Summary

The Oklahoma City Police Department faces backlash after body-camera footage showed Officer Joseph Gibson forcefully throwing 71-year-old Lich Vu to the ground during a traffic stop on October 27.

Vu, who has bone cancer, reportedly suffered a brain bleed requiring surgery and remains hospitalized.

The incident began with a language-barrier dispute over a U-turn citation. Vu’s family and local Vietnamese American leaders have condemned the officer’s actions, calling for his termination.

Police placed Gibson on administrative leave, pledging a thorough investigation into the incident.

  • @[email protected]
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    4714 hours ago

    Until people start suing for the pension fund, nothing will change.

    You take away the pigs retirement, and all hell will break loose.

    • @danc4498
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      2514 hours ago

      I have a feeling this kind of shit is only going to get worse over the next 4 years and go even less punished than it is now.

    • @[email protected]
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      814 hours ago

      And by ‘them’, you need to sue the living fuck out of Joseph Gibson. Suing the police department doesn’t do anything.

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        It does something for the victim and I think it could affect the department. But I understand what you’re saying.

        I never hear of officers being sued though. I wonder if they are protected somehow.

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          Yes, they are protected by “qualified immunity,” a supreme court invention that says that cops cannot be individually prosectuted when engaged in reasonable, legal acts. It also has a fun carve out that says that cops can do brutally, blatently wrong things as long as they don’t “clearly” know they were wrong, I.e no one had been sued or arrested for doing that literal, specific thing.

          Its a shit ruling, and why cops in the US are so brutal. Literally no personal consequences for their actions.

          This cop was clearly agitated and took a simple, non threatening “shush” gesture as a reason to brutalize a 71 old, non violent man. He will not likely not be fired, but also won’t face a lick of jail time for assualt. The likely soon to be dead mans family, who will lose their relative specically because of his actions, will make some number of millions in a few years from a lawsuit from the city that will admit no fault. The cop will go on brutalizing and murdering others needlessly.

          Thats the norm for this, and Trump has promises to let cops get away with it more often.

  • @foggy
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    If I found a cop mistreating my elderly father Id be going full black hat in that fucking precinct if he weren’t immediately terminated without pension.

      • @Sterile_Technique
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        111 hours ago

        …really not even new. Just the same shitty normal as always.

        • @Tujio
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          There are just more cameras now.