmylurkaround
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        116 months ago

        Playing devil’s advocate. He may just not have wanted some paparazzi taking a picture of him while being pulled over? You could see in the video where the cop decides he’s going on a power trip instead of just doing his job

          • @jeffwOPM
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            85 months ago

            Ok. So they force his door open. Great.

            Oh wait, it didn’t end there?

          • @Dkarma
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            45 months ago

            With what evidence? Cops don’t get to assume.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        After they dragged him out he appeared to be on the phone to someone to make them aware of the situation. With the amount of police brutality and racism in America I don’t blame that reaction. Their actions here only justify it, too.

      • LustyArgonian
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        05 months ago

        Its probably hot there. Why must he keep his window down except to assert arbitrary control?

    • brezel
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      76 months ago

      so you are saying they should treat him differently because he is famous?

      • @[email protected]
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        186 months ago

        Cops should be aware that if they fuck around with a famous person, they will definitely find out how it feels to face serious charges.

        I wish it was the same for us poor people, but it’s not.

        • @jeffwOPM
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          65 months ago

          Exactly. I’m not saying the cops should do it, but you’d think they’d take a moment to pause before harassing literally one of the most famous men in their city. If that doesn’t make them reconsider their actions, just imagine what it’s like for everyone else. Tyreek Hill even made a comment about it in a post-game press conference, where he wondered what would’ve happened to someone else.

      • @dogslayeggs
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        126 months ago

        No, the person is saying the cops should have been smarter. They didn’t say, “the cops SHOULD HAVE done X.” They said, “it’s crazy that the cops DID do X.”