Officers at shelter then separated Yanny Cordero from one-year-old son and punched Cordero’s head, according to footage

Officers at shelter then separated Yanny Cordero from one-year-old son and punched Cordero’s head, according to footage

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  • @[email protected]English
    39•8 months ago

    On Tuesday, New York’s mayor, Eric Adams, a former police officer, said during a news briefing that he discussed the case with the police commissioner, who said that Cordero was being “violent” and “volatile”.

    “Officers feared for their lives as the suspect was clearly armed with *checks notes* a baby.”

  • mozz
    19•8 months ago

    NYT story with quite a bit more complete context, but there’s still a little gap in the footage of their story. See if you can spot it:

    1. He was in a verbal disagreement with employees
    2. One of the employees punched him in the face
    3. His family and the police show up simultaneously
    4. His wife gives him his 1-year-old child to hold
    5. ???
    6. He and police are fighting

    I want to see the bodycam footage

    • The Pantser
      8•8 months ago

      Toddler was using him as meat shield.

  • @[email protected]
    12•8 months ago

    Tasers just let cops shoot people without pulling out thier gun. They don’t need to bother with de-escalation when a “non lethal” weapon can do it for them.

        • @[email protected]
          3•8 months ago

          There are varying degrees of lethality. Some things kill nearly 100% of the time, while others kill less frequently.

          Getting stabbed isn’t guaranteed to be lethal, but that doesn’t mean that knives are “less than lethal”. They’re still lethal.

          • @RedditWanderer
            1•8 months ago

            There are not varying degrees of death.

            They’re called that way because unlike a knife, they dont “kill less frequently” but “don’t kill” (at least by design).

            You can’t be less dead. You can be less than dead. Plus I was intentionally making a pedantic asterisk because he did one, i dont really care if it’s right to what he implied.

            • @Cort
              3•8 months ago

              I think the point they’re trying to make is that tasers have in fact killed numerous people. Though at a lower rate than a traditional firearm. They’re lethal less often.

              Oh and some sauce: 500 deaths over a decade is near 1 death a week on average.

        • Aniki 🌱🌿English
          2•8 months ago

          My best friend has a pacemaker. A tazer would kill him before he hit the floor.