Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burns

On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city’s police department stopped him.

They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived.

Surveillance footage from across the parking lot, which was viewed by the Guardian, shows the 30-year-old on the pavement soon after, with several officers on top of him and holding him down. Once they lift Kenyon off the ground after roughly four minutes, he appears limp.

  • @[email protected]
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    381 day ago

    I didn’t say it would happen. Just that’s what it should be. These fucking pigs are out of control.

    • @PoliticalAgitator
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      -128 hours ago

      Get them under control then. You’re literally just wishing

      • @[email protected]
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        44 hours ago

        We definitely need better ways of dealing with cops when they are the bad guys. Maybe some sort of police police.

        • @[email protected]
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          24 hours ago

          Maybe we should have a guaranteed right to bear arms.

          Incidentally, the police police are the FBI.

        • @PoliticalAgitator
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          -35 hours ago

          Oh you’ve been shooting at cops have you? Following through on your super cool solution?

        • @PoliticalAgitator
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          -47 hours ago

          There’s a long history of protest against police brutality, all over the world. How many have you been involved with? I’m tired of social media being full of lazy fucks who see shit like this and just say “damn that sucks” and go back to doing fucking nothing or pro-gun fuckstains claiming “Somebody should shoot them. Not me of course, somebody more expendable”.

          • @[email protected]
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            3 hours ago

            Dude, you don’t know any of these people or what they do IRL. To go off like this for no reason is just some insane people stuff. Get some help, and get off social media if it makes you so upset that you create little stories in your mind of what people do or don’t do with their lives.

            • @PoliticalAgitator
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              02 hours ago

              Sure I do, because he has the solution of a fucking idiot: “We should be able to shoot at cops with our cool guns”.

              Maybe you should try getting more upset? If you’re going to do nothing of consequence, you could at least do it with some passion. Even on an anonymous platform with no consequences, all you’re bringing to the table is “touch grass” tone policing.

          • @Feathercrown
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            67 hours ago

            You’re on social media, of course your feed is going to be flooded with chronic social media users. This is like going to the beach and complaining that there’s sand.